Mr. Tepper is co-founder and a Managing Partner of Angeleno Group. Mr. Tepper oversees Angeleno Group’s investment activities in renewable energy, waste management and energy efficiency. Prior to the formation of Angeleno Group in 2001, Mr. Tepper managed $2 billion in private and public equities and structured securities on behalf of institutional and mutual fund clients while at Aetna (now ING Investment Management). Under Mr. Tepper’s management, his funds grew from $150 million to $2 billion, consistently outperformed the funds’ benchmarks, and ranked in the top tier of their competitive universe.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Tepper held various engineering R&D positions at Bechtel in San Francisco and at M.I.T.’s Advanced Materials Lab in Cambridge under the Department of Energy. He has been a speaker and lecturer on topics including asset allocation, sector diversification, and alternatives investing and an author in major financial publications. Mr. Tepper holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, an M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and an M.S. in management from M.I.T.