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I grow energy transition portfolios — turning conceptual projects into bankable business opportunities

Executive advisor with 25+ years maturing LNG, hydrogen, and renewable energy projects to financial close and FID. Project finance, JV structuring, and portfolio governance.

I can help you with...

Service 1 - Portfolio Governance-selecti

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Portfolio governance & value delivery

I design stage-gate frameworks, scoring models, and governance rhythms for multi-technology development portfolios — so capital goes to the right projects and more of them reach FID.

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Joint-venture & commercial structuring

I advise on JV shareholders' agreements, partner negotiations, and offtake structuring — drawing on direct experience closing a multibillion LNG project financing and governing the resulting partnership.

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Project finance & financial close

​I help developers structure projects for bankability — financial modelling, lender engagement, and the commercial structuring needed to take a project from development to financial close and FID.

Service 4 - Operating Models for Scaling

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Operating models for scaling organisations

I build the PMOs, decision processes, and operational infrastructure that energy companies need to execute consistently as they scale from developer to operator or IPP.

Projects & Solutions

Turning conceptual projects into bankable business opportunities

Get to know me

I'm not an originator or a deals hunter. I'm a builder, the one who takes existing opportunities and matures them into projects, partnerships or P&Ls.

 

I am a former board level executive with more than 25 years of experience maturing energy projects — from early development through project financing close and FID — across LNG and renewable gases. ​​Today, I work as an independent advisor helping energy companies and investors mature projects to financial close — combining commercial structuring, financial modelling, and portfolio governance with the operational discipline to execute at scale.

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I've spent my career turning ambitious energy visions into the things that make them real - project finance and FID, partnerships and JVs, portfolio due diligence, construction budgets, operational readiness programs. And I've owned every link of that chain. Closing a mult-billion LNG project financing, negotiating JV shareholder and operating agreements, preparing a 6 GW multi-technology portfolio for capital raising, running a major transformation PMO (over 450 FTE) through a hypergrowth phase. Most people in the energy transition have done one of those. I've done all of them.

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I've deliberately moved between industry and advisory, between the boardroom and the projects, between operations and corporate functions, because I wanted all of it: the strategic view, the business reality-check, and the accountability for making projects work, or for calling when they shouldn't go ahead. ​The result is a rare vantage point. I can look at a project and see the capital structure, the governance, the operating model, and the people at once, and I know where each one breaks.

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Across thirty years, though, what's left the deepest mark is the people: the ones I worked with, the ones I mentored, the teams I built or rebuilt. I'm a trained coach and a builder by instinct, and I'm most alive when leading people.

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I am an ICF-trained coach and work fluently in Spanish, English, and French.

Napkin Notes

Ideas for coffee-break conversations
A compilation of notes and reflections on energy, on Europe and on how we got to where we are now.

Market Updates

A brief recap of relevant news in Europe and in Spain

Get in touch.

If you are looking for a thoughtful, experienced partner to help strengthen execution and organisational capacity, I would be glad to connect.

 

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