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  • Stanley Fink is Non-Executive Chairman of ECP LLP and currently CEO of International Standard Asset Management (ISAM). Previously he was Non-executive Deputy Chairman and earlier, Group Chief Executive of Man Group plc, the largest listed hedge fund manager in the world, managing over US$70 billion of assets.  Stanley is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health and education.

  • Rufus Warner is Chairman of the Investment Committee.  Rufus has 27 years City experience as an analyst, fund manager, business developer and business manager.  He has worked at such leading firms as Fidelity, Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, Hoare Govett and Société Générale Asset Management.  He joined ECP from Close Brothers, where he was CEO of Close Investments, its funds subsidiary.

  • Neil Brown is COO.  Neil has 27 years City experience as a trader, broker, management consultant and risk manager.  He has worked at such leading firms as James Capel & Co, Hoare Govett, Lloyds Bank, HSBC and Credit Suisse.  Previously he was Global Head of Risk Management for Credit Suisse Asset Management and HSBC Asset Management. 

  • Ben Cotton is responsible for external relationships.  He has worked on equity derivatives at a number of banks including Société Générale and Merrill Lynch and has spent most of the past 10 years working to build relationships with key clients.  At Man Group plc he was a founder member of the steering group that took Man into Environmental Finance.  He has raised assets through hedge funds, structured and other specialist investment products, asset and liability products and pioneered the development of options on funds.  His experience is applied in advising governments, supranationals, NGOs, corporates and others on the creation and use of instruments for environmental finance.                 

  • Marcelo de Andrade is responsible for business development in Latin America.  Marcelo covers global external relations and is based in Rio de Janeiro.  He has extensive networks with institutional investment, agriculture and sustainability communities in Latin America and is responsible for deal origination in Brazil.  Marcelo previously founded Pro-Natura International, one of the first international sustainability organizations based in the Southern Hemisphere.  He also co-founded: Terra Capital Fund, the first venture capital fund dedicated to investing exclusively in private-sector biodiversity businesses; Axial Bank/Axial Par, a financial institution in South America dedicated to promoting investments in the sustainable development sector; and Eco Carbon, specializing in engineering aspects of forestry and agriculture carbon sinks.

  • Paul Simon is an Associate Partner with Earth Capital Partners and also manages the family office of Stanley Fink, the Non-Executive Chairman of ECP LLP.  Paul has 10 years experience in investment banking and private equity with a particular focus on emerging markets and clean technologies and agriculture.  Paul has been involved in a number of philanthropic climate schemes including managing a multi-year Gold Standard Voluntary Emission Reduction solar programme in Zambia installing micro photovoltaic systems in remote rural areas.   

    Paul holds a BA Hon in economics and history from Oxford University and an MSc with distinction in political economy from the London School of Economics.

     

  • Lisa Bush is an Associate; Sales Support.  She has over 20 years experience in Asset Management as a Sales Support Manager, Broker and Client Services Manager and Administrator.  Lisa started her career in 1987 with Lloyds Bank Unit Trust Managers and has subsequently worked for Fidelity Investments, Rothschild Asset Management (now Insight Investment) and more recently, Close Fund Management (now Close Investments). Lisa joined Earth Capital Partners in January 2010.

  • Elaine Dearson is the Office Manager having started her career at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management in 1995 working for the Head of the European Team.  She subsequently worked at JO Hambro Investment Management and Deutsche Asset Management (previously Morgan Grenfell).  More recently Elaine followed her boss from DWS to Close Finsbury Asset Management in 2003 and thereafter internally to Close Group working for the CEO and Finance Director’s office at Close Investments.  Elaine joined Earth Capital Partners in June 2008.

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