Biography

Reyad Fezzani has over 35 years of experience as a global business executive, and a passion for Renewable Energy Sustainability, Technology Investing also serving as a board member and advisor to early stage and growth companies.

He currently serves as a Director of Carbon Collect Limited and Carbon Collect Inc a direct air carbon capture company, and Chairman and CEO of Regenerate Power, a company he co-founded as a developer and owner of utility-scale renewable energy projects, and Chairman & Managing Partner of Energy Finance Company LLC a company specializing in distributed generation energy projects, and an owner and operator of generation assets.

In his last role at BP plc where he spent 23 years he was Chief Executive of BP Solar, and Chairman of Tata-BP Solar, and prior to that led BP's renewable business Global Wind and Solar based in California USA. The business operated solar manufacturing plants in US, Spain, India, China, and Australia, and developed, constructed and operated Solar and Wind farms in the US, Europe, India and China with over 3,000 employees.

Prior to that he was CEO of BP’s Global Chemicals business with annual sales of US$10 billion, operating in Asia, with manufacturing sites in China, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the Americas, and Europe. The business manufactured the feedstocks for use in the Textiles, Plastics, Paints and Adhesives industries.

Born in Libya and educated in the UK, he holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of the ICHEME, the Energy Institute and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.