Scott Magrane

J. Scott Magrane, Jr. is a co-founder and Managing Director of Coady Diemar Partners, LLC, a New York–based boutique investment bank and registered broker-dealer (SEC-registered, FINRA member) founded in 2004 that provides M&A, strategic and financial advisory, and private capital-markets services. Across his career he has spent over 35 years advising power-related enterprises, including utilities, independent power companies, rural electric cooperatives, governments, and energy-technology companies. He is registered with FINRA under CRD #719036.

Prior to co-founding Coady Diemar Partners, Magrane spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs & Co., where his responsibilities encompassed all manner of corporate finance and strategic advisory activities, and where he started the firm's Energy Technology effort. He began his career with roughly 10 years at Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co. and Paine Webber, where he specialized in energy and power project finance.

Magrane holds a BA from the College of Wooster and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Beyond his advisory work, he was appointed a director of Safe and Green Development Corporation (subsequently reorganized; now associated with the Renxent/SGDevCo entity) effective April 11, 2023, reflecting his continued involvement at the board level of public companies in the real-estate development and clean-economy space.

His angel/seed investing activity is an extension of decades spent at the intersection of corporate finance and energy/energy-technology, where he advised, financed, and helped take public a long roster of power and clean-energy enterprises.

• Invests at the seed stage as an individual angel, alongside his role running advisory and private-capital mandates at Coady Diemar Partners.
• Deepest expertise and network are in energy, power, and energy technology — the sectors he has banked for 35+ years, including utilities, IPPs, rural electric cooperatives, and energy-tech startups.
• Brings a corporate-finance and capital-markets lens (M&A, strategic advisory, private placements) rather than a pure product/operator lens — useful for founders who will need to raise institutional capital or eventually transact.
• His own stated background emphasizes having "started the firm's Energy Technology effort" at Goldman Sachs — signaling a long-running conviction that energy technology is a fundable, bankable category.