Our People: Alternative Energy
Andrew Shepherd-Barron – Director, Research
Andrew joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2001 and is a director of equity research. He has been covering a number of sectors including alternative energy, energy technology and carbon emissions, building on his time previously analyzing pan-European utilities at ABN Amro. He has 20 years’ experience in equity research and has run the French equity research teams at both ABN Amro and Dresdner Kleinwort, where he was number 1 rated individual analyst on France.
He is a member of the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, a qualified chartered accountant (PwC) and a graduate in Economics (BA Hons) from Exeter University.
andrew.sb@kbcpeelhunt.com
Nick Pettman – Equity Sales
Nick joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2004 from JP Morgan Chase. He has two years’ experience as a telecoms analyst, along with 5 years’ experience on institutional sales desk, selling European large cap stocks to Scandinavian institutions.
nick.pettman@kbcpeelhunt.com
Jeremy Barkes – Director, International Sales
Following 5 years in the Army Jeremy joined Robert Fleming & Co in London in 1997, moving to New York the following year to expand sales of international investment funds and trusts. He moved on to equity derivative sales in 2000, following RF & Co's acquisition by JP Morgan, moving back to London in 2003 as part of the merger arbitrage and event driven sales team. He joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2005, bringing a broad array of investor relationships to the firm. He concentrates on fund raisings for both public and private ventures.
jeremy.barkes@kbcpeelhunt.com
Jonathan Marren – Director, Corporate Finance
Jonathan joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2000 and is a director in the corporate finance department. His focus is mainly on the energy sector with clients in numerous jurisdictions across the Alternative Energy and Oil & Gas sectors. He has advised on over 50 transactions in a variety of fields in the last seven years.
Jonathan studied Mathematics at University College, Durham. He then qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen before moving into corporate finance.
jonathan.marren@kbcpeelhunt.com
David Anderson – Corporate Finance
David joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2003 where he has had an equal focus on mergers & acquisitions and capital markets providing advice to mid and small cap Official List and AIM clients.
David graduated with an honours degree in geography from the University of Bristol in 2000. He joined UBS Warburg (now UBS) a year later working in the Mid Market Group of the Investment Banking Division for two years where he transacted a number of mid cap acquisitions, fundraisings and restructurings.
david.anderson@kbcpeelhunt.com
Dr Tom McColm – Analyst
Tom joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2007 with a speciality in the renewable energy sector. Prior to arriving he spent 2 years carrying out technical due diligence on small cap companies in the renewable space, 4 years as a fuel-cell scientist with Ceres Power and 2 years as a post doctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews developing fuel cell materials. Tom has a PhD in Materials Engineering from The University of California at Berkeley, an MEng in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Idaho and a BA in Materials Science from Oxford University. Prior to his PhD, Tom spent 18 months in the city working as a quantitative analyst in fixed income derivatives.
tom.mccolm@kbcpeelhunt.com
