Team
Martina Turner
24 years of experience in European financial markets. Has held senior positions as analyst and director of French/European equity research sales for international investment banks including Jefferies International, Deutsche Bank, BankersTrust Alex Brown, and Natwest Securities. More recently founder of Accessible Clean Energy, after taking part in seminars on alternative energy studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Member of Société Française des Analystes Financiers.
Master of Science from the Faculty of Economics, London School of Economics.
Fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Georges Dupont-Roc
Founder of Royal Dutch Shell Renewable Energies and former Director of Sustainable Development at Total.
35 years of strategic, operational and technical expertise across the energy industry, including in oil, natural gas, biomass, geothermal, wind, solar, batteries, CO2 solutions and energy policy.
Ecole Polytechnique 1969.
Master Chemical Engineering MIT 1974.
Marcie Black
CEO and co-founder of Advanced Silicon Group. Her expertise includes electronic materials, optics, semiconductors, solar cells/photovoltaics, batteries, renewable energy, nanotechnology, device design, and opto-electronics.
Marcie has over 30+ papers and more than 15 issued patents with many more pending. Marcie was the President and co-founder of Bandgap Engineering and was a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Marcie was honored as one of the ten “Women-to-Watch in 2010” by Mass High Tech.
In 2009, she was awarded an R&D 100 award for her contributions at LANL.
Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering under the celebrated Institute Professor, Mildred Dresselhaus
Aymeric Dupont-Roc
Specialist in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell industries in North America as research coordinator for Arkema.
15 years of experience in finance as CFO, structuring investment products to finance solar heaters and electric charging stations in France’s overseas territories.
Masters in chemistry, chemical engineering and business administration.
Nancy Hirshberg
Climate leader working at the nexus of food, business and the environment for thirty years and has been widely recognized for her groundbreaking work in sustainability and agricultural initiatives. Her clients have included Patagonia, Ben and Jerry’s, Califia Farms, Herman Miller, Beyond Meat, and Danone.
Co-founder of the Climate Collaborative. Former Vice President of the Organic Trade Association and served as Director for American Farmland Trust. She is a Director of Native Energy and Climate Access and serves as an advisor for Preserve.
Gaël Dupont
25 years of experience in economics and finance
After working as an economist and specialist in public policies at Sciences Po Paris (OFCE), Gaël joined the fund management teams of Crédit Agricole Asset Management in Paris and Hong Kong.
In 2008 Gaël joined groupe Cholet Dupont. He was appointed Managing Director of the private bank in 2010 and CEO of the asset management arm in 2013 where he introduced an extra financial approach. He was CEO of the group from 2014 to 2023.
Masters in Economics and Statistics (Ecole Nationale de Statistique et d’Administration Economique); BSc in mathematics Fluent French English German.
Olivier Ken
Olivier joined ACE in 2021. He started his career in 1996 at Caisse des dépôts et consignations in Paris before joining The Europe Company.
From 2000 to 2010, he worked for Jefferies in Paris, developing its ‘clean technology’ franchise. In 2010, he joined Ecofi Investissements where he applied his expertise in climate strategy. In 2022 he began advising Quaero Capital (France) in managing their strategies in transitioning to a carbon-neutral economy.
He holds a master’s in finance from the University of Paris-Nanterre and he is a member of the French Society of Financial Analysts.
Véronique Crolard
Financial analyst with more than 30 years in servicing large international institutional investors on equity markets, managing funds with a special focus on renewable energy as well as health/biotech, and managing private high net worth portfolios.
Co-founder of Accessible Clean Energy SARL.
Pierre Krief
Founding Partner and President of Republic Asset Management, an AMF-regulated, Paris-based asset manager. Since 2010, adviser to family offices in Switzerland, based in Zurich.
Member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and the European Money and Finance Forum (SUERF).