A featured selection of our global team

   Co-Founding Advisor

Chairman

  Global energy industry leader, helping businesses and consumers to transition to a net zero carbon energy system.
 

After a 39 year executive career with Shell, the last 4 of which were building a New Energies business, Mark has hands-on experience of almost every lever we need to pull to deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. From biofuels to hydrogen, renewable electricity and storage, distributed energy, digital and nature based solutions, we need to accelerate investment and deployment in the coming decade.
 

Since retiring from Shell Mark serves on the boards of several companies developing leading technologies to accelerate the energy transition and a more circular economy. He is the chairman of Seatrium, a leader in offshore engineering solutions for cleaner oil and gas and renewables. Supporting the twin goals of Energy Security and Energy Transition, we look forward to Engineering Our Future Together.

   Co-Founding Advisor

Chief Executive Officer

Laura brings 40 years executive and non-executive Board experience across a range of industries in Asia and globally, including leadership roles at Shell and leading consumer electronics and durables businesses and professional services firms. 

Laura has served on listed and private boards as an independent director, committee chair and advisory board chair. She is an active investor in businesses driving the energy transition.
 

With a deep commercial and marketing background, Laura provides advice on how to position low carbon products with business and consumers. Her expertise also includes driving commercial results through business model and cultural change. 

 Advisor

 Internationally recognised for his work on technologies for the low carbon energy transition, Nigel provides a particular focus on hydrogen and electrochemical devices such as fuel cells, electrolysers and batteries.  He is the founder of two companies in this space. 

Nigel's 40 years of expertise in technology innovation, current and emerging technology trends, and the interface between innovation and commercial opportunity is in high demand.

Advisor

Alex Brings 45 years’ experience in Brazil and Latin America energy markets.

While a board member at Vibra Energia, he actively participated in the development of the long term decarbonization strategy for the company and oversaw the first steps of its implementation. Previously a liquid fuels distributor affiliated to Petrobras, Vibra became a public corporation in 2019 and it is the largest energy distributor in Brazil. 

Before that, Alex spent 13 years as a business consultant and lecturer, thus further expanding his contacts network within the energy industry.

During his 23 years at Shell, he was the Aviation business leader in South America for 4+ years and Latin America Commercial VP for 5 years.

Advisor

Hank has over 35 years of experience working with corporations, environmental organisations, and social justice groups to find common ground in solving problems and moving forward. His work within the forestry, mining, energy, and consumer products sector has routinely examined how a company’s supply chains can be secured and its license to operate strengthened. 

His most recent endeavour was to co-found and lead a social justice organisation that acts as a bridge between companies and investors interested in nature-based solutions to climate change and front-line communities that are seeking investment in return for carbon credits.

Advisor

Lisa brings over 35 years of experience in executive and board leadership roles in energy, industrial and transportation companies.  

Lisa's successful executive career culminated in joining the board of Siemens, responsible for its Oil & Gas and Power businesses. She has significant experience of renewable power generation, with a particular emphasis on wind.

She is also deeply involved in the development of the hydrogen economy as a current nonexecutive director of Air Products and is a senior advisor to a dedicated hydrogen investment fund.

Lisa also serves on the board of Penske Corporation, a leading US transportation and logistics company. 

Advisor

Marc serves as Non-Executive Director of AES Clean Energy, Board Member of NeXtWind and Board Advisor at Yamna. He also served as a Member of the Investment Committee and Global Commercial Advisor at Fortescue, a mining company and leader in industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen value chain development.

Earlier in his career Marc served as Global VP of Shell New Energies, where he built a 4GW renewable power business in wind, solar, and storage from the ground up. Marc held several senior executive roles at First Solar, was the CEO of Q-Cells North America and EVP and co-founder of Solaria. He started his career as a Geothermal project developer.

Marc has extensive board and governance experience with renewable energy companies and industry associations.

Advisor

With over 25 years of global leadership, Jan brings strategic oversight, corporate governance, sustainability leadership, financial insights, and deep understanding of nuclear energy transitions, technological innovations, and maritime operations.

