Lenny Hochschild
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Lenny Hochschild

Founding Partner

Lenny Hochschild

Lenny has almost 25 years of experience working in environmental commodities and is responsible for investments and firm-wide activities at ECP, including investor relations. Lenny previously was Managing Director at Evolution Markets (2003-2017), the global leader in environmental commodity market brokerage, where he was the head of Evolution’s Global Carbon desk (consistently voted Best Carbon Markets Brokerage Team), and the Western U.S. Renewable Energy desk. Prior to joining Evolution in 2003, Lenny worked for American Electric Power (AEP), Enron, Traxys, and RudolffWolff & Company.

Lenny was previously the co-chair of the International Emissions Trading Association’s (IETA) Western U.S. Working Group and was elected to the inaugural board of the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System. A noted environmental commodity markets expert, he has been a speaker/moderator at numerous conferences, and has been quoted by BBC News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Lenny received his B.A. with Honors from the University of Rochester. Lenny lives in Mill Valley, California and enjoys fishing, hiking and mountain biking. Lenny is also a youth rugby coach and on the board of the Marin Highlanders Rugby Club.