Solarplaza Summit | Italy

Alberto Paturzo is Partner and head of Southern Europe at Bluefield Group. With advisory, investment and finance experience since 2000, and energy and renewables experience from 2005, alongside his career Alberto was involved in excess of €1bn solar and renewable energy-focused transactions, including project development, construction, M&A and financing deals. Before joining the Bluefield group, in his previous experiences within Martifer Solar, BNP Paribas and MedEnergy, Alberto took leading roles in project development, financing and investment activities in Italy and Southern Europe. As an active member of the main renewable energy associations and representative of both Bluefield and Martifer in different industry conferences across Europe, Alberto has built and maintained strong relationships in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, France, Netherlands and in the UK. Alberto has served as the sole administrator or director of several energy asset companies and holds an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona and an MSc in Economics from LUISS University, Rome.

Founder at Elemens. He brings more 15 years of experience in the energy sector. Tommaso formerly served as Head of Studies in the Energy Producers Association (now Elettricità Futura). Expert in power markets and regulation, with a strong expertise in renewables, he is advisor of 150+ European energy players (IPP, traders, hedge funds, ESCOs, public and institutional agencies). Graduated in Economics at Bocconi University, he carried more than 500 teaching hours in master class for universities and companies.

Zhou You, Senior Power Originator at DXT Commodities, a leading Swiss energy trading company active in Europe with 3.5GW of renewable portfolio. She has 15 years of working experience in the energy industry, covering different roles between business development, sales and origination. In DXT she covers all activities related to renewable assets, including off-taking, route-to-market, PPA, and storage/flexibility projects. Her tasks also include the identification of new business opportunities to pursue in line with the company’s business strategy. Ms Zhou has a business and economics background and has an Executive MBA degree from SDA Bocconi.

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Andreas is Member of the BoD Obton Group Holding A/S, Partner and Co-head of acquisitions and financing at Obton A/S. He joined Obton as employee nr. 5 at Obton 11 years ago, which now counts over 300 people. Previously, Andreas has served as Board Member for Koncenton from 2016 to 2021. He is involved in solar since 2009.

Mechanical Engineer with more than 20 years of strong experience in the energy sector.Founder and Director of EGO Group (www.ego.energy), leader in the Italian renewable energy market (>3'000 MW despatched). Board Member of Elettricità Futura and Italia Solare Associations. Entrepreneur in the energy sector since 2005, previously employed in Ansaldo Energia (1997-2001) and Axpo (2001-2005).

Luca Matrone is a seasoned manager with more than 25 years of corporate finance experience in the global energy space. Since 2017 he is the Head of Industry Energy in the Global Corporate department of the IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division of Intesa Sanpaolo, the largest bank in Italy and one of the largest bank in Europe. Luca is responsible for coordinating the coverage and the commercial efforts vis-a-vis approximately 400 companies operating worldwide in the Power & Utilities and in the Oil & Gas sectors. Luca was formerly the head of Energy in the M&A team of Banca IMI, the investment banking arm of Intesa Sanpaolo group, that he joined in 2000. Luca serves as Vice-Chair in the Environment and Energy committee of the Business at OECD. He was a member of the Energy/Sustainability taskforces at B20 Saudi Arabia, B20 Italy, B20 Indonesia, B20 India and he is currently a member of the Energy Transition & Climate Task Force at B20 Brazil. Luca is a regular contributor to articles in the press related to energy themes and he has been invited to speak at several conferences organized by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Assoprevidenza, ANIE, Elettricità Futura, AGICI, Cesef, Solarplaza, Europe Solar + Energy Storage, Solar Media. Luca graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in 1998.

Rodolfo is an experienced investor and entrepreneur, been involved in the development, construction, and investment of over 5GWp renewable energy projects across Europe, North America and Asia since 2008. Over the last six years, he has launched and managed multiple renewable energy platforms delivering above-market returns for its investors. Before that, he held senior roles in the renewable energy industry for NextEnergy Capital and Hideal Partners, involved in several energy acquisitions and M&A transactions.

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1970 Luca is a Mechanical Engineer with a secondary school background focused on humanities. Married, with one son, he started working in the electric utilities sector in 1996 and, despite the many different jobs he’s been involved in, he still works in this sector today. Currently Luca is in charge of System Strategy department at Terna, the Italian Transmission System Operator, managing the long term scenario development of the power system and the market adequacy assessment in order to support Company’s regulated business. His previous experience, mainly in the Enel Group with a few years interval in Tirreno Power, can be summarized as follows: 1) 4 years as maintenance manager in a large coal fired power plant in Liguria (Italy). 2) 4 years as energy manager of a power generation fleet including 3 large fossil fired power plants and 17 hydro plants. 3) 10 years in Enel Energia, the retail branch of Enel Group in Italy, covering different roles from portfolio management up to Marketing Director.

