Patricia Voorhees is a Director in The Alta Group and chair of the ELFA’s Climate Financing Working Group, formed in 2022 to determine the size of the market and provide education, best practices and government advocacy. She has more than 25 years of experience in equipment finance and is a frequent conference speaker, guest lecturer and author. Recent publication topics have included ESG, climate finance, circular economy models and current equipment-finance funding dynamics.

Ian Robertson is a co-owner of Invigors EMEA, a part of The Alta Group. Formerly Global Head of Asset Management and Remarketing at DLL, Ian is expert in both vendor finance and direct leasing. Robertson is regularly called on by clients to help develop their energy transition strategies as well as to help them address the newer risk categories that come along with some of the equipment classes. An expert in equipment management and as a service business model design, Robertson also consults regularly on Circular business model design and lifecycle management and equipment data exploitation. Robertson is a regular speaker at major Industry events and was part of the organizing team at the recent Leasing Life Sustainability Summit in Paris.