Investment Advisory Committee

Charlotte Valeur

Committee Chairman

Charlotte is a non-executive director of NTR plc.  She is the Managing Director of GGG Limited, which advises on corporate governance.  Charlotte is also on the boards of a number of listed and unlisted companies including Laing O’Rourke Limited, JP Morgan Convertibles Income Fund Limited, Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing Limited and Phoenix Spree Deutschland Limited.  Charlotte is also on the board of Westminster University.

Prior to her appointment at GGG Limited, Charlotte was the Managing Partner at Brook Street Partners Limited from January 2003.  Charlotte has also held a number of senior capital markets roles in the City of London and Denmark.  Charlotte is a member of the Institute of Directors, which is regulated by the European Commission.

Fabrizio De Candia

Committee Member

Fabrizio de Candia is a senior executive with over 30 years’ experience in global power generation. 

Fabrizio is Managing Director, Infrastructure Practice at Ferguson Partners.  Previously, he was a partner at Gas2Power, senior advisor of SS&A Power Consulting and General Manager EPC business with Alstom Power for US and Italy, where he negotiated and constructed over €1bn in turnkey power project contracts. 

He was one of founding employees of independent power company InterGen and has  led development, investments and construction of renewable and conventional power projects across US, Europe and Asia.

Kevin Devlin

Committee Member

Kevin is Senior Vice President of Project Operations for Pattern Energy, a US-based developer and operator of renewable generation and transmission with over 4.4GW of assets in operation across the Americas and Japan, and a large development pipeline. 

Kevin is responsible for Pattern Energy’s new and existing fleet of renewable energy facilities worldwide, and oversees the full range of operational disciplines including operations, construction execution, engineering, asset management, procurement, and health and safety.

Prior to joining Pattern Energy in 2015, Kevin spent 30 years in the energy field in a variety of operational and commercial roles. Most recently, this included 10 years at Iberdrola where he served as Vice President and was responsible for the company’s Operations in the U.S. He has also held senior roles at Scottish Power and Esso in Europe. 

Kevin has a Bachelor of Engineering from Queens University Belfast and has also completed executive development programs at the Kellogg, IMD, and Wharton schools of business.

Chris Hunt

Committee Member

Chris is a Co-Founder and Partner of Sandbrook Capital, based in London.

Through his nearly forty-year career, Chris has primarily specialised in power (both renewable and conventional) and natural gas projects.  Chris has developed, constructed, financed and operated energy businesses in 4 0 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has worked on several hundred energy facilities totaling over 40GW of power capacity and several million gas customers.  

Prior to founding Sandbrook, Chris was a partner at Riverstone and, previous to that, ran international power development and generation businesses for both BP and Enron. 

Chris received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.  He has also completed various postgraduate training at Harvard, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oxford University.  In addition, he is a Professor of Practice at Imperial Business School in London.