Charlie Baynes-Reid is Type One Energy’s Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel. He has extensive experience working with companies in multiple sectors, with a focus on energy and infrastructure, diversified industrials and financial services, and has spent more than 20 years in private equity and principal investing both as a legal advisor and as an investor. Qualifying as a lawyer in the UK in 2001 with Simmons & Simmons, he worked in London, Tokyo, Sydney before moving to New York with Macquarie Capital in 2007. He subsequently became a founding partner and General Counsel of NewHold Enterprises in 2017. He joined Type One Energy as General Counsel in July 2023 and became CFO in April 2024. Charlie received his LLB Hons degree in Business Law from City University, London, and is dual qualified as an English lawyer and a member of the New York Bar.