Team

Keith was appointed Chairman of Impax Asset Management Group plc in January 2004. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1979, he joined Martin Currie, the independent Edinburgh-based investment firm. The first part of his career was spent managing portfolios on behalf of institutional clients.

Subsequently, he became the Managing Director of Sales and Marketing. He retired from Martin Currie at the end of 2003 and is now also Chairman of Aberdeen New Thai Investment Trust plc and a number of other companies.

Ian Simm is the Chief Executive of Impax Asset Management Group plc and Managing Director of Impax Asset Management Ltd. Ian founded Impax Asset Management in 1998. Earlier in his career he was project manager at McKinsey & Company in the Netherlands where he advised on strategies in environmentally sensitive industries including energy, waste management and the automotive sector. He graduated with a first class physics degree from Cambridge University and has a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Guy de Froment was appointed Non-Executive Board member in January 2008 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Audit Committee. He was previously Vice Chairman of BNP Paribas Asset Management and joint CEO responsible for Sales and Marketing.From 1997 to 1999, he held the position of Chairman and CEO of Paribas Asset Management. Prior to that he worked for Barclays as Head of Continental European Asset Management, having previously spent 24 years in the Indosuez Group during which time he was Chief Executive of W. I. Carr and CEO of Indosuez Asset Management.Guy is a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris).

Peter has a wealth of financial services experience in the Asset Management sector. He is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. Having begun his career at Brown Shipley, he joined Bankers Trust in 1985 as a Senior Portfolio Manager. In 1989 he joined Mercury Asset Management ("MAM") where he rose to become Head of the International Equities Division. Following the acquisition of MAM by Merrill Lynch, he was appointed co-Head of Equity Assets worldwide. In 2003 he became Chief Investment Officer and Head of Region for Merrill Lynch's Investment Management activities outside of the US. Peter was a Non-Executive Director of Bridgewell Group plc between June 2006 and August 2007 and Chairman of Turquoise Services Limited until 2010. He is currently a Director of Evolution Group plc, UK Financial Investments Ltd ("UKFI"), Intermediate Capital group plc and Merrill Lynch (UK) Pension Plan Trustees Limited.

Mark joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in January 2008. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. He is the General Manager of LGT Capital Partners (UK) Ltd following LGT Capital Partners' acquisition of KGR Capital.From 2001 to 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management (UK) Ltd and was responsible for their institutional business internationally.

Prior to that, he was CEO of Jardine Fleming Asset Management in Hong Kong and CEO of Chase Fleming Asset Management (UK) in London. He is a past Chairman of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association and the HK SFC Advisory Committee on Unit Trusts. He is a Non-Executive Director of Ellis Brady Absolute Return Fund and F&C Global Smaller Companies plc.

Vince joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2009 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Audit Committee. He is currently a director of Montagu Private Equity and has worked in the private equity industry for over 20 years. Originally qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand he joined Montagu Private Equity in 1993. Vince is a former Chairman of the BVCA and served on its Council for seven years.

Zack serves as Group General Counsel for Impax Asset Management Group plc and is also Company Secretary. Prior to joining Impax in 2011, Zack was Director & General Counsel for the investment management and corporate finance advisory group Development Capital Management. Previously he was Corporate Counsel for Telewest Global Inc (renamed Virgin Media Inc), where he played a leading role in managing the successful execution of high profile transactions including the Group's $10bn financial restructuring. Zack qualified as a solicitor at the global law firm Norton Rose, specialising in Corporate Finance. He holds a Master of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University.

Ian Simm is the Chief Executive of Impax Asset Management Group plc and Managing Director of Impax Asset Management Ltd. Ian founded Impax Asset Management in 1998. Earlier in his career he was project manager at McKinsey & Company in the Netherlands where he advised on strategies in environmentally sensitive industries including energy, waste management and the automotive sector. He graduated with a first class physics degree from Cambridge University and has a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Charlie has over 20 years technical and management experience with blue chip investment banks. Before joining Impax he was a Managing Director within the Finance Division of Deutsche Bank, most recently serving as UK Asset and Wealth Management CFO, and previously holding various financial and market risk related roles for the Global Markets Division.

Before working at Deutsche, Charlie worked at SG Warburg and Ernst & Young as an Auditor.

Bruce is the Managing Director of the Listed Equity team and oversees Impax's long-only investment strategies. Bruce joined Impax in 1999 where he worked initially on venture capital investments before developing the listed equity business.  He is responsible for the development of the investment process, research and team development, and has an active role in the day to day management of all the listed equity portfolios.

