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Christopher North

Investor

Partner, Co-Head of Climate Investments at Helios Digital Ventures

United Kingdom

About

Christopher North is a Partner at Helios Investment Partners LLP and Co-Head of its climate investing strategy, the Helios CLEAR Fund SCSp, with roughly 19 years of experience in energy, infrastructure, and sustainability as an investor, lender, developer, and advisor. He previously was a senior leader in McKinsey's Capital Projects & Infrastructure practice in Nairobi, led USAID's Power Africa program in Kenya, and headed an energy and infrastructure investment banking team at Standard Bank. Earlier in his career he developed, built, and sold wind, anaerobic digestion, and in-vessel composting facilities in the UK. He holds an MBA from Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) and B.Sc. (Mathematics) and B.Com. (Hons) (Actuarial Science) degrees from the University of Pretoria.

Invests in

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Experience

Helios ClimatePartner, Co-Headcurrent2022 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
Helios Investment PartnersPartnercurrent2022 — present

Education

University of OxfordMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Finance & Entrepreneurship
University of PretoriaB.Com. (Hons) (Actuarial Science)
University of PretoriaB.Sc. (Mathematics)

Skills & more

Renewable Energy18Emerging Markets12Private Equity21Principal Investing4Financial Advisory4Investment Banking35Capital Raising3Due Diligence26Financial Modeling34Business Planning8Entrepreneurship14Venture Capital2

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ValuationProject FinanceCorporate FinanceHedge FundsCapital MarketsFinancial StructuringStructured FinanceConventional Power

From Christopher's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended University of Oxford687

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock Michael MoritzFormer Partner at Sequoia Capital; Senior Adviser at Sequoia Heritage Brad GerstnerFounder & CEO of Altimeter Capital Dominic JacquessonInvestor at Index Ventures Erin Price-WrightInvestor at Index Ventures Jan HammerInvestor at Index Ventures

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Also attended University of Pretoria17

Irene VaksmanManaging Partner at LaunchBay Capital Nzwisisa ChidemboCTO in Residence at Enza Capital Joost LoebInvestment Manager at Colesco Capital Collective Edward PitsiNon-Exec Director at Crossfin Technology Roger GroblerNon-Exec Director at Crossfin Technology Dr Malcolm KingChief Investment Officer at Guinness Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Helios Climate1

Tavraj BangaPartner, Co-Head of Climate Investments at Helios Digital Ventures

Also worked at Helios Investment Partners21

Tope LawaniManaging Partner, Member of Executive and Investment Committee at Helios Digital Ventures Babatunde SoyoyeManaging Partner, Member of Executive and Investment Committee at Helios Digital Ventures Luciana GerminarioPartner, Chief Operating Officer, Member of Executive Committee at Helios Digital Ventures Mark HartmannInvestment Advisor, Member of Investment Committee at Helios Digital Ventures Vitali HarwardtPartner & Chief Financial Officer at Helios Digital Ventures Paul CunninghamPartner, Investment & Fund Structuring at Helios Digital Ventures

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Colleagues at Helios Digital Ventures

Ali-Abbas Punjani

Senior Vice President, PE Team at Helios Digital Ventures

Babatunde Soyoye

Managing Partner, Member of Executive and Investment Committee at Helios Digital Ventures

Head of Client Servicing at Helios Digital Ventures

Partner, Portfolio Operations Group at Helios Digital Ventures

Vice President, PE Team at Helios Digital Ventures

Partner, Helios Sports and Entertainment Group at Helios Digital Ventures

Principal, PE Team and Co-Head of Helios Digital Ventures at Helios Digital Ventures

Managing Director Digital Infrastructure, PE Team at Helios Digital Ventures