Our Team
Directors and Senior Management
Daniel Ishag Chief Executive Officer
In 2000 Daniel Ishag founded e-Spotting Media, an internet company which merged in February 2004 with NASDAQ-listed FindWhat.com valuing e-Spotting at US$170m. This was a new business concept in online advertising, which is now the fastest growing area of online advertising and currently accounts for 57.1% of total online media spend. During this four year period e-Spotting grew to a 240 employee pan-European company that operated 10 offices, in 8 languages, 5 currencies, and serviced over 23,000 clients. Prior to e-Spotting Daniel was an investment banker. He has also gained international business experience in many emerging markets, with focus across Asia and Africa.
Adrian Harris Chief Operating Officer
Adrian Harris began his career as an investment banker at Lazard Brothers and Co, in London. He later spent four years running the financial and treasury function for the family office of a European high net worth individual. He is the author of two software products, LiveWebs Markets for Excel and LookMeUp for Word, and is the founder of Grumbletext®, the UK consumer action site and has made numerous TV and radio appearances as an expert commentator on various consumer issues. Adrian is also special advisor to Tamara Mellon, the founder of Jimmy Choo, the international luxury shoe business.
David Paul Group Managing Director
David Paul has over 20 years of global management experience with multi-national companies. He has managed subsidiaries in Europe, USA, Asia, and Australia with over 1,000 employees. Industries have included power generation, grain trading, food processing, industrial manufacturing, and real estate investment and development. David has extensive experience in the Czech Republic where he managed both private equity and project development funds based in Prague. He has also worked as a management consultant focusing on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and turnaround management. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University, an MBA specialised in Finance from the University of Chicago and an MBA in International Business from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
Garry Hoyland Technical Director
Dr Garry Hoyland obtained his MSc in chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham in 1968, where he also obtained his PhD three years later, followed by four years as a research fellow. Between 1975 and 1990 he was employed by the prestigious Water Research Centre in the UK. In 1990 he joined Mott Macdonald where he remained until joining the Group in 2007, at which time he served as a director of Mott MacDonald’s Wastewater and Pollution Control Division, managing a team of process and environmental engineers specialising in the field of pollution control and environmental protection. He has worked on a wide range of projects relating to wastewater and sludge in many different countries. He has also written several peer-reviewed papers.
Julian Moore Director
Julian qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in Dublin having graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours in International Finance). He has over nine years experience in the finance industry in the UK, Ireland and South Africa, advising a diverse range of public and private companies through his own consultancy company and prior to that as a manager with Strand Partners Limited, a specialised corporate finance advisory and investment firm. Julian is currently a non executive director of Bidtimes plc, a natural resources investment company, which is quoted on AIM.
Dynshaw Italia Chief Financial Officer
Dynshaw qualified as a chartered accountant with Talwar & Company and subsequently spent three years at KPMG. He then joined ebookers plc as the 5th employee in the company taking on the role of Director of Financial Operations and helped float the company on the Nasdaq, Neuer market in Germany and the London Stock Exchange. Dynshaw helped build ebookers into Europes largest online travel agency with operations in 11 countries, Gross Sales of $300m and over 500 employees. Dynshaw then worked as Chief Operating Officer, Finance Director, Head of HR and IT for Cobra Beer for the next 8 years. Cobra Beer is one of the fastest growing beer brands in the UK and is exported to 45 countries. Dynshaw was also responsible for helping set up and establish the Cobra Beer operations in India. In 2009 he helped set up the global Joint Venture between Molson Coors (the UKs second largest Brewer) and Cobra Beer. During his role with Cobra Beer Dynshaw was recognised as one of the brightest young finance directors by him winning Finance Director of the Year for a Growing Business at the 2006 Accountancy Age Awards and Young Finance Director of the Year 2007 by Read FD / CBI at their FD’s Excellence Awards.