Before joining Impax, Bruce worked as a utilities analyst at Bankers Trust and as an environmental consultant for Environmental Resources Management (ERM). Bruce has an MBA from IESE (Barcelona), an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and a degree in Chemistry from Oxford.

Peter joined Impax in May 2003 and has driven the creation of all elements of the NEF I portfolio whilst heading the Impax NEF team. Peter has been involved in the financing of energy projects since 1983. He started his career with the renewables division of the US Department of Energy in 1980 before working as aide for energy and environment to US Senator Jim Sasser. After working in the natural gas sector in 1984-1985 Peter obtained his credit background as a utility and energy project debt analyst with Standard & Poor's in 1985-1986. He has worked in each tier of the capital structure, having spent three years with the American developer Catalyst Energy and its affiliates developing and financing over 650 MW ($1 billion) of New Energy Sector projects and five years as senior lender to New Energy Sector and other energy projects as Vice President of Project Finance for Mitsui Bank. In the 1990s, Peter was appointed by the US Government to be Senior Investment Adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he established a private equity fund for environmental infrastructure in Eastern Europe. From 1997-2000 he was Senior Investment Officer of the Asian Mezzanine Infrastructure Fund, a power and infrastructure mezzanine and equity investment fund that made successful investments in the New Energy Sector. Peter is a member of the Cleantech study group of the British Venture Capital Association and a non-executive director of Coronation Power Limited. He has a BA from Harvard College and a Masters degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he studied Utility Regulation and Finance.

Nigel joined Impax in 2001 initally as Finance Director. He is now responsible for the management of Impax's portfolio of venture capital investments and is a member of the NEF Investment Committee. Nigel has gained extensive experience in M&A and fund raising since qualifiying as a chartered accountant in 1977. After seven years at BOC he was Finance Director for six years at Christie Group, either side of their IPO in 1988. Between 1992 and 1998 he was Finance Director of Yorkshire Environmental, owned by Kelda Group plc, where he played a leading role in the ten-fold growth of that business to £100 million turnover. He managed a large number of acquisitions and divestments in renewable energy, waste management, water treatment and environmental laboratories. His directorships at Kelda included Yorkshire Windpower, during the successful development of the Royd Moor and Ovenden Moor wind farms.

Kaye joined Impax in May 2011 as Director of HR. She has over 20 years of HR experience and expertise in coaching, talent management, organisational development and business transformation. Kaye previously held the role of HR Director at Legal and General and Sensormatic Ltd before setting up her own consultancy business in 2007.

She has an MA in International HRM and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Ominder joined Impax in October 2011 as Head of Distribution from Fidelity International where he was Head of UK Institutional Distribution for three years. Ominder previously spent nine years as Director of Institutional Sales at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, and prior to that, nine years at John Morrell & Associates and Johnson Fry plc (later acquired by Legg Mason).

Bruce is the Managing Director of the Listed Equity team and oversees Impax's long-only investment strategies. Bruce joined Impax in 1999 where he worked initially on venture capital investments before developing the listed equity business.  He is responsible for the development of the investment process, research and team development, and has an active role in the day to day management of all the listed equity portfolios.

Before joining Impax, Bruce worked as a utilities analyst at Bankers Trust and as an environmental consultant for Environmental Resources Management (ERM). Bruce has an MBA from IESE (Barcelona), an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and a degree in Chemistry from Oxford.

Hubert co-manages the Environmental Leaders and Long-Short strategies, and leads Impax's macro-economic analysis. Hubert joined Impax in January 2007, having started his career in the investment industry in 1990. He has extensive experience investing in Pan-European equities as a portfolio manager at MeesPierson and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, where he chaired the European Sector Strategy Group.

He joined Impax from Cambrian Capital Partners LLP where he was a partner and portfolio manager of the Curalium fund, and Incremental and Incremental Leveraged hedge funds. Hubert has a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration from Maastricht University.

Jon is the Associate Director of the Listed Equity team and co-manages the Environmental Specialists strategy (which includes Impax's flagship fund, Impax Environmental Markets plc) with Bruce Jenkyn-Jones. Jon joined Impax in 2002 having previously been a consultant to venture capital investor Alchemy Partners with particular focus on manufacturing and resource management companies.

Jon started his career in 1994 at HBSC Investment Bank working on acquisitions. Jon has a degree in Management Studies from Leeds University.

Simon has worked at Impax since 2004 and co-manages the Environmental Leaders and Water strategies, as well as selected clients' SRI/ESG products. Simon joined Impax from Veolia (formerly Vivendi) Environment, where he was a financial analyst. His responsibilities included the analysis and modeling of potential investments and financing issues on the part of the Group's water businesses.

