Joseph Lau

President, LordCap Green
Joe is the co-founder, President and Chief Investment Officer of LordCap Green (lordgreen.com), a Wall Street investment manager dedicated to energy efficiency in commercial and industrial buildings. Accomplished through creating public-private partnerships, LordCap’s private capital supports long-term financings that have clear and measurable environmental, social, and governance benefits.

Joe is also the Chief Operating Officer of Lord Capital (lordcap.com), dedicated to working with global banks and corporations to partner in structured transactions. Through clear and transparent corporate governance, LordCap has co-structured and consolidated over $88 billion of global financial assets.

Prior to LordCap, Joe held various senior positions in the structured credit businesses of Royal Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and JP Morgan. Roles during his banking career included capital markets execution of ABS transactions, conduit structuring and financing, establishing ABCP vehicles, managing a $4.0bln portfolio credit portfolio and analytic structuring, across consumer, commercial and esoteric asset classes.
Joe serves as chairman of the Fixed Income Investor Network (FIIN), an industry organization solely focused on institutional investors whose goals are to promote efficient and transparent capital flows. He received his M.B.A. from Oxford University and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from St. Joseph’s University; he also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.