Green Steel Production for the Energy Transition

Monty is a Trinidadian national and the Chairman and Founder of Resverba Holdings LLC, an investment and project development company active in the energy sector in Trinidad and internationally. Among other notable investments, Resverba is a seed investor in NewGen Energy, a green hydrogen development project on the Point Lisas Estate.

Previously, Monty was the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of DeNovo Energy Limited, a private gas company which discovered and developed the Iguana field in the Gulf of Paria, Trinidad. Monty was also Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Exploration & Production PLC, a UK listed oil and gas exploration company operating in Trinidad. Monty is also the former Deputy Chairman of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago.

Gus is an American national with extensive experience in the steel industry including seven years living and operating in Trinidad. Gus brings extensive experience restarting and turning around distressed steel plants. His experience includes operating iron mines, pelletizing plants, direct reduced iron (DRI) plants, electric arc furnace and blast furnace facilities, and rolling mills. He has worked at Nucor, Cleveland Cliffs, ISG CIRCORED, Birmingham Steel, and Kentucky Electric among other roles. 

Gus was previously the General Manager of Nucor Iron Carbide (Trinidad) and ISG CIRCORED (Trinidad).

Shalini is a Trinidadian national, the Managing Partner of Dentons Delany in Trinidad and Tobago, and is member of Dentons’ Latin America and Caribbean regional leadership team. Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide its clients with the competitive edge in an increasingly complex and interconnected marketplace and is also the world’s largest law firm.

Shalini has extensive experience in Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, is the co-lead of Dentons’ Caricom Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Insolvency group and the lead Partner for Dentons’ Caricom ESG practice group.

Shalini obtained her Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws at the University of London and her Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice at The City University in the United Kingdom and is a member of the bar of Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.

Rachel is a Trinidadian national, a Partner of Dentons Delany in Trinidad and Tobago, and the head of Dentons Delany’s ESG and Sustainable Finance practice.  Rachel co-leads the firm’s Corporate Commercial practice across the region and provides regulatory, transactional and commercial support to multinational companies across a variety of sectors and projects. 

Rachel focuses on ESG strategy and compliance, mergers & acquisitions, project development and project financing, and regulatory advice. She has assisted clients within CARICOM and across Europe with access to ESG financing, developing internal ESG strategies, complying with the environmental regulatory landscape, and embed their ESG goals into commercial and procurement contracts.

Prior to joining Dentons, Rachel trained and practiced with an international law firm in London. She holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Policy and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in Environmental Policy.