SCC believes that it benefits from a strong management team with deep, proven experience
across the energy sector, climate change, technology, investment banking, project
finance and operations.
David Creedy
Senior Vice President, Coal Mine Methane Group
David is a Chartered Engineer with 30 years experience in coal mine methane, coalbed
methane, institutional and energy projects. He spent his formative years at British
Coal’s Mining Research and Development Establishment where he became Head of the
Methane Group with responsibility for a wide range of applied research. He has worked
mainly in China for the last six years, initially with Wardell Armstrong LLP as
a technical director, and then as an independent consultant before joining Sindicatum
Carbon Capital. David assisted the World Bank in China with coal sector institutional
and regulatory reform projects and the formulation of strategy for CBM/CMM development
and utilisation and was Chief Technical Adviser to the UNDP-MOST clean energy action
project involving 18 pilot cities. He was closely involved with the evolution of
the CDM methodology for CMM extraction and utilisation/destruction and is the CMM
sector specialist for DNV providing technical advice on CDM and JI project validation.
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Danny da Cruz
Senior Vice President, Energy and Resource Efficiency Group
Danny has over 10 years’ experience advising Top 50 multinationals on strategy development
and implementing major change. He founded OdC+Co in 1997, a strategy firm advising
clients in a number of industries including automotive, oil & gas and professional
services. He previously worked at Braxton Associates, the strategy consulting arm
of Deloitte. |
Richard Edwards
Senior Consultant, Trading Group
Richard joined SCC in 2007 as Senior Consultant, Trading Strategy. Previously, he
managed his own hedge fund business and prior to that, he worked for seven years
at Merrill Lynch and for seven years at Lehman brothers where he managed the fixed-income
and currency derivatives unit. He has spent much of his working life at the boundary
between science and financial markets, using modern developments in Mathematics
to model market behaviour. He is the author of a book about option pricing and the
co-author of a body of work on the influence of crowd dynamics on market behaviour. |
Ihab Elmassry
Vice President, Middle East and North Africa
Ihab has over 20 years’ practical experience in energy efficiency and environment
protection. He was previously teaching at the Ain Shams University’s faculty of
engineering in Cairo, Egypt. Ihab is an expert in the multi disciplines of energy
efficiency, power generation, cogeneration, and the environment. He has worked with
Cummins Power Generation UK, Nexant Inc. and UNDP/GEF, USAID & DANIDA funded projects. |
Kirk Evans
CEO, SCC South East Asia
Kirk brings 20 years of experience in Indonesia where he has been involved in high
profile projects in the information technology, finance, and agriculture industries.
He was the founder of PT Solusindo, an information technology company that provides
software and support services to the Indonesian banking industry and is currently
providing outsourcing services to four of the largest foreign Banks in Indonesia.
He is also a Director of PT Haydrian Indonesia, a company that provides anti-money
laundering solutions to banks, brokerages and the insurance industry. He holds an
Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, and has consulted to the World
Bank, the European Union, and the German technical aid organization, GTZ on international
cooperation for sustainable development. |
Richard Franklin
CEO, Sindicatum Carbon Technology
Richard Franklin joined SCC in May 2007 and has over 15 years experience advising
and writing research on companies in the energy and utilities sectors. Richard was
head of the European Oil & Gas equity research team at Morgan Stanley, during which
he covered all of Europe’s major oil & gas companies. Prior to that, he covered
the UK utility companies, through privatisation and their subsequent restructuring.
Richard has also been involved in giving mergers and acquisitions advice to companies
in the oil & gas sector. |
Kevin Garner
Senior Vice President, Landfill Gas Group
Kevin is a Chartered Engineer with over 25 years industry experience including 12
years with international consulting firm Wardell Armstrong and more recently as
General Manager, Business Development with SINO Gas and Energy Ltd based in Beijing.
He has been involved in promoting clean energy projects in China since 2000 and
also has experience of working in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Romania and Europe.
