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Steven Meersman

Founder Director @ Zenobe Energy | EV Fleet Solutions & 2nd life batteries

London, England

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $560,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $560,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $560,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder Director

    2016

    Zenobē works with fleet operators including international bus operators and logistics firms to accelerate their switch to electric vehicles by offering a range of services including financing the vehicles and batteries, design, build and maintenance of charging infrastructure and using software to optimise their operation. Zenobē has around 25% market share of the UK EV bus sector and supports c.1000 electric vehicles globally. The company is now the largest owner and operator of electric buses in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Zenobē also design, build and operate grid-scale battery storage facilities across the UK to maximise the potential of excess renewables, to provide clean, secure and affordable power to the network. It has 430MW of battery storage in operation or under construction with another 1.2GW of projects in advanced development in the UK which equates to circa 20% market share forecast by 2026. Zenobē operates in Europe and Australasia and is expanding into North America. Learn more at www.zenobe.com

2015 - 2016

  • Project Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Steven provides investment, transactional and commercial advise to investment funds, energy majors and independent traders in the global energy markets, recent projects include Investment/Transaction support -Senior commercial advisor on a $800MM mid-stream acquisition in MENA for an international consortium -Structuring support for a JV between investment fund and an international trading house -Successful buy-side due dilligence of an independent oil terminal operator in Europe with >2MM cbm of storage for liquid bulk products -Buy side due dilligence on a price reporting service in the commodities space Trading strategy -Creation of trading strategies around export refinery asset (export vs domestic) -Development ot trading strategies around Africa based import terminal and captive short -Lead creation of a PnL linked compensation strategy for the trading arm of a global integrated oil company, supported implementation and approval of solution by board -Validated hedging strategies for mixed portfolio of oil and hub linked gas contracts -Development of a European gas trading strategy for an international trading house -Proposed and quantified >$10MM+ trading strategy around a portfolio of in-land and coastal import terminals -Validation of refinery trading strategy for asset held by an institutional investor

2013 - 2015

  • Global Head of Deals Desk - Puma Energy

    2013 - 2015

    •Managed team of 5+ risk management professionals across the globe supporting senior traders with pnl reporting, economic analysis and hedging across the barrel (crude as well as light to heavy products) •PMO for M&A integration project(s) •Extracted optionality around physical flows in cooperation with traders •Analysed return on midstream infrastructure investments •Identified and implemented varies process improvements across mid- and back-office

2010 - 2013

  • Project Manager

    2010 - 2013

    Selected experience: Trading strategies for various integrated oil companies and independent traders: •Sales strategy for Mediterranean and North-Western Europe (incl. market outlook by product) •Trading strategies focusing on the Atlantic Basin incl. Mediterranean •Quantitative analysis of optionality value for equity crudes •Recommendations to optimize retail supply function •Valuation of infrastructure investment opportunities Set-up of new trading teams: •Setup of new international trading entity from scratch for a top 15 global oil & products company •Market entry strategy into physical commodity trading for a Middle Eastern financial institution Improvement projects in mid- & back-office: •Proposal of working capital financing, reduction strategies incl. inventory financing,etc. •Road map to strengthen price risk mgt. at a leading FMCG company •Road map to improve portfolio steering process incl. valuation of long-term contracts and assets •Design of risk-adjusted business planning tool quantifying major risks’ impact on bottom line using a simulation based approach (Monte Carlo) •Development of quantitative portfolio steering model for the Board of an industrial soft commodities and petrochemicals conglomerate

2009 - 2010

  • Business Development and Technical Analyst

    2009 - 2010

    As BD and technical analyst, Steven was responsible for developing fundamental models of various US power markets (PJM, ERCO, NYISO) forecasting price levels for several products (frequency control, reserve) and valuing the project pipeline. In addition he drove the development of new control algorithms for products in the developing US energy storage market with patents pending. Next to his regular activities he cooperated with an IT specialist to develop a management dashboard visualizing business KPIs such as asset utilization, P&L in real-time.

2002 - 2010

  • Marketing & Technical Director

    2002 - 2010

    Supported the founding of Meersman BVBA (now J Technics)