Amberside Advisors are delighted to welcome Mark Easter to the company. Mark has joined Amberside as the Head of Commercial Advisory and his appointment will further strengthen our commercial advisory offering.
Mark joins us from the ENGIE Urban Energy leadership team, where he headed Commercial Management of the largest district energy portfolio in the UK (560MWth). Mark has been at the forefront of developing and negotiating many of the industry’s highest profile transactions in recent years including schemes at the Olympic Park and Stratford City, Embassy Quarter Nine Elms, Newcastle Science Central, Edinburgh St James Quarter, and Battersea Power Station, as well as providing commercial and risk leadership across the national portfolio.
Mark started his career in infrastructure with Lendlease in the PFI and retail portfolio, before transitioning to a range of energy services within Cofely GDF-SUEZ including district energy, solar and gas mobility. Mark holds an Executive MBA from Cranfield (in Partnership with Grant Thornton) and is a Chartered Fellow of the CMI.
Mark commented: “It’s extremely exciting to join such a talented team, combining commercial and financial expertise to drive the investment and development scale required to meet the growth aspirations of the heat and cooling decarbonisation sector”.
Neil Rutledge, Director at Amberside, commented: “With HM Treasury recently confirming the decarbonisation of heat to be a priority for the Government’s UK Infrastructure Bank, we look forward to Mark strengthening our 40-strong team, working with both private and public sector clients to progress this important agenda”.