Solarplaza Summit | Romania

Iulia Meiroșu is a financial strategist and business transformation leader with 20 years of international experience in banking, fintech and renewable energy. She is currently Group CFO and Board Member at Enexus, where she coordinates the strategic financial management and investment structure for state-of-the-art solar projects, while also expanding her leadership role as CEO at Verdeo, the asset management and commercial operations arm within the Enexus Group. Her career highlights include coordinating the Affluent & Private banking business segments at BRD – Groupe Société Générale, as well as promoting fintech innovation as Secretary General of the Romanian Fintech Companies Association. A graduate of the MBA program at WU Executive Academy, Iulia is recognized for her agile and data-driven approach, redesigning business strategies and digital transformations in today’s dynamic energy landscape.

Drawing on extensive experience in senior renewable energy roles, Tristan specializes in supply chain quality, business development, and project oversight. He helps stakeholders secure reliable solar and battery energy storage systems by enforcing rigorous quality control, traceability, and ESG compliance. By implementing robust testing frameworks, he enables developers and investors to optimize capital and operational expenditures while mitigating critical procurement risks. His work centers on ensuring the long-term performance and safety of clean energy assets to support the successful deployment of large-scale projects across Europe's rapidly growing markets.

Talal specializes in driving end-to-end sales cycles and innovative go-to-market strategies for digital SaaS solutions within the renewable energy sector. Leveraging his expertise in strategic planning and data analysis, he enhances process efficiency and aligns product development with complex market needs. He manages the entire spectrum of business development across the EMEA region, from initial prospecting and qualification to high-level negotiation and long-term customer success. Talal has extensive experience expanding partner networks and scaling IT solutions globally, excelling at building strategic alliances and maximizing revenue growth through targeted expansion initiatives.

Aurel drives strategic expansion in renewable energy production and large-scale battery storage. Leveraging extensive expertise in power trading and commercial optimization from previous leadership roles at CEZ Romania and EVRYO, he specializes in maximizing asset performance in volatile markets. He oversees a rapidly growing portfolio to position his organization as a leading energy aggregator and optimizer across the regional grid. Additionally, Aurel serves as a Board Member of the Romanian Association of Energy Suppliers (AFEER), actively shaping policies to support a resilient and competitive local energy sector.

Ruben Pieters brings an integrated perspective to the solar industry, combining experience in the realization and construction of large-scale PV projects with a focus on long-term operations. Having transitioned from a hands-on project delivery background to the field of O&M, he bridges the gap between technical construction and a data-driven approach to asset performance. At Solora, he focuses on evolving O&M from basic technical maintenance into a strategic tool to secure predictable yields and safeguard the investor’s underlying business case.

With 20+ years of experience in corporate & investment banking and a strong focus on the Energy & Resources sector in Romania, Sanda has extensive experience in financing & advisory on complex transactions within the Energy sector. She has a proven track record in corporate and specialized lending of large-scale project finance and complex lending transactions in renewable energy, while also providing investors with financing solutions and in-depth sector expertise.

Leevi Seesjärvi is a Business Develpment Manager at Capalo AI, where he focuses on BESS and hybrid projects across Europe. He has played a central commercial role in supporting investors, developers, and banks with BESS optimization and revenue modelling, and has recently worked closely on the Romanian BESS market. Leevi represents Capalo AI, a BESS optimizer with over 1.5 GW of signed BESS capacity.

Drawing on international project experience in the renewable energy sector since 2015, Thomas drives the adoption of intelligent technical solutions to accelerate the energy transition. He leverages a strong background in asset management and regional business development across Central and Eastern Europe to lead sales strategies for advanced embedded control systems. Focusing on seamless hardware and software integration, he empowers clients to maximize the performance, monitoring, and grid compliance of their solar and storage assets. By prioritizing long-term customer success, he ensures that developers and operators can efficiently scale their clean energy portfolios.

Raluca is a renewable energy expert with over 16 years of experience in the Romanian energy market, specializing in solar profile trading, imbalance management and BESS optimization. As the founder of Power Peak Trading, she helps photovoltaic producers improve performance through smart trading, algo-trading solutions and advanced imbalance optimization. Leading a team of 11 specialists in Renewable Energy and BESS trading, Raluca has successfully guided the company through Romania’s evolving regulatory landscape, delivering transparent and innovative optimization solutions for continuous energy trading.

