Managing Director
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Alex founded Conviction Capital in 2017. He has focused on climate and sustainability since 2006 and advised fund managers in the field since 2009. Mandates he has led have mobilised over $2bn.
In 2021 he co-founded Climate Transition Capital, whose SPAC raised €190m on Euronext Amsterdam. Previously, from 2012 to 2016, he led the global fundraise for GEEREF, the European Investment Bank’s clean energy infrastructure fund of funds, raising €112m of private capital. He has also designed climate fund commitment programmes for a number of family offices.
Alex began his career in strategy consulting before spending five years, from 2001 to 2006, in the financial sponsors team at Hawkpoint, a mid-market investment bank now part of Canaccord Genuity. In 2007 he joined the fund investment team at Bregal.
He holds an MA in Classics from Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD.
Advisers
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Chris spent more than three decades at the European Investment Bank, latterly as Head of Infrastructure Funds and Climate Action from 2006 to 2017, leading the bank's climate finance activity and its investments in infrastructure and environmental equity and debt funds. Earlier he headed the EIB's PPP and Infrastructure Division for Spain, with annual lending approaching €5bn, and led the bank's first lending operations in Central and Eastern Europe. Since leaving the EIB he has served on the boards of climate and infrastructure funds including Asper Investment Management and the eco.business fund, on the advisory board of Meridiam's Africa infrastructure fund and as Senior Independent Director of SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust. He holds an MSc from Durham University.
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David has more than thirty years of international experience in climate technology, energy and telecoms, the last fifteen of them in executive and board roles with private equity backed companies. He is Executive Chairman of Mixergy, an Oxford University spin-out in smart thermal storage, chairman of iwell, a Dutch behind-the-meter battery storage business, and a non-executive director of ReFuels, the Euronext-listed biomethane and CNG supplier. He was a non-executive director of Climate Transition Capital from 2021 to 2023. Earlier he was chief executive of Connecthing Group, led Uplight's European business, was an operating partner at Hudson Clean Energy and ran Wind to Power Systems through to its sale to Arteche. At Eneco he was Managing Director Retail, responsible for €1.5bn of power and gas sales. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin.