Jaz Bains
Group Risk & Investment Director, RES
Jaz has spent his working life in the power and electricity sector. Jaz is responsible for RES’s team that advises the Group and supports investor relations. Jaz joined RES in 2003 and is responsible for M&A, risk management, financing and capital raising. Jaz has worked on a broad range of transactions including closing in excess of 1.5 GW of wind projects with merchant project financing of circa €500 million, part of which being a multijurisdictional portfolio facility at RES. Prior to joining RES, Jaz worked for Midlands Electricity and Cinergy Corporation where he was responsible for the origination, development and ultimately financial close of independent thermal power projects internationally as well as wind projects in the US, during which time he negotiated and closed 2.1GW of power projects in the UK and internationally. Jaz has a BSc degree in Mathematics with Management Applications from Brunel University.