John-Marc joined Nomura Code, a subsidiary of the Nomura Group in January 2008.  Since then, the Nomura Code cleantech team has rapidly established itself as one of the top cleantech advisors and brokers with a client list that includes Ceramic Fuel Cells, Plantic, PowerFilm, Puricore, Solar Integrated and Tyratech. 

John-Marc has been covering Cleantech companies for over four years having originally trained as a technology analyst at Dresdner in 2003 and having also held positions at Durlacher/Panmure Gordon, Dawnay Day and Ambrian.  He graduated from Nottingham with BSc degree in Chemistry and studied International Business Administration at Regents Business School where he received an MA with Distinction.  After working at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, he completed his studies with an MBA from Webster University, USA.

Leslie is the chief operating officer of Vitesse Media. He specialises in the media and software sectors. Leslie won the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Journalist of the Year Award (Business Category) in 2004 and 2005 for his work in Business XL and led the Growth Company Investor team to the Best Research Award at the 2006 AIM Awards.

Vivienne Cox is the chief executive of the BP group's activities in alternative energy – a portfolio of some of the fastest-growing energy businesses in the world today. The BP Alternative Energy portfolio includes solar, wind power, biofuels, hydrogen energy and natural gas-fired power generation. In 2005, Vivienne led the creation of BP Alternative Energy with the aim of becoming a major low-carbon power producer and wholesaler by 2015. In 2008, BP expanded Alternative Energy to incorporate a broader range of renewable and alternative energy activities and doubled its annual investment rate to $1.5 billion. A graduate of Oxford and INSEAD, Vivienne is also a non-executive board director of Rio Tinto and Climate Change Capital. In April 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year award.

Paul joined Redleaf in early 2007 and, along with his team, advises on and executes the communications strategies surrounding IPOs, acquisitions, statutory reporting, secondary fundraisings and crisis communications for a broad range of clients, including Redleaf’s 'Clean and Green' portfolio. He has very strong relationships with the national and investment media and extensive experience in advising international AIM and fully-listed companies

Nick is a sell-side analyst focusing on the renewables sector. Mirabaud has listed a number of companies in the space and works opportunistically in the secondary market to find the best ideas. It has a broad European client base but writes on companies and themes globally, which offers clients something different to the usual individual sector/company coverage point of view.

Paul Ekins joined King’s College London as professor of energy and environment policy in January 2008, having been head of the environment group at the Policy Studies Institute and professor of sustainable development at the University of Westminster since 2002. He was a member of the Royal Commission on environmental pollution from 2002 to 2008 and, from 2003 to 2007, was on the UK Government’s sustainable energy policy advisory board. He is a co-director of the UK energy Research Centre, in charge of its energy systems and modelling theme, and leads King’s College’s involvement in the large research consortia on bioenergy and hydrogen. An environmental economist, he is the author of numerous papers and articles, and his most recent book is Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (Routledge, London, 2000). He is co-editor of the book Understanding the Costs of Environmental Regulation, which will be published by Edward Elgar in 2008. In 1994, Paul Ekins received a Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievement’ from the United Nations environment programme.

Steven is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ experience in energy management. Steven’s PhD was about the potential for energy efficiency in British industry and he has spent much of his working life implementing that potential by developing energy management programmes for many large organisations and advising governments on energy efficiency policy and programmes. He co-founded two successful energy services companies, one in the UK and one in Romania. Steven has published extensively on energy matters with over 100 publications, including a book called Outsourcing Energy Management. In March 2007, Steven joined Matrix Corporate Capital, where he analyses companies in the sustainable energy space.

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Tessa Laws has been with Rosenblatt for 13 years, during which time she has been involved in multiple corporate transactions covering IPOs, M&A and private equity work. She spearheaded the setting-up of the firm’s Japan desk and has for the past 12 months been concentrating on renewable energy – with a particular focus on wind farms and waste-to-energy facilities. Prior to joining Rosenblatt, Tessa had a couple of her own businesses, so has always been able to view transactions from both sides of the fence. She has a graduate degree from the London School of Economics and a post-graduate diploma from the Cranfield School of Management. Tessa sits on the legal committee for the Quoted Company Alliance, She was a founder member of the British Japanese Law Association and she is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association.

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Anne McIvor worked as an investment analyst for 15 years, at ABN Amro Hoare Govett, Williams de Broe and Libertas Capital. During that time she covered a variety of sectors including technology and retail, focused on international equities (in particular the Benelux markets, Portugal and Brazil). She graduated in Politics from Queens University, Belfast and, with an MSc, from the London School of Economics where she studied Development Economics. She established Cleantech Investor in 2006 and launched Cleantech magazine, a finance and investment publication focusing on renewable energy and other environmental investments, in 2007.

Sam graduated in history and economics from the University of London in 1997. He then spent time working in corporate lending at the British Arab Commercial Bank before joining Reuters and then VC firm Sitka Partners in December 2000, where he worked on deal origination, and investment negotiation and structuring for the Sitka Health Fund VCT. During his time, the fund made 17 venture investments in healthcare and technology companies. Following the acquisition of Sitka Partners in October 2005, Sam joined Noble Fund Managers and worked as a senior manager in its private equity and venture finance team. He has been investment director of E-Synergy’s Sustainable Technology Fund since March 2007, which has made eight investments to date in environmental technology companies.

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Chris joined Neptune in June 2004 as a fund manager with research responsibilities for the IT, telecoms and media sectors. After graduating from Oxford University in 1980 with a BA in physiological sciences and the City University Business School in 1981 with an MBA in finance, he joined County Bank International Investments, a part of NatWest, as European equity manager within their ERISA fund management unit. Subsequently, he moved to Enskilda Securities as head of Scandinavian equities and was responsible for founding the firm's research activities. He then worked in New York as the global equity fund manager for Swiss American Asset Management, part of the Credit Suisse group, before returning to the UK and joining Fuji Investment Management Company. During more than 15 years at that firm, he progressed from European equity fund manager to managing director. In addition to his responsibilities as head of research, Chris also runs the Neptune Japan Opportunities Fund and the Neptune Green Planet Fund.

Charlie joined the Jupiter socially responsible investment team in 2000 and, since September 2003, has been the lead fund manager of both Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust and the Jupiter Ecology Fund. Charlie is also responsible for the management of a number of segregated mandates for Jupiter's institutional clients. Prior to Jupiter, Charlie spent three years working for BP, firstly as an environmental policy adviser where he was instrumental in developing climate change strategies and policies for the group, and later on new business development as a commercial analyst. Charlie has worked for the United Nations Environment Programme as well as other financial institutions. He has a BSc from Nottingham University and an MSc in environmental technology from Imperial College, London.

Sara is CEO of AIM-listed Vitesse Media, the publishing company she started in 1997. A former investment analyst with Kleinwort Benson, Sara is the author of The FT Guide to Business Start Up (over one million copies of this acclaimed guide have been sold). She is also editor-in-chief of the company's publications.  She is a member of the AIM Advisory Group for the London Stock Exchange and has written for several national newspapers.  She appears regularly in television and radio broadcasts.