Stephen is a private equity fund / principal investment specialist and is currently an independent IC member for Africa Capital Alliance's private equity funds, a Senior Advisor and part-time CFO to Soleco Energy, a Caribbean solar power project development company and a Senior Advisor to Archipelago Ventures, a fund manager investing in companies and technologies aimed at reducing the use of and increasing the recycling of, plastic. Prior to his current activities, Stephen was at the UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) as MD of UK Climate Investments, an emerging markets renewable energy investment joint venture between GIB (now owned by Macquarie) and the UK Government. He was a founding partner of Actis Capital LLP, a pioneering emerging markets fund manager. Stephen joined Actis in 1994, when the company was still part of CDC spending 9 years in Latin America originating, negotiating and managing risk capital deals. During that period Stephen was also responsible for helping to develop CDC’s business across Latin America initially in Central America before moving on to set up CDC’s operations in Peru and then Mexico.He has been IC Chair / member of a number of private equity funds in Africa and Latin America, a non-executive director of a Peruvian electricity distribution business, a pan-African infrastructure development business and a UK AIM listed renewable energy investment vehicle as well as a senior advisor to various solar development businesses and African asset management companies.Stephen has originated, completed and exited a significant number of private equity deals including helping to drive the creation and evolution of Globeleq, a pioneering emerging markets power company. Prior to joining CDC, Stephen worked in senior financial operational positions within the construction, property development and service sectors.Stephen is a Chartered Management Accountant and has an MBA (with a specialist focus on International Business) from Strathclyde Business School in Scotland.