Press release: 21 May 2025, London, United Kingdom
Xynteo, a specialist business advisory firm dedicated to providing decarbonisation, energy transition, and circularity services to the world’s largest companies, announces the appointment of Erik Darner as Partner.
Erik brings over 15 years of leadership experience across the energy value chain with a focus on investing in energy infrastructure, scaling low-carbon solutions, energy security, energy transition, and industrial decarbonisation. Erik’s experience and expertise span across strategy development, transactions and major capital decisions, having advised on over $150Bn of transactions and capital raises. Erik most recently served as Managing Director of the Energy Transition Advisory practice at S&P Global, with responsibility for the EMEA region. Erik’s career includes significant roles at IHS Markit and IHS CERA, where he built and expanded energy strategy & transactions advisory practices across Asia Pacific and Europe. With a strong track record in building and scaling successful advisory businesses, he brings significant global expertise in growth strategy and M&A to his new role.
Erik joins Xynteo to lead the global Investments and Transactions practice and expand strategic offerings across energy transition and infrastructure, decarbonisation and low-carbon solutions.
“We are excited to welcome Erik to Xynteo,” said CEO Rasmus Lundsgaard Nielsen. “Erik’s wealth of experience in strategy development and transactions in energy and low carbon solutions, along with his strong leadership in driving growth and delivering strategic solutions, will be a tremendous asset as we continue to evolve and accelerate the positive impact we bring to our clients.”
On his appointment, Erik added: “I am thrilled to join Xynteo at such an exciting and critical juncture in the firm’s development. Xynteo’s mission to accelerate sustainable impact and value creation aligns with my passion for accelerating the energy transition and creating scalable, affordable and sustainable energy solutions that deliver long-term financial returns. I look forward to working with the talented team here to help drive impactful solutions that create lasting value for our clients and stakeholders.”
Xynteo has long been recognised for its dedication to supporting businesses in achieving measurable sustainability outcomes and providing ideation, setup, operation and expansion of industry-led coalitions and programmes, including Europe Delivers, Vikaasa, Build Ahead, and Energy Leap. The appointment of Erik reflects the company’s ambitions to grow its advisory capabilities and presence through new services, sectors, themes, and practical outcomes.
About Xynteo
Xynteo is a specialist advisory firm, based in Europe and India, on a mission to help global organisations and investors accelerate sustainable impact and value creation.
In a market dominated by traditional consultancies, Xynteo is disrupting the status quo. Our work goes beyond ‘just strategy’ to transform complex decarbonisation, energy transition and circularity challenges into practical, actionable pathways for commercial success. By forging long-term partnerships with our clients, leveraging our expertise and extensive alliance ecosystem, we empower companies to identify, realise, and scale opportunities at all stages of their value creation journey.
Our tailored solutions help organisations achieve meaningful, measurable results. We unlock systemic challenges through collaboration, devise sustainable value strategies, bring to life economically viable transformation, and generate impact across the investor portfolio lifecycle.
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