Leadership
Senior Leadership Team
Vegard Urnes
Chief Executive Officer
- Joined Yinson Renewables as Chief Financial Officer in May 2024
- Appointed as Yinson Renewables Chief Executive Officer, 1 January 2026
- 30 years of experience in the renewable energy and financial sectors and extensive experience in M&A, raising equity, and bank financing
- Certified Financial Analyst, Finance from Norwegian School of Economics and Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration
Gareth Swales
Chief Operating Officer
- Joined Yinson Renewables as Senior Vice President Business Development & Commercial in March 2020
- Appointed as Chief Operating Officer, 1 January 2026
- Over 25 years of renewable energy industry experience
- Master's degree in Engineering on Renewable Energy Systems and a First-Class degree in Physics
Eirin Inderberg
Head of Legal
- Joined Yinson Renewables in April 2023
- More than 30 years of experience working globally both as legal counsel and in-house and covering corporate, M&A, capital markets/financing, shipping, construction, insurance and tax
- Master of Law from University of Oslo, in addition to Bachelor of Art in Business Administration from California Lutheran University
Ivan Tan
Senior Vice President, Finance
- Joined Yinson since November 2014 and supported Yinson Renewables since its inception in 2019
- Over 15 years of infrastructure experience with extensive track record in corporate and project financing
- Master's in Business Administration from London Business School
- Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Mariana Peddle
Senior Vice President, Operations
- Joined Yinson Renewables in October 2021
- Over 15 years of renewable energy industry experience across the full project life cycle, from green field development through to operations
- Master's in Renewable Energy Systems Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK
- A member of the Society of Operations Engineers
Stephen Pears
Senior Vice President, Construction and Technology
- Joined Yinson Renewables in October 2020
- Over 30 years of experience working within the renewables energy industry, with hands on global experience in solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, tidal, wave, biomass and hydro
- Bachelor of Science in Applied Geology from Oxford Brookes
- A Fellow of the Energy Institute and experienced in implementing and running integrated ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 systems
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