Colin Gebhard Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

VFinance Ltd is a management support services company operating in the European energy third party intermediary and utilities sector, focussing on growing businesses who have a desire to scale their operations with a view to delivering a successful exit for shareholders. Utilising our network of contacts know how and experience, we support the delivery of the underlying growth for the organisation as well as professionalising the commercial, operational and finance functions, so that at the point of sale your business is equipped for the requisite due diligence processes, ensuring the business is in its best possible state to realise maximum shareholders value. VFinance Ltd is ideally positioned to assist and guide organisations connected to the energy sector in making the right decisions as a trusted advisorVFinance Ltd and its associates have completed several successful exits for shareholders in 2017 facilitating the return of over £30 million to the shareholders.Recent projects include; securing seed funding for a European cleantech developer and developing a new entry strategy for a digital commerce platform provider

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Management consultancy supporting energy suppliers third party intermediates and cleantech developers in all aspects of their business, in addition to professionalising the commercial teams and support functions to grow a business.

Emea

EU Executive responsibility to increase revenues for consulting services in new markets.Achievements included developing and adapting services for new markets, creating effective solution sales channels in a matrix organisation, arranging agreements and delivery teams, direct selling and organising marketing campaigns. Key areas for expansion included Eastern Europe, Russia, Balkans, Middle East and Africa

Managing an international accounts team providing relationship management for the European client base. Responsibilities included creating account strategies, supervising internal operational teams to fulfill existing contracts, renewing and expanding client engagements with new service roll outs and executive sponsorship to our largest accounts, personal relationships included executive relationships in the food and beverage, healthcare and telecoms segments. The team grew by > 50% over four years and became one of the leading account management teams in the sector retaining an average of 95% our clients per year

M&C ENERGY GROUP Responsibilities focused on revenue growth and retention as the European Sales Director, UK Corporate and Pan European Client Management Director along with integrating and resizing teams post acquisition.Most notable achievements included managing sales and client management teams across the European region with 20% of the business’ revenue, implementing effective change management programs as services expanded with new acquisitions and re-structuring the business as part of the executive team ahead of the sale to Schneider Electric.

Uk

Personal investments: includes a number of windfarm developments (Westnewton and Watford Lodge), both greenfield and by acquisition, with a combined capacity of 16.4MW - holding a director’s position and assisting in the ongoing management of the assets prior to being successfully sold to a pension fund.

Bootstrapped financed entrepreneurial consultancy grown developed to manage 2bn euros of energy spend for over 90 major blue chip companies at point of sale. Development of industry leading risk management tools and systems to support operational teams, supplier negotiations, business development including setting up a number of subsidiaries across Europe to sell to our expanding customer base locally.

Industry consultant advising on asset valuations (acquisitions and disposals), utility M&A advice, trading and industry regulations

M&A bid team manager – developing a plan and executing a €2.2bn IPO offering to acquire Hidrocantabrico, Spain’s 4th largest supplier

Origination Manager of exotic products, negotiating physical swap deals across Europe following liberalisationAnalyst for acquiring assets including upstream gas assets, CHPs companies and capacity in the UK / Belgian InterconnectorMiddle office analyst providing risk management oversight on exotic deals and long-term energy forecasts

Maths And Finance

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