Mike has led Blueshore since its establishment in 2017 and is based in Sydney, Australia. Mike is also a founder and Managing Partner of Bluefield Partners LLP (UK), where together with his two founding partners, he has overseen the building of the business since its establishment in 2009. Mike was instrumental to the raising, London stock exchange listing and deployment of the Bluefield Solar Income Fund Ltd, rated as the LSE’s highest performing renewable energy fund, 2017. As head of investments at Bluefield Partners LLP, Mike led the deployment and/or realisation of over AUD1.2billion of solar investments and sits on the group’s Investment Committee and Board.

Prior to establishing Bluefield Partners LLP, Mike was Investment Director at Foresight Group where he led the deployment of their first solar energy fund, in 2008-9 in Italy and Spain. Working in investment and finance since 1999, Mike has over AUD3 billion of energy and infrastructure transaction experience across Europe, America and Africa and also worked as Principal Banker in the Energy Group at the European Bank, with a particular focus on renewable energy, and as Investment Associate at Actis Capital (formerly CDC Group).

Mike is an owner and director of Bluefield Services Ltd and Bluefield Operations Ltd, the group’s investment, asset management and operation & maintenance businesses and has also acted as director of numerous solar asset companies. Mike has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and has presented at numerous international renewable energy conferences.

Beatriz has over 6 years of experience in the renewable energy sector. Her experience covers several areas including  monitoring systems, contract and site management, and operations supervision for medium scale solar sites. Within Blueshore, Beatriz has led site analysis on over 1GW of projects including onsite inspection and defect identification for over 250MW of plants.

Prior to working for Blueshore, Beatriz was a founding employee of Bluefield Services where she played an instrumental role in the build out of the business including the development of its systems and proceedures.Prior to  working with Bluefield Services Ltd, Beatriz gained experience in electrical supply chain  management at Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), including the specification of electrical equipment  for supply to high voltage substations and photovoltaic projects, along with management of Quality, and Health and Safety processes.

Beatriz studied a Master’s in Industrial Engineering at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, specializing in electronics and process automation, followed by an electrical engineering intensification at Katholieke Leuven University, supplemented by a Master’s in Renewable Energies, Universidad San Pablo CEU, and a postgraduate degree on business practices at  Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.

Umar joined Blueshore in 2019 having previously worked with renewable energy asset management company, Bluefield Services Ltd (UK), as Asset Engineer monitoring Bluefield’s portfolio in Europe and coordinating contractors to respond to site faults and errors on the equipment as per agreed service agreements.

Prior to working with Bluefield Services Ltd, Umar provided Technical Consultancy services in the field of PV industry for small scale battery storage solutions to large scale IPP projects. His initial work as test engineer was in quality assurance and risk evaluation  of  PV equipment. His key area of focus is design qualification of PV modules through evaluation of BoM , pre-shipment and post-shipment inspection for PV modules.  Later he took on technical advisory roles during project development cycle taking part in development and/or evaluation of feasibility studies, contract management, energy yield assessments, construction monitoring.

Umar holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from LUMS and a master’s degree in Engineering Business Management from University of Warwick. He has closely worked with the GIZ, AEDB and utility companies to formulate and standardize distributed PV and net metering rules and regulations in Pakistan.