Kevin’s work in China has focused on the development of clean and renewable energy
projects and has involved project assessment, evaluation of industry performance
and the identification of management and technology needs; these have allowed Kevin
to develop extensive experience of the political, technical and financial barriers
related to the development of clean energy projects in China. |
David Carew
Executive Vice President
David was a co-founding member of SCC. Prior to this David headed project finance groups for Bank of America and Nomura International plc out of Hong Kong. During his project finance banking career, David has successfully advised and closed financings for clients in large infrastructure transactions in the oil & gas, telecommunications, power generation and transportation sectors in Europe and Asia |
Nicholas Kelly
Legal Director
Mr Kelly has over 9 years experience in international M&A, project finance and commodity
transactions in the energy sector, working on large scale IPPs, oil and gas acquisitions
and power and gas trading matters. Nick is a UK qualified lawyer, and prior to joining
SCC, he worked as senior counsel for LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP and Denton
Wilde Sapte in London. |
Jorgen Keyser
Senior Vice President, Oil and Gas Group
Jorgen joined SCC in June 2007 as Senior Vice President. Prior to this he worked
for over 20 years with BP, holding various commercial positions in the Group’s E&P
and Gas, Power and Renewable segments. Most recently, Jorgen worked as Director
of Negotiations in BPs North Africa group. |
Anthony Moody
Executive Chairman, Sindicatum Carbon Capital (Asia) Limited
Mr Moody has over thirty five years experience in the capital markets, investment
banking, and investment management industry, all with operational, financial, and
fiduciary responsibility. Seventeen years of this experience has been gained in
Asia, the majority managing the capital markets and wealth management businesses
of Continental Bank and its acquirer Bank of America. Prior to founding his own
private equity investment company in 2002, Anthony was CEO for the Asia region of
Zurich Scudder Investments, the asset management arm of Zurich Financial Services,
a member of the firm’s Global Management Committee, and Chairman of Scudder Investments
Japan. Anthony is a Director of a number of Asian investment funds and on a ‘pro
bono’ basis he actively supports the promotion of higher standards of corporate
governance and sustainable responsible investment in Asia, and microfinance. |
Gareth Phillips
Chief Climate Change Officer
Gareth joined SCC as Chief Climate Change Officer in 2006. Prior to that, Gareth
was the Global Manager of the SGS Climate Change Programme, where he was responsible
for obtaining and maintaining SGS’ accreditation as a Designated Operational Entity
to the CDM Executive Board.
Gareth is one the world’s leading experts on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol,
having worked on the validation and verification of numerous CDM and JI projects
in most sectors, and also in accreditation and verification for the UK and EU Emission
Trading Schemes, the California Climate Action Registry, the Chicago Climate Exchange
and voluntary carbon offset projects particularly in the forestry sector. |
David Raubenheimer
Senior Vice President, South East Asia
David has over 20 years experience developing, constructing and operating a wide
range of power generation projects. Most recently he ran a small consultancy advising
a number of clients on development of biomass, wind and waste to energy projects.
Prior to that David spent 15 years as Development Director then Operations Director
with Energy Power Resources Limited (formerly Fibrowatt Limited) where he was instrumental
in developing its fleet of 5 biomass and 4 wind power projects. Prior to that David
worked for Centrax Gas Turbines Limited and gained experience on landfill gas and
coal mine methane power generation projects. David is a Chartered Mechanical Engineering
and is Chairman of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Renewable Power Committee.
David works for SCC in South East Asia where he is responsible for the execution
of CDM projects. |
Umesh Sahdev
CEO, SCC India
Umesh brings 34 years of diverse experience in projects & business development in
a wide range of industries in India. Previously, he was CEO of the Projects Division
of India’ major merchant banking company Bajaj Capital and Head of Merchant Banking
Operations of Mefcom Capital Markets Ltd. He has represented and developed businesses
in India for Sandivk Process Systems, Italy and Siam Superior Group, Thailand. He
was a founder member of the team of AIM listed PMCIPlc and was its Director of Operations
in India before joining SCC. |
Susan Wood
CEO, SCC Americas
Susan has spent the past 14 years in the emissions, energy and environmental markets.
Having entered the emissions trading arena in early 1994, she is considered one
of the leading pioneers of this market. Her experience in environmental engineering
and the trading of emissions, natural gas, oil and oil products provides her with
a strong understanding of financial and derivative structures that she currently
applies to the greenhouse gas (GHG) markets. Susan started her career as an Environmental
Engineer for Emcon and in this role was involved in starting The AirBank, one of
the first emissions brokerage firms. She subsequently moved on to Enron’s and Sempra
Energy’s emissions, oil and natural gas trading desks. For the past 4 years Susan
was responsible for US Business Development at AgCert International. In this role
she was responsible for maintaining AgCert’s presence in the developing US GHG market.
In addition to originating AgCert’s first Clean Development Methodology (CDM) deal
she also coordinated one of the first sales of CDM Verified Emission Reductions
(VERs) to BP’s Climate Neutral program. Susan has been actively involved with the
US carbon markets including originating, verifying and selling VERs and participating
in the regulatory development process for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
(RGGI) and California’s AB32. |