Raghuram (Ram) was appointed as CEO of Blueleaf Energy in July 2021.

Based in Singapore, Mr. Natarajan spearheads Blueleaf’s expansion plans in the Asia-Pacific region and leads its rapidly growing team. Mr. Natarajan brings 15 years of senior leadership experience in wind, solar and battery storage solutions across the Asia-Pacific region. In his previous positions as APAC CEO with Juwi and Mainstream Renewable Power, Mr. Natarajan managed the development of over 5 GW of renewable energy projects and delivered close to 2 GW of solar and wind projects into commercial operation and long-term asset management.

Anand Prakash brings over 25 years of leadership experience in investing in renewable energy, the power industry and the broader climate investing space. Most recently, Anand was the Managing Director of Asian Century Advisors (“ACA”) where he provided Senior Advisory services to marque private equity investors building or scaling platforms to deploy capital in renewable energy, waste and water among other high climate impact companies across Asia. Prior to ACA, Anand served as the Managing Director of Asia Climate Partners, a private equity fund launched by Asian Development Bank and ORIX Corporation based in Hong Kong and of FE Clean Energy Group, one of the pioneering private equity investors in the clean energy space in Asia. As the CIO of Blueleaf Energy based in Singapore, Anand will lead and advance the company’s investment strategy, planning, analysis and execution to further accelerate the growth and asset build out of the company.

Amiram Roth-Deblon has developed and built successful renewable energy businesses across Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa in the last two decades, with more than 4 Gigawatts of solar, wind and battery projects developed and delivered. Prior to joining Blueleaf Energy, he was a Director at the international project developer and EPC JUWI. Amiram established JUWI’s presence in Asia Pacific from 2011 to 2016 and most recently built a market leading business delivering hybrid power solutions globally to energy intensive industries such as mining. Amiram joins Blueleaf Energy as the COO and will lead the company’s operations from project development to construction and asset management.

Phyllis was appointed as the HR Director with Blueleaf Energy in February 2019 and currently holds the Head of HR position for the company. A dedicated HR business partner with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and supply chain industry with Bollore Logistics where she held the position of HR Director for South East Asia.  With Blueleaf Energy, her idealism is to play her part in contributing back to the world, making the world a more sustainable place for our children to live in. 

Phyllis’ experience has grown from operational to strategic HR over the last 20 years in her career.  A genuine HR influencer who supports senior business leaders and engages stakeholders with an appreciation that people is every organisation’s greatest asset and culture is every organisation’s greatest enabler.

Roy was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in September 2020, having joined from Asia Power Development Platform as its CFO, which also pursued renewable energy development within the ASEAN market. Prior to his foray into renewable energy development, he held various senior Finance appointments in investment banking, wholesale and institutional banking.

In addition to the 3 years in renewable energy, Roy has over 20 years of experience in banking and finance, supporting debt capital markets, corporate finance, treasury and institutional sales. 

Sadi is a UK qualified lawyer with nearly two decades of experience on project financing and M&A transactions with a focus on renewables energy and infrastructure in India, Taiwan, Malaysia and other parts of Asia Pacific. Sadi leads the legal team and is responsible for providing guidance on corporate governance, negotiating and drafting contracts, risk management, and the development of plans and policies.

Prior to joining Blueleaf, Sadi spent close to 20 years with Allen & Overy with various stints in London, Bangkok and Singapore. During that time, she has been involved in notable and award winning transactions advising on the sponsor and lenders side. This includes advising Orsted on offshore wind projects in Taiwan (Greater Changhua 1), Pengerang Terminal II in Malaysia and Softbank group’s financing of multiple projects in India to name a few.

Julie is the Investment Director and Country Head of Blueleaf Energy Taiwan.

Julie is a senior energy finance and investment professional who brings 13 years of hands-on experience in originating, evaluating, executing, and managing project finance debt and sponsor equity investment across a wide variety of power, renewable, and infrastructure real assets in North and Latin Americas at well-known financial institutions, including Macquarie Capital, ABN AMRO, and BNP Paribas.

