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About us
Board
Andrew Morris - Acting Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Andrew has considerable board experience and is currently the Commercial and Financial Director of Advanced Plasma Power Limited, he has been instrumental in raising £7m of corporate investment as well as successfully negotiating the associated international licence into restricted territories to develop plants using the company's technology. He has also been responsible for leading negotiations and teams for business development to further enhance operations. He is fully conversant with all aspects of financial control and reporting. He was a director of Bioethanol Limited assisting in the development of a bioethanol plant in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.
Marcelo Blanco - Executive Director
Mr Blanco graduated from Green Mountain College in the United States and subsequently gained an MBA from the University of Belgrano in Argentina. He has extensive financial advisory experience and has also held appointments in the Bolivian Embassy in Argentina and as a consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. Over the last ten years, Mr Blanco has focused on the energy sector, including a two year appointment as Vice Minister of Electricity and Alternative Energies at the Bolivian Ministry of Public Works, before being re-appointed as Finance Director at Empresa Guaracachi, S.A. in 2004.
Sir Robin Christopher KBE CMG - Non-Executive Director
Sir Robin was a VSO volunteer in Bolivia in 1963/4 and British Ambassador to Argentina from 2000 to 2004. He is Secretary General of GLF Global Leadership Foundation. He is a trustee for The Brooke Hospital, Prospect Burma and St. Matthew's Children Fund (Ethiopia). He is also a Hon. Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) at London University.
Peter Earl - Chief Executive
Peter began his career at the Boston Consulting Group Inc. advising state-owned companies. In 1994 he acted on secondment to the World Bank and UNDP in Bolivia. He has advised governments on privatisations in Latin America and Eastern Europe having served as Deputy Chairman for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe infrastructure finance group. He became a director of Fieldstone Private Capital Group in London in 1994, where he advised on cross-border power sector acquisitions and bids totalling approximately US $6 billion, involving 5,000 MW of installed generating capacity. In 1995 he founded IPC and is also a director of IPSA and a non-executive director of Strategic Natural Resources PLC. He is an Oxford University graduate and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.
Mike Eyre - Technical Director
Mike is both a Chartered and European Engineer with over 30 years experience in project management and development in the power sector. As a CEGB engineer, Mike spent part of his early career on secondment to Eskom of South Africa. During the Privatisation of the UK electricity industry, he was Head of Engineering Quality with National Power. In 1996, he established a joint venture between National Power PLC and Lloyd's Register, a project development and risk management business for IPP's and the London Insurance industry. Mike was invited in 1997 by the UN Secretary General of the Rio Earth Summit to join the UN Emissions Trading Policy Forum. He is also a director of IPSA and managing director of IPC's operations subsidiary Independent Power Operations Limited.
Elizabeth Shaw - Finance Director
Elizabeth has been involved in the electricity sector since 1994 when she joined Fieldstone Private Capital Group. Between 1994 and 2000, as a director of Fieldstone, she advised on a number of mergers, acquisitions and disposals in the electricity industry, both in the UK and in developing markets. She joined IPC as a director in 2000 where she is responsible for business development and finance. She is also a director of IPSA and of Strategic Natural Resources PLC. She is a graduate of Exeter University.