Richard Lum

Mr. Richard Lum is a Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Victory Hill Capital Partners LLP and a Co-Chief Investment Officer at VH Global Energy Infrastructure Plc.
He has over to 26 years of experience in Energy and Natural Resource banking, principally in project, corporate and structured finance.
He was formerly Global Head of Energy Origination at Mizuho Bank in London.
He has 18 years of deal-making experience in energy structured finance as advisor and arranger of financings across the energy value chain in Europe, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
He has a deep understanding of the energy sector having acted as advisor and debt arranger of some of the most notable non-recourse and limited-recourse transactions in the energy sector, involving global energy companies such as BP, Shell, Petronas, and Saudi-Aramco.
Before Mizuho, he worked in the Global Energy Structured Finance Group at WestLB Markets in London, where he led deal execution on advisory and debt arranging assignments on downstream, petrochemicals, and renewables projects across Europe.
He began his career at Standard Chartered Bank based in Kuala Lumpur and London, where he spent 7 years focused on emerging markets coverage and the financing of power and infrastructure projects in the Far East, South Asia and Africa.
Mr. Lum holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science (UK).