Management
Fund Manager – Triodos Bank
Triodos Renewables’ fund management is carried out by James Vaccaro and Matthew Clayton on behalf of Triodos Bank. The fund management team ensures that there is a consistency between the investment management approach of Triodos Renewables and other Triodos funds.
The People
James and Matthew are experienced renewables professionals with a considerable track record. Scott Ridley and Monika Paplaczyk repectively provide techincal and adminsitrative support.
James Vaccaro - Head of Investment Banking (Triodos Bank UK), Managing Director (Triodos Renewables)
James has worked for Triodos Bank for over eight years. In that time he has completed seven renewable energy project finance deals worth over £10m, and acquisitions with a combined asset value in excess of £30m. He has an extensive network of contacts in the independent renewable generation industry and direct experience of what it takes to make a renewable project succeed. He is also, on behalf of the Triodos venture capital funds, a non-executive director of the Carbon Neutral Company and Organic Farm Foods Limited.
Matthew Clayton - Investment Manager
Matthew has worked for Triodos Bank for 18 months, focusing on the management of the Triodos Renewable Energy Fund. He has contributed to the acquisition and integration of 17.3MW of Wind Projects, the operation of the generation portfolio and the development options for in excess of 70MW of onshore wind. Prior to Triodos Matthew was part of a small team which established Camco International, on the world’s leading Carbon Trading Companies, focusing on supporting sustainable energy projects via the Kyoto framework. Before this Matthew worked in Risk Management for TXU’s Energy Trading team.
Scott Ridley - Technical Manager
Scott has recently joined Triodos Renewables and undertakes responsibility for the technical aspects of operating Triodos Renewables 5 renewable energy generation sites. Scott has 5 years experience of service and maintenance of Nordex, Vestas and Repower wind turbines, leading and training maintenance teams and managing Health and Safety compliance. Scott has also worked in a owners engineer role for NaturalPower, which included overseeing operations and preparing technical due diligence for renewable assets.
Monika Paplaczyk - Fund Administrator
Monika has recently joined Triodos Renewabes as Fund Administrator. Monika provides support to the Triodos Renewables team. This includes managing Triodos Renewables shareholders, organising the AGM and management of operations insurance for the Triodos Renewables portfolio. Previously she worked as consultant for Euro Access Business Consultancy where she was mainly involved in preparing business plans and grant applications for investment projects such as community development projects, biofuels and grain storage.
- About Triodos Renewables
- Find out more about Triodos Renewables, including our history, board and management
- Portfolio
- More about Triodos Renewables investment portfolio and criteria
- Shareholders
- Information for Triodos Renewables shareholders
- Triodos Invests in Tidal Technology
- Our latest investment will help finance the world's first commercial tidal turbine. (21 June 2007)