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.
Board
Steve Norris FRICS
Chairman
Former Minister of State for Transport. Chairman of the Council of the National Infrastructure Planning Association. Over two decades of chairman roles across UK infrastructure, transport, and property. Eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Aitua Ekhaese
Non-Executive Director
Managing Partner, North Hill Advisory Partners. Former Partner at Havenvest (formerly HSBC Private Equity Middle East). Former Head of Investment Banking, Saudi International Bank London. ICAEW Chartered Accountant; BA Economics, University of Manchester.
Mobain Shaikh
Non-Executive Director
Board representative of Pinnacle Investor Management, a strategic investor in Empati.
Leadership Team
Paul Thomas
Chief Technology Officer
Leads platform engineering and delivery. Track record across clean-energy and enterprise environments, including senior technology roles at major UK institutions.
José Fernando Martínez Paz
Managing Director, Latin America
Investment banking and project finance executive with 18+ years' experience across M&A, fundraising, and energy sector infrastructure. Industrial engineer with an MBA. Trilingual.
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 CB FREng
Vice-Chancellor, Loughborough University
EPSRC Council. World authority on agent-based systems.
Dr. Dong Huynh
Senior Lecturer, King's College London
W3C PROV co-author. Provenance standards and cryptographic attestation.
Prof. Derek McAuley FREng
Horizon Digital Economy Research, Nottingham
Former lead at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Distributed systems and infrastructure architecture.
Prof. Alessandro Farinelli
University of Verona
Multi-agent systems, autonomous coordination, and optimisation algorithms.
Prof. Andy Wright FREng
Former Chief Technologist, BAE Systems
Glasgow and Southampton. Critical infrastructure and defence systems engineering.