Meet the team
Together we bring over 50 years of experience in fund management, electric vehicle technology and project development
John Tidmarsh
Partner
John is an accomplished multinational business and sustainable finance professional. His career started with ten years on the general management fast track at De La Rue, an FT100 listed multinational. John went on to spend fifteen years in sustainable finance structuring, marketing, managing and investing sustainable and impact PE and VC investment funds. John’s career highlights include starting a global self-service banking division for De La Rue, creating a GP/LP advisory practice at EY, and conceiving, structuring and marketing a EUR100m (target) VC fund and a US$350m (target) emerging market infrastructure fund. John has held advisory, board and Executive positions in technology businesses, fund managers and industry associations, most recently as Executive Director of Sustainable Finance Geneva promoting the practice of sustainable finance in Switzerland.
John holds a BA (Hons), MA, MBA, and Climate Leadership Programme from the University of Cambridge, and has completed the University of Oxford Fintech Programme. John speaks fluent English, French and Italian.
Yoshi Nomura
Partner
Yoshi is a seasoned banker and investor with cross sectoral expertise in finance. Yoshi has a proven track record in Infrastructure investing, Corporate Finance, Trading and Asset Liability Management, Fund of Funds, Securitization and Equity Finance investment. Yoshi spent 10 years as Principal at Conduit Ventures in London, investing in fuel cell companies globally. Yoshi then joined IDI Infrastructures Inc., the energy investment arm of Mizuho Financial Group, investing in renewable energy plants. In 2014 Yoshi lead a management buy-out to create the Photon Group, a renewable energy infrastructure investor, with subsidiaries in Tokyo, the Cayman Islands and Taiwan. Under his leadership, the Photon Group has made more than 20 investments in green-field renewable energy plants achieving more than 30% IRR.
Yoshi holds a BA in Econometrics from Keio University in Japan, and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Yoshi speaks fluent English, Japanese and conversational Chinese (Mandarin).
Michael Hidary
Partner
Michael is an accomplished renewable energy and real estate entrepreneur and investor. After seven years as VP of sales at a large importing business, Michael founded and has spent 12 years managing a leading US solar energy, energy efficiency and vehicle charging installer. Michael has managed the launch of an EV fleet and charging infrastructure for Hertz Rent-A-Car, and for the City of New York including Police, Fire, Parks and Sanitation departments. Michael is also responsible for investments for the Hidary Family Office and Foundation, with a focus on impact investing and real estate. Michael holds numerous advisory and board positions in technology businesses and energy industry associations.
Michael holds a bachelors degree in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, USA, and a degree in Marketing from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Michael speaks fluent English and Hebrew.
Hannah Liddell
Consultant
Hannah brings a background in engineering, project management, and infrastructure advisory. She started her career as a civil engineer at New Zealand’s largest consultancy, during which time she developed a keen interest in sustainability and drove company-wide change programmes. As an engineer, Hannah specialised in contract preparation, project mangement, and creating programme business cases for public and private infrastructure investment. More recently, Hannah completed an MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School.