Staff & Advisors
Tim Peara – Managing Director
Tim is the founder and Managing Director of Alternative Energy Finance Ltd. He brings to this role 25 years experience in deal structuring, business development and the capital markets. He has worked extensively raising capital for and advising on the renewable, petroleum and power industries both in developed markets of USA, Canada and Western Europe as well as in the emerging countries of the Former Soviet Union, Africa and Latin America. Tim started his career with securities firms (Prudential Securities Inc 1983-91, Lehman Brothers 1991-97) in financial futures, mortgage & asset backed securities and emerging markets fixed income. He then worked as a business developer for US private oil company Koch Industries (1997-98), an oil & gas pipeline joint-venture of GE-Capital and Bechtel (1998-2000) and a pipeline & power venture of United Technologies (2000-2001). From 2002-2004, Mr. Peara ran the London office of Emerging Markets Finance International, a specialist arranger for energy companies operating outside the OECD, before founding Alternative Energy Finance in 2005.
Tim holds an MBA from the University of Chicago (Finance / International Business) and a BA (Latin American Studies) from Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
Tom Cowley – Associate
Tom is a recent BSc Honours graduate in Chemistry from Bristol University. His interest in alternative energy spawned from time spent with ReEnergy Group Plc, an AIM listed company which owned propriety Waste2Energy technology, conducting technical due diligence on competing technologies. From here Tom spent time during his final year at University working as a research consultant for Environmental Pollution Abatement Ltd to help better their understanding of the European Carbon Trading Scheme. Before joining Alternative Energy Finance, Tom supported sales at the fixed income division of JP Morgan Asset Management.
Nurlan Ospan – Director, Central Asia
Nurlan is an international tax-lawyer with 16 years experience advising petroleum and consumer corporations in the UK, the Netherlands and Kazakhstan. He focuses on Central Asian energy companies with acquisitions and disposals. Prior to joining Alternative Energy Finance, Nurlan served telecoms giant Nortel Networks in tax planning, transfer pricing and cross-border contracting in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. From 2002-2004 he worked as Tax Manager for Royal Dutch Shell in The Hague on international tax efficiency after having completed prior assignments with Proctor & Gamble, UK chartered accounting firm Lichfield & Co, oil field services major Schlumberger and Alash-Bank (Kazakhstan). From 1992-95 Nurlan founded and build two profitable import-export businesses in Almaty.
Nurlan has an LLM in international Trade Law from the University of Amsterdam, an MS from the London School of Economics, an MBA from the Kazak Institute of Management as well as diplomas in Economics and Law from Karaganda State University.
Krishna Pemsing – Advisor
Krishna has over 25 years professional experience in the oil and gas industry. From 1980 until 1985 Krishna worked at Liverpool University in the department of Mechanical Engineering, researching offshore platform legs and pressure vessels. In 1985 Krishna joined Lloyd’s Register of Shipping as a structural Engineer and later Senior Engineer Surveyor responsible for design appraisal and certification of offshore platforms, pipelines and nuclear vessels. In 1990 Krishna joined the oil trading company Marc Rich in Azerbaijan as First Deputy General Director of a JV with the New Baku refinery where he was responsible for general management of the JV involving both refining of crude oil and export of oil products. From 1993 until 2001, Krishna worked for the French oil major Total as Vice President for Russia and the FSU in which he opened, developed and managed Total’s Moscow Trading Office. In 2001 Krishna joined the Swiss oil trading company Central Energy as Managing Director to develop crude and oil products trading in Moscow. In 2002, Krishna accepted appointment to the Board of the Russian oil producing company Kaliningradneft where he raised trade finance to increase its production.
Krishna holds an MSc in Civil and Industrial Construction and a PhD in Structural Mechanics from the Institute of Civil Engineering in Kiev, Ukraine along with a Diploma in Accounting, Finance and Management from the Central London Polytechnic.