We believe in teamwork, excellence and honesty and incorporate this into our daily work.
Exus was founded on working together to develop our people and best serve our clients. We speak the truth and believe in providing full visibility when doing business.
At Exus we hold ourselves to the highest possible standards and continue to be the investor of choice for the renewable industry.
Prior to co-founding Exus Management Partners, Luis was a member of the Executive Committee of EDP Renewables (EDPR), the third largest wind developer in the world. While at EDPR, from 2004 to 2008, Luis was the Chief Financial Officer and from 2008 to 2012, as Chief Business Development Officer, he was responsible for expanding EDPR international business covering 11 different geographies.Previously Luis worked at McKinsey & Co., where he is currently also Senior External Advisor for Renewable Energies.
Luis received his M.B.A from INSEAD, his Master in Risk Management from NYU - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and has a degree in Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Prior to joining EXUS in 2020, Luis founded EIRA Capital, an investment platform that focuses on Energy and Infrastructure transactions in Mexico, and selected countries in Latin America. Also, Luis was previously part of Macquarie, where he spent more than seven years in the Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Funds divisions, working on fund capital raising, equity investments, and asset management activities, as well as third party advisory on energy and infrastructure transactions in Mexico and Latin America. During his years at Macquarie, he also held board positions in the several investments made by Macquarie which covered energy, PPPs, roads, and telecom companies.Luis' previous involvement at financial institutions include positions in the investment banking teams of Deutsche Bank's M&A group in New York, and Citibank's Banamex Accival M&A group in Mexico.
In addition, Luis currently participates as: (i) Independent Member of the Investment Committee of INFONAVIT's Investment Fund; (ii) independent board member of COX Energy Americas; (iii) independent board member of SIMPATI Mobile; and (iv) founder of Fundación Reversible, a new charitable foundation focused on global warming issues. Luis holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU in New York, and a BA in Accounting and Finance from ITESM in Mexico.
Dhaval is a Partner at Exus and is responsible for the Operations team. He has 15 years of experience in the renewable energy industry and was previously the Director of Asset Optimization at EverPower Wind Holdings. He was also a Wind Turbine Performance and Diagnostics Engineer for General Electric Renewable Energy. Dhaval has an Aerospace Engineering degree from Penn State.
Nicolás has worked in the finance sector of the renewable energy industry for 12 years.
He was previously an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Canada and Nomura/Lehman Brothers with a focus on energy. Nicolás has deep knowledge of power & renewable energy markets with expertise in M&A, project finance and financial structuring.
He has a BA & MA in Business Administration and a BA & MA in Law from CUNEF (Spain).
Prior to co-founding Exus Management Partners, Nelson served as Business Development Director at Iberwind and Finerge groups, two of the largest renewable energy operators in Iberia. He has devoted all his career to the energy sector and has focused on renewable energy for the last 20 years, having been responsible for the development and construction of more than 700 MW of wind and solar projects in Portugal and other European countries.
Nelson is a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Coimbra and holds a MSc in Thermal Engineering from the University of Porto.
Before co-founding Exus Management Partners, between 2010 and 2014 Diogo was a director of Plenium Partners, an investment firm focused on renewable energy with 2B euro of assets under management. Between 2009 and 2010, Diogo worked at the European Investment Fund where he was involved in direct investments in private equity and venture capital funds in Spain and Portugal. Previously, he worked for Banco BPI in Portugal as part of the Project Finance Team. Diogo started his career on the Boston Consulting Group, Lisbon office, where he was a member of the Energy Practice Area team.
Diogo received his M.B.A. from IE Business School and graduated in Business Management from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Prior joining Exus, Nacho was Director of Investments in Banco Sabadell Capital, unit dedicated to invest in Private Equity and Growth Capital, leading the specific vehicle to invest, develop, construction and exploitation of renewable energy projects (wind farm, mini hydro, PVs plants, etc.).
Nacho has a deep knowledge in the energy sector in Spain and abroad, being responsible for the development and construction over 50 investment transactions in Renewable Energy projects totalling c.1,800 MW, representing more than 1,840 M€ of enterprise value and has invested more than 140 M€ in equity in the past 15 years.
He was also member of the Board of Directors for all the subsidiary companies involved into renewable energy owned by Banco Sabadell.Previously, he developed technical functions, in civil work management and special work in the construction sector.
Nacho holds a MsC in Industrial Management Engineering from ETSEIB and BSc in Mechanical Engineerig from EUETIB. He also holds a MBA from UPC (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya) and PDG (General Management Program) from IESE Barcelona (Universidad de Navarra).
Mike has worked in the renewables sector for 20 years and comes to Exus from the American Clean Power Association (formerly the American Wind Energy Association). He has deep experience in both project development public policy, including both national and local work. Mike was one of the first employees at EverPower Wind Holdings, where he worked for 13 years and was instrumental in growing the company.
