Warren Pimm
Chairperson – Investment Advisory Board (IAB), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Warren Pimm is a Partner, and Senior Managing Director of Pan American Finance. He has over 25 years of investment banking experience, including M&A advisory, private and public market capital raising, working across international capital markets in North America and Europe.
Warren has deep transaction experience in the international energy transition markets of onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, energy storage, and sustainable transportation, where he holds direct relationships with leading global institutional investors and project finance banks working across infrastructure sectors.
Warren has extensive experience working with selected companies and financial institutions to assist them in raising capital from a broad range of institutional investors, across private placements of common equity, convertible preferred stock, mezzanine debt or convertible debt for uses of proceeds ranging from growth capital to acquisition and construction financings, along with transaction experience in corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, leverage, and strategic capital raising activities in the renewable energy, utilities, and infrastructure sectors. He has completed over 100+ transactions collectively raising over US$10.5 billion in total capital.
Previously Warren has been a co-founder of a Canadian financial services company, Berkshire Group, leading the investment banking group, and being part of the senior team growing the group into a national firm in Canada, growing from start up to 2,200 professionals. He then will have joined as a Partner, Sustainable Development Capital LLP, an international institutional financial services group based in London, UK, with offices in New York and Hong Kong.
Warren is a CFA Charterholder, and Member of the CFA Institute, and CFA UK. He earned an MBA from SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business, and an Undergraduate Degree in Economics and Commerce from the University of Calgary.