Specializing in highly complex mergers and acquisitions within regulated sectors, Monica drives landmark transactions across the Romanian energy landscape. She leverages deep legal expertise to structure massive renewable investments, recently coordinating the acquisition of one of the country's largest wind projects for ENGIE and advising on a 1000+ MW green energy portfolio. As a leading voice in energy and natural resources law, Monica actively guides investors, developers, and financial institutions in overcoming structural challenges to accelerate the national green transition.

Ernst de Wiljes is CEO and co-founder of Birdview Energy, a company that develops data-driven software and modelling tools for energy investment decisions, with a strong focus on battery storage, co-location with solar and wind, and grid congestion. His work focuses on combining electricity market models, grid constraints and dispatch optimisation to build realistic revenue forecasts and business cases for energy storage and renewable energy projects. Ernst has a background in engineering, data analysis and energy project development. With Birdview Energy, he is building tools that help investors, developers and energy companies make better decisions in an increasingly volatile energy system with growing congestion and flexibility markets.

Vicentiu is co-founder and CEO of Prime Batteries Technology, Europe's largest BESS manufacturer with 2.3 GWh annual production capacity. Combining technical expertise in electrochemistry, electronics, and mechanics with over 8 years of executive leadership, he has built Prime into Southeast Europe's market leader by deployed volume. As a Kaizen management practitioner, Vicentiu has coordinated multiple Tier 1 projects, and under his direction, the company has developed proprietary cell technologies across three chemistry types and 20+ product lines, positioning Prime as a key player in global renewable energy storage markets.

Mihaela Nyerges is Managing Partner at Nyerges & Partners and Board Member of the Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association (RPIA). She has extensive experience in the Romanian energy field, having coordinated, during the last 20 years, numerous complex investment projects and having assisted many of the key players on the Romanian energy market including producers, grid operators, suppliers, traders, financing banks, EPC contractors, and O&M providers. Mihaela is particularly skilled in renewable energy, where she has intensively provided guidance to investors starting from the first and biggest renewable projects developed in Romania in 2008–2010. She is also highly experienced and actively involved in the legislative process affecting the Romanian energy sector.

Alexandra leverages deep expertise in climate policy and sustainable finance to drive Romania's green transition. She focuses on deploying critical financial instruments to support large-scale energy infrastructure and decarbonization projects. Having previously been a State Adviser on Climate and Sustainability in the Romanian Presidential Administration, she played a key role in shaping national environmental strategies and international climate cooperation. With a PhD in energy governance from the University of Cambridge, she effectively bridges rigorous academic research with high-level policy execution. Her current efforts center on fostering strategic international partnerships and securing the investments needed to build a resilient, low-carbon economy.

Daniel is a seasoned energy professional and the founder of SolarCap Investments, where he specializes in navigating the complex regulatory and strategic landscape of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) energy markets. With over 20 years of experience in project development and investment advisory, he has played a pivotal role in the expansion of renewable energy capacity across the region, focusing on utility-scale solar, wind, and storage integration. Daniel’s expertise lies in bridging the gap between high-level policy shifts and practical project execution, providing lead advisory services that cover the entire lifecycle of energy assets from origination to grid connection. An advocate for regional energy security, he frequently collaborates with international investors and local stakeholders to implement stable frameworks that drive the green transition in emerging markets.

Valeriu Binig is an energy sector specialist with some 40 years of experience covering top utility companies management and administration, consultancy, investment funds management, education, management of European Commission assistance programs and others. Former Big 4 Director and Partner, he brings over 17 years in corporate finance and management consulting for the energy sector. He focuses his efforts on strategic leadership and influencing national, regional or EU energy policies using his experience and position in various advocacy organisations.

Louis Rosset is an Energy Storage Analyst at Clean Horizon, where he assesses the financial viability of energy storage projects and provides market insights. He conducts in-depth market analyses and forecasts electricity and ancillary services prices, with a particular focus on the Baltic region. He joined Clean Horizon in 2024 after completing a Bachelor’s degree in Microengineering and a Master’s degree in Energy Science and Technology at EPFL (Switzerland). He also conducted research at UC Berkeley (US), further strengthening his expertise in the energy sector.

