Your Partner in Energy Transition

Ralph Ibendahl is the Head, EMEA Energy Transition.

As part of the Sustainable Finance Group, Sarah works closely with the growing number of corporate and institutional clients globally who view Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors as important considerations in their corporate strategy and investment decision-making process.

Sarah joined RBC in 2011 as the bank’s first Green IT Manager. In 2013, she moved to RBC’s Corporate Sustainability Team to oversee enterprise-wide operational footprint reduction initiatives, produce ESG disclosure and support business units with the development of sustainable financial products and services. In addition, Sarah partnered with RBC’s Corporate Treasury Group to establish RBC’s Green Bond Program. The bank issued its inaugural Green Bond in April 2019 following the publication of its Green Bond Framework outlining the process for Green Bond issuance and reporting.

Sarah represents RBC Capital Markets on the Advisory Council of the Green and Social Bond Principles Executive Committee and is Vice Chair of the CSA Group Green & Transition Finance Technical Committee.

Sarah is based in Toronto, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from McGill University and an MBA in Sustainability from York University’s Schulich School of Business.

Biraj joined our energy research team in 2013 and covers the large cap integrated energy companies. In the latest II Survey he ranked as the #7 analyst in the sector, and was the highest ranked analyst outside of the US. He is also RBC’s Deputy Head of European Research and helps support the wider management team. Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, Biraj covered the metals &mining sector. Biraj studied mathematics with economics at University College London and is a CFA charterholder.

Anthony Ianno is the Global Co-Head, Power, Utilities and Infrastructure

Ed Golder is the Head, Utilities & Renewables in Europe

Scott Richardson is the Global Head, Energy Investment Banking.

Jonathan Sisto is the Managing Director, Energy Transition Investment Banking

Robert Nicholson is a Managing Director and Canadian Head of the Power, Utilities and Infrastructure Group at RBC Capital Markets. He is responsible for providing solutions for Corporate clients’ capital raising needs. This can include both public and private equity, investment and non-investment grade debt and either in the public or private markets. He also provides strategic advice to his utility, power generation and clean technology clients having advised on over $30 billion of company sales and acquisitions. Rob has been based in both the US and Canada in his 30 year banking career with the last 20 years at RBC in Canada. Robert holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from the University of Waterloo.

Darrell Law is a Managing Director in the Calgary Energy team at RBC Capital Markets.  Darrell joined RBC Capital Markets in 2000 and has worked in a variety of roles in the investment banking group over the past 25 years including the Toronto corporate finance group (3 years) and the real estate investment banking group (3 years).  He joined the Calgary Energy team in 2006 and has been focused on coverage of upstream oil and gas producers and financial sponsors since joining.  Many of his clients including ARC Resources, Tourmaline Oil, NuVista Energy and Whitecap Resources are active today in the Montney play. Over the course of his career he has worked on over 100 transactions representing over $30bn of equity financing, debt financings and M&A transactions.  Notable transactions include the IPO of Seven Generations Energy in 2014, numerous follow-on equity financings for NuVista Energy and the merger of ARC Resources and Seven Generations Energy in 2021. Darrell graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (honours) in 1998.  He was awarded the CFA designation in 2001 and is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research.

Ken Martin is a Managing Director at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) with 15+ years of investment banking experience, specializing in Internet, Vertical Software, and Climate Tech. Prior to joining RBC in 2018, Ken spent some time in Strategic Finance at Uber. Before that, Ken spent 5 years at Barclays in the Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group in investment banking. Ken holds a BSc from Georgetown, an MSc from London School of Economics, and an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.