Joost Bergsma
CEO and Managing Partner, Glennmont Partners
Joost Bergsma founded Glennmont Partners in 2013. Glennmont manages over Euro 2.0bn across four unlisted funds and managed accounts for a range of global institutional investors. Glennmont focuses on renewable energy including on shore and off shore wind, solar and biomass. Joost has been active in utility banking and clean energy fund management for more than 30 years. In this time, he has devised and implemented asset and exit strategies, generating in excess of EUR 10bn of sales proceeds for energy clients. He is actively involved in originating new deals through the fund’s development partners, and regularly speaks at conferences and industry events. As founding partner and CEO of Glennmont Partners, Joost has been involved in negotiations of some of the fund’s key wind and solar transactions. Previously, Joost worked at SG Warburg & Co., ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas. He has read law at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and has an MBA from INSEAD (France).