John-Marc originally trained as a chemist at Nottingham University before obtaining an MA with distinction in international business administration at Regents Business School, and starting a career in the City. He began as a research assistant to the technology teams at Dresdner and then completed his MBA studies. His career in alternative energy and clean technologies began when he joined the team at Durlacher that floated ITM Power. He continued to specialise as a cleantech equity analyst at Dawnay, Day and Ambrian Capital before joining Nomura Group in 2008.

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.

Andrew has 18 years’ investment banking experience with the likes of Société Générale, Collins Stewart and Numis Securities, at which he was managing director of corporate finance and head of new energy. Andrew’s public market/deal experience includes: New Britain Palm Oil, the leading Australian oils producer raising £90m in a main market listing in December 2007; Clean Energy Brazil, a company that became the largest renewable IPO capital fundraiser in London in 2006; Trading Emissions, which saw the largest secondary renewable fundraising in London in 2006 with £175 million follow-on ‘C’ share equity capital raising; Homeland Renewable Energy, a private equity placement for a US-based green processor of animal waste to energy; Econergy, a Latin American clean energy developer that raised £100 million at IPO in London; and Renewable Energy Generation, which undertook two follow-on equity capital raisings for a wind farm developer with assets in the UK, Poland and Canada. Andrew is global head of equity market capital markets at Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander.

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 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 is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 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 large research consortia on bio-energy and hydrogen. An environmental economist, Paul 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 Understanding the Costs of Environmental Regulation, which will be published by Edward Elgar in 2008. In 1994, Paul 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.

Freddy is an expert on climate change, biodiversity and the environment. He has carried out groundbreaking research in this subject for more than a decade (publishing over 20 scientific papers) in areas as far apart as Indonesia and Iceland, while based at The Natural History Museum and Bournemouth University. He is currently head of CSR and environment at Lighthouse, an opportunity analysis consultancy.

Raymond is head of research at Collins Stewart and is responsible for the research of the power engineering and renewable energy sectors. Prior to this, he was the pan-European electrical equipment analyst at Merrill Lynch. He has over a decade of experience in the renewable energy space, having advised, floated, raised capital for and written research on companies in the wind, solar, fuel cell, wave power, bio-diesel, bio-ethanol and power technology areas. Raymond has a first-class degree in engineering from Brunel University.

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.

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.

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 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, Chris 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 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.

Nick leads the renewable energy team at Liberum Capital. With over ten years' experience as a renewable energy analyst, he has published investment research across a board range of sub-sectors of the renewable energy and environmental technology space in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East. He has particular interest in fuel cell technology and has visited more than 25 fuel cell company sites around the world and been involved with companies engaged in PEM, SOFC, SOFC, AFC and PAFC technology development.

In the last three to four years, Nick has focused primarily on producing research for pre-IPO and IPO transactions on London’s AIM market. Nick has produced and widely marketed research for several successful pre-IPO and IPOs in the areas of fuel cells, biofuel-powered power stations, wave power, biofuel feedstocks, waste management, waste to energy and non-chemical fertilisers.

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.