Functional Skills

Business Planning
Primary Research

Languages

English
Spanish
French
Dutch
3
hours

Avg Response Time

4
jobs

Jobs Completed

163
hours

Total Hours Logged

23
years

Years of Experience


Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

Experience

 
Nualight Corporate Strategy & Development
VP Finance and Corporate Development
05/2011 - 11/2014
Venture CFO in charge of fundraising, corporate development, strategy and M&A for this LED technology company. Helped revamp the company's sales, operations and control systems to raise the company's Gross Margin from 25% to 40%. Raised over $20m of funding, managed relationships with VCs from San Francisco to Beijing. Promoted Nualight's brand worldwide.

Climate Change Capital Private Equity Finance
Vice President
08/2006 - 04/2011
Investing in clean-technology companies in renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transport, water and waste. Researched and invested in solar, wind, Anaerobic Digestion, waste treatment, waste water, LED lighting, electric vehicles and may more clean tech companies.

In previous role, as associate, gave M&A, fundraising and Investment Banking advice in the low carbon, clean-technology and renewable energy space. Advised Shell Renewables on fundraising strategy

JPMorgan Chase & Co Finance
Associate
06/1991 - 05/2005
Associate in Investment Banking, Acquisition Finance and Leveraged Buy Outs.

Financial Times & Bloomberg News Other
Journalist
06/1997 - 05/2001
Wrote news and feature pieces as Financial TImes journalist in Mexico City, covering topics from to microcredit to corruption, legal obstacles to investment, and the nascent domestic bond market.

For Bloomberg News wrote investigative journalism pieces, resulting in international breaking news.

Back in London, I covered UK politics, writing in-depth features and news stories on climate change, energy, pensions and other British government policies.