Pacific Corporate Group

Pacific Corporate Group, founded in 1979 by Christopher Bower, is a research-driven investment firm based in La Jolla, California. The firm specializes in providing private equity investment advisory services to institutional investors, focusing exclusively on alternative investments. Pacific Corporate Group also offers public pension fund advisory services and engages in various private equity transactions, including discretionary and non-discretionary advisory arrangements, direct investments, and specialized fund products. With a specific due diligence process in place to manage risk, the firm targets equity and debt investments within the United States.

Christopher Bower

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Douglas L. Meltzer

Managing Director

13 past transactions

Backyard Broadcasting Holdings

Private Equity Round in 2004
Backyard Broadcasting Holdings is a Baltimore-based company that enables its clients to pursue the opportunity for consolidation in target radio markets. It was founded in 2002 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Range Fuels

Series C in 2008
Range Fuels is a privately held company funded primarily by greentech venture capital companies, including Khosla Ventures, LLC, arguably the top venture firm in the U.S. focusing on alternative, clean energy systems. Their leadership team melds experience from the technologically intensive oil, chemical, petrochemical, coal gasification, power and gas-to-liquids industries, the renewable fuel industry, and the pulp and paper industry.

Odersun

Series B in 2008
Odersun AG is a German company which develops and manufactures thin-film solar cells and modules on copper tape specifically for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). Odersun filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Odersun employs more than 320 people in production, research and management in Frankfurt (Oder), Fürstenwalde (Spree) and Berlin, Germany. In cooperation with partner and investor AT&M, Odersun is setting up a joint venture in Beijing. On 1 June 2012, Odersun went into administration.

Orbcomm

Private Equity Round in 2006
ORBCOMM is an innovator and leading provider of tracking, monitoring and control services for the transportation market. Under its ReeferTrak®, GenTrakTM, GlobalTrak, and CargoWatchTM brands, the company provides customers with the ability to proactively monitor, manage and remotely control their cold chain and dry transport assets. Additionally, ORBCOMM provides Automatic Identification System (AIS) data services for vessel tracking and to improve maritime safety to government and commercial customers worldwide. ORBCOMM is headquartered in Rochelle Park, New Jersey and has its network control center in Dulles, Virginia.

Range Fuels

Series B in 2008
Range Fuels is a privately held company funded primarily by greentech venture capital companies, including Khosla Ventures, LLC, arguably the top venture firm in the U.S. focusing on alternative, clean energy systems. Their leadership team melds experience from the technologically intensive oil, chemical, petrochemical, coal gasification, power and gas-to-liquids industries, the renewable fuel industry, and the pulp and paper industry.

SolarReserve

Series B in 2008
SolarReserve, a venture-backed renewable energy company, focuses on advanced solar thermal storage technology. SolarReserve was formed to solve two of the fundamental barriers of renewable energy: scalability and storage. Unlike hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, and other renewable energy technologies that use limited renewable fuel sources, SolarReserve's power plants draw their heat from the sun - earth's ultimate source of clean energy. And unlike wind and photovoltaics, SolarReserve's power plants can deliver power whenever it is needed, either 24 hours per day or only during "peak" demand. By overcoming these two key barriers, SolarReserve enables utility-scale, clean, renewable electricity generation.

Spectrawatt

Venture Round in 2010
SpectraWatt Inc. manufactures and markets photovoltaic cells. The company's product finds application in solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Spectrawatt

Venture Round in 2008
SpectraWatt Inc. manufactures and markets photovoltaic cells. The company's product finds application in solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Allied Resource

Post in 2008
Allied Resource Corporation is a global climate technology group operating and servicing energy related businesses worldwide. Their operations are based on proprietary technologies for the production of synthetic gases, reduction of CO2, NOx and sulphur emissions, the refining of waste oils into high quality oil products, the treatment of industrial waste water - as well as the incineration of sludge and pelletized residues.

Amonix

Series B in 2010
Amonix is the technology pioneer and market leader in High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) technology and for 20 years has been developing it’s solar power generators for low cost utility-scale deployment. The Amonix HCPV product uses the solar industry’s highest efficiency solar cells; the same solar cells used today in space to power satellites, combined with lens to concentrate the sun and minimize the amount of expensive solar cell material needed to therefore drastically lower the cost of solar electricity

ReliOn

Series C in 2008
ReliOn is the world leader in the development and marketing of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. Currently, they are marketing a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and backup power requirements, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a variety of off grid power requirements. ReliOn serves private and public entities as diverse as telecommunications, energy, transportation, and government. Their PEM fuel cells are commercially available today. They have sold and delivered more than 1,900kW of fuel cells in the U.S. and abroad, and count among their customers major telecommunications providers, government communication sites and utilities.

Fat Spaniel Technologies

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2003, Fat Spaniel Technologies is the leading independent provider of critical monitoring and reporting services for the renewable energy industry. Today, the company's solutions are utilized by solar power producers, financiers, system integrators, and OEMs, and growing a growing number of wind power companies. Fat Spaniel solutions help optimize energy output, reduce operations and maintenance costs, contain risk, and increase return on investment for renewable energy power plant projects.

ReliOn

Venture Round in 2008
ReliOn is the world leader in the development and marketing of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. Currently, they are marketing a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and backup power requirements, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a variety of off grid power requirements. ReliOn serves private and public entities as diverse as telecommunications, energy, transportation, and government. Their PEM fuel cells are commercially available today. They have sold and delivered more than 1,900kW of fuel cells in the U.S. and abroad, and count among their customers major telecommunications providers, government communication sites and utilities.