The Group relies on a solid management team with a proven track-record, in the energy sector. Its multinational and multilingual nature permits the Group to quickly adjust to the challenges of a fast growing industry.
Helmut Kantner founded AustriaEnergy – formerly called AustrianSolar – in 2006. He has more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector, mainly in Central and South-East Europe and Chile/Latin-America. From 1998 to 2004 he led Jenbacher Peninsula Iberica as Managing Director, coordinating the sale of the company tought by General Electric and integrating it into GE Power. Throughout his career, Helmut has managed the development and construction of over 1 GW of power plants, now owned by multinationals like ENEL/ENDESA, IBERDROLA, TOTAL, SOJITZ, among others, all in renewables projects avoiding CO2 emissions.
Pablo has more than ten years of experience in the Chilean energy sector and has a master degree in renewable energy. He started his career in the energy sector in 2007 in the operation and planning of conventional and renewable projects. After finishing his master, he joined AustriaEnergy. Pablo participated in the development and economic evaluation of more than 1 GW of renewable projects, being Biogas, Run-Off-River, PV and wind power plants, all in Chile. Nowadays his focus is on the development of green hydrogen projects in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica region in Chile.
Susana has seventeen years of experience and for the first nine years of her career, she worked primarily in the Civil Engineering field in El Salvador. In 2015, she pivoted to the Energy industry where she has contributed to and led high-performance international teams and developed over 800 MW of photovoltaic projects in Chile. Alongside this, Susana worked closely with the local teams appointed in Argentina and Colombia, providing them with guidelines and establishing a framework to ensure critical aspects of a project were addressed, to ensure a higher success rate throughout the development process.
Antonio is a Commercial Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has more than 14 years of experience in finance in the energy sector. He led the finance teams of GPE between 2011 and 2015, the Corporate Finance and Commercial team at Pacific Hydro Chile between 2016 and 2021 and the Asset Management team at Mainstream Renewal Power Latam between 2021 and 2022, among other activities. He has participated in multiple financings contributing to the development of renewable energy projects in Chile and abroad.
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