Alfred Griffin is the Chief Investment Officer at the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC). In these roles, Alfred has responsibility for establishing investment strategy and policies, investment origination, execution and portfolio management, and capital formation activities to facilitate mobilization of third-party capital into CGC investment activities. Alfred is Chair of the Investment & Risk Commitee and a member of the Management Committee.
Prior to CGC, Alfred was Senior Managing Director and Head of Generate Credit at Generate Capital, where he led the company’s private credit lending platform for sustainable infrastructure. At Generate, Alfred was a member of the Operating Committee, Portfolio Managment Committee, Credit Investment Committee and Equity Investment Commitee.
Prior to Generate, Alfred was founding President of NY Green Bank, a $1 billion New York State-sponsored specialty finance company focused on specialty finance for sustainable infrastructure and clean energy. He led the organization from concept to over $1 billion of investments, making NYGB the largest exclusively focused sustainable infrastructure private credit fund in the United States — investing in solar, wind, storage, energy efficiency, fuel cells, controlled environment agriculture, sustainable transportation and other proven technologies expected to reduce greenhouse gases.
Prior to NY Green Bank, Alfred spent 16 years with Citigroup Global Markets in a variety of structured finance roles in Capital Markets and Investment Banking.
Alfred holds bachelor’s and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Alfred is a Chartered Financial Analyst.