TEAM
STEPHEN WHITE
Co-Founder & Director
Stephen White is an investment banker specialising in start-up and growth phase enterprise. Over the last 30 years, he has been involved in a diverse cross section of industries, including energy projects, finance, investment banking, environmental technologies and is a specialist in renewable energy and energy storage. He has brought globally competitive technologies from concept to patent to market. He has over 17 years experience in mergers and acquisitions in major public equity markets worldwide.
DR SEAN WRIGHT
Principal Engineer
Dr. Sean Wright specializes in Thermodynamics and System Optimization. Member, Board of Editors, International Journal of Thermodynamics, Associate Professor (“Tenured”), U of Colorado. Until recently, Sean was Senior Project Manager at EPRI Palo Alto, CA, where he was Lead for Bulk Energy Storage, Renewable Integration and Generation. He was responsible for New Technology Evaluation, System Optimization, Design Development and Technical Demonstrations (Lab to full scale).
CHRIS BRADLEY
Chief Investment Officer
Chris Bradley is a qualified Solicitor and Barrister with 30yrs experience in International Investment Banking. During his career he rose to dept head level of Credit Risk and later team leader Structured Debt Product Groups, Frontier & Transitional Markets. He headed the UBS Warburg London Structured Trading and Sales Credit Group and was Director of the Commodity Asset Backed Structured Products Group. While at UBS London and later at Standard Bank London and Asia, he structured and originated resource backed products in most continents of the World.
DR PAUL GROVES
Chief Advisor
Over 30 years experience in Business Development for Shell, BG, Petrofac and independents. At Shell, as Global Business Manager, Industrial Markets managed the commercial development of the $20bn Qatar Gas to Liquids plant.
Built new businesses for Shell Global Solutions focusing on the Metals & Mining, Pulp & Paper and Power and ran the Centre of Excellence Program. He is Chief Operating Officer for Arq Energy Unbound & leading advisor to Exergyn.
JAMES BUSCHE
Technology & Operations Advisor
With over 3 decades of experience running organizations in Fortune 500 and PE environments, James has established a record of moving businesses forward, and creating strong enterprise and shareholder value—in the renewable energy, natural resources, power, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability development sectors. This work has been in the UK, US, Continental Europe, Asia, China and South America.
DR MUSA MIHSEIN
Advisor
Musa has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and was the Lead for British Gas Research and Technology Centre in his early days. He specialises in Offshore Engineering, Maintenance & Reliability Engineering, Pressure Systems, Gas Transportation and Metering & Gas Storage, as well as Structural Integrity of Pressure Vessels & Pipework . He has held the role of Dean and Pro Vice Chancellor at numerous prominent Universities in the UK and Middle East and has a long and proven track record of delivering success through innovative solutions to challenging projects.
MIKE SEYMOUR
Advisor
Mike is a highly accomplished Mechanical Engineer, having worked at BP as Engineering Design Manager responsible for the design of all research pilot plant & laboratory equipment, before being appointed to Manager, Engineering Sciences Branch with R&D project team responsibilities for Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy & Corrosion, Manufacturing, Environmental and Harsh Fluid Engineering, Multi-phase fluid flow and Engineering & Computing services. Mike then went on to work with British Gas delivering to time, cost & quality a significant number of major engineering research projects.