Valentin Pailloux

M&A, Project Finance, Project Management, Business Development Main achievement: structuring and Financial Closing of Barzalosa project - 130 MWp Solar PV in Colombia

Responsible for project development and business development in Spanish-speaking Latin America, with a focus on Colombia. Daily activities include market analysis; business intelligence; origination; due diligence for the acquisition (M&A) of projects in advanced development stages; building a resilient business model; strategic partnerships with top industry or finance players; energy sales and PPA negotiation; seeking competitive financing; structuring; risk management; project management; coordination of a team of experts; engagement of subcontractors... The ultimate goal is to trigger sane investments in the short-mid term in large-scale (>100MW) competitive renewable energy projects with Scatec in-house construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management. Goal reached after 3 years of intensive work with the Financial Close of Barzalosa project - 130 MWp Solar PV in Colombia

Business Development at Scatec - utility-scale solar PV power plants in Middle East, Africa and beyond. Business Development at Release by Scatec - a flexible leasing agreement of pre-assembled and containerised solar PV and battery equipment, securely integrated with your power infrastructure. - https://releasesolar.com/

- New Voltalia office opening, reduced development team - Deep market focus: regulation, players, market evolution - Solar and Wind Greenfield Development - Solar Brownfield Development (3rd parties' projects Due Diligence) - Private tenders participation (cumulating ~200MWp of PV) > International Technical Team Coordinator (output: most efficient viable technico-economical solution in term of Production, CAPEX and OPEX. Management of inherent risks and contingencies)

Within the International Development Team and with a global scope, I deeply investigated numerous and varied foreign markets and business opportunities. I carried out: → Full market analysis of new strategic markets (10 countries in 5 different regions of the world) → Extensive study and strategy on private customers acquisition (Corporate PPAs) → Bid submission for tenders: preparation of the bid documentation, contracts review, relationship with partners, sites prefeasibility studies → Field trip in Africa and Europe → Sectoral and innovative technology watch, conferences and networking → Technical training for designing PV power plants - Notions in Project Finance

Application of Lean Manufacturing principles on a oil/industrial steel tubes production line ► Computation of theorical pipes (>300kg) production rate, measurement of real production rates ► Setting of a digital display to show the real production rate directly on the production line ► Application of the Lean Manufacturing principle: "Single Minute Exchange of Die" ► Change Management/Improvement of operators work conditions and efficiency

In the Nuclear Applications division of this English R&D department: ► Design of Porvair's know-how inspired filters to meet the customer's technical specifications ► Industrial methods

► Civil works experience

► Complex hydraulic distribution system design review to ease manufacturing and maintenance.

► Summer jobs during 2011-2012-2013 summer holidays. I held various positions from the production to the factory waste sorting unit.

École Centrale de Lille is one of the leading French Multi-disciplinary engineering graduate schools (in the top 10 out of 100+). ►Main courses: project management, thermodynamics, mechanics, fluids mechanics, thermal transfers, automatism, mathematics, computer sciences, team management, marketing, strategy, sociology. Major in Electrical Energy & Sustainable Development ► PV and wind energies and their integration into the grid ► Electricity applied to the transport and distribution networks, Electrotechnics, Power Electronics, Command Electronics, Optimization methods ► European electricity market (EPEX SPOT)

Courses: ►Energy Efficiency ► Production planning and Control ► Marketing ► Portuguese