Caroline Angoorly
Managing Partner of GreenTao LLC
Ms. Angoorly has extensive experience in energy, resources, sustainable infrastructure, and environmental sectors, including energy and fuel markets and clean tech projects. She is an expert in successfully developing and financing greenfield projects and building and running clean energy and sustainable infrastructure businesses and funds.
Ms. Angoorly has been a director of Denbury since September 2020. She founded GreenTao LLC in 2010, a specialized firm focused on business growth, project development, financing, strategy, and execution. She is an expert in strategy, policy, and execution on energy transition, ESG, and sustainability matters. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to middle market and start-ups. Ms. Angoorly returned to GreenTao as Managing Partner in 2019 after more than five years as the founding COO of NY Green Bank, where she was responsible for establishing and evolving a $1 billion State-sponsored investment fund focused on clean energy and sustainable infrastructure.
She also played a leadership role at the New York State Research & Development Authority (which manages the $5.3 billion Clean Energy Fund for the State), including as a mentor and as founding Co-Chair of the organization’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiative. Previously Ms. Angoorly was Head of Environmental Markets, North America for J. P. Morgan (focused on greenhouse gas, renewable energy and other energy-related projects and businesses), SVP and Head of Development, North East and VP, Environmental & New Business for NRG Energy, General Counsel at EnelGreenPower and a partner in the Global Project Finance Group at international firm Milbank. Throughout her career, Ms. Angoorly has been involved in billions of dollars of “first-of-their-kind” projects based on technology, financing structures and other capital aspects. Ms. Angoorly’s experience also includes being a Board Member of renewable energy company Cyrq Energy Inc. (where she chairs the Development Committee). Previously, she was a Board member and chair of the audit committee of Evolution Markets Inc., an environmental and energy commodity brokerage and advisory firm, until its acquisition by Xpansiv.
Ms. Angoorly received the John Clemenger Memorial Medal from Melbourne Business School for her performance at the top of her MBA class. Ms. Angoorly holds geology and law honors degrees from Monash University and an MBA from Melbourne Business School (partly undertaken at Columbia Business School).