Olivier Leruste

Managing Partner @ Echosys Invest

About

Experienced Head Of Project Finance with a demonstrated history of working in the renewables and environment industry. Strong operations professional skilled in Negotiation, Structured Finance, Renewable Energy, Finance, and Commodity Markets.

Country

France

City

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Industry

Renewables & Environment

Skill

Project Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Emerging Markets, Structured Finance, Finance, Energy, Renewable Energy, Commodity, Trade Finance, Debt Restructuring, Syndications, Negotiation, Loans, Latin America, Corporate Finance, Valuation

Experience

Managing Partner

Echosys Invest

2022-2 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Paris

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Echosys Advisory

2019-7 - Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

Paris, France

Echosys Advisory an advisory company focused on renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and industrial decarbonization. Echosys Advisory endeavours to accelerate the ecological transition by intervening where projects and capital should meet. Echosys Advisory supports developers and industrial companies in project development, contract negotiations, financial structuring and capital raising, as well as investors, from project origination to operational asset management.

Head of Project Finance, member of the Executive Committee

Akuo

2009 - 2019-7 · 10 yrs

Paris, France

Executive Director, member of the Supervisory Board and Head of the project finance team responsible for debt and equity financing of Akuo's wind, PV, biomass and hydro power plants. EUR 2.1 billion raised over the last 10 years with commercial and development banks, infrastructure funds, sovereign funds and through corporate bonds (Euro PP and green bonds). Akuo is an independent power producer, developping, building and operating more that 1.2 gigawatts of renewable assets in France, the US, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Indonesia.

VP Oil & Gas - Latin America

BNP Paribas

2006 - 2009 · 3 yrs

Structuration and execution of structured financing for major and junior oil and gas companies in Latin America. Acquisition financing, reserve based lending, pre-export financing, trade financing.