Our Team

Mr. Mehta currently chairs S ONE Trust and manages its multi asset investment portfolio with investment focus on socially/environmentally driven impact investing, technology, renewable energy, zero emission mobility and sustainable agriculture. He is the founder of ReNew ONE Investments Limited, a leasing company for zero emission public transportation and last mile logistics assets in the UK. Mr. Mehta forms part of the management team and board of directors of Project Energy Reimagined Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company listed on Nasdaq with the purpose of acquiring businesses within the energy storage value chain.

Mr. Mehta was the Managing Director of Essar Capital from 2000 to 2014 where he managed a proprietary fund with assets under management of US$32 billion and led a team in making transformational investments, value creation and harvesting of investments in businesses spanning, energy, mobile communication, transportation, metals and infrastructure. Prior to Essar, Mr. Mehta worked at J. Aron & Company (a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs) in New York from 1993 to 1996 and American Marine Advisors Inc. in New York from 1996 to 2000.

Mr. Mehta serves as an independent investment trustee on Steamship Mutual underwriting Association Trustees (Bermuda) Limited. Mr. Mehta received his bachelor's degree from London School of Economics and a master's degree in Finance from CASS Business School, London.

Mr. Kotler joined Lazard in 1989, where he spent 22 years focusing on the energy and natural resources sectors, primarily based in the London office. He became a Managing Director in 2002 and in 2005 moved to the New York office to expand the firm’s North American energy business, before returning to London in 2006. In 2011, Mr. Kotler moved to Morgan Stanley where he headed its energy investment banking team covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He subsequently left Morgan Stanley in 2014 and in 2015 co-founded Access Corporate Finance Partners Limited (“Access”).

Access, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, is an independent financial and strategic advisory firm focused on the energy, natural resources, climate and infrastructure sectors and is comprised of individuals with decades of M&A experience gained largely at pre-eminent investment banks.

Mr. Kotler was educated at University of Toronto, B. Comm (1979-1983) and London Business School and Università Bocconi, MBA (1987-1989). He is currently a member of the Alumni Council of London Business School and is a trustee of the Graham Layton Trust. He is former trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Mr. Haq previously worked in the financial advisory division of Lazard (London) between 2005 – 2012. He then spent two years managing a water and waste-water purification EPC contractor, while concurrently setting-up an associated energy-focused logistics and services company. In 2015 he co-founded Access with Mr. Kotler.

Mr. Haq was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, BSc. Economics (1998 – 2001) and London Business School, MSc. Finance (2004).

Mr. Beckers was Group Chief Executive Officer of RWE Npower plc until the end of 2012 and prior to this was its Group Chief Financial Officer from 2003 to 2009. While at RWE Npower plc, he has worked with a variety of trade and industry bodies, including the CBI President’s Committee, the Board of the German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce, and, as Deputy Chair of the Executive Commercial Management Committee at the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). He was also member of the Executive Committee of UKBCSE (now Energy UK) and held a number of non-executive directorships, including at HM Revenue & Customs where he chaired the Scrutiny Committee.

Mr. Beckers currently holds, amongst others, the roles of Non-Executive Chairman at The Green Recruitment Group Ltd, Reactive Technologies Ltd, Lightbulb ES Ltd, Open Utility Ltd and Cornwall Insight Ltd and is also the Non-Executive Director of the UK Government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Board.

He chaired the PwC UK Advisory Council and is Director and Honorary VP of the British Institute of Energy Economics,. He was also on the Advisory Board of the EU Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College, and Chair of the Advisory Board with Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business (ECFEB).

Mr. Beckers graduated from Cologne University in Economics and Business Administration.

Previously, Ms. Ranchan was Chief Executive Officer of Masdar PV, a company that manufactured thin-film solar PV in Germany and has held senior appointments within the Mubadala group in Abu Dhabi from 2007 to 2015. While at Masdar, she was a member of the Investment Committee that made over US$7 billion of investments in solar, offshore wind projects, green infrastructure project and clean technologies globally. Ms. Ranchan also spent over nine years with Citibank in London and India, advising on and raising project and structured finance for large-scale, strategic infrastructure and energy projects in India, Middle-East, Africa and Europe.

Ms. Ranchan has served on the boards of various investee companies and non-profit organisations. She holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, a Master in Business Administration from Tulane University and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Gujarat University.

