Our Team

Scott Stevens

Founder and Managing Partner

Scott Stevens is an accomplished investor with over twenty-five years of experience investing across asset classes—from venture to private equity to public markets—and at every level of the capital structure.

As Founder & Managing Partner of Grays Peak Capital, Scott brings a uniquely comprehensive perspective, having successfully executed investments across asset classes and market cycles. His expertise combines rigorous investment management, portfolio construction, and credit structuring with a deep data science background that informs underwriting, strategy, and risk management.

Prior to Grays Peak, Scott spent two decades as a Portfolio Manager at leading asset managers and hedge funds, beginning his career at Coatue Capital as one of the firm’s early investment professionals. He later held senior roles at SAC Capital and JAT Capital, where he managed multibillion-dollar portfolios in the technology, media, and telecom sectors.

Earlier in his career, Scott spent time at Merrill Lynch & Co., first in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group—where he executed more than $20 billion of transactions across aerospace & defense, media, healthcare, and energy—and later in the Global Communications Group, where he was focused on the Taurus Fund, a private equity vehicle focused on early- to mid-stage telecommunications investments.

In addition to his institutional investment career, Scott is an advisor and board member to multiple companies and invests personally through his family office.

Scott graduated from the University of Michigan (BA Economics).

Carrie Lee

Partner

Carrie has invested in over $2 billion in energy, infrastructure, and transportation finance transactions in her career. She has practiced energy, project, asset, infrastructure finance law at White & Case LLP before founding Pine Street Alternative Asset Management, an award-winning hedge fund seeding platform lauded for its innovative approach to asset management and entrepreneurship. Pine Street launched alpha-driven funds through bold growth strategies and cutting-edge risk management tools. On the ground, Ms. Lee spearheaded humanitarian and economic development projects ranging from building schools to establishing a post-graduate fellowship that incubates social impact businesses in the Himalayas. As a White House Senior Executive Presidential Appointee, Ms. Lee crafted policy and designed programs to drive post-pandemic economic development and drive United States innovation and global competition. She also serves as a senior advisor to leading think tank The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, developing non-partisan strategies to address national security challenges facing the United States. Awards include: Award-winning investor and asset manager: Most Influential Female Seed Investor (2021), Investment Management Advisor of the Year (2023), Best Hedge Fund Seeing Platform (2018), Hedge Fund Innovator of the Year (2017).

Stephen Johnson

Partner / Chief Investment Officer

Steve Johnson is a Partner and member of the Investment Committee at Grays Peak Capital, bringing over twenty-five years of private and public market investing expertise across the full capital structure. He leads investment strategy across Grays Peak disciplines and is responsible for sourcing, executing, and managing corporate and government special situation investments. Steve has extensive experience in traditional credit, as well as distressed-for-control and turnaround private investments across a broad range of industries.

Prior to Grays Peak, Steve spent 17 years at Invesco, most recently as a founding partner of Invesco Credit Partners, a special situations fund focused on middle-market stressed and distressed debt and equity investments in North America and Europe. During his tenure at Invesco, he also worked closely with WL Ross & Co., where he served as co-head of the financial services practice, executing distressed and value-oriented private equity investments.

Earlier in his career, Steve held roles in private equity at Ewing Management Group, Wellspring Capital Management, and McCown DeLeeuw & Co. He began his career at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. as an analyst in the Global Industrials Group.

Steve earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, with a minor in Economics.

Josh Lewis

Josh has over 25 years of experience in finance, technology, and marketing. He currently serves as the CIO at Aries Acquisition Corp, a disruptive technology SPAC (NASD:RAM), and CIO of Proton Holdings, a net-zero critical resources company with both the largest helium reserves and the largest carbon storage basin in North America. Previously, he established and built a technology services and consulting startup into a global operation, led data engineering and analytics at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, and was a Director in the Leveraged Finance and Investment Banking group at CIBC World Markets. Josh holds a B.A. in Psychology from UC San Diego and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is also an Executive Mentor at both Columbia University’s Center for Technology Management and the Center for Technology Management and Digital Leadership at Northeastern University.

Our Strategies

We believe that investment strategies, like companies, must grow and evolve and adapt with the market. Our core technology-driven strategies include: