In House Team
Vickram Mirchandani
is the Bia Italia Managing Director and has 20 years of experience in clean energy development.
Vickram and his team have developed wind, solar, and battery projects in Italy and the United Kingdom. He leads all stages of the development cycle from site origination to Ready to Build sales. He was educated at Boston University in the United States and has business experience in the UK, US, Italy and west Africa. Institutional acquirers of previous clean energy projects developed by the Bia Directors include Infrared Capital, Glennmont Partners, Gresham House & Field Energy.
Vickram originated the Joint Venture with Eren Industries for building and retaining the Italian BESS sites. Bia’s current Italian developments will now be managed and retained for operations long term. The initial target is to develop and build up to 750mw of battery projects in Italy over the next 5 years. Vickram has a wife and family and is based in the UK.
Shuves Mukherji
is the Bia Group Finance Director and Bia Italia Finance Director and is responsible for all management accounting and operational finance management for the Bia Group of companies in the UK and Italy. He is a Price-Waterhouse trained chartered accountant.
He has been closely engaged in the development of the Group’s wind, battery, and solar projects since 2004. His roles include financial modelling, SPV structuring, budget management, finance raising, and focusing on asset management, and company regulatory, compliance and financial performance.
EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS
Jacobs - Permitting consultant
Jacobs advisory and consulting teams lead the permitting efforts on all the Bia sites. With a team of approximately 45,000, they provide services for Bia from their infrastructure, energy, environmental, transportation and water groups. The services focus on feasibility, planning, design, program and project lifecycle management, assisting Bia in creating a more connected and sustainable world.
ARC Associates - Financial Advisor
A private investment banking and corporate finance services group that has completed more than $6 billion of transactions and focuses for Bia on funding and structuring in the private markets for its renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
ARC has been regulated in the UK since 2001 and began working with the Bia principals in 2008.
Bird & Bird Law Firm - Legal consultant
Bird and Bird are the corporate legal advisors for Bia Italia. They assist is all legal and regulatory aspects of the project lifecycle from site acquisition, permitting, funding, to construction and throughout operations.
Montana - Engineering &Technical consultant
Montana S.P.A. is an Engineering Company founded in 1991 characterized by its expertise and independence. We offer to our clients environmental, energy and strategical consultancy and engineering services at all levels. We assist our clients from early stage development, aiming to contribute positively for the environment, society and to the global economy. We try to fix the environmental damages from the past with the aim of building a sustainable future. Today, thanks to the synergy of over 100 qualified professional experts in planning, permitting and development of complex projects, we are able to offer to private sector or public entities specific and integrated consulting services through our 4 Business Units: Remediation and Landfills, Energy, Waste and Industry, Urban and Land Development.