Rafał is a seasoned investment bank expert with over 25 years of professional experience in strategy consulting, mergers and acquisitions, debt advisory as well as equity capital markets. He leads the Energy and Infrastructure CEE Team at Jones Lang LaSalle where he specializes in cross border M&A transaction across the whole CEE region. By combining deep local market knowledge with international investors’ framework, he helps developers and investors securing the capital necessary to develop, build and operate renewable energy projects across the region. He focuses on onshore wind, BESS and solar PV technologies with over 3 GW of various projects transacted so far.

George is a power systems engineer with over a decade of experience in grid access, network development, and renewable energy integration. In his current role, he oversees the connection of new clean energy assets to the distribution grid in Romania. Previously, he held leadership positions at major utilities such as Electrica and Enel Group, where he managed large-scale investment portfolios and directed the grid connection of numerous wind and solar projects. Holding a Master’s degree in Advanced Technologies for Power Systems from the University Politehnica of Bucharest and an MBA in Energy Business, George specializes in bridging technical engineering with investment planning to efficiently support the region's energy transition.

Filippos is an Advisory Project Leader in Aurora’s Southeastern Europe Advisory team, leading energy market and asset strategy projects across Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and the wider SEE region. He focuses on battery storage, renewable energy, and PPA structuring, delivering bespoke commercial and regulatory analysis. His experience includes RES portfolio acquisition support, CfD auction bidding, investor studies on BESS revenue models and market design, and support for commercial PPA negotiations with both C&I clients and renewable generators.

With a background in mechanical engineering and previous leadership roles in construction across six European markets, Sebastiaan combines technical insight with commercial leadership to accelerate energy transition efforts globally. Sebastiaan drives international expansion and investor engagement for ion Ventures to scale clean energy solutions with a particular focus on Europe.

Corina is an experienced advisor with over two decades of expertise in the energy sector and sustainable business practices. She leads specialized teams to support companies through complex mergers, project financing, and regulatory changes. With a strong focus on the renewable energy transition, she helps businesses integrate climate action into their core operations to build resilient, compliant, and commercially viable models.

Irene is a policy expert focused on accelerating the efficient development of solar power and its associated value chain within the Romanian and European energy landscapes. With a background in International Relations, Political Science, and European Studies, she coordinates policy framework development to support critical initiatives such as the expansion of utility-scale capacity and the establishment of a circular economy through PV recycling infrastructure. Her work involves fostering dialogue between grid operators, authorities, and industry stakeholders to streamline regulatory processes, advocate for stable legislative frameworks, and enhance the regional PPA market.

Adrian is an experienced engineering professional and certified energy auditor who specializes in managing complex energy and infrastructure projects. He brings a strong technical background in thermo-energetics to help clients navigate the energy transition and improve their operational efficiency. His work focuses on optimizing thermal systems, conducting detailed energy audits, and ensuring that new energy facilities meet strict regulatory and sustainability standards. By bridging the gap between technical engineering design and practical project execution, Adrian ensures that energy solutions are both commercially viable and built for long-term reliability.

With 25 years of expertise in corporate investment banking and debt advisory, Claudia specializes in structuring complex project finance and syndicated loans. Her extensive track record includes successfully leading and closing major transactions at prominent institutions such as Banca Comerciala Romana, UniCredit, Raiffeisen, Citibank, Banca Transilvania, and EY. Throughout her career, she has raised approximately EUR 3.5 billion in debt and syndicated loan facilities for a diverse mix of local, international, private, and state-owned clients. While her corporate underwriting experience spans a wide spectrum of industries, she brings a dedicated focus to green energy financing, actively funding onshore wind and solar parks to accelerate the clean energy transition.

With nearly two decades of experience in structured finance, Teodor has built his expertise across corporate finance, M&A, and leveraged finance, including almost 13 years at BCR where he led project finance and leveraged finance transactions. He now applies that background to renewable energy project finance, bringing a strong banking perspective to how solar and storage projects get funded in the CEE region.

Victor is a Program and Event Manager at Solarplaza. With long-standing experience in public speaking and in organizing B2B events, he enjoys bringing together industry leaders to share insights and drive the energy transition. Victor is dedicated to creating dynamic platforms that foster knowledge sharing, networking, and productive discussions among peers.