HFH Management
Consultancy and Interim Management
for the Renewable Energy sector
Business and project development
FINANCIAL
– COMMERCIAL - OPERATIONAL
London
and the South-West
PRINCIPAL
Arthur
Llewellyn, FCA
Arthur has over thirty
years’ experience in the growth and development of businesses across a
range of industries. He has worked at board level in financial,
commercial and operational roles with early stage and high growth companies to
manage their finances, raise capital, negotiate major contracts, manage product
launches and develop multi-party international alliances.
His key strengths lie
in combining his strategic, operational and financial background with exposure
across a variety of industry sectors to bring added shareholder value to any
business.
EXPERIENCE
Transport
Biofuel
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Green
Spirit Fuels – bioethanol development
In 2005 HFH
Management’s Arthur Llewellyn led the spin-out of Green Spirit Fuels, the
UK’s leading bioethanol development company, and
its subsequent development financing by Credit Suisse and Tudor Capital. Arthur then joined the company as
Finance Director, negotiating the necessary offtake, engineering and
construction contracts for the first plant, and the development of
opportunities for the second and subsequent plants. HSBC was appointed in
September 2006 as lead arranger to Wessex Biofuels for the project debt, and an
equity offer was put forward. Green Spirit Fuels was thus positioned to become
Europe’s first project financed bioethanol production plant.
Owen Yeatman, a
director of Wessex Grain and Acting Chairman of Green Spirit Fuels, said in
February 2007 “We were pleased to appoint Arthur to help take our plans
for a single plant in Somerset and turn them into a multi-plant strategy to
attract the funding for the larger business as the leading bioethanol
development company in the UK. His understanding of the business, and his
ability to open doors and engage major players, then look after the contractual
issues, has been a great asset.”
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Investor-readiness
workshop for biofuels developer
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Review of operations
and financing structure of African biofuels developer
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Contract review and
offtake negotiations for European biofuels developer
Anaerobic
digestion – biogas market
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Financial due
diligence for commercialisation of anaerobic digestion technology for biogas
production
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Assisting in
production of an analysis of the business and environmental potential for
on-farm anaerobic digestion as a renewable energy source in the South West
region for the Government Office of the South West
Biochar
Õ
Strategic review and business
plan development for biochar developer, set up to generate carbon credits,
fertiliser and energy generation products
Bio-fertiliser
Õ
Strategic review and
business planning for bio-fertiliser developer
Waste
treatment and biomass energy
Õ
Acting CFO. Strategic
review and business planning, preparation for, and negotiation of, development
capital for Integrated Waste MBT and biomass energy plant.
Concentrated
PV Solar cells
Õ
Interim CFO. business
planning, preparation for ‘A’ round capital for Concentrated PV
Solar cell developer
Õ
PenOp
Arthur took PenOp, a
pre-seed technology company, from concept to world-wide market leader in the
handwritten signature software market, with an extensive and defensible IPR
portfolio. Initially as a consultant, then as Commercial Director, he
worked with leading IT companies to develop and grow the market and legal
environment for signature technologies, negotiated loans, grants and two rounds
of venture capital investment (including a private placing), and led the
acquisition of a competitor’s IPR and business.
In his business
development role, he negotiated enterprise software licences and OEM bundling
agreements, built and managed sales teams in the UK and USA, led international
product launches, and built strategic relationships with technology and
territory business partners around the world.
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Telecoms
network management software company
Negotiating
contracts with major telecom operators and equipment providers; managing
downsizing and cost reduction process, cutting burn rate by 50%
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Secure
Internet application
Project
leadership and design for biometric authentication in
Õ
Property
Management Software company
Planning and negotiation of potential management buy-in
Õ
University
Knowledge Management Technology spin-out
Business planning and investment presentation
Other
assignments
Õ
Early
stage life science companies
Managing and arranging investment and grant funding
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Architects
(PLC)
Operational review; closed loss-making subsidiaries; negotiated disposal of
non-strategic subsidiaries; completed acquisition investigations; prepared
corporate plan
Õ
Leisure
Goods manufacturer
Operational review resulting in management re-structure; advised on and
implemented diversification strategy (by acquisition)
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Medical
Training Equipment developer
Strategic
review; wrote business plan; negotiated grant and start-up loan funding
CONTACT
HFH Management Ltd
Hill
Farm House,
Babcary,
Somerton,
Somerset TA11
7EB
Email arthur@hfhmanagement.co.uk
Mobile +44(0)7966 375364
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