Kirk Hourdajian

Partner and Head of Venture at Montauk Climate

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Kirk is a Partner and Head of Venture at Montauk Climate, and is leading the build out and scale up of Montauk’s venture strategy.

Kirk's career spans the intersection of climate and investing. At Vista Equity Partners, he served as the first-ever head of Climate and Impact, where he led the design, implementation, and leadership of climate and impact value creation initiatives across $100 billion in assets under management. Before Vista, Kirk was an early member of the Sustainability Team at TPG. His efforts demonstrated the positive financial impact of sustainability and climate initiatives across hundreds of investments and contributed to the launch of The Rise Fund. Hourdajian also held senior roles at PwC, where he built early impact investing and climate programs for PE and VC firms, and at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) where he partnered with The Carlyle Group and KKR on sustainability operations and investment initiatives.