ENGIE EPS

Carlalberto Guglielminotti Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum - Seite 2

Two years later, in January 2018, ENGIE, the global energy leader active in over 70 countries, acquired a majority stake of ENGIE Eps and launched a tender offer worth over 100% of the capital of ENGIE Eps for an overall enterprise value of €108 million.

Today, 60.5% of ENGIE Eps is controlled by ENGIE and Eps is still listed on the Euronext regulated market in Paris It maintains all research and development functions and production activities in Italy.

In less than 6 years, Mr. Guglielminotti raised over €100 million in equity and debt capital, and transformed ENGIE Eps into a global player with over 175 MW of installed capacity and more than 2,000 MWh under development, including the largest energy storage system in the world to be deployed in the US – with the aim of increasing sustainable access to energy through energy storage and e-mobility technologies.

Prior to the ENGIE Eps venture, Mr. Guglielminotti was an entrepreneur and investor mainly focused on the technology, industrial and digital sectors, with a strong expertise in start-ups, growing-stage companies and turnarounds.

In 2011, he was appointed Operating Partner at 360 Capital Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms in Europe with €400 million of assets under management, and charged with the development of cleantech and digital portfolio companies. He later became Chairman of the Advisory Company of the fund, a role he still maintains today.

Before joining 360 Capital Partners, Mr. Guglielminotti co-founded two successful technology startups. In 2009, he co-founded Blackshape Aircraft which was acquired by an investment group specialised in aerospace and electronics. Blackshape developed the highest-performing ultra-light aircraft in the world, entirely made of carbon fiber. In 2011, he co-founded Restopolis, now called TheFork, a TripAdvisor company dedicated to online restaurant-reservations, with 14 million monthly visits in Europe.

Mr. Guglielminotti was born in Turin in 1983. He received a MBA with merit in Financial Risk Management from the Bocconi School of Management in 2012. He graduated LL.B magna cum laude in international law from Université Paris Descartes in 2005 and in 2006 received a J.D. summa cum laude in law from the University of Turin. In 2010 he became a qualified lawyer and entered the Milan Bar Association. He specialised in philosophy of law at the University of Haifa in 2005 and then at the European School of Economics in New York in 2007. he also worked at Linklaters for four years focusing on structured finance, with a secondment at The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc.