James has a strong background in business development, strategic planning, and corporate finance, with extensive experience managing large-scale relationships and leading initiatives in renewable energy and carbon markets. He is skilled at identifying nascent markets and emerging asset classes, and in 2021 traded over 1 million tons of top-tier VCS-CCB emission reductions from natural climate solutions projects in Africa and Latin America.

During the early years of his career in investment banking with the Canadian investment bank GMP Securities, James developed strong relationships with publicly traded Toronto Stock Exchange-listed companies, including Northland Power (TSX:NPI) and Polaris Infrastructure (TSX:PIF). James strategically sought out development and operating assets in South America at a time when yields for equivalent assets in North America were thinning, and completed multiple successful merger and acquisition transactions in the Canadian capital markets.

James later joined Solar Power Network Inc., a commercial and industrial rooftop solar company based in Milan, Italy. Under James’s leadership as CFO, the firm was successful in winning off-take agreements with some of the largest corporate names in Italy, such as Henkel and Smurfit Kappa, valued at over $30 million.

More recently, James has been leveraging his knowledge of the renewable energy certificates platform in Europe, along with his relationships in emerging markets, to build a large trading book in the voluntary carbon offsets space, where he helps connect institutional capital with carbon credit projects around the world.

Areas of expertise:
Capital Markets | Voluntary Carbon Markets | Sales & Trading | Corporate Finance | Mergers & Acquisitions | Capital Raising