The Perception Capital Partners management team has extensive experience in operating and managing sustainability initiatives within a wide range of companies and industries throughout the U.S.
Scott Honour
Chairman
Scott is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Northern Pacific Group. Scott previously served as Senior Managing Director of The Gores Group. Prior to joining The Gores Group in 2002, Scott held various positions at UBS Warburg, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and DLJ Merchant Banking. Scott also co-founded Titan CNG, and YapStone. Scott started his career as an Analyst at Trammell Crow Company. Scott earned a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from Pepperdine University, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
James Sheridan
CEO
Jim has experience as both an operating executive (Chief Procurement Officer) and as a leader of the Purchasing Practice at McKinsey. Prior experiences include CPO at Forterra, Senior Expert at McKinsey, CPO at Champion, and multiple roles with Ford Motor. Jim earned a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and M.B.A from Carnegie Mellon.
Marcy Haymaker
Principal
Prior to Northern Pacific Group, Marcy was an Associate at The Gores Group. She began her career as an Analyst at US Bancorp. Marcy earned a B.S. in Finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
Patrick Williams
Principal
Patrick’s prior experiences include VP of Transformation at GenOn Energy, VP of Transformation at Forterra, VP of Finance at EFH. Patrick began his career consulting at McKinsey after serving as an Army officer. Patrick earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from West Point, and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
Tao Tan
Senior Advisor
Tao Tan has more than a decade of experience across finance, strategy and business transformation. Until 2020, Mr. Tan was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company’s New York office. At McKinsey, Mr. Tan led teams across the firm’s transformation and private equity & principal investor practices, where he drove comprehensive performance transformation and turnaround programs for companies with revenues ranging from $200 million to $25 billion across multiple industries and continents. Most recently, Mr. Tan helped found, launch and lead McKinsey’s SPAC service line, and served in a leadership role in McKinsey’s COVID-19 client response team.
Prior to McKinsey, Mr. Tan was a Senior Associate at Rose Tech Ventures, where he led the firm’s first-round investment in JUMP Bikes, which was subsequently sold to Uber in 2018. Prior to Rose Tech Ventures, Mr. Tan served in investment banking and capital markets roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Tan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Tan received his B.A. and his M.B.A, both with honors, from Columbia University in the City of New York, where he was an Erwin Wolfson Scholar and a Toigo Foundation Fellow.
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