Founder and current President of ITALIA SOLARE, the Italian solar association. He has been a pioneer of photovoltaics since the early 1990s. In 2001, he founded Enerpoint, one of the leading companies in the sector. Today Rocco Viscontini manages Enerpoint's photovoltaic systems and collaborates as a strategic consultant for some of the most significant and innovative international photovoltaic companies.

With a degree in law and over 20 years of international experience in the renewable energy and energy-related projects sector, Alessandro Migliorini is a manager who combines experience and a deep understanding of the energy market and dynamics with a multidisciplinary and problem-solving approach. Furthermore, he has a deep understanding of the peculiarities of the renewables scenarios and of the local Italian territory where, for ten years, he has been in charge of the development of European Energy, a Danish operator active in various international markets. Among the various projects handled by Migliorini is the realization in 2020 of Italy's record single-connection photovoltaic park.

Fabrizio Bonemazzi is an energy expert with a 30+ experience in electric grids and power generation, in particular variable renewables such as wind and solar. From the year 2000 he participated to the creation of a startup company in Enel Group dedicated to beyond the meter solutions. In this stimulating environment he acquired technical, commercial and marketing skills on retail and C&I products and installations and such as HVAC systems, heating systems, lighting, UPS, power line broadband solutions and many other similar. He dealt with solar thermal, solar PV and mini wind solutions having the possibility to scout worldwide market and selecting more innovative and competitive solutions. In those years a special passion for solar PV arose in him, entering in contact with the main stakeholders of the market, being part of solar association at national and European level, having the opportunity to cover specific roles and to be co-author of several articles and publications. In 2011 he joined Enel Green Power, moving to large utility scale renewable plants. He had the opportunity to head the Solar PV design unit and after the entire engineering unit at global level, taking care of 100 GW+ design of renewable plants worldwide. In 2019 he took care of the construction of wind, solar and BESS plants in Europe for almost 2 GW. In addition, from 2015 he had the opportunity to be part of Global Sustainable Energy Partnership alliance (GSEP) as project committee responsible for ENEL and from 2018 lecturer in Open Africa Power Enel Foundation initiative. On September 2022 he left ENEL and began to collaborate with several organizations as renewable energy and power sector expert. From October 2022 he currently works in Res4Africa Foundation coordinating its numerous training and capacity building initiatives and as Senior Fellow for ENEL Foundation.

Roberto Massarenti joined Natixis in early 2022; he is heading the Italian Team dedicated to structured finance in the infrastructure space and is supporting the M&A team in the mandates linked to the Infrastructure, Power and Renewable. He has more than 25 years of experience and proven track record in the origination and execution of complex transactions in the infrastructure sector.

Martina leads the commercial development of the Italian market for Renewables Trading & Origination at BKW Energy, a Swiss utility and one of the European leaders in the PPA business, with 3.18 TWh of contracted energy in its portfolio. She specializes in PPA transactions across various renewable technologies, including battery energy storage systems (BESS). Martina supports utilities and their partners in expanding their renewable portfolios by designing tailored solutions that mitigate commercial risk and unlock long-term value. Before joining BKW, she held commercial and strategy roles at RWE, Statkraft—where she supported the expansion into corporate PPAs—and Shell. She is also a guest lecturer at the IKN Institute and a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Martina holds degrees from Stanford, Bocconi, and ULP, and was an early member of the Stanford LISA Incubator Leadership Team.

Federico Cardini, a telecommunications engineer and Renewable Energy specialist, currently serves as the Country Manager at Uniper Renewables Italy. Since February 2022, he has been leading the strategy and development operations in the renewable energy sector in Italy for the German utility company Uniper SE. With a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering and a master’s in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources (EFER), Federico has acquired in-depth expertise in the field. For almost twenty years now in the RES sector, working in both industrial and service sectors, he has been able to successfully deal in all three primary sectors of the Renewable Energy Business: Business Development, Operation, and Financing. His resource management skills extend to international contexts, and his effective communication and problem-solving abilities make him a reference point in both wind and photovoltaic sectors.

Dario holds a Master degree in Industrial Engineering focusing on Energy and Sustainability Management. He has previous experience in strategy consulting with Deloitte Consulting and various roles as Originator General Manager at Danske Commodities. He currently coordinates the Energy Market Taskforce at the Italian Wind Association (ANEV). Dario has contributed to establishing ONE’s European leadership in PPA Transaction advisory, having supported generators in over 5 GW of market parity transactions from inception to closing.