Will Hopkins
Founder & Director
Will Hopkins was Commercial Director of one of the world’s largest pure-play independent renewable energy companies, opening opportunities in Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and Scandinavia. Having delivered over 1.5 Gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy transactions with a value of over USD 2.5 billion, through his company Venturi Renewable Energy he continues to advise leading European funds and IPP’s on acquisitions and structuring of projects for finance. He is a graduate of Imperial College London.
Oisìn Brady
Founder & Director
Oisin Brady was partner of a top-three renewable energy advisory firm, with involvement as lender’s and investor’s engineer in more than 10 GW of closed deals representing USD 17 billion investment. In addition to Rencore Energy he currently fulfils a range of expert roles on behalf of advisory firms and government. He provides non-executive support to two of France’s leading developers. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.
Mike O'Neill
Director
Mike O'Neill is a former founding member and CEO of private equity backed Element Power. Element Power was a leading global energy developer and operator covering wind, solar, storage and interconnection projects before its successful divestment. With over 25 years management experience in the renewable energy sector and an ACA background, he has overseen all aspects of activity in high growth international development businesses. His former energy sector experience was with Renewable Energy Systems (RES), where as Commercial Director he helped steer the company from a small UK developer to a leading international IPP, with over 4 GW developed and built in numerous countries.
Jeannot Schlernitzauer
Consultant & Developer
A farmer by background, Jeannot Schlernitzauer successfully developed wind farms in France on behalf of Perfect Wind and then EDPR. He went on to develop West Africa’s largest wind farm project – the 158 MW Taiba Ndiaye project in Senegal. This ground-breaking project, represents an investment of over USD 350 million.
Foussény Kone
Development Support
Foussény Kone has extensive experience covering several projects in Mali, including hybrid (solar-diesel) energy plants. He led the solar street lighting works project under the Support Project of the Urban Communes of Mali for the city of Kayes, and has experience of integrating the issue of climate change into municipal development programs (PDESC) through the Flood and Climate Risk Management Project (PGRCI). Co-founder and director of Tianke sarl, Foussény is a development project planner and web developer, creating web applications for solar projects. He holds a Masters degree in engineering physics (specialised in renewable energies) from the University of Science and Technology of Oran in Algeria.
Nancy Sun
Mergers & Acquisitions Lead
Nancy Sun has 6 years banking experience in Corporate Trust as Transaction Manager with various international financial institutions in London and prior to that she gained three years of Corporate Finance transaction experience from various leading international law firms in London and Shanghai. Nancy is a graduate of University of Oxford and London Business School.
Misha Kolosov
Lead Financial Analyst
Misha Kolosov has over 20 years' experience in financial management and investor relations. He has worked on a number of international projects including IPOs and debt financing,, and has modelled and valued multiple renewable energy sector projects across Europe and Africa. Misha holds an MBA in finance from the Grenoble School of Management, France.