Meet the Team

Trevor Bailey has over 30 years senior executive experience in the power generation industry. He is an experienced strategic operational leader who has shaped product and operational thinking within the world’s leading manufacturing companies.

Prior to joining Emerald Strategy Partners, Mr. Bailey served as General Manager at General Electric, Power Division.

Prior to that, he was General Electric’s Integration Leader for the 13 Billion USD acquisition of Alstom Power, inclusive of all of Alstom’s steam activities. The transaction was the largest acquisition in GE’s 125-year history.

As a Vice President of Alstom Power, Mr. Bailey was responsible for taking the group’s core Steam Turbine Retrofit business from a start-up to a business with over $1 billion revenues back in 2012.

Mr. Bailey’s career began with GEC, commissioning & constructing large power generation equipment and plants, which included leading the construction of the power island at the UK’s flagship Sizewell ‘B’ nuclear power plant.

Bryan is a lawyer by Education (University of Exeter), with 16 years of front-line business leadership experience in Sr. Management positions running significant P&Ls. He started his career at HSBC bank, working in a variety of Management positions. Subsequently he served on the leadership teams of several successful Private Equity backed software start-up companies in the Oil & Gas sector. After expatriating to the US, he joined Severn Trent Water, PLC, where he opened their equipment manufacturing business in Shanghai, China and served as the VP of Project Management for their Water Purification division.

Prior to joining Emerald his last role was as a General Manager running the P&L of De Nora’s Global Electro-chlorination Business Unit. Since joining Emerald, he has led multiple Operational Improvement and Strategic Advisory Projects for Fortune 100 companies, and multi-billion dollar privately held businesses.

Lawrence is a recognized inspirational and results-driven CEO who has a successful track record of turning around and growing global industrial businesses with Fortune 500 companies.

Lawrence established Emerald Strategy Partners, which today is recognized as one of the leading industrial M&A industrial advisory firms with strong relationships with PE firms such as Blackstone, Carlyle, Platinum Equity, and EQT and as well as exclusive strategic advisors to corporate firms such as Mitsubishi Power and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. ESP has over 200 industrial advisors within its network.

Lawrence has comprehensive industry knowledge and has run international businesses with annual revenues ranging from 200 million USD up to 1.2 billion USD in Europe, NAM, and Asia. He was CEO of Severn Trent Water Purification where he led the sale of the business to De Nora Industries continuing as CEO of De Nora Water in Milan. Prior to this position, Lawrence was President of Alstom Power Turbomachines North America.

As CEO of Alstom Power Asia, to merit his support toward the development of the Chinese nuclear industry and the economic growth of China, he was also honored to be a torchbearer at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Lawrence was also Great Britain’s special envoy for central China trade and investment.

Marzena is a global specialist in marketing, communications, and product management for the Energy Sector. Marzena is also an expert on Chinese business culture and is fluent in Chinese language.

Marzena holds master’s degree in Chinese Language and International Business from Sichuan University, China & Poznan University, Poland. She also holds a Public Relations and Marketing master’s degree from the University of Stirling, UK. She also holds a Global Energy MBA degree from the Warwick Business School, ranked no 1 in the United Kingdom and 18th globally.

Marzena has held management positions in Marketing and Communications in China, Switzerland, UK and in the USA for Alstom Power, a world leading energy company. Her specialization was product marketing for a range of product lines in the power sector.

Don Stephen has joined Emerald Strategy Partners as a Chief Operating Officer and Partner.

Don has over 30 years of operational and leadership experience spanning numerous global technology companies. Don led the billion-dollar retrofit business within Alstom, was a leader for product management within GE and has occupied numerous
C-suite positions in public and private companies.

As an expert in Energy Transition, he will lead Emerald’s business for future technologies including renewables and hydrogen.

Don is a true asset to the Emerald team, and we are very excited to have him onboard.

Michael is an energy transition thought-leader with 18 years of experience as a senior executive, sustainability consultant, and project architect in a wide range of sectors from real estate to manufacturing and from technology to utilities. Michael assembles and manages high-performance teams that help businesses, organizations, and governments drive economic, environmental, and social success for their internal and external stakeholders.

Michael’s clients have included Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Generation IM, US Government Services Agency, Institute for International Finance, CoStar Group, Tennessee Valley Authority, EPB, US Green Building Council, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Michael serves on several nonprofit and academic boards, speaks at national and regional conferences, and has developed a sustainability leadership professional certificate. He has received awards for his sustainability leadership from the Mayor of Washington DC, the Governor of Tennessee, the Footprint Foundation and the Chamber of Commerce and he was selected to attend the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program.

Michael is an inspirational leader whose effectiveness is matched only by his passion for an equitable energy transition.