Jim Alderson-Smith
Founding Principal
Crux
Jim Alderson Smith is Crux’s Founding Senior Principal of Markets and Transactions. As the Founding Senior Principal, Jim is responsible for shaping the user interface and experience of the Crux platform, sourcing and educating buyers and sellers of tax credits, and providing support to ongoing transferable tax credit transactions. Jim leverages his prior experience developing renewable energy projects and sourcing tax equity to inform a digitally enabled tax credit ecosystem, removing the pain points and high costs of traditional tax equity. Crux is the leading platform for the efficient transfer of tax credits supporting billions of dollars of buyers and sellers. Crux combines a digital marketplace with workflow and stakeholder management tools to provide a single platform to allow for the discovery, diligence, closing, and funding of tax credit Transactions. Prior to joining Crux, Jim worked at Onyx Renewable Partners for over 7 years as a Senior Vice President of Business and Project Development. Jim focused on both greenfield development and M&A of solar and energy storage assets with a particular focus on complex projects housed inside of US military bases. Jim holds a Masters of Engineering from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.