Information Memorandum - Foresight Group
Information Memorandum - Foresight Group
Information Memorandum - Foresight Group
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INVESTMENT TEAM<br />
FORESIGHT HAS BUILT A HIGHLY-EXPERIENCED TEAM OF 25 INVESTMENT MANAGERS WITH A FOCUS<br />
ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTORS. SUPPORTED BY OTHER FORESIGHT<br />
PARTNERS, THIS TEAM INVESTED IN SOLAR POWER PLANTS WITH A TOTAL VALUE OF MORE THAN<br />
£310 MILLION BETWEEN 2007 AND 2012.<br />
18 FORESIGHT SOLAR EIS FUND 3<br />
Jamie Richards<br />
Partner & Head of Infrastructure<br />
Jamie has led <strong>Foresight</strong>’s solar<br />
energy team since inception in 2007.<br />
He has played a key role in creating<br />
<strong>Foresight</strong>’s network of lenders,<br />
advisers, installation contractors and<br />
asset owners. Jamie is a chartered<br />
accountant with 17 years’ experience<br />
across fund management, banking<br />
and asset financing and has worked at<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citigroup<br />
and Macquarie.<br />
~<br />
Ricardo Pineiro<br />
Senior Investment Manager<br />
Ricardo joined <strong>Foresight</strong> from Espirito<br />
Santo Investment, where he spent three<br />
years in the project finance division as an<br />
assistant manager with a special focus<br />
on transport, energy, oil and gas. He has<br />
strong experience of structuring, financial<br />
modelling and due diligence analysis of<br />
transactions as well as credit and debt<br />
facilities management. Prior to Espirito<br />
Santo he worked as a business analyst<br />
in the corporate finance division of a<br />
Portuguese investment bank in Lisbon.<br />
Ricardo is primarily focused on UK Solar<br />
and has executed £50 million of UK Solar<br />
transactions to date.<br />
Matt Black<br />
Investment Analyst<br />
Matt joined <strong>Foresight</strong> from Imperial<br />
College, London where he was a Research<br />
Associate focusing on the financing of<br />
UK renewable energy and electricity<br />
infrastructure. He previously spent over<br />
4 years at Credit Suisse working as an<br />
Investment Manager and structuring<br />
funds and SPVs. He is IMC qualified and<br />
holds an MSc in Environmental Technology<br />
and Energy Policy from Imperial<br />
College, London.<br />
Pietro Zerauschek<br />
Partner<br />
Pietro is responsible for leading the US<br />
Solar programme having previously managed<br />
<strong>Foresight</strong>’s Italian office. He is a qualified<br />
mechanical engineer with over 15 years’<br />
engineering experience and has been providing<br />
technical advisory and engineering services for<br />
the financing, construction and operation of<br />
solar energy projects for five years. He is a<br />
director of the project companies for all<br />
<strong>Foresight</strong>’s existing Italian and Spanish<br />
solar assets.<br />
Dan Wells<br />
Director<br />
Dan joined <strong>Foresight</strong> with 12 years’<br />
experience in finance and investment,<br />
specialising in sustainability and clean<br />
energy infrastructure. Prior to <strong>Foresight</strong><br />
Dan ran the global corporate finance team<br />
at Sindicatum Sustainable Resources in<br />
Singapore, where he helped raise and invest<br />
USD 300 million in clean energy. Dan is a<br />
chartered accountant and from 2000 to<br />
2007, worked for Ernst & Young advising<br />
businesses and government agencies on<br />
environmental finance and green<br />
investment issues.<br />
Arnoud Klaren<br />
Portfolio Manager & Technical Director<br />
Arnoud joined <strong>Foresight</strong> from SolFocus, where<br />
he spent four years managing solar projects<br />
based on Concentrated Photovoltaics, an<br />
innovative solar technology. He was responsible<br />
for the construction and start-up of pioneering<br />
CPV projects in Spain, Saudi Arabia and<br />
Greece. Prior to SolFocus Arnoud founded and<br />
managed ThinkSpectrally, a spin-off company<br />
of the University of Valencia in Spain, dedicated<br />
to Quality Assurance in the PV manufacturing<br />
process, among other areas. Arnoud holds a<br />
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.