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Paul leads our cross-business strategy for revenue contracting and entry into new energy markets and products. Prior to joining Akaysha, Paul held leadership positions in private legal practice with law firms Ashurst (as Global Head of Energy) and Baker McKenzie (as Head of Renewable Energy APAC), building on a successful 25 year legal career focused on clean energy and climate change. During this time, Paul was recognised as one of Australia's leading renewable energy lawyers and globally as a long-standing market leader in climate change and carbon markets. During his two decades in private practice, Paul has been a driving force behind giga-watts of market-first greenfield renewable energy and M&A transactions across solar, wind, pumped hydro, energy from waste, and battery storage at both the utility scale and distributed generation. In addition, Paul has been – and continues to be - a long-standing policy voice for the clean energy sector as the energy transition accelerates toward net zero.

Tom Franks is a battery energy storage commercial specialist with over eight years’ experience across the UK, Germany and Central & Eastern Europe. He has led market entry strategies, originated large scale BESS pipelines and structured revenue contracts for utility scale assets.

Tom has originated more than 3 GW of ready to build projects and acted as commercial lead on nearly 400 MW of developments, covering capacity and offtake strategy, bid submissions, and OEM/EPC negotiations. He brings a strong blend of technical and commercial expertise to deliver bankable, long term value. Tom leads Akaysha Energy’s commercial strategy in Germany.

Richard has over twenty years of experience delivering large-scale battery energy storage (BESS), solar (PV), and transmission projects. He leads Akaysha’s Development and Delivery team, guiding project managers, development managers, engineers, project controls and stakeholder managers to bring industry leading projects to life across Akaysha’s core markets. His leadership is defined by a focus on safety, precision in execution, and strong stakeholder engagement.