James forms a crucial part of the Investments team, carrying out sourcing, due diligence and execution of potential investment opportunities. James has over 3 years of work experience across venture capital investments, public equities, and startup operations. 

Prior to joining Audacy in 2022, James began his venture capital career working at AngelHub, a Hong Kong-licensed tech investment platform with a broad focus across key sectors including ESG, Web3 and FinTech. While there he worked on over ten deals, including notable Hong Kong-based startups such as Animoca Brands and Avant Meats, and played a key role in helping revamp the AngelHub platform. Prior to this, James worked as part of the Global Client Development Team at HKEX, covering both buy and sell-side clients trading cash equities, futures, and option products. 

James graduated from Durham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations.

James holds a particular passion for companies building innovative decarbonisation technologies through the use of synthetic biology.

Ben is a clean tech veteran and expert in energy transition markets in the US and Australasia where he has worked in a number of investor, developer, and owner/operator roles, including co-founding a grid information and control specialist, Edge Electrons.

Ben is currently Head of Assets and Operations at ProtonH2, which aims to produce the most cost-effective hydrogen in the market, leveraging legacy oil and gas infrastructure. He is also the Managing Director at H2 Genesis, a liquid hydrogen infrastructure and services company. He previously held leadership and expertise roles at Shift Energy (financier, developer and operator of solar power systems in Japan), Goldman Sachs (energy & power advisory), and CERA (natural gas and power markets).

Ben graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies and Natural Resource Economics. 

Frederik leads the technical due diligence and scientific validation of investment opportunities as the Head of Science. Frederik has over 15 years of research, operational and investment experience in climate technologies across Asia, Europe and the US.

As the founding member at Brawn Capital, a private equity fund manager specialised in renewable energy with over US$400million AUM, Frederik was Director of Investments & Risk Management managing a portfolio of solar assets across Asia.

Frederik obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at the City University of Hong Kong, winning a scholarship to undertake research on new materials for third generation solar cells. He built and improved solar cell developing and testing laboratory facilities, collaborating with major international research facilities in Japan, Singapore, China, Israel and the US.

Peter’s career has spanned over three decades holding various senior roles within the financial services and asset management industries. Prior to joining Audacy in 2024, Peter was Chief Financial and Operating Officer of 8F Asset Management, a global aquaculture impact fund manager. Peter was previously with KKR for nearly 12 years as the CFO of Europe and of Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for managing local corporate finance and fund operations teams’ activities. 

Prior to this, Peter was the Group Financial Controller of FTSE Group, and before that the Financial Controller and Vice President of Barclays’ Wealth and Private Banking division, managing a number of projects which he served through various locations including the US, Monaco, Singapore, Barbados, Cayman Islands and London. 

Peter is a qualified Accountant and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Peter holds an Executive MBA from Oxford Brookes University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies from Westminster University. 

Leo forms a crucial part of the Investments Team as Vice President. Leo has over 8 years of experience in renewable energy investments, climate tech venture investments, and sustainability advisory, having completed over US$700 million worth of transactions in these sectors across the US and APAC.

Prior to joining Audacy, Leo was an Investment Associate at Brawn Capital, an APAC-based renewable energy private equity fund manager with over US$400 million in AUM. Leo began his investment career in New York with Onyx Renewable Partners, a renewable energy development platform capitalised by Blackstone Group's energy and flagship funds to develop North American renewable energy projects. While there, he was responsible for executing tax equity and debt financing, as well as strategic acquisitions of energy transition opportunities in North America. 

Leo holds a Master's degree in Energy Policy and Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Management and Technology from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Leo is passionate about finding, funding and growing companies that create breakthrough solutions to the net-zero challenge.

Paul is currently CEO of ProtonH2, which aims to produce the most cost-effective hydrogen in the market, leveraging legacy oil and gas infrastructure. He previously was placed into Audacy portfolio company GenH2 (hydrogen liquefaction and storage) as their Chief Strategy Officer. 

Prior to this, Paul was an investment head at BNP Paribas Asset Management where he led a team of technical consultants, portfolio managers, and quantitative analysts responsible for business development, solution/product design and implementation of investment portfolios. Prior to this, Paul spent 15 years leading asset management companies in their global expansion including start-ups in Asia.

Paul has spent his career in the financial industry designing and leading corporate strategies, managing investment portfolios, and organising businesses to achieve the financial goals of the stakeholders. He has worked as an executive team member in asset management/banking/venture capital companies to optimise businesses in their respective local markets and internationally.  He has extensive experience in successfully leading technical teams from the development and innovation stage through to the commercialisation stage. Paul’s solid scientific background coupled with his years of experience in financial management and capital market strategy uniquely positions him to realise the goals of private companies in the energy transition and technology space.

