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About: Team

The Tersus Energy team provides is composed of a senior group of energy professionals with a combination of executive, entrepreneurial and financial experience including:
 
• Strategy development and financial acumen
• Industry operating experience
• Investment and risk management
• Experience in small and large corporations at senior level
• International business experience
• Profitable high growth
• IPOs and Mergers & Acquisitions
 
A key strength of Tersus Energy is its senior executive industry experience and ability to leverage its extensive and global network.

Please select a Team Member to view their bio:

John Devaney (Chairman)
Steven P. Levine (CEO)
David Wilson (COO and Finance Director)
Kevin Alexander (Company Secretary)
Sharon Clayton (Non-Executive Director)
Nils Trulsvik (Non-Executive Director)


John Devaney (Chairman)
John brings his top-level industry knowledge and experience gained as Executive Chairman of Eastern Electricity to Tersus Energy. Whilst John was running Eastern it underwent significant transformation to become a powerful force in the UK market. John is Chairman of Telecoms Equipment Group Marconi, Chairman of Bizz Energy which retails electricity online to businesses, Chairman of NATS (National Air Traffic Services), and a Director of Geniant, an Internet Technology company. He has also served as a Director on the boards of HSBC Bank Plc, British Steel Plc and as Chairman of Exel Plc. John is an engineering graduate and a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme.

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Steven P. Levine (CEO)
Steven is an energy services professional and attorney specializing in private power generation and energy services and management, with extensive experience in the development and financing of domestic and international energy projects. Mr. Levine was Vice-President, responsible for developing and implementing national energy services and products for New Energy, Inc., one of the largest electricity power marketers supplying the de-regulated U.S. markets. He has also served as President of Metro Energy, L.L.C., a New York City based thermal and electricity service private utility; President of the unregulated generation subsidiary of a publicly traded US energy company, Besicorp Group Inc., responsible for developing and managing over 600MW of large-scale cogeneration; and principal and general counsel of Indian and PRC large-scale hydroelectric private power companies. In his capacity as a senior executive in the energy industry, Mr. Levine has been responsible for the development and financing of several large and small scale power generation, industrial process and equipment, energy management and environmental remediation projects.

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David Wilson (COO and Finance Director)
Before joining Tersus Energy, David was a founder director of the electricity supplier Bizz Energy which retails electricity online to small businesses. He previously spent a year working on the flotation of Formula One Holdings with Bernie Ecclestone. Prior to that he was Hilton Hotels CFO and Director of Business Development having initially joined Hilton / Ladbroke in 1994 as Group Finance Director. David’s early career started started with Ernst & Young which included a 3 year secondment to Singapore. He was admitted to the partnership in 1982 and became a member of the firms management team with responsibity for services to SMEs. David is a graduate in economics and a Chartered Accountant.

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Kevin Alexander (Company Secretary)
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Sharon Clayton (Non-Executive Director)
Sharon is a co-founder of Moore, Clayton & Co. She owned Presentations, an international strategic consulting firm. The firm specialized in working with senior executives to set strategy, carry out business planning and implement strategies for emerging and established companies in multiple vertical markets across the globe. Prior to launching Presentations, Sharon was the International Vice President of Business Development for a multi-national engineering controls company based in Toronto, Ontario. She also held the position of Director of Business Development for the Financial Services and Commercial Real Estate Industries at Johnson Controls, Inc. This international position gave her access to the most senior level executives in the banking and commercial real estate industries worldwide. Through her advisory/consulting work, Sharon brings MCCEG extensive experience with a range of multi-national companies and Silicon Valley start-ups including the top ten energy companies in the world, the top three engineering controls companies in the world, successful hardware and software companies, Internet and interactive media companies and an advanced biotech company. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Bearfaced Productions, Nichemusic, MedNet, Extessy AG, and Wheatstone Energy Group.

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Nils Trulsvik (Non-Executive Director)
Nils N. Trulsvik served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fountain Oil Incorporated, (CanArgo Energy Corporation) from Feb 4, 1997 until the merger with CanArgo July 17, 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was Executive Vice President in Fountain Oil Incorporated and Managing Director of Nopec from 1987 1993. Nils N. Trulsvik is a petroleum explorationist with extensive experience throughout the world. He has worked in the private petroleum sector since 1974, first with Saga Petroleum until 1981. He took part when Nopec as was established in 1981 and later, as Managing Director of Nopec, took part in the establishment of PGS. In 1994 he joined the original founders of Nopec in establishing Fountain Oil Incorporated. After the merger of Fountain Oil with Canargo Energy Corporation in 1998, he joined a group of distinguished professionals and established The Bridge Group AS, a company with a mission to facilitate investment and technology application in natural resource projects. He is still a Director of CanArgo Energy Corporation. Working experience includes exploration and development assignments in the North Sea, Mediterranean, Africa, South and North America as well as assignments in The Far East. His commercial experience includes project- and corporate development. During the 16 years working in Nopec and Fountain Oil he gained public company experience including financial reporting of a public company listed in both Europe and USA. Nils N. Trulsvik holds a BA degree in Geology and a Cand. Real. degree in Geophysics.

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