Simon began his career in Investment Banking in 1998 at NM Rothschild and subsequently moved to Deutsche Bank where he provided strategic, M&A and financing advice to European and US clients across a broad range of industrial sub-sectors. He has an honours degree in Modern Languages from the University of Bristol.

David co-manages Impax's Asia-Pacific strategy portfolios. Based in Hong Kong, David is Impax's lead analyst for Greater China including Taiwan and Singapore. David has worked for Impax since 2007 (initially via a partnership with Ajia Partners) and in the investment industry since 1997.

Previously, David worked as the Head of Small and Mid Cap Research for Asia ex-Japan at Deutsche Bank Securities, and Head of Regional Media Research at ING Securities. He also has experience in auditing and is a qualified CPA and CFA. David graduated from the University of New South Wales in Australia with majors in Accounting and Finance.

Lee co-manages the Long-Short strategy and takes a lead role in the research of the Impax universe as well as contributing to portfolio construction and management of the listed equity strategies. Lee started his career in 1999 as a corporate strategist at Lehman Brothers working with senior management on the bank's European strategic growth plans.

Prior to joining Impax, Lee worked as a venture capital investment manager at Nomura and WHEB Ventures, making investments in multiple clean technology companies in Europe and the US. 

He has a BSc in Physics from Imperial College. 

Kirsteen co-manages Impax's Asia-Pacific strategy and is Impax's lead analyst for India, Korea and Japan. Kirsteen began her investment career in 1987 and has extensive experience investing in Asian equities as a portfolio manager at Royal London and Henderson Global Investors. After working in Singapore, she returned to London in 2001 to head the SRI Investment team at Henderson Global.

Subsequently, Kirsteen worked as a financial analyst for Odey Asset Management before joining JP Morgan to run a long/short Asian Financials portfolio. She joined Impax in 2009. Kirsteen has an MA in Metallurgy and Science of Materials from Oxford.

Justin joined Impax in 2009 and has taken a lead role in researching the investable universe of stocks across Impax's listed equity strategies. Justin joined Impax from New Energy Finance where he worked in renewable energy research. Prior to moving into the renewable energy sector he worked as an investment analyst for Australian boutique manager Hunter Hall, covering global equities from their London and Sydney offices.

Justin has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Queensland and a Masters of Commerce from the University of Sydney. 

Lisa joined Impax in 2010 and is responsible for investment research of environmental policy and legislation, as well as the non-financial or Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) analysis. She started working in the financial industry in 1999 and previously worked as Executive Director of the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs International. Lisa has also worked in the environmental sector as an independent consultant focusing on environmental policy research and analysis. She is a Trustee at the International Institute of Environment and Development, IIED. Lisa has an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Finance from the Hanken School of Economics in Finland.

Oscar joined Impax in 2011 as an analyst focusing on Asia-Pacific research. He is soon to be based in the Hong Kong office. Oscar has 4 years experience in the financial industry and environmental markets. He previously worked at Origo Partners as an investment associate and assistant fund manager, and prior to that at Midas Holdings.  He has an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Dean joined Impax in 2009 and manages the Trading Desk. Prior to joining Impax Dean worked at Westpac Institutional Bank in market-making and proprietary trading.

Dean started his career in 1993 and has worked at Fidelity Investments as an FX trader, managing currency risk on equity and fixed income funds, and for Barclays and Lehman Brothers in fixed income and market related roles. Dean is a qualified Technical Analyst (STA).

Peter joined Impax in May 2003 and has driven the creation of all elements of the NEF I portfolio whilst heading the Impax NEF team. Peter has been involved in the financing of energy projects since 1983. He started his career with the renewables division of the US Department of Energy in 1980 before working as aide for energy and environment to US Senator Jim Sasser. After working in the natural gas sector in 1984-1985 Peter obtained his credit background as a utility and energy project debt analyst with Standard & Poor's in 1985-1986. He has worked in each tier of the capital structure, having spent three years with the American developer Catalyst Energy and its affiliates developing and financing over 650 MW ($1 billion) of New Energy Sector projects and five years as senior lender to New Energy Sector and other energy projects as Vice President of Project Finance for Mitsui Bank. In the 1990s, Peter was appointed by the US Government to be Senior Investment Adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he established a private equity fund for environmental infrastructure in Eastern Europe. From 1997-2000 he was Senior Investment Officer of the Asian Mezzanine Infrastructure Fund, a power and infrastructure mezzanine and equity investment fund that made successful investments in the New Energy Sector. Peter is a member of the Cleantech study group of the British Venture Capital Association and a non-executive director of Coronation Power Limited. He has a BA from Harvard College and a Masters degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he studied Utility Regulation and Finance.

