Our Team

15 years’ experience in renewable energy investments and previously President of a US EfW developer; prior to which he was Head of US Structured Capital Markets at Barclays Capital and a process engineer for ICI plc focused on syngas production and purification.

30 years’ experience as Finance Director at major brands including, Vista Global, where he restructured the company’s global finance function while overseeing acquisitions and a major refinancing. Prior to this, Elliot was the CFO at Luton Airport, overseeing a major expansion programme and has also held senior positions at MFI and Diageo.

Chartered Director with board experience of major corporate transactions including public to private equity backed MBO and secondary sales to infrastructure funds. Previously Global Director of Thermal Energy at M+W Group leading and closing complex transactions including the Energy Works Hull and Levenseat projects.

A Chartered Fellow with over 20 years' experience across the Energy landscape. An engineer by profession with a career of senior operational leadership. Previously worked with multi-national organisations both in Renewables, Nuclear, Thermal Generation, and Oil & Gas. Leading organisations through significant market and technology disruption.

Chartered accountant with 10 years' project finance experience in debt and equity renewables investments. Joined from Gravis and previously worked at MUFG and KPMG.

A chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years' experience on major infrastructure projects in the power, water and accommodation sectors. Last 10 years' focussed on delivery of energy from waste technologies, including fluidised beds, oscillating kiln combustor and landfill gas solutions.

Chartered chemical engineer with over 15 years experience as a process engineer, technical advisor in the waste sector and investment manager in renewable energy investments. Joined BIG from John Laing Investments and previously worked for Fichtner Consulting Engineers.

8 years experience in the waste fuels sector. Previously at Suez UK managing offtake and export of all waste fuels; including wood waste fuels, RDF, SRF to UK & European biomass, EfW and cement manufacturing markets. Previous experience in the investment banking and forestry products sectors. Holds a degree in Economics and an MBA.

20 years' experience of waste and biomass, from process design to commissioning and operations. Competencies include materials handling, waste processing to RDF and SRF, MRF design and optimisation, waste wood processing and sampling and analysis of waste, RDF, SRF and biofuels.

Chartered Mechanical Engineer with 18 years' operational and engineering experience in the Power industry including coal, biomass, natural gas, liquid fuel, CHP and anaerobic digestion generation. Previously working for SSE in the UK and Ireland managing new and aging assets.

A solicitor with 20 years' experience working in the construction industry both in private practice and in-house. Emily's specific focus has been on infrastructure projects both in the UK and internationally, prior to joining BIG, she worked for an EPC contractor on a number of Waste to Energy projects.

A Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with 30 years' experience in the development, design and delivery of projects in the Rail, Nuclear and Renewable Power industries. Now responsible for the completion of new assets and handover to O&M.

Previously with John Laing, Black & Veatch, Interserve and Cogen, 10 years' experience in the Energy from Waste sector and previously 6 years' in AD and biogas combustion. Holds a degree in Civil Engineering, is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and MBA qualified.

Chartered accountant with 13 years' experience working in practice and large corporates. Previous roles include Senior Manager- Financial Control at PepsiCo Inc. and Audit Manager at KPMG LLP.

7 years' experience in the power and oil and gas divisions of a FTSE100 company, working in a range of roles from operations and continuous improvement to business planning and strategy.

Joined BIG from Ofgem, where he worked on developing and implementing renewable energy policy, and performing due diligence on applications to receive renewable subsidies. Previously worked in energy market research at London Research International and also worked on implementing sustainability measures across businesses for Carbon Smart.

15 years' experience within the recycling & waste management sectors having previously worked for Suez, Unilever and papermaking corporate UPM. Former roles have included supply chain management, procurement and export sales of biomass and alternative fuels.

A Chemical Engineer with 6 years' experience in the power industry focused primarily on biomass and natural gas CHP plants. Previously worked for SembCorp UK, delivering performance improvement projects and providing engineering support to operations. Qualifications include an MEng in Chemical Engineering.

Prior to joining BIG, Hilary was a manager at Operis where she trained. Hilary holds a MMath from Cambridge and won ModelOff In 2013, and subsequently spent several years on the question design team for that global competition.

Over 25 years' managerial experience in Operations, HR and Facilities both in public and private sector.

Chartered accountant with 9 years experience in the financial and housing sectors before joining BIG in 2016.

Chartered Accountant with 8 years' post qualification experience, including over 5 years' in the energy sector. She has held commercial, financial and management accounting roles since moving into industry in 2010.

Graduated from Southampton University with a Master's degree in Physics. Previously worked as a business analyst for Experian on Pre-qualification for credit cards.

Graduate from Swansea University with a degree in Materials Engineering and a master's in Investment Management. Currently working towards his ACA's to branch his career in the renewables sector.

Joined BIG from Vodafone. Has a background in Hotel Management and Customer Service as well as over 3 years of Admin experience.

AAT Level 2 qualified, 12 years' experience gained while working in account within the serviced office sector and healthcare sector.