Jamie Richards (age 37) joined Foresight in October 2000 and was appointed as a partner in April 2004. He is a member of the Investment Committee and has overall responsibility for Foresight’s solar activities. Jamie has 10 years’ experience of private equity investment management, and 6 years’ experience of banking and advisory services. Jamie is a Chartered Accountant and prior to joining Foresight, he worked at PWC in the corporate recovery and growing businesses divisions advising a range of companies on turnaround and growth strategies. He left PWC to spend 1 year in Sydney, Australia, working in middle office fund management for Macquarie before moving to a corporate development role within Citibank in London. Since joining Foresight, Jamie has a led a number of cleantech and renewable infrastructure investments.   

Foresight Group

Foresight Group is an independent alternative asset manager specialising in funding growth companies and management buyouts across the environmental infrastructure and technology-led sectors. Foresight focuses primarily on investments in unquoted UK and European companies and offers investors exclusive access to attractive growth opportunities.
 
Foresight manages approximately £200 million across a number of proprietary funds, including Limited Partnerships, Unit Trusts, Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs).

Recent investments made by Foresight in the environmental infrastructure market have included Closed Loop Recycling, the UK’s first recycler of waste plastic bottles back into food packaging material: O-Gen UK, which generates renewable electricity from biomass; Land Energy, a producer of wood pellets for sustainable heating in homes and schools; AWP Environmental, which plans to generate power from waste using an advanced gasification technology that reduces harmful emissions; Lynwood, which collects waste materials from manufacturers of a variety of plastic products and remoulds this into useful products; Silvigen, a UK based producer and supplier of biomass fuels for use in the power industry, and 2K Manufacturing, a London based company which manufactures a plywood substitute from waste plastics. The company also has a significant investment in Iskra, a manufacturer of tree-sized wind turbines, and in Sindicatum, a developer of carbon credit generation projects.