Biography

Mr. Young has served as Emerald’s President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2021 and also serves as Vice Chairman of Bracebridge Capital, a Boston based hedge fund. In addition, Mr. Young serves as a member of the board of advisors of Newmarket Investment Advisors and Upwell, a technology-enabled water asset management company. Mr. Young served as Chief Executive Officer at Eclat Impact in 2016. From 2000 through 2015, Mr. Young served as Chief Executive Officer and Partner at Mariner Investment Group. He joined Mariner directly from Goldman Sachs, where he began on the Commercial Paper trading desk in 1980 and subsequently served as Head Trader of Institutional Liquid Assets, Co-Head of the Money Market Sales and Trading Department in New York, Partner in charge of Fixed-Income in Tokyo, Head of Fixed-Income and foreign exchange sales in London, and, finally, Partner and Head of European Debt Capital Markets in New York. Mr. Young serves on the board of directors of Social Finance USA, a Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing investment capital to drive social change, serves on the boards of directors for Social Progress Imperative, a non-profit best known for measuring a government’s social and environmental performance, Cultivo, a platform designed to finance the regeneration of nature, and TerViva, an agricultural innovation company partnering with farmers to grow and harvest Pongamia. Mr. Young received a B.A from Bowdoin College in 1977 and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1983..