Infrastructure Finance Meets
World-Class AI Science
Infrastructure finance transitions require three capabilities simultaneously: access to institutional capital markets, scientific credibility recognised by regulators, and operational experience commercialising nascent technologies into asset classes. Our founding team has executed this at scale.
Founders
Stewart Dodd
Joint CEO
Goldman Sachs, Nomura. Multiple founder. Twenty years at the intersection of technology and infrastructure finance. Built financing platforms for emerging asset classes across three continents.
Leadership Team
Paul Thomas
Chief Technology Officer
Paul Thomas is leading platform engineering and delivery to ensure the company's technology is robust, secure and production-ready as deployments scale. He brings a strong track record in technical operations and complex programme delivery across both clean-energy and enterprise environments, including senior roles and technology delivery positions across leading institutions such as LloydsTSB Group, the London School of Economics, King's College London and UCL.
Natasha Ramlogan
Managing Director; Capital Advisory
An investment professional with over 15 years’ market experience, working with investors and key stakeholders across global markets. Natasha is skilled in translating complex situations into clear equity narratives, disciplined investor engagement, and high-quality deal execution.
José Fernando Martínez Paz
Managing Director, Latin America
José (José Fernando) Martínez Paz is an investment banking and project finance executive with 18+ years’ experience, including leadership roles spanning M&A, fundraising and new business development, with a particular focus on the energy sector. An industrial engineer with an MBA (management/marketing), he is trilingual (Spanish, English and Portuguese) and specialises in complex capital and infrastructure programmes.
Chief Financial Officer
T.B.A
Empati’s Chief Financial Officer (to be announced) is a senior finance executive with more than two decades of experience leading financial strategy, capital formation and governance in complex, regulated, infrastructure-heavy businesses. He has a strong track record across large-scale project finance and structured funding, treasury and risk management, audit and controls, and board-level reporting—bringing the discipline required to operate at institutional standards while supporting high-growth execution. His background spans multi-jurisdictional operations, investor engagement and strategic transactions, with a focus on building resilient finance functions that enable scaling, strengthen credibility with lenders and partners, and translate technical delivery into bankable, repeatable commercial outcomes.
Advisory Board
Prof. Nick Jennings FREng
Vice-Chancellor Loughborough
EPSRC Council. 600+ papers. World authority on agent-based systems.
Dr. Dong Huynh
Senior Lecturer King's College
W3C PROV co-author. Provenance standards and cryptographic attestation.
Prof. Derek McAuley FREng
Co-founder Microsoft Research
Distributed systems and infrastructure architecture.
Prof. Alessandro Farinelli
University of Verona
Multi-agent systems, autonomous coordination, and optimization algorithms.
Prof. Andy Wright FREng
Former CTO BAE Systems
Glasgow & Southampton. Critical infrastructure and defense systems engineering.