Permira has appointed Anish Patel as accomplice and co-head of local weather to assist drive its local weather funding technique.
Anish Patel, who shall be based mostly in London, will co-lead Permira’s devoted local weather investing crew alongside Kush Patel, figuring out alternatives throughout the local weather transition worth chain.
He has over 13 years of investing expertise targeted on the vitality and local weather transition sectors. He joins the personal markets asset supervisor from Kerogen Capital, the place he was a accomplice and senior member of the funding and portfolio administration crew.
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Previous to that, he labored in company finance at JP Morgan Cazenove, advising purchasers within the vitality and industrial sectors.
The appointment follows Permira’s announcement in March that it had arrange a devoted local weather investing crew.
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And final month, Permira named former ACWA Energy chief govt Paddy Padmathan as a senior adviser to the crew.
“I’m thrilled to hitch Permira and lead the local weather investing crew alongside Kush,” stated Anish Patel. “Important efforts are wanted to handle the local weather transition, together with assembly challenges akin to scaling new applied sciences, growing renewable buildout alongside grid modernisation and accelerating vitality effectivity and circularity. Permira has a robust observe file of figuring out and backing mega-trends, and is completely positioned to spend money on the local weather leaders of tomorrow, supporting their administration groups to ship transformational development at scale.”
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