Solarplaza Summit | Spain

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Mr Kim Keats is a Director at K4K Training & Advisory. Kim started his career in economic consulting at London Economics in 1995 and joined the new London office of ICF International in 2000. Joined IPA Energy + Water Economics in 2007 developing and leading the transaction team based in London until the end of 2014 when he relocated full time to Madrid. Set up the market advisory team at K4K (www.k4kadvisory.com). His primary focus on the preparation of market studies to support and inform financing, refinancing, IPOs and M&A of power, fuel and water desalination projects in Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Asia and the Americas covering both conventional and renewable generation technologies on behalf of major international project developers, financiers and fuel suppliers. Over the past 17 years, Kim has supported the successful completion of 47GW and 471MIGD of capacity with a transaction value of more than USD32 billion. He has worked in Spain since 1998 advising on a variety of thermal and renewables projects and for different clients.

Miguel Marroquin is the founding partner and Managing Director or Our New Energy, an energy services and consulting company with extensive track record in the structuring, origination and negotiation of market-parity PPAs and over 2.5GW in transactions since 2017. Miguel brings to Solarplaza a breadth of experience in structuring complex transactions in most energy commodities and across the European geography.

With over sixteen years of experience in the PV sector, Carolina Nester's career began in 2007 as a solar module manufacturing Process Engineer spanning into the field of solar installation permitting, design, construction management, commissioning and subsequent supervision and control of solar assets. In 2012 she diversified her experience in the area of PV consulting supporting the development and management of net metering solar installations. The experience gained through 2014 allowed her to make the transition to the discipline of Asset Management covering the Technical and Commercial Asset Management scope of the discipline managing assets for a total of 200 MWp. Since joining Sonnedix in 2017, Carolina has evolved into the role of Head of Asset Management for Iberia being responsible for the overall performance and optimization of a 300 M€ revenue solar asset portfolio. Carolina holds an Industrial Mechanical Engineer degree by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

Tomás García is the lead Senior Director of the Energy & Infrastructure Advisory practice in Spain & Portugal at JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) since April 2020. In this role, he leads the team providing transactional and financial advisory services for renewable energy assets in Iberia. Prior to this, Tomás was the Managing Director of the Solar & Wind Projects business in Spain & Portugal at BayWa r.e. (2019). Prior to this role, he was the Head of Business Development EMEA, Energy Group at Canadian Solar (2017-2018). Before that he served at SunEdison as General Manager, Rural Electrification EMEA (2014-2015) and as Head of Strategy & Market Development EMEA & LATAM (2011-2014). Before that Tomás was Market Strategy Manager at First Solar (2008-2011) and a Strategy Consultant at the Monitor Group (2004-2008). Additionally, he has also worked as a Venture Capitalist, Research Scientist (doing science on solar PV materials), University Teacher and FX Trader. Tomás was a PhD student at Florida International University, earned his MSci at King’s College London and his Masters degree in Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is fluent in Spanish and English and functional in Italian.

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Shaheer Hussam is an American energy sector executive with 19 years of experience in Europe, the U.S., & Latin America. As Senior Director of Europe with Clean Power Research, Mr. Hussam focuses on renewables data & analytics for IPPs, technical consultancies, and asset managers. Mr. Hussam is a graduate in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Burchard Scholar. He is based in Helsinki, Finland, and was previously in Boston, Mexico City, and Washington, D.C.

Estefanía Orellana is Sungrow's Senior Manager of Claims of Contracts for the European Region. As a lawyer with dusty boots, she has 8 years of experience in management of infrastructure and renewable projects and has coordinated on-site activities of EPCs, BOP, Supply and Service Contracts as well as all related major subcontractors in projects throughout Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Offsite, she has led negotiations of key supply contracts for 3 GW of PV projects and 1 GW/h for Energy storage projects. She holds an LLM in international commercial Law from Heidelberg University (Germany) and is currently listed as a Professor of Commercial and International Law at the Santiago University and Diego Portales University in Chile.

Lluis Juncosa is the Director of EMEA Operations and Maintenance at Canadian Solar. In his role, Lluis is responsible for overseeing O&M operations on utility scale sites within EMEA region. Lluis is also involved into the future O&M growth and expansion. Lluis is having over 15 years of experience in operating solar assets and over 500MWp of utility scale solar. Prior of joining Canadian Solar, Lluis was working in companies like SunPower or Trina Solar. Lluis has an Electronical Engineering Diploma and renewable energy Master degree from Polytechnic University in Barcelona (Spain).

Lucía is the Head of the Energy practice at Ontier. She has extensive experience in renewable energy transactions and international bidding processes, advising national and international clients in the acquisition and construction of renewable assets. Lucia graduated in law at University of Santiago de Compostela, followed by a Master's Degree in Legal Consultancy at Instituto de Empresa (IE). She complemented her studies with courses in Communication in Business from Harvard University (Boston, MA) and Private International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law (The Hague, Netherlands). In 2009 she began her professional career in the legal department of Gestamp Group, which and continued in Cobra, the industrial subsidiary of ACS Group. In 2014 Lucia joined the Corporate Department of BDO Abogados, where she provided legal advice to national and international companies, especially in contracting, corporate restructuring and company acquisitions; additionally, she collaborated with the Real Estate department. Lucía joined Ontier in 2017, forming part of the Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions department until her appointment as partner of the Energy Area in 2022. Within her teaching experience, highlight her participation in the steering committee and as a professor of the course on renewable energy law at the University of Navarra, in addition to being a collaborating professor at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) and the University Pablo de Olavide. She has also participated as author and co-author in numerous specialized legal publications. Member of the Madrid Bar Association.

With a degree in Business Administration granted by the Comillas Ponitificia University and a Senior Management program coursed in one of the most prestigious Business Schools in Europe (Instituto de Empresa ), I started my professional career in KPMG where I spent 6 years working in the Auditing and Transaction services departments in Madrid. In 2001 I left KPMG and joined Banco Español de Credito (Banesto), one of the major Spanish banks as Executive Director within the Capital markets division, heading the Infrastructure finance department. After 8 years in Banesto, I decided to leave the banking sector and moved to FRV to become Head of Business Development. After two years taking care of the international expansion of the company into new markets I was appointed as Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer. I´m responsible of the fundraising activities within the FRV group including both debt and equity as well as the M&A business. I’m also member of the FRV Executive Committee

Alejandro D. Rosell is a lawyer by education who started his career involved in the International Business Development Area working for ICEX in the Spanish Embassy in Brazil. After practicing as a Foreign Trade Expert for 2 years in Euroestudios Infrastructure and Engineering Company he entered the renewable energy and solar energy market as an International Development Manager for Elecnor-Atersa group. Later on he was hired to develop the Emerging market area for Photon magazine as an Editor, and Market Research Expert. During 5 years he acquired a deep knowledge of the Photovoltaic Solar Market, mainly dealing with emerging areas such as Latin America, Africa an EMEA regions. In 2013 Alejandro founded and managed SunAdvisors as an advisory service for emerging companies dealing with the international solar market. All while keeping on writing as a journalist in different media and offering advisory services for companies such as SATEC, Generalia, Grupo Clavijo and Energías Renovables. Alejandro is a skilled professional in solar energy, international business, market research and analysis and keeps a large list of high profile contacts within the industry.

Originally from Brazil, Lorena Nieuwenhoven completed a double major degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2019. She then deep-dived into the area of renewables and sustainability, helping expand the penetration of solar energy in the Iberian markets through her work as a Project Manager for Solarplaza. Apart from her work in the Spanish and Portuguese markets, Lorena has also spearheaded topical conferences related to Green Hydrogen and Hybrid Renewables.