Marcel has built a distinguished 35+ year career across the Asia-Pacific and MENA regions in structured project finance, M&A, and capital markets, with deep expertise in energy, renewables, infrastructure, utilities, data centres and transportation. He has advised multiple governments, multilateral agencies, financial institutions, and leading private sector corporates on over USD 300 billion of debt and equity financings, consistently delivering strong shareholder value and leading landmark transactions across emerging and developed markets.

Marcel was previously Head of Financial Institutional Clients APAC for Bureau Veritas Group responsible for all their key client relationships with Global Private Equity Firms, Global Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Development and Commercial Banks.

Prior to Bureau Veritas Marcel was Head of Energy and Renewables Asia at Aurecon Group. Marcel led several regional engagements spanning solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, data centres, hydro, hydrogen, waste-to-energy, BESS/battery storage and EV infrastructure.

Marcel’s leadership track record includes senior roles as Head of Debt, Capital Markets & Corporates Asia at IQ-EQ, Head of M&A and Project Finance APAC at ENGIE Group, Senior Advisor at John Laing Infrastructure and Managing Director/Head roles in M&A, Project Finance, Infrastructure and Energy at Macquarie Group, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered Bank.

Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership positions as CEO Hong Kong at SE Banken and MD Project Finance and Infrastructure roles at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Barclays and HSBC.

Marcel has served as a Board Director and Chairperson for major infrastructure, renewables, and private equity funds, including Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP, now part of BlackRock) India Fund, APIS Partners, and Xander Group, and has acted as lead adviser and overseen multi-billion-dollar projects such as the UAE’s Barakah four nuclear power plants (~USD 40bn) for ENEC / UAE Government while at Credit Suisse.

His career reflects a strong focus on public-private partnerships, with a consistent record of high-level negotiations with EPCs, IPPs, banks, PE, PC, contractors, and Sovereign Wealth Funds across Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe.

Marcel holds a BA in Sociology from London University and also studied Socio-Economics at Tübingen University. Marcel was a guest lecturer at INSEAD to MBA classes on Project Finance. Marcel has been a frequent speaker at many industry conferences sponsored by Euromoney, IFR, PEI, GTR and Trade Finance.

Marcel is a UK citizen with permanent residency in Singapore and Hong Kong, fluent in English and German, and is active in philanthropic initiatives including previously at Special Olympics Singapore and as a member of Credit Suisse and Macquarie Philanthropy Foundations.

Selected Transactions (approx. USD 300bn)

In UAE: 4 x Nuclear Plants ENEC/Barakah
In Germany: Nord Stream 2 Gas, Hapag Lloyd
In Sweden: Hutchison & Investor AB “3” Telecom
In Australia: Redbank Power, Southern Cross Cable, Powernet, Hazelwood BESS, AWS
In China: 3 Gorges Hydro, Yingli Solar, Da Chang Water, Hopewell Toll Roads, Shandong, Guangxi, Shanghai, Mongolia PTAs, Quishan Nuclear
In Hong Kong: Route 3, Western Harbour Tunnels, New World Telecom, PCCW Telecom
In Singapore: Glencore & Trafigura VLCC’s, Senoko Energy, ComfortDelgro EV Charging & Rooftop Solar, ARA/LOGOS Rooftop Solar, PUB Floating Solar
In South Korea: Samsung Shipping, Hyundai Power, Daiwoo Power, KEPCO Power, Hyundai Steel
In Indonesia: PLN Power, Musi Pulp, Paiton Power, Krakatau Steel, Pelindo 3 Port, Sengkang IPP, Weiwangwindu Geothermal, Tanjung Jati IPP, Bandung-JKT Toll Highway, Telkomsel, Excelcomindo
In Philippines: San Roque Power, Ayala, Cebu Pacific Air, NPC/ABB Power, Globe 3G, SMART 3G, EDSA LRT
In Malaysia: MISC LNG, Petronas, Maxis 3G, Celcom 3G, Measat, YTL Power, Butterworth Port, Melewar Solar, Altech Silica, Tadmax Gas Power, LSS3 Solar, Air Asia
In Vietnam: EVN, VNA, Petrovietnam, Phu My 2 + 3, CMS Energy, Saigon Hospital, Bach Ho Gas, Ho Chi Minh Tunnel, Namviet Solar
In Laos: Nam Thun 2 Hydro
In India: Reliance Telecom, Tatatele, Bharti 3G, Idea Cellular 3G, JSW Steel, Dabhol Power, Neyveli Power
In Thailand: EGAT, DTAC, AIS, Advance Agro Paper, Mitsubishi Paraxylene, Thai Oil Petrochemicals, BGrimm
In Qatar: Barzan Gas
In Pakistan: Warid Telecom
In Bangladesh: GrameenPhone, TMIB, Banglalink, Warid
In Sri Lanka: Mobitel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Dialog
In Zambia: Zamtel
In Ghana: Ghana Telecom
In Lesotho: Hydro Dam
In Mongolia: Sainshand Wind Farm