As a veteran speaker, Paul has regularly featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Asian Investor, and other news media for his perspective on capital markets and thematic investing.

Paul graduated from the University of British Columbia with a specialisation in Theoretical Physics. Paul focused his research on the space-time dynamics around black holes, creating and analysing simulations of stellar evolution by solving Einstein’s equations using numerical techniques. He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries.

Toby’s investments and corporate finance career has spanned over two decades across infrastructure, energy, renewables, cleantech and venture capital. Toby has been a venture capitalist since 2011 and co-founded Audacy in 2017 to pursue sustainable investment opportunities at scale, to fill a financing gap and to support companies on the cusp of commercialisation in the energy transition sector.

Prior to that, Toby was a founding team member of Kerogen Capital, a private equity fund manager specialising in international energy with over US$2 billion in AUM. Toby began his career at Macquarie Capital, advising on transactions including toll roads, energy, utilities and public private partnerships in M&A and tender situations in APAC. 

Toby is a CFA charter holder and has a combined Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) and Law degree from the University of New South Wales.

Li co-founded Audacy in 2017 to bring high impact, sustainable investments across multiple cutting-edge sectors to like-minded investors. Li brings close to two decades of investing experience to Audacy Ventures. 

 

In 2014, Li co-founded the Platinum Whisky Investment Fund, the world’s first private equity fund investing in vintage and rare single malt whiskies, and successfully completed its exit in 2021. Prior to the whisky fund, she managed her own family office (Asia Green Group) assets, which included a diversified public equity portfolio as well as investments in alternative assets across the US, Europe, and Pan-Asia. Alongside this, she managed the family’s real estate corporation with a gross development value of US$450 million. 

 

Li began her career as a Financial Analyst in the Consumer and Healthcare team at Citigroup in New York and Los Angeles. Li graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Corporate Finance and Business Administration.

Billy is a seasoned investor with 20 years of experience. He started investing through Audacy in early 2023, before joining the team full-time as Head of Investments.

 Billy previously served as Investment Director for 8F Asset Management. Previously, he spent close to a decade with an infrastructure fund jointly sponsored by Bank of China International and Temasek, investing in pre-IPO renewable opportunities across China. He was previously with China Investment Corporation and Quantum Energy Partners, investing in private oil and gas opportunities in North America. Billy started his career with Lehman Brothers' oil and gas investment banking practice in both New York and Houston. 

Billy holds a triple bachelor’s in Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin. He is a CFA charter holder and a Certified Sustainability Professional with the Global Reporting Initiative.

Tim brings energy-related, multi-asset class investment management experience over a 16-year career across venture capital, private equity, and infrastructure. He is the Head of Infrastructure Investments of LOGOS, where he manufactures investable opportunities in energy transition related infrastructure that can help decarbonise LOGOS’s US$ 23 billion portfolio of logistic real estate assets. Many of these opportunities will be created via technologies invested by Audacy that require a different source of capital to scale. 

Prior to LOGOS, he managed over US$1 billion of assets with investment roles at Macquarie Capital, Olympus Capital Asia (private equity fund focused on environmental service investments), and Morrison & Co (US$30 billion infrastructure asset manager). 

Tim has a double Bachelor’s in commerce and law (LLB) from the University of Melbourne.

David is an experienced venture investor and has been one of the earliest supporters for Audacy Ventures. Day-to-day, David manages a portfolio of real estate in Hong Kong and the UK. 

David has an extensive network of ultra high net worth individuals, business associations, and personal family office relationships, and has been instrumental in the expansion of Audacy's family office partnerships. 

Philip is a seasoned investor with over 15 years of investment experience in private and public equities, with a particular interest in renewable energy, energy storage, synthetic biology and food & agri tech. 

Philip has deployed capital across Audacy’s hydrogen and CCUS portfolio, and seeded Brawn Capital, one of the first solar asset managers to focus on distributed project development in rural Japan and Vietnam. Philip is also actively involved in agricultural investments, having financed aquaculture, coffee and insect farming technology companies. 

Philip began his career as an equity research analyst with UBS and CLSA, covering Shipping, Transportation, and Infrastructure. Philip is a CFA charter holder, and holds a Masters of Social Science in Global Political Economy and a Bachelors of Business Administration in Global Business and Finance.