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Christopher Brown

Investor

Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures

London

Writes $560K checks · typically $560K

About

Chris Brown is a Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures with over 15 years of experience in commodities trading, clean energy infrastructure, and climate tech investing. He is Head of Supply & Principal Investments at Rubicon Carbon and previously held roles at Goldman Sachs/J Aron Commodities and SSE.

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Invests in

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Experience

  1. Rubicon CarbonHead of Origination & Investmentscurrent2023 — presentNew York, United States
  2. Contrarian VenturesVenture Partnercurrent2020 — presentNew York & London
  3. JumptechInvestorcurrent2024 — present
  4. BeZero CarbonInvestorcurrent2021 — presentGreater London, England, United Kingdom
  5. Madison Energy InfrastructureVP2022 — 2023
  6. Alexa CapitalClimate & Clean Tech Investment Banking - Vice President2019 — 2022Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  7. SSE plcHead of Commercial & Strategic Partnerships | Distributed Generation2018 — 2019London, Greater London, United Kingdom
  8. Goldman SachsVice President - FICC2017 — 2018London, United Kingdom
  9. Goldman SachsAssociate - FICC2012 — 2017
  10. TrafiguraBusiness Operations2011 — 2012Houston, Texas, United States

Education

  1. University of NottinghamEconomics (BSc)

Skills & more

Decision-MakingAttention to DetailPublic SpeakingAnalysisStrategyStrategic PlanningManagementLeadershipCorporate DevelopmentInvestments1Term SheetsDeal Execution
+12 moreDeal DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCorporate FinanceVenture CapitalFinanceRenewable EnergyFinancial ModelingResearchInfrastructureInvestment BankingValuationMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

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Same school

Also attended University of Nottingham105

Richard LeeInvestor at MedicxiMillan SuriPrincipal at Episode1Kieran RafterPrincipal at Marlin Equity PartnersTim SchmidtVice President, Fund Finance at Northpond VenturesRohan OzaCo-Founder & Managing Partner at CAVU Consumer PartnersSam RickardInvestor at Mercuri.vc

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Shared employers

Also worked at Contrarian Ventures14

Rokas PeciulaitisFounder & Managing Partner at Contrarian VenturesTomas KemtysGeneral Partner at Contrarian VenturesVlad StoicescuInvestment Analyst at Contrarian VenturesMichael HuertaVenture Partner at Contrarian VenturesEryk FrontczakVenture Partner at Contrarian VenturesMarc WesselinkVenture Partner at Contrarian Ventures

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Also worked at Jumptech1

Tomas KemtysGeneral Partner at Contrarian Ventures

Also worked at Alexa Capital1

Adelya AkhatovaInvestment Manager at Clean Growth Fund

Also worked at SSE plc1

Emeka ChukwurehScout at HoaQ

Colleagues at Contrarian Ventures

Agne Gudonaviciute
Chief of Staff at Contrarian Ventures
Benjaminas Venslovas
Data Scientist at Contrarian Ventures
Bunmi Adekore
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Darius Zakaitis
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Eryk Frontczak
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Giedrius Muckus
Investor at Contrarian Ventures
Iohan Dessard
Finance & Operations Manager at Contrarian Ventures
Kobi Weinberg
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures

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Darius Zakaitis
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Eryk Frontczak
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Giedrius Muckus
Investor at Contrarian Ventures
Marc Wesselink
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Nityen Lal
Venture Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Patrikas Feiferas
Principal at Contrarian Ventures

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