Assaad Razzouk

Group CEO, Sindicatum Carbon Capital
Assaad co-founded Sindicatum Group in 2002 and SCC in 2005. From 1993 to 2002, Assaad was an investment banker at Nomura International plc in London, where he was successively Head of the Middle East Group (1993-1997), Head of Corporate Finance – Emerging Markets (1997-1999), Head of Corporate Finance – Financial Institutions, Communications and Technology (1999-2001) and Deputy Head, Global Corporate Finance (2001-2002). At Nomura International, Assaad advised on several billion dollars of equity and debt capital raisings and invested several hundred million dollars of Nomura’s capital in private equity and principal finance investments in the emerging markets, each investment resulting in a profitable exit for Nomura.

Richard Wilkinson

Executive Vice President and CFO
Richard combines over 10 years of business management experience with 15 years in banking and investment banking. Most recently he was Executive Deputy Chairman of The African Lakes Corporation Plc where he led the turnaround of Africa Online, sub-Saharan Africa’s leading ISP.

Before that he was Managing Director of Angel Train Contracts where he led the post privatization restructuring and significant growth of this £1.2billion business and its subsequent sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

He was previously a Director in the Principal Finance Group at Nomura International PLC.

Simon Zuanic

Executive Vice President and CEO, SCC Asia
Following a 10 year career in the international aerospace industry, Simon worked for two technology companies which were publicly listed in London and New York respectively in a number of roles including CEO. Simon is an energetic entrepreneur who has gained an extensive depth and breadth of international experience.

Richard Franklin

CEO, Sindicatum Carbon Technology
Richard Franklin joined SCC in May 2007 and has over 15 years experience advising and writing research on companies in the energy and utilities sectors. Richard was head of the European Oil & Gas equity research team at Morgan Stanley, during which he covered all of Europe’s major oil & gas companies. Prior to that, he covered the UK utility companies, through privatisation and their subsequent restructuring. Richard has also been involved in giving mergers and acquisitions advice to companies in the oil & gas sector.

Susan Wood

CEO, SCC Americas
Susan has spent the past 14 years in the emissions, energy and environmental markets. Having entered the emissions trading arena in early 1994, she is considered one of the leading pioneers of this market. Her experience in environmental engineering and the trading of emissions, natural gas, oil and oil products provides her with a strong understanding of financial and derivative structures that she currently applies to the greenhouse gas (GHG) markets. Susan started her career as an Environmental Engineer for Emcon and in this role was involved in starting The AirBank, one of the first emissions brokerage firms. She subsequently moved on to Enron’s and Sempra Energy’s emissions, oil and natural gas trading desks. For the past 4 years Susan was responsible for US Business Development at AgCert International. In this role she was responsible for maintaining AgCert’s presence in the developing US GHG market. In addition to originating AgCert’s first Clean Development Methodology (CDM) deal she also coordinated one of the first sales of CDM Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) to BP’s Climate Neutral program. Susan has been actively involved with the US carbon markets including originating, verifying and selling VERs and participating in the regulatory development process for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and California’s AB32.

Umesh Sahdev

CEO, SCC India
Umesh brings 34 years of diverse experience in projects & business development in a wide range of industries in India. Previously, he was CEO of the Projects Division of India’ major merchant banking company Bajaj Capital and Head of Merchant Banking Operations of Mefcom Capital Markets Ltd. He has represented and developed businesses in India for Sandivk Process Systems, Italy and Siam Superior Group, Thailand. He was a founder member of the team of AIM listed PMCIPlc and was its Director of Operations in India before joining SCC.

Kirk Evans

CEO, SCC South East Asia
Kirk brings 20 years of experience in Indonesia where he has been involved in high profile projects in the information technology, finance, and agriculture industries. He was the founder of PT Solusindo, an information technology company that provides software and support services to the Indonesian banking industry and is currently providing outsourcing services to four of the largest foreign Banks in Indonesia. He is also a Director of PT Haydrian Indonesia, a company that provides anti-money laundering solutions to banks, brokerages and the insurance industry. He holds an Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, and has consulted to the World Bank, the European Union, and the German technical aid organization, GTZ on international cooperation for sustainable development.