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 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. 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 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. 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. At Impax Peter is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee.

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 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 General Manager of Castle Alternative Invest AG which is listed in Zurich and London. He is also 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. Mr. O'Brien is currently a director of Montagu Private Equity and has worked in the private equity industry for over twenty years. Originally qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand he joined Montagu Private Equity in 1993. He was formerly a Chairman of the BVCA and served on its Council for seven years.

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 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.

Peter joined Impax in 2003 and since August 2005 he has been the Managing Director of Impax's private equity activity, responsible in particular for building the investment portfolio. He has been involved in the financing of energy projects since 1983. After working in the natural gas sector in 1984-1985 Peter was 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. He has a BA from Harvard College and a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he studied utility regulation/finance.

 

 

Daniel has significant business and senior transactional experience with blue chip companies within the energy and utility sectors. Prior to joining Impax he was responsible for Babcock & Brown’s Northern European infrastructure activities where he focused on regulated utilities, gas storage and broader power generation. Prior to this, Daniel was Director of Corporate Finance for the European Energy and Utilities team at Deutsche Bank with a strong focus on M&A activity in Europe and a member of Citigroup’s Utilities team.

Nigel has over twenty five years experience in M&A and fund raising since qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1977. After seven year spells at BOC and as Finance Director of Christie Group, from 1992 to 1998 he was Finance Director of Yorkshire Environmental, owned by Kelda Group plc, and 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 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.