Keith was appointed Chairman of Impax 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 devoted his time to marketing and sales and his final role was as Managing Director of Sales and Marketing. He retired from Martin Currie at the end of 2003 but remains a Non-Executive Director of a number of other companies, most of which are investment companies or funds.

Ian joined Impax in 1996 and has been a board director since 1997. Initially working as corporate finance adviser in the waste and power sectors, he established Impax Asset Management (IAM) in 1998. Since then, he has been responsible for building the business, particularly the development of the firm’s long-only, venture capital and infrastructure teams and investment products. In addition to his role as Chief Executive, Ian heads the firm’s investment committees, and he has substantial day-to-day exposure to the process of investments. Prior to Impax, he was a project manager at McKinsey & Company in the Netherlands where he led teams to provide advice to clients in a range of environmentally sensitive industries. He has a first class honours degree in physics from Cambridge and a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard.

Guy de Froment was appointed Non-Executive Board member in January 2008. Currently Vice Chairman of BNP Paribas Asset Management he was previously responsible for Sales and Marketing for BNPP AM, as Co-CEO. 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 23 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. 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 the US. Peter was a Non-Executive Director of Bridgewell Group PLC between June 2006 and August 2007. This followed his early retirement from Merrill Lynch in November 2005. He is a Director of the Evolution Group plc.

David joined the board as a Non-Executive Director on 3 June 2004. An engineer by training, he was commercial director of Chamberlain Industries plc. In 1976 he established Kemray Engineering in the UK, purchased by Taskforce Group plc which itself was acquired by Adia (Switzerland) where he remained a director until 1989. He formed a private investment company, Kempton Holdings, and acquired a 50% holding in ESL a medical instrumentation company, which was acquired by GE in 1999. Previously a director of Merseyside and Cheshire NHS Ambulance Trust, he is on the board of Hartest Holdings plc, Second Advance Value Realisation Company Limited and a number of private companies. David is a member of both Audit and Remuneration Committees.

Mark joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in January 2008. He has extensive experience in the investment management business, with 13 years in Asia. He joined Robert Fleming as a research analyst in 1976 and worked for Rowe Price Fleming in Baltimore and London. From 2001-2005, he was CEO of JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management (UK) Ltd and was responsible for JPMFAM’s institutional businesses internationally. He was previously CEO of Jardine Fleming Asset Management in Hong Kong and CEO of Chase Fleming Asset Management (UK) Ltd in London. He is a past Chairman of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association and the HK SFC Advisory Committee on Unit Trusts. He also acted as the fund manager of Fleming Universal Investment Trust before being appointed to the board of Jardine Fleming Holdings Ltd in Hong Kong in 1985. In 1993 he was Investment Director of Save & Prosper Group Ltd and the Fleming Flagship Funds in Luxembourg. He joined the board of KGR Capital (Europe) Ltd in 2005 becoming CEO in 2006. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Ellis Brady Absolute Return Fund and F&C Global Smaller Companies PLC.

Bruce joined IAM in 1999, where he worked initially on venture capital investments before developing the listed equity business. His principal responsibility at Impax is to co-manage Impax Environmental Markets plc, Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, the IFSL Impax Environmental Leaders Fund, as well as Impax’s white label funds. 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.

Lee joined Impax having previously worked in environmental venture capital at both Nomura and WHEB Ventures, investing across multiple renewable and clean technology sectors and geographies. Prior to moving into the environmental markets he worked in corporate strategy at Lehman Brothers helping to develop their strategic growth plans in Europe. Since joining Impax in June 2008 Lee has taken a lead role in research coverage of IAM’s listed equity universe for the pure-play, all-cap and absolute return strategies. He has a BSc in Physics from Imperial College.

 

Jon has many years of investment experience working with private and quoted companies. Following his graduation from Leeds University in Management Studies, he spent four years working on acquisitions at HSBC Investment Bank. Subsequently, he spent two years as a consultant to venture capital investor Alchemy Partners with particular focus on manufacturing and resource management companies. Since August 2000, he has been employed at IAM, where he has taken a lead role in the PVMTI investment fund and subsequently as an investment analyst involved in research for Impax’ listed equity investments.

Simon joined Impax from Veolia (formerly Vivendi) Environment, where he was a Business Analyst in the finance department. 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. Simon is currently involved in portfolio and sector research for Impax Environmental Markets. He has an honours degree in Modern Languages from the University of Bristol.

Hubert joined Impax in January 2007 as portfolio manager of the Impax Absolute Return Fund. He started his career in 1990 in the Investment Industry. 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 funds. Hubert has a Master's Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Maastricht University.

