Jed Freedlander is a Managing Partner for Compass Energy Platform. For the past 25 years, Jed has been an active developer, advisor and policy advocate for essential infrastructure projects in North America, focused on microgrids and other long-term public-private partnerships (P3’s). Prior to Compass, Jed led business development for a publicly-traded developer of community, industrial and municipal solar projects and also served in multiple leadership roles for Hunt Companies and its UK-based affiliate, Amber Infrastructure, one of the largest social infrastructure P3 developers in the world. As a project executive and bid lead, Jed has led multiple teams of contractors, operators, design-engineers, lenders, and advisors on the pursuit, development and delivery of these complex projects.

Prior to Hunt/Amber, Jed was a commercial manager for Balfour Beatty Investments, a significant developer of social infrastructure, transportation and student/military housing projects worldwide. Before Balfour, Jed was a legal advisor at DLA Piper and Patton Boggs, where he played instrumental roles in closing several landmark international P3 transactions and in launching the infrastructure practices at those firms. Notably, Jed was a lead legal advisor to the lenders on the Long Beach Courthouse P3 project, the first social infrastructure P3 to close in the U.S. and advised the developers of the first monoline wrapped refinancing of a U.S. power plant.

Jed is a co-founder of ARES Institute, a 501(c)(3) conduit borrower for infrastructure and energy projects. Jed serves on multiple non-profit boards, including Cool Earth, a UK-based charity working actively with indigenous groups to preserve rainforests around the world. He is a frequent speaker on P3, finance, resilience, sustainability and procurement, among other topics.

Jed graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law