Mr. Aiken was the President of BHP Petroleum and then the Group President of Energy of BHP Billiton from 1997 until 2006. Other notable roles include his tenures as Managing Director of BOC/CIG, Chief Executive of BTR Nylex, Chairman of Robert Walters plc, and Senior Independent Director of copper mining company Kazakhmys plc and Indian-focused energy company Essar Energy plc. Between 2008 and 2015, he was a director of National Grid plc. Previously, Mr. Aiken was also a Senior Advisor of Macquarie Bank (Europe), Director of Miclyn Express Offshore and Essar Oil (India) and Chairman of the 2004 World Energy Congress. He has served on the Boards of the Governor of Guangdong International Council, World Energy Council and Monash Mt Eliza Business School.

Mr. Aiken is currently Chairman of AVEVA Group plc and is a non-executive director of Newcrest Mining Limited. Mr. Aiken received his Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the University of Sydney and also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1989.

In recent years, Mr. Trevisan was also Director of Integrated Risk Management for Eni Group reporting directly to Eni’s Chief Executive Officer. In his current position, he covers medium-long term business planning which envisages 2030 and 2050 time frame horizon and is responsible for all merger and acquisition activities for the Eni Group. Mr. Trevisan is also serving as board member in Eni’s venture capital vehicle focused on investment in start-ups active in innovation technology with particular focus on the Energy Transition sector.

Before joining Eni in 2000, Mr. Trevisan worked at Fininvest Group following different projects in finance and was head of investor relations for a listed subsidiary. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Genoa and a Master's in Business Administration from SOGEA, the management school of Confindustria Liguria in Italy.

Sir Peter worked in the computer, telecommunications and defence industries for over thirty years, holding senior executive positions. In 1994 he was appointed to the main board of GEC plc. He joined the Civil Service in 2000 to become the first chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce. Between 2003 and 2004, Sir Peter led a review of the efficiency in the UK public sector (the "Gershon Efficiency Review") which subsequently led to improvements in savings and efficiency of public services. Since 2004, Sir Peter has undertaken non-executive chairman roles in various sectors including mobile phones software, healthcare, outsourcing and distribution of electronic components. Sir Peter has also led a further two independent reviews; in 2006 for the UK Government on Ministerial & Royal Air Travel and in 2008 for the Australian Government for its use of ICT.

Sir Peter graduated with a Mathematics degree from Cambridge University. Sir Peter was awarded the CBE in 2000 for services to the defence industry and was knighted in 2004 for his work on public procurement. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2016 he won the FTSE100 Non-Executive Director of the year award. Sir Peter is a fellow of a number of bodies, including the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society. He is also chairman of Join Dementia Research, a trustee of The Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation and sits on the Board of The Investor Forum.

Ms. Rudd was appointed Home Secretary in 2016 and held this office until 2018. Prior to her appointment as Home Secretary, Ms. Rudd served as the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2015 – 2016), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (2014 – 2015), Assistant Chief Whip (2013) and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (2012 – 2013). Following her election as the Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye in the 2010 general election, Ms. Rudd was elected to serve as a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.

After stepping down as Home Secretary in 2018, Ms. Rudd was appointed the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and served as the Minister for Women and Equalities, roles which she occupied until resigning from the cabinet in 2019.

Since standing down as a Member of Parliament in 2019, Ms. Rudd has been active in the following areas: energy transition, cyber security and women's empowerment. She holds a number of advisory roles in the public and private sector in these areas.

Ms. Rudd graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in History. Prior to her election as a Member of Parliament, Ms. Rudd worked as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and established a recruitment business.

Mr. Chen has been a member of the executive management team and served on the Wan Hai Lines Board of Directors since 2002. Before joining Wan Hai Lines, Mr. Chen was a member of the senior management team of the Central Trading & Development Group, a Taiwan-based investor group with extensive infrastructure and real estate holdings in Vietnam. Mr. Chen also has extensive experience in software and financial services.

In addition, Mr. Chen is a board member of several industry organisations including the World Shipping Council, the Global Maritime Forum (GMF) and the UK P&I Club. Mr. Chen is currently the Deputy Chairman for both the UK P&I Club and the GMF, and one of the co-chairs of the Getting to Zero Initiative within the GMF.

Mr. Chen holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from MIT’s Sloan School of Business as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and English Literature from Duke University.