Solarplaza Summit | Asset Management Europe

Entrepreneur and Executive with a wide knowledge of electricity market dynamics and passionate about sustainability. Pioneer of Renewable energy sector that she joined nearly fifteen years ago holding C-level roles in two different top European companies. She runs Hazel New Energy, active in investments and advisory services in the Energy Transition sector, and she can rely on her previous wide experience as COO in the European Energy & Infrastructure sector having managed two of the biggest European renewable energy portfolios. In particular she has been in charge of EF Solare Italia’s (F2i group) portfolio, that she drove from the start-up phase to nearly 1GW over 300 sites and 4B€ of solar assets under management, and of Green Arrow Capital’s portfolio, where she led the operational transition to 400MW and 1.6B€ of renewable energy – wind, solar, hydro and mini-hydro, biogas and biomethane - assets under management throughout Europe. She previously held roles in Engie, Kearney and took part in a start up in the solar sector. Strongly focused and skilled in Operations, M&A processes, Portfolio Growth and Improvement, Post-Merger Integration and Technological Innovation.

Marco has eighteen years of international experience in the management of assets, and operation and maintenance throughout various industries, including seven years in the solar industry. He has been paving his career path towards full asset management services since beginning his career with ABB, integrating its full-service team for industrial assets.Following this, Marco worked at Transdev-Veolia, focused on business and asset management for Light Rail networks in Europe. In 2010 he became founder and global Head of Martifer Solar´s O&M and Service Business, driving the strategic direction while leading a team of more than 100 employees, where he became Executive Committee Member as the representative of O&M and, accumulated with the responsibility of leading the EPC global business in 2015, until leaving the company in 2017. Martifer Solar operated in more than 20 countries as a global reputed Developer, EPC turnkey provider and one of the most relevant O&M Global Service providers for Solar assets.In 2018 he co-founded and integrated as General Manger the company MTX Solar - a provider of innovative solutions and services for the players of the solar industry, with own competences for the whole chain of value of Solar, present in two continents.Marco received his MSC in Electrical Engineering and completed an Executive MBA in Management from University of Porto Business School/IE Madrid. He speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish, with a working proficiency in the French language.

Dr. Robin Hirschl studied physics in Vienna, Austria, and Lyon, France, and holds a PhD in Computational Materials Science from Vienna University. He started his career at Booz Allen Hamilton (today Strategy&), joining the European Utilities Team, where he lead energy projects throughout Europe as Senior Project Manager. Since 2007 he has held management positions at Kioto Photovoltaics and KPV Solar, before co-founding ENcome Energy Performance in 2012. As managing director of ENcome Robin built the company up to what is today one of the largest independent technical service providers for PV worldwide. In early 2019 he ceased his operational involvement with ENcome and later started to support the Danish investment company Obton as Technical Director.

Mr. Stefan Müller is the co-founder, shareholder of Enerparc AG, and since end of 2008, a board member he was responsible for the international and operational business. Following his diploma thesis in 1992 in solar energy, he gained international experience in different roles and various countries. Enerparc is an international specialist in the whole value chain of large-scale photovoltaic power plants. The service ranges from the technical design (EPCm) to the turn-key delivery (EPC) and finally to the operation (O&M) of power plants. In the last years the Enerparc Group has seen an exponential growth.

Carlos joined Foresight in December 2011. Prior to that, he covered several roles at Renewables Energy Source 'RES' project developer and technical consultant in the international Renewable Energy sector with a particular focus on the Spanish and Italian markets. Based in Foresight's UK HQ, Carlos is responsible for the origination, arrangement and execution of infrastructure investments in Southern Europe, primarily in the renewable energy sector and has led Foresight's investments in subsidy-free solar assets in the Iberian peninsula. Carlos graduated in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering from UPC Barcelona and is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, Italian and English.

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Joe Miletic joined Amberside Energy in July 2022, a renewables development and management company, providing investor support and asset/portfolio management on solar projects in the UK. He previously worked for Foresight Group as senior portfolio manager (portfolio lead for solar, ~1GWp) and head of JLEN solar. Prior to that, Joe held senior asset management roles for UK and international solar projects at John Laing, Armstrong Energy and Sonnedix. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from ENSIP and an advanced master’s degree in renewable energy from Mines Paristech.

Charles Lesser is CEO of Apricum’s UK office and heads Apricum’s global Transaction Advisory practice. Across 25 years of energy investment banking, he has won numerous awards advising companies from Series A to FTSE 100 on corporate and asset M&A or equity financing, and has deep ties with institutional investors. He has a passion for energy storage, merchant risk and creating long-term partnerships. He previously headed EMEA energy investment banking at Macquarie.

Chiara Mingoli is currently in charge of developing Creating Shared Value initiatives for PPA Partners, and global sustainability alliances involving the key players in the energy value chain, following the Sustainability Ecosystem Unit strategy which is addressed to the extended value chain of Renewable Energy involving PPA Partners and Suppliers/Contractors. Moreover since March 2022 she is also Head of Communications of the Global Alliance for Sustainable Energy, leading a group of curious and passionate people from the member companies. Being part of the Enel Group since 2008, before joining Enel Green Power, she was responsible of developing global innovation partnerships with institutions, international platforms and relevant firms, after having managed sustainability reporting and relations with ESG Investors and stakeholder engagement, together with sustainability communication strategy. Graduated in Political Sciences at Roma Tre University in Rome where she was Lecturer of Sociology of Communications, she previously worked for Polaris Investment SA. ethical fund in Luxembourg, in KPMG for Sustainability Audit, and started her professional experience in National Grid Business Development between Italy and UK.

With more than 12 years of experience as an analyst of the solar power industry, Ms. Berg authors reports on PV markets and trends, mainly in the downstream segment, and she regularly speaks at industry events. Prior to joining what is now S&P Global, she was an R&D strategy consultant in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies. Ms. Berg holds a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Uppsala University, Sweden. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Swedish and is based in Barcelona, Spain.