Vision and mission
New and emerging efficient, productive-use and clean technologies are coming onto the market and deliver a positive economic and environmental benefit to enterprise, and a better total cost of ownership. New financial models have been proven to channel significant scalable financing to SMEs.
A technology-enabled financing platform to clean and productive use technology will unlock a fast, efficient and cost-effective mechanism to deploy significant capital to growing businesses in emerging markets, and drive both social and environmental impacts.
Tim Chambers, CEO
“As CEO of an emerging market clean technology company for 8 years, I found prospective SME customers’ first questions were often about finance. Like SMEs all over the world, they didn’t have capital on hand and it was very difficult for them to borrow.
Limited access to growth capital is a problem that’s much bigger than what individual cleantech companies can achieve alone. I co-founded Offgrid Finance as a financial technology firm to take this experience and scale it up to help SMEs everywhere.”
Team
Paulina Sokolova, CCO
Paulina is an experienced financial analyst and LSE graduate whose previous roles include working at Barclays Investment Bank for 7 years, writing investment research for institutional investors in Europe, the UK and the US.
Paulina directs the company as CCO focusing on developing our network of impact investors and clean technology vendors.
Amyas Phillips,
CTO
Amyas is an engineer and product leader who has worked on numerous web and IoT products including British Gas’s Hive home energy controls system, Arm’s Pelion IoT device management SaaS, and IAR System’s SecureThingz cybersecurity solution.
Amyas leads the company as CTO focusing on customer experience, data security, process automation, AI and partner integrations.
Tim Chambers,
CEO
Tim is a seasoned entrepreneur having built a UK-based clean ag-tech company over the past ten years, taking it through series-B and establishing multiple cleantech asset finance instruments for commercial customers across Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Tim heads the company as CEO focusing on talent, asset finance structuring, clean technology sectors and strategic partnerships.
Paulo Prata,
Senior Risk Analyst
Paulo has been involved in financial services and strategic business management including assessing risk management in Commodities trading, structuring Supply Chain and Commercial Management for Bioenergy project in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Paulo leads the strategic objectives for risk management, corporate finance operations, investments, and fundraising at Offgrid Finance.
Charles Exall,
Clean Technology Analyst
Charles has a background in technology sales and operations management, having spent time at BMW selling top-of-the-range technology with financing terms and building a deep understanding of how financing options can make technology more accessible.
Charles is on the front line of identifying new and emerging commercial productive-use and low-emission technologies and partnerships in emerging markets.