Prior to joining Blueleaf Energy, Julie oversaw over US$400 million of development and construction equity commitment at Macquarie Capital, established ABN AMRO’s power and renewable project finance and client coverage business in North America, and managed approximately US$1 billion of project finance portfolio and tax equity investment at BNP Paribas.

Pratyush was appointed as the Investment Director and Country Head of India in April 2021, joining from Macquarie Capital where he led renewables development activities in India. Based in Bangalore, Pratyush leads Blueleaf Energy’s business in India supporting the growth of the Vibrant Energy platform and expanding Blueleaf Energy’s presence in the utility offtake market. 

Pratyush’s career spans for more than 16 years, which includes experience in range of activities including M&A, project finance, business and project development, energy markets, engineering, and risk management. Previously he was Managing Director of Statkraft Solar Solutions, the solar arm of Norwegian renewable energy major Statkraft.

Johnson Varghese is the Project Director of Blueleaf Energy. He is responsible for the leading the renewable energy project development as well as providing technical and commercial expertise into wind opportunities across Blueleaf Energy’s business in the Asia Pacific region.

Johnson has over 24 years of experience in renewable energy sector. Most recently, Johnson was EVP of New Business Development at Siemens Gamesa in India where he undertook a rationalisation of Siemens Gamesa’s wind and solar development portfolio during the restructuring review of that business. Prior to that, he spent time in Sembcorp Singapore (VP Project Development), Vestas (Director Global Development), Kshema Power, 4 years in SunEdison (MD Wind and Solar Operations). Before that he spent 14 years with Vestas heading operations and maintenance, Technical Support,  development and construction of wind projects across India.

Viktor Dancza was appointed Engineering Director in February 2021. Viktor experience spans his native Hungary, Australia, UK and for the last 3 years, he has been based in Singapore as the Engineering Manager, working on the development of solar projects across the whole Asia region. As the Engineering Director, Viktor leads the Blueleaf Energy Engineering Team, and will ensure that we continue to deliver and grow the excellent in-house capacity of assessing developer designs, evaluating project sites and providing engineering input into our transactions. 

Scott has 15 years of experience in the renewable energy industry and managment consulting that includes project development and business planning.  He leads projects to improve operational efficiency and growth, including the integration and transition of new businesses and people into Blueleaf Energy.  He has originated, developed, and sold solar power projects across Japan and SEA with Blueleaf Energy’s predecessor, Conergy.   

Prior to Blueleaf Energy was with Deloitte in strategy and operations consulting.  He has a degree in systems design engineering, an MBA from INSEAD and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.

Des Yeo was appointed as the Workplace Health Safety and Environment (WHSE) Director in November 2019 and currently serves as the Head of WHSE for the company. Prior to this, Des was working with the Altrad Group, a leading global industrial services provider for the Oil & Gas market.

Des has more than a decade of extensive WHSE experience for both green and brownfield projects across a range of sectors, including Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Power Generation, Civil and Building Construction.

Chris was appointed as an Investment Director and Country Head of Blueleaf Energy Philippines in February 2022. Chris has over 15 years of experience in the power industry, focused in project and deal origination, M&As as well as commercial and asset management across various thermal and renewables investments in Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Blueleaf Energy, Chris was part of two pioneer groups which established Meralco Powergen Corporation (MGen) and UPC Renewables Asia. He has spent over 11 years with MGen where he headed the Business Development – Domestic Markets Team of MGreen, a renewable energy platform of MGen/Global Business Power, that has over 1GW of pipeline projects in development. In MGen, he oversaw the acquisition of an 800MW LNG plant based in Singapore and headed the development of a 1.2GW Ultra Super-Critical power plant project in the Philippines, bringing it from early development stage to shovel-ready status within 3 years.