Xan Morgan Vice President Business Development
Xan is a Business and Brand Development professional, with over 7 years' experience in developing finance plans, attracting VC funding and project managing global marketing programmes. In 2003, he co-founded Xan Obolensky, a successful global retail label, with factories in Kashmir and Vietnam, and over 200 employees globally. From 2005 he relaunched an iconic 1960's fashion brand in London. Xan's track record in sales, distribution and manufacturing processes extends beyond the retail sector into areas as diverse as the Morgan Motor Company, event management and new media. More specifically to Bluewater, Xan's insight and networks in the global social and developmental arena have been applied through various international assignments as a BBC film-maker in Northern India; on secondment to the Tibetan Government; and organising, producing and promoting charity events for Tibet, Bosnia and Botswana - all areas where waste and water conservation have become critical board and political issues.
Kimberly Tara Non-Executive Director
Kimberly Tara is the Chief Executive Officer of FourWinds Capital Management, an investment management company specializing in commodities and natural resources.
The Company manages more than $1 billion, including investment vehicles covering energy, metals, agriculture, timberland, water, waste, and alternative energies.
Ms. Tara has spent the last 17 years negotiating, executing and managing investments, with a focus on cross-border transactions. She worked previously with Morgan Stanley in New York, Value Partners in Italy, and as an alternative investment consultant in Europe and the US. Ms. Tara joined the Board of Bluewater Bio International in April 2009.
Bertrand Lipworth Non-Executive Director
Bertrand Lipworth has 25 years experience in investment banking, private equity and venture capital gained at Samuel Montagu, Lazard and Kidder Peabody, followed by his own firm, Lipworth Capital. His firm provides financial advisory services to the private equity, hedge fund and technology sectors and also makes principal investments. Bertrand is deputy chairman of the Ukraine Opportunity Trust PLC and chairman of Sirenic Group Limited. He was a founder and managing director of Paradigm Media Investments PLC, an AIM listed investment company with prominent international investors, from 2000 to 2003.
Yves Cohen Non-Executive Director
Yves Cohen is founder and Managing Director of Geneva Financial Services, a family office financial advisory company based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also co-founder of PCCM, a Hedge fund company, where he was responsible for business development and operations. Prior to co-founding PCCM, he was a director at Maverick Conseils, a Swiss investment firm, where he specialized in wealth management and real estate advisory services. Prior to Maverick, he worked for an investment bank, where he was responsible for a range of successful technology and real estate investments in several emerging countries, as well as England and Switzerland.
Magid Khoury Non-Executive Director
Magid Khoury is founder and CEO of Capvest Advisors, a real estate asset management company based in Geneva, Switzerland. Capvest has CHF 200 million worth of real estate under management. Magid is also co-founder and President of Globalstar, a holding company based in Geneva that primarily invests in private equity transactions, leveraging a wide network of Middle Eastern contacts and relationships that have been cultivated over the last 15 years. Prior to co-founding Globalstar, he was managing director at Socofi-nance, one of the largest Swiss Finance companies specialized in the trading of precious metals, oil and currencies with a focus on Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE).
Dr Piers Clark Non-Executive Director
Dr Clark brings to Bluewater Bio over 20 yearsʼ experience in the water, waste and utilities industries, since joining North West Water as a Research Scientist in 1994. His most recent position has been as Interim Asset Director with Thames Water, one of the UK's largest water and wastewater services companies. Prior to this, Dr Clark served as Managing Director for Utilities at Mouchel Ltd and Management Board Member of parent Group Mouchel plc, the global engineering consultancy firm with 11,000 employees, focused especially on the UK, Ireland and the Gulf States. During his five years at Mouchel, where he led a team of around 3000 staff across the water, energy, environment and rail sectors, Dr Clark saw turnover treble and profits increase nearly six-fold. Primary achievements include the coordination of key international acquisitions and driving innovation across the utilities sector through his leading role in the Mouchel-sponsored industry-wide Technology Approvals Group (TAG).
Dr Clark currently holds a Non-executive Director position at Empire Water in California and is also active within the sectorʼs financial community, where he advises the Emerald Cleantech fund. In the UK, he currently serves as a member of the industry regulator OFWATʼs Future Regulation Advisory Panel. Additionally, Dr Clark, a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, has published over 30 technical papers and several patent applications.