Trilantic Europe, a mid-market pan-European private equity investor, has appointed Guillaume Bayol as Partner and new Head of the firm’s Energy Transition (“ETI”) fund. Based in London, he will lead a team of eight investment professionals and industry specialists.
Bayol brings over 16 years of investment experience from Oaktree where he last served as Managing Director in the GFI Energy Group, which specialised in investing in the power, water/wastewater, and other energy supply chains. Prior to that, he was part of Oaktree’s European Principal Group, a transformational mid-market private equity strategy.
Bayol’s appointment follows Trilantic Europe’s announcement last week of the closing of ETI’s latest investment in Axicom, a specialist in designing and manufacturing Extra and Ultra High Voltage composite hollow core insulators and components.
Trilantic Europe’s ETI fund invests in businesses with established market positions in the energy transition supply chain. This includes components, technology, and services to clean power, sustainable energy, transport, and building sectors, with Trilantic Europe’s investment seeking to accelerate growth and support sustainability innovations across all these investments.
The first two investments of ETI were in GranSolar and Aerocompact, both focused on the solar value chain.
