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.
Luis joined Exus’ M&A team in 2021, after having previously worked in Exus’ Asset Management team. He focuses on analysing energy investment opportunities across Europe and LatAm for the M&A team.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI in Madrid.
Prior to joining Exus, Nicolas worked as Site Manager during one year for the construction and startup of a 36 MW Nordex wind farm in France (2019 – 2020). Before 2019, Nicolas worked with TSLNG (Joint-venture between Techint and Sener) for 5 years in HSE coordination and management during the construction, commissioning, startup and operation phases of an LNG storage plant of 570 000 cubic meter located in Dunkerque (France). Nicolas holds a master degree in Industrial Systems with a specialization in HSQE management.
David is the Operations Manager for Exus Management Partners at the Highland North Wind Farm. He has eight years of experience in the renewable industry. Prior to employment with Exus, Mr. Price was enlisted in the United States Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller, Siemens Gamesa as a turbine technician and warehouse manager overseeing four wind farms in several states, EONenergy services and RWE renewables as the Operations Manager of the Highland North Wind Farm.
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.
Filipe is currently supervising the construction of two solar projects (36 MW) developed by Exus in Portugal. Filipe is Electrical and Computer Engineer by University of Porto.
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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.
Reshma holds more than 10 years’ experience in the financial/banking sector. She has worked as Middle-office in Investment Fund’s and sicavs operations in JP Morgan and as a Senior Financial Controller in Triodos Bank, S.E. Triodos is an European bank recognized to support environmental, social and cultural investments; having the Spanish branch a loan portfolio of over 1.100M euros. With a deep knowledge in financial investment thanks to a master’s in financial Markets in UPF and MBA in EAE Business School.
Alberto holds more than 10 years of HSE experience in the renewable energy sector, in well-known companies such as WEIR, Elecnor or Tamoin. Alberto is in charge of implementing and maintaining a high level of Excellence regarding Safety. Alberto holds a degree in Labour Sciences in the University Carlos III in Madrid, as well as multiple courses and certificates regarding HSE in the Energy sector.
Krishna Santhanam is the Asset Management Director for Exus NA. He was previously the Director of Wind Resources at EverPower and has more than 12 years of experience in resource assessment and evaluation. Krishna has a PhD in Atmospheric Science from Saint Louis University.
Jim Sardonia is the Exus VP of Technology Development responsible for all wind and solar resource energy assessment modeling, technology evaluation and analysis, technical due diligence and GIS support related to all renewable project development activities and project acquisition evaluations. With over 15+ years in renewable energy, he has previously worked with a major Wind turbine OEM (Siemens), and two other renewable energy developers including the Pittsburgh based Everpower Wind Holdings. Jim is a proud Veteran of both the US Army and the US Air Force, serving 16 years in the Department of Defense and NASA. Jim graduated with an MS in Business Management and BS in Meteorology from Florida State University.
Anthony joined Exus in December of 2020 and is now the Senior Contracts and Compliance Administrator, focusing on the management of project contracts, along with regulatory and compliance submissions. Prior to Exus, Anthony has working experience in both the environmental sciences and legal fields. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science from Saint Vincent College, and a Paralegal Certification from Duquesne University School of Law. He is also a certified Notary Public from the Nation Notary Association.
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.
Nicolas joined Exus in 2021 as a Commercial Analyst. He has a MA in energy economics and has studied finance, modeling, energy markets and programming. Nico has studied and worked with many forms of energy across the US and in Europe.
Can has more than 14 years of experience in renewable energy, having worked both in project development, equity investments, asset operation, and portfolio management.
In addition to large conglomerates and project developers, Can also worked at a renewable energy focused private equity fund, with a portfolio of hydro, wind,and solar assets under operation in Turkey and surrounding region.
Can holds BSc degree in Mining Engineering from Middle East Technical University and an MBA from Istanbul Bilgi University
Luis T. has more than 12 years of experience in the Energy sector. Before joining Exus, Luis worked in Engie Iberia - Portugal (former GDF-SUEZ), one of the largest ISP companies worldwide, as a Performance and operations engineer. Previously, he spent 6 years working as a Project Manager at Trust Energy. Luis holds a MsC in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and two post-graduations, one in Energy Management and one in Project Management.
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.
