Senior Management

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.

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.

Assaad Razzouk

Group CEO, Sindicatum Carbon Capital
Assaad co-founded Sindicatum Group in 2002 and SCC in 2005. From 1993 to 2002, Assaad was an investment banker at Nomura International plc in London, where he was successively Head of the Middle East Group (1993-1997), Head of Corporate Finance – Emerging Markets (1997-1999), Head of Corporate Finance – Financial Institutions, Communications and Technology (1999-2001) and Deputy Head, Global Corporate Finance (2001-2002). At Nomura International, Assaad advised on several billion dollars of equity and debt capital raisings and invested several hundred million dollars of Nomura’s capital in private equity and principal finance investments in the emerging markets, each investment resulting in a profitable exit for Nomura.

Richard Wilkinson

Executive Vice President and CFO
Richard combines over 10 years of business management experience with 15 years in banking and investment banking. Most recently he was Executive Deputy Chairman of The African Lakes Corporation Plc where he led the turnaround of Africa Online, sub-Saharan Africa’s leading ISP.

Before that he was Managing Director of Angel Train Contracts where he led the post privatization restructuring and significant growth of this £1.2billion business and its subsequent sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

He was previously a Director in the Principal Finance Group at Nomura International PLC.

Simon Zuanic

Executive Vice President and CEO, SCC Asia
Following a 10 year career in the international aerospace industry, Simon worked for two technology companies which were publicly listed in London and New York respectively in a number of roles including CEO. Simon is an energetic entrepreneur who has gained an extensive depth and breadth of international experience.

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