The RF BioEnergy Team
Managing Director | Principal
Passionate about building the circular economy, decarbonization, sustainable energy and advanced bio-fuels.
30+ years of career experience in managing real assets principal investments, M&A, project, asset, and acquisition finance in Energy, BioEnergy, and other large-scale Infrastructure in the UK, Europe, South Asia/Australia, and North America. Extensive background in Energy from Waste, AD BioGas, process engineering, and the circular economy value chain. Previously Lead Principal & Strategic CFO for a global energy platform, and before that a senior investment banker at Lehman Brothers, HSBC, Nomura Principal Finance, Merrill Lynch, and Bankers Trust.
MEng Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London | Associate of the IChemE
Principal
30+ years of experience in investing, building, and running successful businesses & investment management platforms from the C-Suite. Previously strategy consultant with Bain & Co. and Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co.
MBA IMD Switzerland | MSc London Business School.
Steven Blasé
Principal
Extensive background in Energy from Waste and AD BioGas Plants. Sponsored establishment of BioCapital (BioGas platform company backed by Helios and Equitix, with several AD BioGas assets in the UK) and BioEnergy Infrastructure Group (Europe’s leading platform for large-scale gasification projects in the BioEnergy sector, backed by Infracapital and Helios).
30+ years of experience in investment banking, asset finance, and BioEnergy investments.
Principal
30+ years’ experience in Private Equity, Real Assets Investments, and Capital Raising. Previously with Macquarie Group and MGPA (Now Blackrock). Led the formation of private equity funds totalling >USD 8 billion in equity and sat on advisory and investment committees that made >USD 25 billion in approved transactions.
Senior Adviser
Professor of Process Systems Engineering (Imperial College London). Globally recognised expert on design and optimisation of low carbon industrial systems, BioEnergy and sustainable energy systems, hydrogen economy, supply chain modelling, process scheduling, and plant safety and risk assessment. Awarded an OBE for services to the decarbonization of the UK Economy (2020), recipient of the IChemE’s Sharma Medal (2023), and Elected Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022).
Member of the UK Government’s Hydrogen Advisory Council and the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Development Forum at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero).
MEng Chemical Engineering | PhD Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London.
Professor Nilay Shah, OBE FREng
Manager - Corporate Finance and Strategy
Shrey manages RF BioEnergy’s team of analysts focussed on financial modelling, valuations, due diligence, operating cost optimisation and strategic decision-making across the various projects under review by RF BioEnergy. Experienced in biomass and biogas project evaluation as well as financial, legal and technical diligence of biogas projects having analysed several projects and businesses across the UK and Europe. Previously worked as a Corporate Finance Analyst (Renewable Energy & Infrastructure) with a London based family office and as a Data Analyst at EY, India.
MSc Management and Finance | University College London
BSc (Hons.) in Economics and Finance | University of London
Georgina Mockler
Executive Assistant