Neville is responsible for Velocys’ waste to fuels business, including the Altalto waste-to-jet-fuel project in the UK. This project is planned to take half a million tonnes of municipal and commercial solid waste, and use it to make sustainable aviation fuel with net negative carbon emissions.  

Neville is active in the SAF industry, in the UK and elsewhere; he is a director of the Renewable Transport Fuel Association and a member of the UK’s Jet Zero Council.

Neville has over 30 years' experience in the oil, renewable energy and consulting industries, including 12 years with Exxon, where he led technical and commercial teams bringing over 70 new products to market, 4 years with Bain and Company, and 11 years with Velocys. He has also led two small businesses and launched a successful innovation programme for the UK government.

He holds an MA in chemistry from Cambridge University and a PhD from University College London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

James is a partner in the Energy, Projects and Construction Group and co-heads the firm’s Projects Group. He specialises in complex infrastructure and energy projects. He
has worked on major infrastructure, energy and PPP projects for over 20 years in the UK, mainland Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia acting for sponsors, funders
and public authority clients. James and the team also provides specialist support on secondary market and M&A transactions in the infrastructure, energy and PPP sectors
to our clients including leading infrastructure, pension and sovereign wealth funds.
He is recognised by clients and peers as one of the leading commercial lawyers in the waste and bioenergy sectors where he has advised clients on the construction,
financing and operation of numerous waste to energy, biomethane and biomass facilities in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Singapore, Malaysia, Jordan, the Caribbean
and the UAE together with disputes related to the design and construction of these types of facility.