Robin Asseburg joined Augusta & Co in Frankfurt in April 2009 to focus on supporting Financing and M&A transactions, having previously worked for Augusta as an Intern. Prior to this Robin worked in the M&A department of DZ Bank AG, where he also completed the Investment Banking Trainee Programme. He graduated with a Bsc in Business Administration from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (former Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft), and also holds a banker’s diploma (“Abschluss als Bankkaufmann”).

Julian Bennet joined Augusta & Co in February 2009. He previosuly worked at Morgan Stanley, where he focused on M&A and Capital Markets transactions in the MENA region. Prior to this, he spent a year in the Investment Banking Division at HSBC working on Media & Telecoms and General Industrials advisory. He has been based in both London and Dubai. Julian graduated from Oxford University in 2005 with a degree in the Classics.

Hartmut has 10 years of experience in private equity and corporate finance. He joined from Frankfurter Beteiligungs-Holding, where he was working in investing private equity in distressed and restructuring situations. Prior to that, he worked for the private equity team of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and London, having trained with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York. He graduated from the University of Karlsruhe with a Degree in Business Administration and Industrial Engineering.

Kate Earl joined Augusta as the company’s Management Accountant in September 2009. Kate has 8 years’ accounting experience having worked in various roles in a large Australian construction engineering firm, McConnell Dowell. Kate is currently studying towards completion of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She speaks intermediate German.

John Edwards has over 20 years' experience of providing corporate finance and M&A advice to clients on mid-market transactions. Until December 2009, he was a partner of Augusta, having joined the firm in early 2007 to lead the UK M&A practice. John continues to spend the majority of his time on Augusta business, with a particular focus on M&A in the UK market and on raising capital in the waste management arena. After qualifying as a chartered accountant, he joined Hill Samuel Bank where he became a director of Hill Samuel Securities and then joined Close Brothers Corporate Finance where he was a Director. For the 4 years prior to joining Augusta, he was a Managing Director of Amethyst Corporate Finance.

Justin FitzHugh spent 6 years in Industrials M&A/IB at JPMorgan in London, where he worked on a broad range of private and public sector transactions including United Technologies' acquisition of Chubb plc. After JPMorgan, he gained an MSc (with Distinction) in Energy Policy from Imperial College London before moving to ILEX (now Pöyry) Energy Consulting, where he worked on management and economic consulting projects in the power sector. He joined Climate Change Capital at the start of 2006, working on project finance, private equity and M&A mandates across the clean energy and carbon credit sectors. He joined Augusta in August 2008.

Gabrielle joined Augusta in December 2007 and now performs the role of Finance Director. She has 10 years’ experience in financial management & control, having trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young Australia followed by various roles at General Electric, Australian Unity and AXA UK. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.

Mark Giulianotti joined Augusta & Co in June 2010 to set up and lead Augusta's Project Finance Debt Advisory business in London to complement Augusta's established renewables equity placement business. He has 18 years experience in international banking and energy project finance. Prior to joining Augusta he was a lead originator and Director in the renewables team at Bank of Scotland in London, where he was responsible for originating and structuring finance for renewable energy projects globally. Before that he has worked in various corporate lending capacities for Bank of Scotland in the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mark has an accounting degree from Napier University, Edinburgh and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.

Benjamin joined Augusta in June 2008 from Evercore Partners where he worked on their multi-sector European advisory team. He graduated in 2006 from the London School of Economics with an LL.B (Honours) in Law having previously completed an internship with UBS in New York.

Patrick joined Augusta in May 2010. He has 5 years of experience in Transport, Infrastructure and Utilities investment banking at Citigroup in London, where he worked on a broad range of public and private market transactions. Patrick’s sector experience includes, among others, deals in shipping, aviation, logistics, materials, business services, waste management and power generation and distribution. With a strong focus on growth companies and emerging markets, he is experienced in working with owner operated businesses and entrepreneurial management teams.

Prior to joining Augusta, Patrick was leading the negotiations and restructuring efforts for a family business in the textile industry in Turkey.

Patrick is a graduate of the European Business School (ebs), Oestrich Winkel, and Hong Kong University. He is a native German and French speaker and has working knowledge of Turkish.

Joachim Koolmann joined Augusta & Co in May 2010 to concentrate on restructuring and debt advisory. With more than 20 years experience in structured finance, high yield capital markets, leverage finance and most recently distressed debt principal investments.

He joined from Bear Stearns/JP Morgan and before that Deutsche Bank, London where he was responsible for the origination and structuring of distressed debt principal investments. Before Deutsche, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort in various positions including Co-Head of European Leverage Finance as well as Bankers Trust and Morgan Guaranty Trust of New York. Joachim has a degree from Bankakademie, Frankfurt and speaks German.

Griselda joined Augusta as the Renewables Team Secretary in January 2009, having previously worked at BMW in Munich and Xchanging plc in London. Griselda has a BSc degree from Surrey University in German, European Studies and Swedish. Griselda speaks fluent English and German and intermediate Swedish.

Paolo joined Augusta & Co in January 2009 as an MD to focus on debt advisory and sponsor coverage. With 18 years of international investment banking experience, Paolo has spent the last 12 years focussing on leveraged finance. Between 2004 and 2008, Paolo was a Senior Director in capital markets at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) responsible for high yield bond origination in continental Europe. Prior to RBS, he worked for CSFB in the investment banking division focusing on leveraged finance origination and for Deutsche Bank in leveraged finance, project finance advisory and corporate finance. Paolo developed his career chiefly in London, with experience also in Paris and Frankfurt. Paolo has a degree from Bocconi University and speaks Italian, English, German and French.

Rüdiger von Schröder started his banking career with London Multinational Bank in London followed by Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst in Frankfurt and Luxembourg. In 1984 he joined Citibank AG, Frankfurt as a Vice President later rising to head Citibank’s Private Bank in Germany. He later joined Chemical Bank AG, Frankfurt as a member of the Board of Directors (Vorstand) in charge of commercial asset management followed by several years as a Director at Merck Finck & Co., Frankfurt, retiring in 2008. Rüdiger holds an MBA degree from Columbia University, New York.