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Investment
Investment - Renewables
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Christoph Waltenspul is Head of Renewable Energy Investments. Christoph has over 20 years of international investment, commercial banking and industry experience in the energy and utilities sector. Most recently, he was in charge of AES Corporation’s business development activities for Europe, CIS and Africa. This included both greenfield and brownfield power asset development as well as merger and acquisition activities. Before joining AES he was a partner in Ernst & Young LLP's corporate finance group covering M&A in the utilities sector. Prior to this, he was in charge of Enron's corporate finance activities in Europe. Christoph spent his initial 13 years at UBS initially in the bank's project finance group and latterly he was responsible for UBS' global utilities investment banking team.
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Kunal Mehta joined ECP from Man Group plc, the world’s largest listed alternative asset fund manager where he originated renewable energy investments within the biomass-to-energy, geothermal and hydro sectors in the UK, India, Australia and the MENA. Prior to this he worked in the financial advisory team at Climate Change Capital advising on M&A and capital fundraising mandates in the environmental sector. Before joining Climate Change Capital, Kunal worked at the Global Village Energy Partnership developing national energy policies designed to help in reducing poverty and meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals in South Asia, Latin America and Africa.
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Paul Hennemeyer is a power sector specialist with 15 years experience in asset development, strategy and regulation. Paul has been engaged in both conventional and renewable energy in Europe and Latin America, most recently leading the development of a gas-fired power plant for Advanced Power. Prior to this, he co-led AES' successful entry into the European wind energy market, preceded by a senior regulatory role for Enron Europe. Paul began his professional career in consulting, first in management consulting for the Boston Consulting Group followed by 5 years in the energy practice of NERA where, as Vice President, he led a number of engagements in power sector restructuring and privatisation in several emerging markets.
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Andrew Menzies is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 20 years experience in managing and advising on engineering and sustainable development. Prior to ECP, he was a Partner at Environmental Resources Management, one of the world's largest environmental consulting firms. He has also led KPMG’s global environmental due diligence business. Project experience includes power station construction and acquisition; due diligence of numerous energy businesses; enterprise risk audit of various independent power producers; and the design, planning and procurement for large scale engineering schemes.
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Richard Burrett leads ECP relations with the debt finance community. He has 26 years City experience in investment banking, project finance and sustainability. He spent 20 years at ABN AMRO Bank, starting in credit analysis and working through project finance, corporate banking, Head of Project Finance, Head of Structured Finance, UK Head of Corporate Banking, Global Head of Project Finance and Structured Debt Organisation and ultimately originated the Sustainable Development Strategy for the group. He is a Senior Associate on the Cambridge University Programme for Sustainability Leadership; a Board Member of Forest Renewables – looking to develop the renewable energy potential of the national forest estate of Scotland; a Board Member of Forest Trends – a Washington based not for profit organisation focused on market-based approaches to conservation, and is also Chair of the UNEP Financial Initiative work stream on Biodiversity and Ecosystems.
Investment - Timber
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Bosworth Monck is Head of Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry investments. Bosworth has more than 20 years experience in financial markets, project finance, alternative assets and private equity with a successful record of establishing and managing new businesses. Bosworth has been investing in debt and unlisted equity transactions in Latin America since 1997 when he worked for the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group). Before joining ECP Bosworth was CEO of IBIS Asset Management Ltd (a captive financial advisory group to a large multi-sector private conglomerate), COO of OLEA Capital Partners (a hedge fund manager) and a Managing Director at EMP Global investing the US$1 billion AIG-GE Capital Latin American Infrastructure private equity fund.
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Gabriel Montana is a Partner dedicated to ECP’s efforts in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry. His career has focused on private equity investing, with an emphasis on Latin American infrastructure investments. Before joining the firm Gabriel was a Director at IBIS Asset Management Ltd – a captive financial advisory group to a large multi-sector private conglomerate, and a Director at EMP Global’s Latin America Group – responsible for the regional private equity operations of the US$1 billion AIG-GE Capital Latin American Infrastructure Fund. Previously he was a financial analyst and a regional director for SOFASA S.A. (Toyota and Renault’s manufacturing operations) in Colombia.
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Richard Smith is a Partner in the Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry team, with a background in industrial management, private equity transactions and financial advisory services. Before joining ECP he was a Director at IBIS Asset Management, a captive financial advisory group to a large multi-sector private conglomerate. Previously he delivered a wide range of private equity due diligence projects and corporate strategic advisory services with L.E.K Consulting, where he was a Senior Manager. Prior to an MBA at INSEAD, his early career encompassed engineering design, quality improvement, and production management at Visteon and Ford Motor Company. He is a Chartered Engineer and Sainsbury Management Fellow.
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Ian Powell is the Senior Forester in the Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Team. He has 30 years of forestry business and commercial experience. Ian spent the majority of his career with the Shell Group of Companies, mostly in the forestry business including 7 years managing a total of around 80 000 has of forest assets in Latin America. Ian also has extensive in-country experience developing and evaluating forestry investment opportunities in the Americas, Northern Europe, Africa and South East Asia. He also has significant experience in resource, ecosystem services and environmental assessment and in engagement and negotiation with diverse stakeholders.