Mike has done extensive environmental protection work including establishing the Wind and Wildlife Research Fund, to help protect wildlife near windfarms.
He has a masters degree from MIT and is responsible for the Development team at Exus North America.
Jim has thirty-five years of experience in the power industry managing the development and financing of energy projects in both developed and underdeveloped countries. He was the founder, president and CEO of Ever Power Wind Holdings, a national utility scale development and operating wind company, for 16 years. Currently Jim is the Managing Partner of Exus North America Management Partners.
Jim began his career as an attorney in the energy project finance group at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. He moved to Prudential Capital Corporation to work in the Utilities & Finance Group. He then spent more than a decade at Sithe Energies, Inc., including four years as President of Sithe Asia Holdings Limited; he was responsible for the business development and project finance activities throughout the Asia Pacific Region.
Jim received a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
With over 15 years of experience in the energy sector, Carlos served as Chief Operating Officer of Plenium Partners where he managed c.1.000 MW portfolio of wind, hydro, photovoltaic and concentrated solar power projects in several EU countries, before co-founding Exus Management Partners.Prior to Plenium he worked for Scottish Power Renewable (United Kingdom) and Iberdrola (Spain) where he focused on the management, development, operations and maintenance of energy projects.
Carlos graduated from University of KTH Stockholm (Sweden), EMN Nantes (France) and ETSII at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) with an MSc in Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy.
Aygen has 25 years of project finance and equity investment experience inemerging markets. His areas of expertise include public and private financing of power generation, transmission, and distribution projects, privatizations of energy and infrastructure assets, energy sector restructuring, transport and municipal infrastructure concessions, oil and gas downstream projects and renewable energy investments.
Aygen has previously spent more than ten years at EBRD’s headquarters in London, and three and a half years heading EBRD’s country offices in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Aygen then joined IFC’s Infrastructure Department, covering Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Turkey. Aygen was also the founder of the first private equity and asset management firm focused on renewable assets inthe region.
Aygen has a B.A. from Ankara University and an M.A. from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fulbright scholar and is one of the founding members of EMPEA’s Energy and Infrastructure Council.
Cristina has studied at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid and she owns a degree in Tourism. She brings to Exus with a previous experience in this field having worked in some of the best local Hotels in admin roles.
Cristina will be part of Exus’ HR & Admin Team in Europe based in Madrid and will work closely providing a high standard service for all Spanish colleagues.
Tânia has almost 10 years of experience of Accounting and Tax. Before joining Exus Management Partners, she worked for Bankinter Consumer Finance for one year. Previously, she spent about 9 years in an accounting office, where she managed several companies of different types of activities. She holds an Accounting degree from INETE, an institute associated to Universidade Lusófona.
Prior to co-founding Exus Management Partners, Luis was a member of the Executive Committee of EDP Renewables (EDPR), the third largest wind developer in the world. While at EDPR, from 2004 to 2008, Luis was the Chief Financial Officer and from 2008 to 2012, as Chief Business Development Officer, he was responsible for expanding EDPR international business covering 11 different geographies.Previously Luis worked at McKinsey & Co., where he is currently also Senior External Advisor for Renewable Energies.
Luis received his M.B.A from INSEAD, his Master in Risk Management from NYU - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and has a degree in Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Leticia provides legal advice to Exus from a corporate perspective and in its business operations. Leticia has more than 8 years of experience both in private practice and as in-house counsel. Before joining Exus, Leticia has worked at Linklaters and CMS, as a senior associate of the Corporate and M&A department, in London and Madrid. She graduated in Law and International Relations in “Universidad Pontificia Comillas” (ICADE) and is certified as an expert in Compliance by the Spanish Association of Compliance Professionals (ASCOM).
Pedro has more than 20 years of experience managing construction projects and since 2011, coordinating engineering and construction activities in renewable sector. Before joining Exus, Pedro was responsible in different companies for construction of more than 1GW of wind and solar projects. Pedro has global experience managing multiple projects in Spain, Portugal, Servia, Chile
Prior to joining EXUS in 2020, Luis founded EIRA Capital, an investment platform that focuses on Energy and Infrastructure transactions in Mexico, and selected countries in Latin America. Also, Luis was previously part of Macquarie, where he spent more than seven years in the Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Funds divisions, working on fund capital raising, equity investments, and asset management activities, as well as third party advisory on energy and infrastructure transactions in Mexico and Latin America. During his years at Macquarie, he also held board positions in the several investments made by Macquarie which covered energy, PPPs, roads, and telecom companies.Luis' previous involvement at financial institutions include positions in the investment banking teams of Deutsche Bank's M&A group in New York, and Citibank's Banamex Accival M&A group in Mexico.
