Hudson Sustainable Group

Neil Auerbach is the CEO and Managing Partner of Hudson Sustainable Group. Prior to founding Hudson in 2007, he spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and led the firm's U.S. renewable energy investment business within the Special Situations Group. His experience at Goldman gave Hudson an early institutional mandate in a sector that most asset managers ignored until years later.

Hudson draws on Auerbach's long-standing relationships across the renewable energy and structured-finance ecosystems. The firm's deal flow is project-finance and developer-network driven, often originating from developers seeking growth capital or from mid-market industrial companies needing structured credit. Hudson's dual private-equity and credit capabilities mean it frequently evaluates investments from both equity and lender perspectives, which can surface opportunities a pure-play equity fund might miss.

While Hudson's early reputation was built on solar manufacturing and development deals, its mandate encompasses the wider resource-efficiency and clean-energy infrastructure landscape. The firm has invested in glass manufacturing for solar-thermal applications, energy-efficiency platforms, and other industrial businesses tied to the transition. The common thread is capital-intensive, asset-heavy companies with contracted or highly predictable revenue streams.

The equity strategy targets control or significant-minority stakes in growth-stage and buyout opportunities, with an emphasis on operational value creation. The credit strategy provides senior secured, mezzanine, and structured debt to the same universe of mid-market clean-energy companies. By running both strategies under one roof, Hudson can structure a single investment across the capital stack when it identifies a particularly attractive asset.

Hudson is an institutional asset manager, not a family office. The firm manages pooled funds and separate accounts for limited partners. Neil Auerbach founded the firm as an independent platform after his tenure at Goldman Sachs, and its governance follows a conventional alternative-asset-manager model rather than a single-family vehicle.