陳明信博士現任麥格理資本臺灣地區主席，擁有約40年再生能源和基礎設施經驗。 陳明信博士自2021 年2月1日起還被提名並當選臺北市澳洲紐西蘭商會主席。 加入麥格理之前，陳博士效力於世界銀行集團國際金融公司，是基礎設施和自然資源部門的一名顧問， 重點負責再生能源、水資源、垃圾管理、垃圾發電、環境和市政領域。 陳博士還曾效力於Brambles Limited (一家澳洲工業集團)、TNT Group、Sembcorp Industries Limited ( 一家新加坡淡馬錫投資的公司)和Asia Cube Energy Group，擔任過多項領導職務，並管理過澳洲、臺 灣、中國和其它亞洲國家的團隊和業務。 Jeffrey Chen博士擁有澳洲悉尼新南威爾士大學博士學位，是澳洲工程師協會會員、澳洲註冊專業工程 師、亞太經濟合作會議註冊工程師、國際專業工程師協議註冊工程師、澳洲皇家化學協會會員和註冊化 學師。另外，他還是中國南京東南大學客座教授，在若干國際大會和論壇上擔任過主題發言人和特邀嘉 賓。 2008年，陳博士因其對澳中關係作出貢獻而被澳洲外交貿易部澳中理事會授予科學、創新和環境獎。 陳博士還數次入選國際專業名人錄，並因在亞太區業務開發領域的出色表現而被評為2012年中國新經濟宣導者和2010年中國經濟百強人物。

Tobias Kullack was appointed Project Director in February 2021. 

Tobias is experienced in the development and implementation of solar, hybrid and wind projects, spending the last years helping project management teams to grow and successfully implement and operate several renewable energy projects across the Asia Pacific Region. His major achievements have been the development and implementation of several large-scale power plants in the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. 

As the Project Director, Tobias will lead the in-house Blueleaf Energy project delivery team and contribute to the development of projects, both C&I and utility scale, and lead the team for successful project implementation.

James Thomas joined Blueleaf Energy as Technical Director in February 2021 with the overall responsibility for engineering, construction and supply chain across Asia. With a career with large and well known companies around the globe, James is a Chartered Engineer, Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers and holds a Master of Science in Project Management. James has led major projects as well as large engineering and construction teams in nuclear, gas turbine, thermal and solar power generation sectors, as well as providing services as founder of his own consulting business. He has worked on projects and developments in UK, China, Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and others. Reporting to the CEO, James will lead all technical activity for Blueleaf Energy across Asia.

Steffen Hesche was appointed as VP Asset Management when Blueleaf Energy launched in 2019.

Prior to this, Steffen was Head of the Conergy business unit “Operations and Maintenance” and Managing Director for Conergy India.

Steffen has over 20 years of experience in various management positions in the solar, semiconductor, glass and pharmaceutical industry.

Le Huy Thanh is the Chairman of Blueleaf Energy Vietnam. Le Huy Thanh has over 25 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry in various fields in all aspects of upstream, midstream and downstream including sales, marketing, operation of LPG plant, commercial, business development, public and government affairs, representative office.

Prior to joining Blueleaf Energy, Thanh was the Public and Government Affairs Manager and Chief Representative of ExxonMobil in Vietnam. Other positions he has held include Chief Representative of the British Petroleum Company (BP) in Vietnam, Commercial Manager for BP’s New Projects in the country.

Arnaud Ayral is the Corporate Solutions Director of Blueleaf Energy and based in Singapore.

Arnaud leads the company’s growth in renewable energy solutions aimed at corporate customers, leveraging the strong track record and capabilities of the Group in solar PV, wind and energy storage.

Arnaud previously was Business Development Director at Cleantech Solar, the Keppel-owned solar PV developer where he helped build in South-East Asia a strong track record for the company of commercial and industrial projects across the region. Prior to that, he worked in Australia, UK, the Netherlands and the Middle-East where he held various positions with Rolls-Royce plc, including most recently that of Senior Vice-President of the Marine Services division in Asia Pacific.

Arnaud had previously also worked at Electricite de France (EDF). Arnaud holds a B&A Master’s degree from Normandy Business School and most recently attended the Tuck 2030 Leadership programme at Dartmouth College.