David joined Impax in February 2007 and oversees the NEF Investment Team's relations with project lenders. Previously Head of Project Finance at IXIS Corporate and Investment Bank, he has over 18 years experience as an adviser or funder to limited recourse project companies. He acted as adviser and arranger of the North East Lincolnshire energy-from-waste project in 2006. He was investment officer of the Asian Mezzanine Infrastructure Fund based in Singapore between 1997 and 2000 where he structured the mezzanine funding for the Theun Hinboun hydropower project.

Previously he worked in the successful private equity team, which is now Doughty Hanson. He is bilingual in French and English and holds a BSc in Engineering from Reading University. 

Joe joined Impax in 2002 and led a number of investments in the solar and wind sectors for the NEF I portfolio.  Previously, Joe worked in Impax's transaction advisory business where he contributed to the project financing of the £150 million Allington energy-from-waste facility, and advised on the Crown Estate's selection of the UK Round 2 offshore wind lessees. Joe began his career at Ernst & Young's International Banking and Capital Markets Group where he trained and qualified as a chartered accountant, before moving to E&Y's Renewable Energy and Waste Corporate Finance Group, where he provided advice on M&A, project financings and capital raisings to a wide range of clients in the sector.

An engineer and a qualified accountant, Joe received his MEng in Engineering Science from Pembroke College, Oxford University.

Jim joined Impax in 2008 to project manage assets in construction in the NEF portfolio. Jim has extensive energy experience, having worked on the development, construction and operations of wind, solar and thermal projects. He has been a leader in the independent power industry since its emergence in the early 1980's. Jim has created two wind and solar renewable energy companies which are active throughout the EU. Prior to this, Jim led the development of energy projects for General Electric Company in Europe, launching several new technologies. Jim launched the independent power business for British Petroleum in Europe in 1995. While at BP he oversaw their first grass roots development in Great Yarmouth Power Ltd, and was involved in BP's investment in TNK. In the 1980's and early 1990's Jim worked at Cogentrix Energy, early movers in the independent power industry.

While there, Jim led the team from permitting stage through to project financing and led the creation of a gas fired generation portfolio of more than 2000MW in size. 

Jim received his BSME from Union College and MBA from the Babcock School at Wake Forest University.

Ryan joined Impax in January 2006. Ryan specialises in valuation and risk analysis while supporting investment execution and managing technical due diligence. Ryan has also worked to develop relationships with developers across Europe and North America.

Prior to Impax, Ryan worked in the project finance group at Investec Bank in London, where, for four years, he was involved in raising senior bank debt and bond finance for sponsors as well as evaluating principal mezzanine debt opportunities in the New Energy Sector.

In addition, he advised on equity and subordinated debt investment structuring in support of private equity sponsors bidding for infrastructure projects mostly in the UK with assets of between £40 million and £1 billion. Ryan joined Investec after working as an analyst in the fixed income division at Goldman Sachs in London.

He has a BA from McGill University in Canada with majors in both Economics and Political Science.

Victor joined Impax in August 2008 and is responsible for portfolio structuring, tax optimisation and other legal and tax matters relating to NEF funds. In addition, he supports sourcing, analysis and execution of new investment opportunities and manages legal diligence. Previously a qualified tax and corporate lawyer at Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam, Victor has five years experience advising on private equity investment structures, mergers and acquisitions and financings. He started his career at the international tax group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Based in the Amsterdam office he specialised in structured finance and international corporate income tax. Victor graduated in Dutch commercial law and tax law at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and received his MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona. He is bilingual in English and Dutch and has working knowledge of German and Spanish.

Ben joined Impax in January 2009 from Consensus Business Group in London. Ben's focus is on analysing new investment opportunities, including the preparation of financial models for the NEF team. At Consensus, Ben was a member of a team that managed a large proprietary portfolio of private equity funds and worked on a number of private equity transactions in both secondary and environmental markets.
Ben started his career within the Portfolio Analytics Group (PAG) at BlackRock Investment Management in London. He has a first class honours degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and a Masters of Research in Nanomaterials from Imperial College, where his research was focused on optimising charge transfer within organic and thin-film solar cells.

Geraldo joined Impax in 2011 from Macquarie. At Impax Geraldo focuses on sourcing, analysing and supporting the execution of new investments. At Macquaire Geraldo was a member of a team that focused on management and acquisition of European infrastructure and renewable energy assets.

Geraldo has a BA in Economics and Management and a Masters of Finance. Geraldo started his career at Venture Consulting, before work at the University of New South Wales as a research assistant in corporate financing and asset pricing.