Energy & Climate Advisors

Energy & Climate Advisors is a joint venture between EEA Fund Management and Shaw Capital. Energy & Climate Advisors helped develop and launch the Leaf Clean Energy Company and currently serves as its exclusive management company. On behalf of Leaf, Energy & Climate Advisors sources investment opportunities in the renewable and alternative energy markets and provides screening, evaluation, and development services.

Energy & Climate Advisors Directors

Simon Shaw is a Director of Energy & Climate Advisors and the founder and principle shareholder of EEA Group, a leader in the emerging carbon trading and environmental investment market place, where he has built up a team of highly experienced professionals with extensive experience in the carbon and clean energy markets that ensures that assets are managed to secure and maximise value. Simon has been an investment manager for over 20 years having started his career in 1981 with the life insurance group Equity & Law. In 1988 Simon joined the pension fund MNOPF before joining Clerical Medical Investment Management (now Insight) in 1992. He managed a range of UK equity mandates for over 10 years at CMIM/Insight, having individual responsibility for mandates worth approximately £3 billion and reporting responsibility for approximately £9 billion of UK equities. Prior to starting EEA in 2003 he was Insight’s Joint Head of UK Equities.

Dan serves as a Director of Energy & Climate Advisors and President of Shaw Capital. He is also a Senior Vice President of The Shaw Group as global head of project development and equity investments in project and infrastructure asset transactions. Prior to his current position, Dan served in key leadership roles within The Shaw Group, including President of Stone & Webster Management Consultants, Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions, and President of Shaw International (Dubai, UAE). In these positions Dan led several strategic transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and alliances involving North American as well as international interests.

Rick is a Director of Energy & Climate Advisors and an attorney by training with extensive transaction expertise in the energy and environmental fields. At EEA, Rick leads deal flow origination and structuring in the Americas. In this role, he has acted as transaction manager for several debt and equity investments in the clean energy space throughout the US and Latin America. Prior to joining EEA Rick was a senior attorney with a Washington, DC based law firm where his practice focused on energy and environmental issues, particularly US climate policy. He also has extensive transaction expertise in emissions trading, having represented both Annex I buyers and project developers across a range of CDM projects in North America, Latin America and Asia.

Kevin serves as a Director of Energy & Climate Advisors and Vice President in Shaw Capital. At Shaw Capital, Kevin is responsible for developing, structuring and arranging financing for equity investments opportunities for Shaw Group. Kevin has a broad background in power project development and structuring, privatization, energy market analysis, project management, and financial and technical analysis, including hydro, biomass, waste-to-energy, wind, and biofuels projects. At Shaw, Kevin was responsible for developing and arranging financing for several energy projects, as well as supporting in the acquisition of several operating divisions and technology companies. Prior to joining Shaw Group, Kevin was Director of Development at Intergen where he managed the development of a number of power projects in South America and the US.

Who is EEA?

EEA is a premier carbon and clean energy asset manager with a range of equity and climate-related funds under management with total assets in excess of US$1.6 billion. Through management of its investment companies EEA develops clean energy opportunities throughout the world and makes debt and equity investments in companies poised for growth in the environmental markets. EEA is also a leader in the burgeoning carbon market through its early management of Climate Exchange PLC (AIM: CLE), the financing vehicle for the Chicago and European Climate Exchanges, and also through the launch and current management of the largest private carbon fund – Trading Emissions PLC (AIM: TRE). Trading Emissions has developed a portfolio of Kyoto qualified carbon credits in excess of 60 million tonnes.

For Contact:

• EEA North America
• The Atlantic Building
• 950 F Street
• NW Washington
• DC 20004-1404
• USA
• T: +1 202 756 2944
• info@eeafm.com
• www.eeafm.com