Advisor to Indonesian-family Group on IPP development throughout Indonesia. Role includes negotiations with foreign principle, debt structure and raw material supply. Overall investment in excess of US$500 million.
Advisor in the set up of a CPO-Coal to Liquids project, including application of PCT International patent.
As Regional CEO for South East Asia of the Sindicatum Sustainable Resources Group from 2006 till 2012:
A. Strategy Application and Development:
Successfully applied the Group Strategy of becoming the “lowest cost producer of carbon credits” to Indonesia, then the South East Asia Region. Developed the strategy further to include Agricultural Waste Management, a strategy that was subsequently adopted globally to became one of the Group’s four business sectors.
Successfully developed the Region’s project portfolio strategy from its initial carbon credit focus to include energy, and ultimately the ‘sustainability’ of natural resources. The Region provided the proven business model for the Group’s subsequent adoption of ‘sustainability’ as the platform for its overall global strategy.
B. Dealflow Highlights
Secured in Indonesia the Group’s first ever project within sixty days of joining the Company. This was also the Group’s most profitable project with the highest ROE. § Developed and closed in Thailand the Group’s largest and most profitable project, with the highest contribution to the energy (MW) component of the Group’s revenue.
Successfully penetrated the Indonesian public sector securing two projects with SOEs.
Developed and secured the Group’s first project in Malaysia.
In 2012 the South East Asia Region’s CERs and revenues represent 68% and 62% respectively of the Group’s performance.
C. Corporate Initiatives:
Hired and developed the Regional team for accounting and finance, legal, and portfolio management. This team subsequently became the core of SSR’s Global Headquarters in Singapore.
Developed the Group’s first investment interest from a national development agency via the Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
From the Group’s global base of 33 projects, as a pre-IPO tactic Indonesia and India were selected as the two key platforms on which to scale the business significantly, with 50% of the Group’s growth projected from Indonesia.
D. Brand Building:
In 2011 the CERs developed by SSR in Indonesia represented 86% of the country’s total production.
Developed the Group’s first formal relationship with a supranational entity, the UN-WFP
Via close relationships developed with the UK’s Development Agency, was a founder of Indonesia’s association for building a ‘low carbon business’ economy
The ‘sustainability’ of natural resources strategy developed by the South East Asia Region subsequently led to the Group rebranding as ‘Sindicatum Sustainable Resources’ in 2011
