Paddy Gifford
Associate Director, Occupier Collaboration
Paddy is an Associate Director in the Occupier Collaboration Team, helping clients and occupiers navigate the project process and technical jargon that comes with installing renewable energy technologies. Outside this role Paddy acts as partner to some of Syzygy's oldest clients, abrdn & Federated Hermes, helping guide their respective carbon reduction ambitions across a range of fund portfolios, asset classes, and countries.
He is a mechanical engineer with experience of technically challenging projects in the built environment, he has led on projects to identify and assess site-wide decarbonisation initiatives on major industrial assets and managed the design and installation of numerous large PV Solar developments across the country.
Paddy has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Sustainable Energy.  Before joining Syzygy, he spent four years honing his engineering consultancy experience working at Hoare Lea LLP where he helped design cutting-edge laboratories for the world’s top universities and research facilities.
An enthusiastic rugby player who also enjoys sailing. He is a handy carpenter, producing bespoke furniture for friends and family, as well as secretary to the Head of Wellbeing, our office dog Bramble.Â