Gardner MacDonald Bio

Gardner began advising companies in the renewable energy industry in 1993 and benefits from a 30 year perspective on the industry. Prior to co-founding Global Power Partners, Gardner worked with his two other co-founders at the energy focused investment bank Ewing Bemiss & Co. From 1993 to 1998, Gardner worked at McManus & Miles, a boutique investment bank specializing in the renewable energy, independent power and electric utility industries. Gardner began his investment banking career in the mergers and acquisitions group at Morgan Stanley & Co. and has advised on over $30 billion of merger and acquisition and financing transactions. Gardner graduated with a degree in economics from Vassar College and received an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia, where he was a Darden Scholar.