Alejo Lopez

Job Title
Vicepresident, Latin America Sales
Company
Nextracker
Country
United States of America

As vice president of sales for Latin America, Alejo Lopez leads Nextracker's business development and sales team for Latin America. He is responsible for over 15 gigawatts of Nextracker's Latin American project portfolio since his tenure at the company. Alejo is both a business and technical subject matter expert in Latin American energy markets where he has worked extensively for more than two decades. Prior to joining Nextracker in 2016, Alejo was country manager for Hanwha Q CELLS in Mexico, with primary responsibilities of project development, M&A and PPA sales. A native of Argentina, Alejo began his career running large numerical models and fracking wells as a reservoir engineer in Patagonia. He left the oil and gas industry after 6 years to pursue his MBA in finance at the University of San Francisco. Alejo also holds an MSe in petroleum engineering from UNC Argentina.

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Lucas do Espírito Santo Fernandes, SENAI CIMATEC

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Priscila Alves dos Santos, FIT Instituto de Tecnologia

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Roney Nakano Vitorino, EPE

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Roney Nakano Vitorino has been serving on the Department of Generation and Transmission Studies since 2013, at the Energy Research Office in Brazil (EPE), which is focused on advising the Ministry of Mines and Energy on energy and electricity planning. He awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, and developed his research program, related to renewable energy and power system modeling, at MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, collaboratively with MIT Energy Initiative. His Ph.D. was hosted in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Power Systems, at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. He holds also a M.S. and a B.S. from the same institution.

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