Ted Brandt co-founded Marathon Capital in 1999, and serves as its Principal - Chief Executive Officer. Marathon is a Chicago based investment banking boutique focused on the Energy and Infrastructure market sectors. The firm is active in the power generation segment and, in particular, it’s various renewable power segments. Marathon provides M&A;, capital raising and project financing services as well as fairness opinions and valuation analysis of assets and companies. Marathon is among the most active North American renewable energy banks. The firm has been involved in many transforming transactions within the sector.

Prior to Marathon, Mr. Brandt held various senior management positions within large non-bank finance and leasing companies including; GE Capital, Dana Commercial Credit and Transamerica. During this 15-year period Mr. Brandt had start-up responsibility for leasing units, hands-on turnaround assignments and opportunity to create and execute a variety of manufacturer vendor programs. Over this time, Mr. Brandt also actively worked on the buying and selling of specialty commercial finance units. Mr. Brandt’s transition from commercial finance to energy investment banking was based on his fascination with energy, especially renewable energy. He viewed the sector as a prime opportunity for long-tem growth. At Marathon, Brandt spends most of his time delivering Marathon’s senior level commitments to clients and their Boards. The firm operates with 16 professionals and offices in Chicago (Bannockburn), New York City and San Francisco. Among Marathon’s noteworthy transactions are the restructuring and ultimate sale of Middlesex Generation to General Electric (landfill gas to electric); Steamboat II/III to Ormat Technologies (Geothermal); the sale of Greenlight Energy to BP, plc (Wind), AMP Resources to Enel (Geothermal), CPV Wind to Iberdrola (Wind), SkyPower Corp. to Lehman Brothers (Wind and Solar) the sale of the Three gigawatt Tehachapi wind project to TerraGen and Babcock Brown’s sale of 285MW’s of operating wind projects to Next Era.

Mr. Brandt received a BA in Economics from Oberlin College and a MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.