TEAM
PARTNERS
MILESTONES
Team
HEAD OF FINANCE AND
ACCOUNTING
Sunee Sudjai
Accountant with extensive accounting and finance experience including with European development financial institutions. Joined Thai Biogas in 2007. Graduate of Ramkhamhaeng University.
HEAD OF ENGINEERING
AND CONSTRUCTION
Yutthana
Phadungpruk
Mechanical engineer with extensive biogas system design and construction experience. Joined Asia Biogas in 2009. Graduate of Rangsit University and Chulalungkorn University.
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Russell Amor
Expert in project finance, portfolio management and restructuring. Joined Asia Biogas in 2017. Previously Managing Director, Project and Export Finance at Standard Chartered Bank based in London and Singapore.
Head of Legal
Jaruwan Janya
Thai lawyer with experience of commercial and financing contracts, permits as well as dispute resolution, litigation and arbitration. Joined Asia Biogas in 2011. Graduate of Thammasat University.
board of Directors
Des Godson
Conor McCoole
Anders Bergvatten
Partners
Asia Biogas has a number of investment partners: Finnfund a development financial institution from Finland, GuarantCo an infrastructure financier part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), Metro Machinery from Thailand and Al Tayyar Energy. Past joint venture partners include Toyota Tsusho and Tokyo Electric.
Our clients include leading cassava starch and palm oil industry groups. We also provide feasibility study and early project development services to Asian Development Bank.
Milestones
2000 – CleanThai first established in Thailand to develop biogas projects
2002 – CleanThai completes Thailand’s first Build Own Operate Transfer biogas project in Korat
2003 – Thai Biogas Energy Co Ltd (TBEC) formed by CleanThai with private equity backing
2005 – Asia Biogas Co Ltd established with investment from Trading Emissions plc
2010 – Asia Biogas reorganized under Asia Biogas Singapore holding company
2011-12 – Following a collapse in the carbon market, Asia Biogas focused on Thailand and Indonesia and withdrew from Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam. Minority interest in TBEC divested
2013 – Management buyout of Asia Biogas from Trading Emissions plc
2014 – Increases shareholding in Thai biogas project buying out Tokyo Electric
2015-16 – Asia Biogas completes new biogas to power projects in Krabi, Thailand and Malang, Indonesia
2017-18 – Asia Biogas acquires a controlling interest and is reunited with TBEC, owner of a portfolio of BOOT biogas projects
2019 – TBEC completes first Compressed Biomethane Gas project in Rayong, Thailand and successfully concludes a debt restructuring extending debt maturity to 2028
2020 – Asia Biogas takes over management of AT Biopower, owner and operator of a rice-husk biomass power plant in Phichit, Thailand.