Zane Reiter is a seasoned finance professional with over 30 years of experience spanning investment management, corporate finance, and business development across diverse industries. A CFA Charterholder and certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Zane also holds a Bachelor of Management degree (with distinction) in Finance.
Throughout his career, Zane has been instrumental in executing nearly $8 billion in M&A transactions and leading numerous equity and debt financings. He specializes in originating and evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, negotiating and structuring transactions, and managing multicultural business partnerships.
Before founding Zelta Capital Partners, Zane held senior management roles at Oman Oil Company (now OQ), where he led the due diligence and economic valuation of investments, built strategic international alliances, and managed a $1.2 billion portfolio. Earlier in his career, Zane gained extensive experience in corporate development with Nexen, Amoco Canada, and BP Canada, and honed his investment banking expertise at firms including Sprott Securities, Midland Walwyn, and Merrill Lynch Canada.
With over 30 years in the energy sector, Fidias has held diverse roles in utility operations, project feasibility, manufacturing, service engineering, electric power product and project management, and energy commercialization. He has led acquisition teams, successfully negotiating multiple substations, energy dispatch systems, and industrial turbines, including a notable deal for 16 turbines across 4 sites. Fidias has also developed gas and diesel distributed generation projects and evaluated over 100 solar projects for off-takers and investors. His extensive travels have involved developing power projects and educating utility companies and users worldwide on the benefits of distributed generation, cogeneration, renewables, and the necessity of sustainability in modern energy solutions. Fidias holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (1986) and an MBA from the S4 Program at Siemens in Bogotá (2002). He has completed certifications in Gas Insulated Substations (Frankfurt, 1992), Substation Automation (Nürnberg, 2002), Strategic Negotiations (Houston, 2006), International Account Management (Murnau, Germany, 2006), Project Management for Development by IDB (2018), Solar Marketing Program by Energy Trust of Oregon (2023), GIS for Climate Action MOOC by ESRI (2024), and Design and Implementation of Microgrids by Heatspring, Michigan".
At QPQ International, Fidias curates projects in different technologies in terms of various parameters like project feasibility, readiness, data room readiness, and milestones completion of the project, and helps in securing investors for the project.