In addition, Luis currently participates as: (i) Independent Member of the Investment Committee of INFONAVIT's Investment Fund; (ii) independent board member of COX Energy Americas; (iii) independent board member of SIMPATI Mobile; and (iv) founder of Fundación Reversible, a new charitable foundation focused on global warming issues. Luis holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU in New York, and a BA in Accounting and Finance from ITESM in Mexico.
Elena joined Exus in 2021 as a Group Controller & Investor Relations for ExusGlobal platform.
Elena has +8 years’ experience in M&A and corporate strategy, having worked inrenowned companies such as BBVA as a Corporate Finance M&A Analyst and CEMEX, where she spent 7 years in the Corporate Strategic Planning & Business Development team.
She holds a Bachelor’s Double Degree in Business Administration & Law by ICADE University as well as an Executive MBA by IESE Business School.
Antonio brings over 7 years of experience in the energy sector. Before joining Exus Management Partners, he worked in the technical department of Enel Green Power and Borawind Energy Management, where he focused on the management, operations and maintenance of energy projects. As technical advisor, he has deep knowledge of a wide range of technologies and process improvements.
Antonio holds a Degree in a Civil Engineering and a Master´s Degree in Renewable Resource and Energy Engineering from Universidad de Extremadura (Spain).
Diana holds more than 11 years of finance managing and controlling related positions. Before joining Exus Management Partners Diana worked as Finance Manager in Borawind Energy Management and EYRA, the renewable arm of Cobra/ACS group where she managed c.500MW portfolio of wind and solar projects. Diana has a deep knowledge of the renewable energy sector.
Mario has more than 10 years of experience as Wind/Solar Resource Analyst. Before join Exus Mario was in charge of the Wind Resource department of Ereda where he has been involved in more than 5GW of energy projects throughout the world, energy yield assessment specialist, design of meteorological mast campaigns, optimal turbine layout…Mario is Forest Engineer and also Professor in Master Degree of Renewable Energies and Electric Systems in Carlos III University.
Dhaval is a Partner at Exus and is responsible for the Operations team. He has 15 years of experience in the renewable energy industry and was previously the Director of Asset Optimization at EverPower Wind Holdings. He was also a Wind Turbine Performance and Diagnostics Engineer for General Electric Renewable Energy. Dhaval has an Aerospace Engineering degree from Penn State.
Michael Bizub is the Accounts Payable Manager at Exus North America. He has general accounting experience in a variety of industries including automotive, health benefits administration, expense management, and nutraceuticals where he acquired a greater understanding of accounting operations. Prior to Exus, Michael worked at Vinco, Inc. as the accounting manager with a focus on process improvement, and at Willis Towers Watson as a business analyst in treasury and financial solutions. He has a degree in Business Administration and Finance from Perdue University Global.
Miles joined Exus in 2021 as the Senior Resource Analyst in the development department. He has 5 years’ experience in renewable energy and a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Penn State University.
Daniela has more than 7 years of experience in Accounting and Tax. Before joining Exus Management Partners she worked at BNP Paribas Personal Finance and at Consag, where she managed several companies with different activities. She studied Finance and Accounting (with Accounting specialization) in ISCTE and holds a Masters in Accounting from ISCAL – Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa. She is also Chartered Accountant.
Hilary holds more than 10 years’ experience in financial reporting, with the last six years in the utility industry. She was previously a Senior Financial Analyst with Duquesne Light Company and Oklahoma Gas and Electric with in-depth FP&A and Regulatory experience specifically with financial modeling, tariff and contract reviews, and revenue reporting. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from University of Pittsburgh and a Masters of Science in Fraud& Forensics from Carlow University.
With a background and strong interest in process automation and data analysis, Avram collaboratively aids in data organization, report automation, and tool integration to foster more informed and better developed decisions. Avram has a B.S. degree in Business and Engineering from Drexel University and thereafter contributed to various industries including collaborative roles in autonomous vehicles, oil and gas, telecommunications, and a researching experience at Tohoku University, speaking to their adaptability and showcasing their readiness to embrace and utilize new technology.
Mafalda is originally from Portugal, but she has been living and working in Spain since 2014, where she is joining Exus. She holds a Degree in Business Administration and a Major Master’s in Finance both from the Católica – Lisbon School of Business & Economics.
Mafalda has over 11 years of professional experience in Finance in different business fields always in Controlling roles, and she will oversee the Portuguese Financial portfolio in her role in Exus.
Prior to joining Exus, Javier has worked in Acciona as a Production Manager in the Follo Line Project, gaining extensive experience in construction and development. Javier holds a Degree in Energy and Mining Engineering by the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid (Spain) and a master in renewable energy by Fundación Circe, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).
