Until her appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2023, as Managing Director she was responsible for origination, operations, structured finance, and asset management for all of the company’s assets. Julia is a member of the Investment Committee.

Julia has over 20 years of international experience in negotiating, structuring, and executing transactions in the energy, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors.

In the 10 years prior to joining Sunco Capital, Julia held senior positions in Structured Finance and M&A at SunEdison and Grupo Enhol.

From 2000 to 2008, she was a Structured Finance Analyst and Manager at Dragados Industrial, a subsidiary of Grupo Dragados.

She holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Alcalá and a postgraduate degree from the University of Galway (Ireland).

Achievements:

• Definition and execution of Sunco Capital’s 2021-2027 strategic plan.
• Direction and management of the development and sale of 2GW of solar projects in LATAM and Europe.
• Definition of the plan, entry and execution of the SUNCO plan in different countries: Italy, Germany.
• Asset management of 1.1GW of photovoltaic plants in Europe (France, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain).
• Sale process of SunEdison’s services division in EMEA.
• Negotiation and financial closing of 478 MW, distributed across 15 photovoltaic plants in the United Kingdom.
• Bilateral PPAs for 478 MW in the United Kingdom.
• Negotiation and closing of the sale of SunEdison’s solar project portfolio in the United Kingdom to Terraform Power (478 MW).
• Negotiation and financial closing of 24 MW of photovoltaic plants in Jordan (USD 50 million).
• Negotiation and financial closing of 60 MW (€100 million) in wind farms in Bulgaria; senior A-B loan and mezzanine loan.
• Negotiation and financial closing of the first wind farm in Tamamulipas (Mexico) 54 MW (USD 100 million).
• Negotiation and closing of a bilateral PPA for 150 MW in Mexico.
• Commercial agreement with Gamesa to co-develop, build, and sell a wind portfolio in Eastern Europe.
• Sale of four wind farm projects (200 MW) in Peru.
• Participation and award in ANEEL auctions. Financial closing of five transmission line concessions for ANEEL (Brazil, USD 500 million).
• Participation and award in ANEEL auctions. Financial closing of three transmission line projects for CFE in Mexico (USD 300 million).

As Chief Financial Officer & Head of Asset Management, Enrique is responsible for finance, compliance and HR. As Director of Asset Management, he is in charge of maximizing asset cash flows, in collaboration with the regional directors.

Prior to joining Sunco Capital, Enrique was Vice President and General Manager of operating asset management, leading a total portfolio of approximately 7 GW of Solar PV and Onshore Wind in North America, Latin America and EMEA.

Prior to assuming the position of Vice President and General Manager Asset Management, he held several senior financial positions such as CFO for EMEA and Latin America at SunEdison, FD AB Sugar in the UK, FD AB Azucarera (Madrid), CFO of Fayrouz International in Egypt (Heineken Group) and FD Heineken Nederland Supply in the Netherlands (Heineken Group). He started his professional career at KPMG. He was decorated in 2012 and 2013 as one of the hundred best CFOs in Spain (award given by KPMG and Actualidad Económica magazine).

He holds a degree in Law and Business Administration from ICADE (Madrid) and is a certified public accountant in Spain.

Achievements:

As General Counsel, Carmen is responsible for the SUNCO Group’s global legal and compliance department.

Before joining the SUNCO Group, Carmen worked at the law firm Clifford Chance for almost 12 years, specializing in M&A transactions, mainly in the energy sector.

She holds a degree in Law and Business Administration and Management from the Pontificia Universidad Comillas (2005 and 2006, respectively).

Achievements

• Almost 20 years of experience in the energy sector.
• Advised EDF EN (and minority shareholders) on the sale to Plenium Partners of 100% of Fotosolar, a platform that owns a portfolio of solar PV power plants in Spain with a total capacity of 100 MW.
• Advised Siemens and Sacyr on the sale to Plenium Partners of 100% of the shares of the company that owns and manages a solar thermal power plant located in Lebrija, with a capacity of 50 MW.
• Advising InfraRed Capital Partners Limited (formerly HSBC’s fund manager) on the acquisition of a minority stake in two solar thermal power plants located in Morón and Olivenza, with a total capacity of 100 MW.
• Advising Macquarie on the execution and financing of the acquisition of 75 MW of capacity in solar photovoltaic power plants located in southern Spain.
• Advising Blackstone on the creation of its SOCIMI, Fidere, in 20 share purchase transactions.
• Advising Neinver on the liquidation of its real estate fund, IRUS I.
• Advising Pfizer on the global restructuring and subsequent IPO of a business line.

As Chief Operating Officer, Iker is responsible for the development, construction, and operation of Sunco Capital’s projects.

Prior to joining Sunco Capital, he worked at SunEdison for nine years, holding several senior positions in operations:

• Global Director of TDD (Technical Due Diligence), responsible for due diligence on projects acquired from third parties, implementation of best practices aimed at improving the resolution of complex faults and the performance of an 8 GW portfolio of operating assets worldwide.
• Director of Operations for the EMEA region.
• Director of Operations for large projects in North America.
• Global Director of Engineering.
• Construction Director for the EMEA Region.

Iker began his professional career in the renewable energy sector in 2004 at Conergy AG, where he was Engineering Director until 2008.

He holds a degree in Industrial Automation and Electronics Engineering from the University of Navarra.

Achievements

• More than 20 years of experience in the renewable energy sector.
• Design, engineering, and development of more than 4 GW worldwide.
• Construction of a total of more than 2 GW on five continents.
• Construction of the largest solar PV power plant in Europe in 2010 (72 MWp).
• Construction of the largest solar PV power plant (100 MWp) in Latin America and the world’s largest private PPA in 2014 in Chile.
• Construction of 500 MWp in 34 power plants in two years in the UK.

As Structured Finance & M&A Director, Alberto is responsible for the acquisition and financing of all Sunco Capital projects.

Before joining Sunco Capital, Alberto served as Director of M&A and Structured Finance at Plenium Partners for four years (2017-2021).

From 2014 to 2017, he was an Analyst/Associate in Banco Santander’s M&A team in Madrid, focusing on the energy sector.

Alberto began his career in 2012 as a Treasury Analyst at Banco Santander in Boston.
He holds a degree in Law and Business Administration from the Pontifical University of Comillas (ICADE).

Achievements

• Acquisitions and sales of photovoltaic and wind assets in Spain and Portugal with an aggregate EV of more than €500 million.
• Negotiation and closing of more than €1.7 billion in project finance debt and bonds for the development, acquisition, construction, and financial optimization of photovoltaic and wind energy projects.
• Advising First State Investments on the acquisition of a 172 MW wind portfolio in Portugal.
• Advising First State Investments on the acquisition of Enel Green Power’s 642 MW wind portfolio in Portugal.