Otto van der Wyck

Otto van der Wyck "is Chairman of Climate Change Capital. Otto started his career with Royal Dutch Shell in marketing and management roles, and then joined Rothschild Intercontinental Bank where he became Head of Corporate Finance, Europe.

"In 1979, he joined Citicorp Investment Bank as Head of Corporate Finance for EMEA and then became the founder and chairman of Citicorp Venture Capital (CVC).

"In 1986 he founded BC Partners and ran it as chief executive for 15 years building it into one of the most successful private equity firms in Europe with offices in London, Milan, Hamburg, Paris and New York.

"Otto is a non-executive director and adviser to Coller Capital, the leading purchaser of secondary private equity portfolios and a non-executive director of the Government of Singapore Investment Company."