DEVELOPING PROFITABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD.

With a broad professional and academic career, is very focused on industry and energy, technological innovation and venture capital. Former Civil Servant both in the Government of Spain and in Industry and Energy in the Generalitat of Catalunya. She was Minister of Science and Technology – industry, unregulated energy, telecommunications, audiovisual and science – chairing the corresponding 4 Councils of Ministers of the EU. Her private experience, as board member, is broad and diverse, across sectors and geographies. Has led corporate operations and has taken companies public, has broken monopolies, such as telephony, has solid experience in the financial sector and has promoted the sustainability of large infrastructures with renewable energy and public-private collaboration.

She is and has been patron of several Foundations and member of university councils and business associations and is linked to the leading business schools, IESE and ESADE.

PhD, cum laude, in Economics from the University of Barcelona and PhD (c) in Economics, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Pedro Nueno has an extraordinary track record both professionally and academically. He has been a consultant with the World Bank, the OECD, Ford, and Morgan Stanley among many more, and is advisor to various company boards in addition to his role of Vice President of the Enerside board.

President of CEIBS, the leading international business school based in Shanghai, China, Pedro also gives entrepreneurship classes at top-ranked business school IESE in Barcelona.

Pedro holds a BSc in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, and a PhD in Business Administration from Harvard University.

Founder and CEO of Enerside, Joatham Grange has more than 15 years of experience in the renewable energy industry, in particular in large-scale projects, with expertise in Management and Sales.

Prior to moving into the solar photovoltaic energy industry, he also worked in Corporate Banking.

Joatham holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, and a MBA from IESE.

Antoni Gasch is an industrial engineer with more than 15 years of experience and a multidisciplinary expertise in renewable energy generation and energy efficiency.

His responsibilities cover the whole value chain: economic viability studies, conceptual design, construction, supplier relationship management and project management.

Antoni holds a MSc in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Tomàs Casanovas is an international Project Finance expert with more than 40 years of experience in the banking industry. He built his expertise working in top financial entities, notably at leading Spanish bank La Caixa, now Caixabank, where amongst other responsibilities, he served as Risk Director.

In addition to presiding the Enerside Board of Administration, he is also a professor in the Master in Accounting and Financial Management of the UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona, and regularly leads Project Finance seminars internationally.

Tomàs holds a BSc in Economy, and a MBA from Strathclyde.

Javier García-Mateo, who holds a degree in Business Administration in Pamplona and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, is currently a Board Member of Enerside.

He worked for 18 years at The Coca-Cola Company leading the strategy of its bottlers in Madrid, Aragón, Asturias, Andalusia and the Canary Islands between 1971 and 1988. Javier was the promoter of the introduction in Spain of some of the most innovative channels of the time in the soft drinks sector, working with the main international manufacturers.

He was also a founding partner and general director for 16 years of Interbeverage Services, the main distribution and maintenance company of automatic points of sale of the Coca-Cola system in Spain between 1989 and 2005.

Professional with more than 20 years of work experience in areas of legal advice and business administration, management and business development; with experience mainly in import & export, and business creation based on commitment, perfection and efficiency.

At a sector level, she has extensive experience in importing commodity and sanitary materials from Asia, legal advice and investments in the Chinese market. Highlights the development of the role of CEO in Puente China España, Founding Partner of the Qimeng Global firm and as Member of the Legal Commission of the Foment de Treball.

Professional with more than 20 years of professional experience in real estate and construction law, business legal advice, corporate governance, compliance and corporate social responsibility.

She is a professor of real estate and construction law and corporate governance in several master’s degrees at Instituto de Empresa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ISDE and UNIR and has a law degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master’s in Law Business from Centro de Estudios Garrigues. She is also the author of various publications on real estate and construction law and corporate governance.