Information Memorandum - Foresight Group

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