Solarcentury is more than a developer. We operate an integrated model which means we develop, build, own and operate solar farms. We also manage the key financial and commercial stages – from equity and debt, to the PPA and energy management. We see this integration as key to our success.
Barbara Flesche
Chief Executive Officer
Previously Barbara was Vice President International Project Development and Finance at Conergy. She has 15+ years experience in the renewable industry and more than 18+ years in M&A and structured finance in the banking and renewable energy industry. Barbara joined Solarcentury in 2015 as Business Development Director, taking the role of CEO in 2020.
Birgitte Ringstad Vartdal
Board Chair
Birgitte is Statkraft’s Executive Vice President for European Wind and Solar. Previously she was CFO then CEO in Golden Ocean. Before that Birgitte held various management positions in Torvald Klaveness Group and in Norsk Hydro’s energy division. She has several board positions.
Frans van den Heuvel
Board Director
For 11 years, Frans was founder and former CEO of Scheuten Solar. He is a serial entrepreneur and non exec board member in semiconductor and renewable industries. Frans boasts of 20+ years’ PV industry leadership experience and 7 years in the semi conductor industry. He became Solarcentury CEO in 2012 then joined the board in 2020.
Tony Crawte
Chief Financial Officer
Tony has extensive commercial and technical experience at finance director and controller level, mainly within renewable and technology sectors. Before Solarcentury he was Director of Finance EMEA at Verifone, a $1 Billion-plus turnover listed US corporation, supplying payment-technology solutions. Tony has been at Solarcentury since 2009.
Evert Vlaswinkel
Managing Director EMEA
Evert has over 20 years of experience in senior management positions in the renewable energy sector. After working for Shell for ten years, he moved to Nuon/Vattenfall. Evert has been in the solar energy sector for over 10 years, joining Solarcentury in 2018.
David Edwards
Director of Global Strategy & Resources
Formerly David was head of product development and finance offers at Solarcentury. Prior to that he was part of PwC’s strategy and transaction team. He had 5 years in blue chip strategy consulting before joining Solarcentury in 2006.
Enrico Ambrosini
Global Head of Assets & Origination
Enrico boasts nearly 20 years’ trading experience in the energy sector, with previous experience at TrailStone, the global commodities trader, and roles at Deutsche Bank, Noble Group and EDF Trading. He joined Solarcentury in 2019 to lead the development of energy management and power offtake agreements, before moving to his current position in 2020.
Steve Taylor
Chief Operating Officer
Steve heads up the operational functions, supporting the development phase with engineering resource and strategy and then throughout the Procurement, Construction and Operational stages. He has 14 years in the semiconductor industry working for one of the top 3 distributors in various marketing, sales and operations roles before spending 5 years as Director of Procurement. He took up the same role with Solarcentury in 2014 before taking on more operational responsibility.
Debbie Hayes
HR Director
Debbie joined as HR Director at Solarcentury in 2018, previously she has held European, global and UK-centric HR Director positions in different sectors such as media, insurance, marketing, hospitality FMCG, production and transport in companies such as Gate Group, Hilton, Gorkana (now Cision) and actively worked on company integrations and people strategy – with a focus on talent acquisition, development and employee engagement.
Jake Davies
General Counsel
Jake has been General Counsel at Solarcentury since June 2016. Prior to that he worked mainly in private practice specialising in in the development and construction of projects and infrastructure. He was of Counsel at Jones Day and a partner at Forsters LLP.
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