Lisa Schule

Lisa Schule is a growth-equity investor with more than two decades of experience backing energy and resource-efficiency companies that address climate change. She holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Amherst College and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. She began her career in the energy industry at PECO Energy, the Philadelphia-based utility, where she was a member of the management team for its wholesale power-marketing division.

She then moved into private equity as a Vice President at Perseus L.L.C., a Washington, D.C. private-equity firm, where she specialized in energy-technology investments — sourcing deals, negotiating and structuring transactions, developing strategic and exit plans, and serving on the boards of several portfolio companies. In 2005 she joined the Global Environment Fund (GEF), a firm focused on energy and sustainability, where she led the firm's U.S. investment activities in technology- and service-related energy investments and rose to Managing Director for North America, a role she held into roughly 2021.

In March 2022 she joined Generate Capital, the sustainable-infrastructure firm co-founded by Jigar Shah, as a Managing Director on the investment team responsible for corporate equity investments, helping deploy a roughly $2 billion capital pool. In 2023 she became a Managing Director at The Drawdown Fund (managed by Tiger Grass Capital), a climate growth-equity firm associated with Paul Hawken and Erik Snyder, where she focuses on investment strategy and portfolio management.

Alongside her investing roles, she is active on corporate boards. Reporting indicates she serves as a board member at Chainalytics and Derive Systems and became Chairwoman of the Board of Hayden AI (an AI-based traffic-enforcement and smart-mobility company) around 2025.

• Invests growth equity, not seed/angel — targeting established companies with proven technology and real revenue (typically $10M+), with checks around $10M–$30M.
• Thesis centers on market-based climate solutions that "generate attractive returns for investors and the planet," spanning Clean Transition, Resilient Systems, and Sustainable Cities.
• Sector conviction in energy, resource efficiency, clean/climate tech, mobility, food & agriculture, and water — mapped to the Drawdown climate-solutions framework.
• Draws on 20+ years of hands-on energy-industry and PE operating experience; she looks for companies where capital can scale a proven model, and she takes active board roles.
• Geographically concentrated in North America, operating out of the Washington, D.C. area.