Nick Palairet, Director, Asante Capital

Panelist at AIX: Energy Nick has over 10 years of private equity transaction experience. He is responsible for raising capital in the private markets for both private equity funds and direct investments, focusing on further developing Asante’s direct capital markets capability. … Read More

Jan Martin Witte, Head of Division, Infrastructure Southern Africa, KfW

Panelist at AIX: Energy Jan Martin Witte leads the Division Infrastructure in Southern Africa of KfW Entwicklungsbank. As such, he is responsible for the management of KfW’s energy, water and transport portfolio in Southern Africa, with a strong focus on South … Read More

Alastair Vere Nicoll, Co-Founder, Berkeley Energy

Panelist at AIX: Energy Mr. Vere Nicoll is the co-founder of Berkeley Energy. Berkeley is a renewable energy project developer which manages two funds, the Africa Renewable Energy Fund (AREF), the first pan-African dedicated renewable energy fund and a similar fund … Read More

Jens Thomassen, Director, Denham Capital

AIX: Gas 2016 panellist. Jens Thomassen is a Director, responsible for origination, analysis, structuring, valuation and execution of investments for the Power & Renewables Deal Team. He joined Denham Capital in 2012. Prior to joining Denham, Jens was a Director … Read More

Pradeep Pursnani, Deputy Director, Shell Foundation

Panelist at AIX: Power and Renewables and AIX: Energy Pradeep joined Shell Foundation in early 2010 to run the organisation’s expanding clean cookstoves programme, following three years in Strategy and Portfolio for Shell Group. In 2012, he became Deputy Director (COO) with responsibility for … Read More

Richard Onyango, Investment Director, EISER Infrastructure Partners

Panelist at AIX: Energy Richard Onyango is an Investment Director at EISER Infrastructure Partners, LLP and runs the Africa business from Johannesburg. He previously helped to establish Standard Bank’s Infrastructure Finance business in Nairobi and has experience in advising and arranging … Read More

Terje Osmundsen, Senior Vice President, Scatec Solar

Panelist at AIX: Energy Terje Osmundsen is an experienced solar energy executive and developer, responsible since 2009 for piloting Scatec Solar’s expansion into new strategic markets. He is currently focusing on Sub-Saharan and Northern Africa, where the company is uniquely positioned … Read More

Gabriel Bujulu, Petroleum Engineer, Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation

Panelist at AIX: Energy Engineer Gabriel N. Bujulu is a holder of MBA (Oil and Gas Management) from Robert Gordon University Aberdeen (2010) and MSc (Petroleum Engineering) from Imperial College University of London (1986). Attended several industry based short courses and … Read More

Adrian Mucalov, Director, Actis

AIX: Gas 2016 panellist. Adrian joined Actis in 2009 after graduating from Harvard Business School (MBA) and Harvard Kennedy School (MPA/ID). Adrian has been instrumental in several transactions at Actis, including Umeme (Uganda), Eneo (Cameroon) and Energuate (Guatemala), and is … Read More