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Term of Service: 2013-2025
Education/Degree:
A.B. Economics, 1985Partner & Co-Founder, E2SG Partners
Clay Miller has over 30 years of private equity and legal experience, identifying investment opportunities, successfully investing in a broad range of industries and companies throughout the United States and internationally, managing and driving significant growth in such portfolio businesses and structuring, executing and successfully exiting such investments through both public and private M&A and capital market transactions.
Clay co-founded E2SG Partners in 2022. E2SG Partners is a private equity partnership focused on investing in disruptive business concepts and technologies that have the potential to materially accelerate the greening of the economy while delivering attractive economic returns to its investors. E2SG Partners is committed to facilitating economically sustainable, cost-effective renewable energy solutions that create a powerful and lasting social and environmental impact and promote equitable and cost-effective access to clean, green and reliable energy.
Prior to co-founding E2SG Partners, Clay co-founded and managed Stone Arch Capital, a Minneapolis based private equity firm focused on investing in privately held middle market companies throughout the United States, where he remains actively involved in all aspects of Stone Arch Capital’s capital raising and investment efforts. He continues to be involved in active oversight and management and serves on the board of directors of numerous Stone Arch Capital portfolio companies. Prior to forming Stone Arch Capital, Clay was the Managing Partner of Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Churchill Equity Partners, the private equity arm of Churchill Capital, Inc.; spent several years with SCF Partners, a Houston, Texas based private equity firm focused on the energy services market; and was a corporate M&A attorney with Shearman & Sterling.
Clay has degrees from Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., cum laude), and Harvard University (M.B.A., with honors). He is licensed to practice law in New York.
Lisa and I have been honored to serve on the DAC because we care deeply for the University of Michigan and truly want to make a difference in the lives of our students. To that end we have been actively involved in the creation and funding of the Opportunity Hub and providing students with scholarships and providing mentoring advice and introductions to numerous future career opportunities for students of all backgrounds and interests. We look forward to continuing our role in support of such efforts and wherever else we can be of help to support the efforts and future interests of our students.
