ENERGY TRANSITION PARTNERS B.V.
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subsequently acquired Genel Energy, the largest exploration and production company in Iraq. He subsequently served
as CEO (2011-2015) and Chairman (2015-2017) at Genel Energy. Dr. Hayward holds a PhD from Edinburgh
University and a BSc from the University of Aston. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Mr. Tom James Daniel is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Sponsor and serves as executive Director and
CFO of the Company. Mr. Daniel has over 25 years investment experience and has worked with Dr. Hayward on
investments in the energy sector over the last decade, in the conventional energy sector and the Target Sector, including
as co-founder of Grid Edge and co-investor in Well-Safe Solutions. Mr Daniel is a Managing Partner of St James’s
Asset Management (“SJAM”), a London-based investment management partnership. From 2016 to 2020, he worked
with Dr. Hayward executing a program of private equity/venture capital investments in the energy sector. This included
SJAM advising the Carlyle Group on private equity investments in the energy sector, as well as the SJAM partners
investing in selected early-stage Energy Transition companies. From 2009 to 2014, Mr Daniel was portfolio manager
of the St. James’s Master Fund (“SJMF”), a long/short equity hedge fund focused on energy and natural resources.
SJMF returned a 14% net IRR and net 1.7x multiple on cost, over the four years from launch in Aug 2009 to Aug 2013.
In 2011, together with Dr. Hayward, Mr. Daniel co-founded Vallares PLC a $2.1 billion special purpose acquisition
company that was listed on the London Stock Exchange, which was focused on the oil and gas sector, and which
subsequently acquired Genel Energy, the largest exploration and production company in Iraq. Mr Daniel has founded
and led investment companies spanning multiple investment strategies, including private equity, special purpose
acquisition companies, venture capital and public market investments. He founded and served as portfolio manager of
Life Science Capital, a long/short equity hedge fund business focused on the healthcare sector (2005-2008). Prior to
that, Mr Daniel held various leadership roles with London-based Schroder Ventures entities, from 1998 to 2005,
including serving as one of five senior officers (designated “General Partner”), responsible for two venture capital
funds and one London Stock Exchange-listed investment trust. From 1994 to 1998, Mr Daniel was an Associate with
Domain Associates and Charles River Ventures, two U.S.-based venture capital management companies. Mr. Daniel
holds an MBA from Harvard Business School of Business Administration and an MA from Oxford University.
Non-Executive Directors
Mr. Leonhard Heinrich Fischer, non-executive Director and Board Chair of the Company. Mr Fischer started his
career in 1987 on a trainee program at J.P. Morgan, rising through various departments to become a managing director
in 1994. In 1995 he joined Dresdner Bank AG as head of the Global Treasury and Trading department, and in 1999 he
was appointed to the executive board which oversaw the day-to-day operational management of the whole group. In
addition, in 2000 he became the CEO of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, the London-based investment banking division
of Dresdner Bank AG, with general executive authority over its affairs. In 2001, Dresdner Bank was sold to Allianz in
a transaction in which Mr Fischer was actively involved. Upon closing of the transaction, he became a member of the
executive board of Allianz Holding. In 2003 he became CEO of Winterthur Insurance Group, Switzerland, with
roughly 25,000 employees. He oversaw the restructuring of Winterthur Group and its subsequent sale to AXA Group
in 2006. Concurrent to this, from 2004, he sat on the group executive board of Credit Suisse Group in Zurich. From
2007 he was Co-CEO/ CEO of BHF Kleinwort Benson Group SA (formerly RHJ International SA), a listed public
company, and sat on its board of directors. He also held roles as CEO and member of the board at Kleinwort Benson
Group Limited in London (2010 – 2016) and chairman of the supervisory board of BHF Bank AG, Frankfurt (2014-
2016). In addition to his executive career, Mr Fischer has held numerous board positions including K&S
Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Boerse AG, Axel Springer, AXA Konzern AG, Julius Bear Gruppe AG and Glencore
International. He holds an MA in Finance from the University of Georgia.
Mr. Carl Peter Edmund Moritz Forster serves as an independent, non-executive Director of the Company. Mr. Forster
has more than 40 years of experience in the automotive sector and more broadly industrial sector. After graduating in
aeronautical engineering and economics, and following 4 years with McKinsey, he held senior positions at BMW’s
engineering department and was managing director of BMW South Africa from 1996 to 1999. He was later appointed
in 1999 to BMW’s management board as member responsible for manufacturing. Mr. Forster then joined General
Motors as COO for their European operations in 2001, became their European CEO and president in 2006 and led the
business through the 2008/2009 crisis. In 2010 and 2011 he served as CEO of Tata Motors in India which included
full responsibility for the JaguarLandRover branch. Since 2011 he has served on a number of listed and private boards.