Katherine St. James

Associate

Katherine (Katie) St. James is an Associate at Spring Lane Capital, responsible for origination, due diligence, structuring, execution, and monitoring of investments.

Before joining Spring Lane, Katie was Senior Director of Programs at Greentown Labs, where she led the Greentown Go team. She helped climatetech startups reach commercialization milestones with corporate partners, including licensing deals, pilots, JDAs, and corporate venture capital investments. Her team led programs across offshore wind, energy storage, low-carbon hydrogen, circularity, carbon management, and more.

Prior to Greentown Labs, Katie held roles in commercial strategy and process improvement at Schneider Electric. She holds a BBA in Finance and Economics from Loyola University Chicago, where she spent her junior year in Rome and Beijing researching immigrant entrepreneurship through Loyola’s Ricci Scholars program.