Team

Two General Partners with backgrounds in energy credit, institutional investing and industrial operations, and more than a decade of work in Mexico's power sector.

Kijana Mack

General Partner

Capital formation, sourcing in Mexico, financial underwriting and valuation

Kijana spent five years at Cambridge Associates monitoring private investment portfolios, including venture capital, and five years at Moody's rating coal and energy companies across the Americas.

He founded Mexico Energy Partners, an energy advisory firm that serves industrial buyers in Mexico.

Experience: Cambridge Associates, 2005 to 2010
Moody's Corporate Finance, 2010 to 2015
Mexico Energy Partners, founder
Education: MBA, Loyola University Maryland
B.S. in Finance, Morgan State University
CFA Level II candidate

Mike Purnell

General Partner

Technical diligence, portfolio operations, environmental and social risk

Mike spent 19 years at GE in executive leader and general manager roles, including energy projects in Mexico for CFE and Iberdrola from 2010. He led GE's work with multilateral development banks, building a USD 500 million pipeline.

He later ran a USD 985 million business unit at U.S. Steel and led global shared services at Kellogg. He starts every diligence process at a customer site.

Experience: GE, 1993 to 2012
U.S. Steel
Kellogg
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Six Sigma Black Belt

The firm

EHI Cleantech Ventures, LLC was formed in Delaware in June 2022.

2022
Firm formed in Delaware.
2023
VC Include Fellowship for Impact Fund I Managers. VC Lab Cohort 11.
2023 to 2025
Diligence reviews, investment memoranda and financial models on early-stage cleantech companies.
2024
SPARK, a Chicago investor convening with VC Include, JPMorganChase, Capitalize VC and the MacArthur Foundation.
2025
Co-advisor, with a specialist advisory firm, on a capital raise for a wildfire-detection technology company.

Affiliations

We disclose every relationship that could create a conflict.

Mexico Energy Partners is an energy advisory firm that Kijana Mack founded and owns. Its own team runs it day to day in Mexico. MEP introduces our companies to the industrial buyers it advises and proposes paid pilots.

MEP takes no fee from our funds or their portfolio companies without approval from the funds' investor advisory committee, and it shares client data only with the client's consent. Partners with a conflict recuse themselves from the decision.