Peter has extensive investment, regulatory and development experience in the utility and energy sector. Prior to joining Impax in 2003, he was SIO at AMI Asset Management, a private equity infrastructure fund investing equity, mezzanine and subordinated debt in the utility, renewables and telecoms sectors. From 1994 - 1997 he was at the EBRD focused on energy, utility and telecoms investments in Eastern Europe. Prior to that, he worked in the Project Finance team at Mitsui Bank making loans to cogeneration and renewables sector projects including the Tehachapi wind project in 1989. From 1986 to 1989 he was a developer and advisor to over 1GW of cogeneration, waste-to-energy and renewable energy projects built in the US.  Peter began his career at the US Department of Energy renewables division in 1980, as a staff member in the US Senate in 1981-1982, and thereafter with a California gas utility and Oklahoma gas producer.  He received his credit training from Standard & Poor's in 1985-1986 and is a graduate of Harvard College and the Kennedy School at Harvard University.  At Impax, Peter leads the Private Equity / Infrastructure team and has advised clients such as Nordex and the European Commission.

David Trafford-Roberts joined Impax in February 2007. Previously Head of Project Finance at IXIS Corporate & Investment bank, he has over twelve years experience as an adviser or funder to limited recourse structures. He acted as adviser and arranger of the North East Lincolnshire energy from waste project in 2006. He was investment officer to the Asian Mezzanine Infrastructure Fund based in Singapore between 1997 and 2000 where he arranged 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 works for the New Energy Investors Fund, where he has led a number of investments in the solar and wind sectors.  Prior to this Joe worked in Impax’s transaction advisory business, including work on the project financing of the £150m Allington energy from waste facility, and advising 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.  Joe graduated in Engineering Science at Pembroke College, Oxford University.

Ryan joined Impax in Jan. 2006 and is a key player in sourcing, analyzing, and executing investment opportunities for our first infrastructure fund, the Impax New Energy Investors LP/SCA.  Ryan began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Department.  He joined Investec’s Graduate Training Program in 2001.  Upon completion of this program, he worked in the bank’s Infrastructure Advisory Group and was involved in raising senior bank / bond debt for sponsors and evaluated principal mezzanine debt opportunities in the renewable energy sector.  In his role, he also advised on structuring transactions with equity and sub-debt investments ranging in size from £40m to £1bn.  Ryan has a BA in Economics and Political Science from McGill University.

Nigel joined Impax in 2001 and has extensive experience in M&A and fund raising since qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1977. After seven years at BOC he was Finance Director for Christie Group. 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. There he managed a large number of acquisitions and divestments in waste management, water treatment, renewable energy and environmental laboratories. His responsibilities at Kelda also included directorships at Yorkshire Windpower, during the successful development of the Royd Moor and Ovenden Moor wind farms, Esmil Water Treatment and Babcock Water Engineering.

Jonathan has worked in the venture capital and private equity sector since 1985 and brings many years of experience to Impax Asset Management. Most recently he was Equity Fund Manager with Finance Wales Investments Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) that provides funding for Welsh-based small and medium sized enterprises. His achievements include the establishment of an investment team of ten from a standing start, developing a Syndicate partners programme and raising a further £10m fund.
Prior to that, he was Investment Manager with Corus subsidiary UK Steel Enterprises Ltd, where he completed sixty investments in a five year period and managed a portfolio of thirty four companies. Originally trained as an accountant, Jonathan has also worked for the Audit Commission, BDO Binder Hamlyn and Ernst and Young.

Jacqueline joined Impax in June 2005 as Finance Director, Compliance Office and Group Company Secretary. She has spent the past eight years at FD level within financial services including roles at Marathon Asset Management and Alliance Capital. She qualified as an ACA in 1989 with BDO Stoy Hayward, and subsequently moved into media spending time as Financial Controller of Associated Press Television and interim FD of RDF Media. Jacqueline holds a BSc in Biochemistry from UMIST.

Sophie joins Impax with extensive experience in the finance industry. Most recently, she was at a London family office selecting single hedge funds for its bespoke portfolios. Sophie began her career as an M&A analyst at Bankers Trust. After graduate studies, she became an Economist covering the Asian markets at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse. She joined UBS as a risk analyst before becoming a product specialist for its in-house alternative investment products. In her roles, she analyzed products and developed tax and regulatory efficient structures for German clients, negotiated joint venture agreements, and launched structured investment products. Sophie has a BA from Washington University, two Masters degrees in International Relations and International Economics from The Fletcher School and HEI in Geneva, Switzerland.

Adrian joined in summer 2004, after completing an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College, in which he specialised in 'Business & the Environment'. Prior to that he was a stockbroker, selling Pan-European equities to institutions at Robert Fleming and JP Morgan. He has a BA in archaeology from Bristol University.