Maria Balyasna

Maria Balyasna joined Amberside Advisors, a Steer company, as an Associate Director for Energy Transition in April 2024. With over 15 years in corporate finance – both in advisory roles earlier in her career and in the UK energy industry roles more recently, Maria has hands-on experience in execution of complex cross-border acquisition projects, sell-side and IPO advisory engagements as well as evaluation of organic growth investment opportunities and strategic partnerships.

In her career, Maria has had insightful exposure to rapidly changing UK energy sector while working as a Finance Partner in Centrica’s energy trading unit, playing instrumental role in the acquisition of an energy trading company in Denmark, and evaluating various capital deployment opportunities in renewable energy technologies. She’s also had a chance to deepen her knowledge of the energy transition sector, having worked at Hive, focusing on smart home energy solutions, and most recently at SNRG, a NextGen infrastructure start-up, where as an Investment Director, she led the financial workstream for the successful infrastructure investor fundraise, built business cases and evaluated commercial viability of development and operation of smart microgrids on commercial and residential sites across the UK.

Maria is a part of Amberside Advisors’ Commercial Advisory, working alongside Mark Easter and Shivali Mathur to expand our proposition in the decentralised energy sector.

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