Our Story

As CEO, Donald focuses on ensuring Zenobē delivers on its vision of making clean power accessible at scale. Working alongside the three founders and their respective business areas, Donald will support the business’ growth, ensuring innovation and agility remain embedded at Zenobē’s core whilst we grow to deliver maximum impact. 

Prior to Zenobē, Donald spent over 20 years in global leadership positions. He held senior management roles at Siemens, E.ON and thyssenkrupp. Most recently, Donald was Project Director at Statkraft where he was responsible for a major storage project in Scotland. His career has been focused on expanding global businesses with local expertise, building strong teams and delivering geographical and portfolio growth. Donald has studied electrical and control engineering at Cambridge, Imperial College and Oxford. 

James is one of the Founders of Zenobē. He leads our Network Infrastructure business which enables transmission and distribution power grids to transition to a renewable energy world.

Prior to Zenobē, James spent over 20 years advising the Boards of major power and utility companies, as well as large infrastructure funds, on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and change. He was a partner at Oliver Wyman where he led the Global Utilities and Infrastructure practice between 2013 – 2018. Before this role, James was a founder of Corven, a consulting and private equity group with offices in London, Boston, Chicago and Houston focused on the European and US Energy sector with over 100 professional staff. He also spent 9 years either in an executive or non-executive director role within the motorsport world with Lotus Cars and Caterham Cars.

Olivia plays the pivotal role of aligning our people strategies with our organisational objectives, ensuring the right talent, is in the right place, at the right time. She leads Zenobē’s commitment to fostering a culture of inclusivity, collaboration and continuous growth.

Prior to joining Zenobē, Olivia spent over a decade within the energy sector, supporting Talent and People practice in fast-paced and ever evolving organisations.

Simon heads up Zenobe’s Australasian Network Infrastructure division, focusing on large-scale grid storage.

Simon joined Zenobē from Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation where he was an inaugural executive director. In his ten years at the CEFC, Simon led transactions in solar, wind, battery storage and network infrastructure.

Prior to the CEFC, Simon held investment roles at the Transfield Holdings and Macquarie Bank focusing on renewable energy, infrastructure, and structured finance.

Alberto Signori (London) joined KKR in 2018 and is a Partner on the Infrastructure team, focused on investments across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Prior to this, Mr. Signori was an investment director and member of the investment committee at Infracapital, the infrastructure investment arm of M&G, where he led and participated in a number of acquisitions in the utility, energy, telecom and transport sectors. He also spent ten years in the investment banking divisions at UBS and Dresdner Kleinwort (now Commerzbank) across merger & acquisitions, leveraged/structured finance and infrastructure investments.

Mr. Signori was on the board of directors of several companies. He holds a university degree in Economics and an M.B.A. from SDA Bocconi (Milan). 

Bernardo Nogueira (London) joined KKR in 2017 and is a Director on the European Infrastructure team. Mr. Nogueira has been involved in the firm’s investments in Zenobē Energy, Contour Global, Ocean Yield, John Laing, Hyperoptic, Hivory, Calisen and T-Solar GOA.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Nogueira was with Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division in Madrid and London, focusing on mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions mainly in the power, energy and utilities space.

Mr. Nogueira holds a Master’s in Finance from Nova School of Business and Economics and a Master’s in International Management from CEMS – The Global Alliance in Management Education.

Priya joined Infracapital in 2021 to develop the Greenfield infrastructure investment activities. Priya has over 17 years’ experience in infrastructure financing, development and asset management experience.

Priya joined Infracapital from Deloitte where she was a director in the infrastructure advisory team advising infrastructure fund clients on telecoms, energy, transport project financings and acquisitions. Prior to Deloitte Priya was a Vice-President at Canadian developer Ledcor as well as a Director with 3i plc where she was responsible for origination, execution and asset management of infrastructure investments across sectors including energy transmission and generation, accommodation and transport. Priya transferred to 3i plc following their acquisition of Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management, where she was an Investment Director.

Priya holds an MSc degree in Economics from University College London and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.

Shreya Malik (London) joined KKR in 2021 and is a Managing Director on the Infrastructure team. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Zenobē and was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Refresco.

Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Malik spent over a decade at Partners Group, most recently as senior vice president on Partners Group’s infrastructure team, where she was responsible for originating and executing transactions across Europe. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Partners Group’s portfolio companies Gren, Telepass and Greenlink.

She began her career as an infrastructure finance consultant at Oxera. Ms. Malik holds a B.A. in Statistics and Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and an M.Sc. in Financial