Having worked with and now as an advisory board member to Seaborg Technologies, he is at the forefront of developing a 4th generation small modular nuclear power plant. Moreover, Jan’s extensive maritime experience includes significant positions at A.P. Moller Maersk group, where he played a key role in expanding the company's fleet and operations, and later leading Maersk Drilling Asia to become a significant drilling contractor in the region.

Advisor

At Procter & Gamble and Shell, Rahul has led multi-billion dollar businesses as P&L or brand/category head. Rahul is currently Global Head of Brand Strategy and Stewardship for the Shell group, a brand valued at US $50 billion.   

Rahul is a global expert on defining and embedding purpose into organisations, frequently invited to share his thinking and approach in books, international conferences and podcasts. 

His passion and expertise is in inspiring businesses and leaders to be more purpose-driven, and make a real difference to the people and ecology of the planet. 

Advisor

With over 35 years in energy and renewables leadership, Andrew brings expertise in low-carbon fuels, renewables, project delivery, joint ventures, fundraising, and technology innovation. He has held leadership, JV Board, and start-up governance roles, with deep insights into energy transition investments. 

As an investor and Board member at Lanzajet, Andrew advanced sustainable aviation fuels. At Shell, he led biofuels initiatives, establishing complex value chains. As Project Director for the 750MW London Array offshore wind project, he shaped regulatory support and gained offshore renewables expertise. As Chair of Varennes Carbon Recycling, Andrew oversaw an 80MW electrolyser investment for green hydrogen in biofuels, integrating key aspects of his career.

Advisor

Allard is a seasoned senior executive with extensive experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors. During his over 30 years in Asia, he established an excellent track record in the sustainable infrastructure, energy transition and project financing space in Asia’s emerging and frontier markets. Allard offers a profound understanding of industry intricacies and strategic foresight.

With a key focus on implementing and developing growth strategies, he successfully led several infrastructure, renewable energy, and environmental companies, by creating new assets, acquiring existing assets and companies. Previous C-Suite roles at Fortescue Energy, InfraCo Asia,

Jindal Group India, Covanta Energy, Leighton Asia, Thames Water International, Vermeer–Ballast Nedam, Vietnam; and board positions at China Hydro Electric Corp, Infrazamin Pakistan.

Advisor

Thomas has over 40 years of experience in Global Finance - leading and managing trading, sales and risk management teams in Switzerland, the UK, Asia, and the United States. 

He has spent the last few years engaging with investors and local policy makers in Africa, bringing in major investors who want to gain access to local opportunities across the continent. 

Thomas Is based in New York and wants to bring the global expertise amassed by  LCA to North America where we believe there to be a great demand for timely, concise and honest advice in the decarbonisation and accountability for many financial organisations, asset managers, family offices and local governments.

 Advisor

  Throughout his career spanning the oil, gas, electricity, and water sectors, Peter has been involved in sustainability, from long term scenario planning in Shell, to modelling net-zero futures for clients of the Energy Saving Trust. Peter also worked for several years with PA Consulting with a particular focus on utility customers and now has his own consultancy, Enstra Consulting. 

Peter’s specialises in deploying Pyramid Thinking and Value Mapping to enable the maximisation of value for organisations taking the “Road to Net-Zero”.

Senior BD & Marketing Analyst

Sebastian has supported Low Carbon Advisors’ growth and delivery since its founding in 2021, contributing significantly to business development and backend operations. 

As a sustainability strategist, he advises governments, startups, and investors across Latin America and Asia. His expertise encompasses lithium procurement, climate finance, and digital storytelling - blending analytical rigor with creative strategy to drive inclusive, net-zero transitions.

 Research Analyst

Helena is a Mathematics, Economics, and Business Analytics student at the University of California, San Diego.

She supports client engagements by preparing meeting materials, conducting financial and feasibility analyses, and developing insight-driven presentations. 

Her background includes research, financial modeling, and value chain assessment, with a focus on integrating sustainability into commercial strategy. Furthermore, Helena is involved in student-led sustainability initiatives and impact investing.