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Clay Kinney

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Smart Money Rating: 75 out of 100

Co-Founder, Maiora Renewables

Firm
Maiora Renewables
Title
Co-Founder
Role
Cofounder
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Record updated 1 October 2026

About

Clay is a Founding Partner of MAIORA and a member of the Investment Committee. He focuses primarily on renewables and financings. In our first fund, he headed up MAIORA`s Japan entity, focusing primarily on Japan Solar and Mezzanine financing opportunities. Prior to MAIORA, Clay was the Head of Structured Finance at Deutsche Bank in Tokyo. He has as over 20 years of financial industry experience, spanning debt financing, equity issuance, M&A, and complex tax structuring, working for global financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, UBS, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a former Director for the Enex Infrastructure Investment Corp (9286.T). Clay has a BA from the University of Oregon, a JD from Temple University, is in the Duke Fuqua MBA program, and has a post-graduate diploma from Harvard University`s School of Design. Clay is fluent in English & Japanese.

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