Lysander Tennant
Chief Financial Officer

Lysander Tennant joined Tamar Energy in 2011 where he became head of corporate finance until 2018 when the company was merged with Biogen. Tamar is a specialist developer and operator of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. At Tamar, Lysander was responsible for the financial model used in the company’s initial £97 million equity raise in 2012. He subsequently advised the development team on commercial and economic aspects of projects. Lysander worked with the Finance Director to secure a £32 million senior non-recourse debt facility with RBS in 2015 to refinance the portfolio of five plants, the first of its kind in the AD sector.

Lysander started his career in fund management at BZW Investment Management, American Express Asset Management. He was independent director from 2002 and chairman from 2012 until 2015 of JPMorgan Russian Securities plc. From 2007-2009 he worked at Sindicatum Carbon Capital, on financing low-carbon energy projects to generate carbon credits, including leading negotiations for a $45 million waste gas to energy project in Indonesia.

Palmira Guarnizo Garcia is a biologist and the plant manager at Carboneras. She has twenty years’ experience of algae cultivation and research.

Elvira Diaz is a marine biologist and lab assistant at Carboneras.

Peter Mponzi is a chemical engineer who is responsible for downstream extraction. He has worked on extraction of Omega-3 and other compounds from Nannochloropsis.

Naz Bashir has a PhD in organic chemistry and an MBA from the University of Exeter. He is scientific and commercial advisor to the company. He was co-founder and former CEO of AlgaeCytes, a nutraceutical company that produces Omega-3 from algae.

Naz has over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur in early-stage companies, in/out licensing, investment strategies, in commercial and business development. He has achieved success in driving sales from licensing, strategic partnerships in the biotech, chemicals, biofuels and food sectors with deals ranging up to $100million. 

Stephen Page, Board Member, is a serial tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO SFC Capital, the most active investor in the UK with 400+ investments.

Henrik Piper, Board Member, is an entrepreneur with a focus on maritime, energy transition and infrastructure. He was CFO of Silverstream Technologies from 2012-2019. Prior to that he worked at Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Brunswick Investments.

Christopher Wright, independent non-executive chairman, is a co-founding director of ROPER Technologies Inc. (NYSE, S&P 500), chairman of EMAlternatives LLC in Washington D.C., Yimei Capital in China, a director of Merifin Capital, GP Investments (LUX) and Spice Private Equity.

Until 2003 Christopher was Head of Private Equity at Dresdner Kleinwort and subsequently at Allianz following the merger. He is a seasoned in governance acting as chairman and director of private funds and companies, serving on audit, remuneration and investment committees.