European Green Transition – Company Presentation

After attending Harrow School, from the early 1990s Zak was a derivatives broker at various companies such as Sucden, Union Cal (later part of Man Group) and Berkeley Futures.

In 2000 the opportunities afforded by the internet and the growth of Technical Analysis in the UK led to Zak being Shares Magazine’s first Technical Editor.

Since then he has written for Yahoo! Finance, the Investors Chronicle, Spectator Money, CNBC Bloomberg and Share Talk.

Jack Kelly is an experienced financial professional with a depth of experience completing M&A transactions across a range of sectors. Prior to joining European Green Transition, Jack worked across Raglan Capital’s portfolio of companies supporting M&A, transaction, licensing and investor relations activities.

Jack has also worked in PwC Ireland’s Corporate Finance team supporting Irish and international businesses on a range of M&A related activities. Jack has a Business and Economics degree from Trinity College Dublin and is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Jack brings expertise in M&A to the executive team with a focus on structuring deals and carrying out financial and legal due diligence of new opportunities.

Cathal Friel is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with a long‐running and successful history in business. Cathal is Managing Director of Raglan Capital and serves as Chairman and co‐founder of Poolbeg Pharma plc. Poolbeg was established as a spin-off from hVIVO plc (formerly Open Orphan plc), another company that Cathal co-founded and where he currently serves as Chairman. Cathal also co‐founded Amryt Pharma plc which IPO’d on the London Stock Exchange in 2016 and was successfully sold to Chiesi Farmaceutici for $1.48bn in April 2023. Prior to that, he was co‐founder and Chairman of Fastnet Oil & Gas plc, which listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2011.

Cathal began his working career a little earlier than most by having to step in to help run the family business in 1981 at the relatively young age of 16 due to a family illness. He went on to complete his education by taking night classes and received an MBA from the University of Ulster in 1990. Cathal then spent the following five years lecturing on a part‐time basis on International Marketing and Business Planning at the University of Ulster whilst in tandem running his own technology services business. In 2001, Cathal was part of the team that successfully established Merrion Stockbrokers in Dublin. Following Merrion’s successful trade sale in 2006, he founded Raglan Capital which is renowned for building in‐house companies that are quickly listed on the public stock markets and are scaled rapidly post‐IPO generally via M&A transactions. Cathal was a finalist in the international category of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2020.