Collaborate with experts in the field

Our core team has worked together since 2013 and formally founded Earth Impact Partners in 2021. While working across investment, energy, forestry, development finance and asset management sectors, we observed an increasing dislocation between ESG policy, capital markets, carbon markets and real business as the cost of compliance increased, and for higher emitting businesses in particular, the cost of capital increased and availability of capital decreased.  Therefore, we seek to bring a rigorous, pragmatic commercial approach to capture value from being sustainable – move early and at scale.

The Team

  • John Peacocke

    STRATEGY, FINANCE, M&A, INVESTMENTS

    Career:
    Private equity (Next Capital, Macquarie Capital, CSIRO); corporate finance (Evello Partners, Poynton & Partners); strategy (McKinsey & Company, Bain & Co); executive roles (Oil Search, Aligned Energy, United Nations, NZ Army bomb disposal)

    Sectors:
    Sustainability, energy, infrastructure, property, financial services, resources, agribusiness, aviation, consumer goods, retail, logistics, health, manufacturing, technology

    Key skills:
    Investment decisions, strategy, corporate finance, leadership

    Education:
    Sustainable Finance Certificate (University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership); MBA (AGSM / Wharton UPenn, Distinction, Leadership Scholarship); BA Economics(UNSW and Royal Military College Duntroon, First in Class); Grad Cert Applied Engineering(RNZE); GAICD (Order of Merit). Lectured in corporate finance, strategy and private equity

    Passionate about:
    Sustainable business building, with a commercial “cut through” on complex issues at the junction of strategic, transaction and investment decisions

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  • Michael Henson

    FORESTRY, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, DEVELOPMENT, COMMERCIAL

    Career:
    Renewables (Shell Renewables, PNG Biomass, Aligned Energy, Environmental Energy Corp); forestry (Shell, Sappi, Forestry Corp, CSIRO, ACIAR, PNG Biomass, Forest First, Asia Pulp and Paper, Harvard Institute of International Development); consulting (Pöyry/AFRY, ADIC, TRG, Eagon, Mercer International, JK Paper, UPM, Stora Enso, Fibria)

    Sectors:
    Sustainability, carbon, REDD+*, biodiversity, land management, renewable energy, forestry, biomass, agribusiness, development, essential oils, forest products, project management, land rehabilitation

    Key skills:
    Greenfield / brownfield development, valuation, operation improvement, due diligence, M&A

    Education:
    MSc Forestry and its Relation to Land Use (Oxford University), BSc (Hons) Applied Botany (Royal College of Science, Imperial College, University of London)

    Passionate about:
    Project design, development and delivery with a focus on sustainability, assisting with effective and measurable impact investments that deliver true results

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  • Brad McBean

    STRATEGY, OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT

    Career:
    Management (Aurecon Global Advisory Lead), major firms (PwC, Booz & Co., Braxton, Mitchell Madison Group), boutique firms (Mainsheet Corporate, Sourcing Value) and industry (oil and gas; upstream and downstream development; Canada, USA, Middle East and Africa)

    Sectors:
    Energy, infrastructure, mining, resources, telecommunications, transport & logistics

    Key skills:
    Business leadership, strategy, turnaround and growth, supply chain risk and operations

    Education:
    BASc. (Geological Engineering, Applied Geophysics), UBC; MBA (AGSM / UCLA)

    Passionate about:
    Helping clients navigate complex and changing market conditions while ensuring a focus on sustainability for both their own operations and how they impact society more broadly

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