James Magowan, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arboreal Capital joins Stonehaven’s Affiliate Platform.

We are excited to announce that Mr. James Magowan has officially joined Stonehaven, LLC as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arboreal Capital.

Mr. James Magowan is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Arboreal Capital. Mr. Magowan leads efforts to finance ESG qualified companies and projects across real assets (real estate, low carbon energy, infrastructure, forestry), resource efficiency, and financial services.  He recently served as Co-Founder and interim CEO of Arboreal BV, a reforestation company that employs a biodiverse, permanent model to maximize carbon sequestration and landscape ecosystem restoration at scale. 

Through Arboreal Capital and his previous roles at Sutter Securities, Security Research Associates, and Johnson Capital, Mr. Magowan has invested in, originated, structured, and capitalized companies in the sectors of renewable energy, resource conservation, healthcare, technology, cyber security, financial services, and real assets.  Mr. Magowan has previously served as a strategic consultant to investors including The World Bank/IFC, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Swiss Fund for Emerging Markets. 

Mr. Magowan serves on the Board of Directors of Merchants National Properties (owners of Marx Realty), a vertically integrated real estate and investment company controlled by the Merrill, Lynch, and Marx families since 1933.  Merchants have interests in 3.4 million Square Feet of office and retail property principally in New York, Washington DC, Boston.  

Mr. Magowan serves on the Advisory Boards of Arboreal BV and Parker Maritime Technologies.  He’s a Partner at the Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator and Vice President of a Private Family Foundation.  He’s a past appointee to the United States Department of Energy’s Nuclear Advisory Committee.  Mr. Magowan speaks on impact investing at conferences globally. He has co-organized the Investing in Deep Decarbonization Conferences since 2017 in San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam.

Mr. Magowan is an honors graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and earned a Master of Business Administration from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD). 

Mr. Magowan holds Series 7 and 63 registrations with FINRA.