#207: Rahul Advani, CEO of SER Capital Partners — Private Equity Investing $50-$150M Per Climate Company. Ideal Management Team Qualities. Meditation Techniques for High Performance. Reframing ESG.

SER Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity investment firm dedicated to North American industrial sustainability. They manage $500M in equity, plus opportunities to harness debt for the right projects. Typical investments range from $50-$150M per company.

In addition to his role at SER, Rahul is a former private equity investor at Energy Capital Partners and a Board member at Sunnova, NextLight, FirsLlight, Sungevity, and growth-stage cleantech companies. 

In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways.

1. How they pick the right companies to invest in
2. Their perspective on ESG and how it adds financial value to their portfolio companies
3. How they select the right management team, and what it means to be pulled vs. to push
4. Why he practice Transcendental Meditation 5x per week and tries to bring a gift to every personal encounter

🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:

SER Capital - https://sercapitalpartners.com

Rahul - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-advani-3a711a

Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030 (book) - https://shorturl.at/KjlbJ

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (book) - https://shorturl.at/iihRd

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