Matteo Brambilla

Chief Executive Officer, Red Rocket

Matteo Brambilla is Chief Executive Officer of Red Rocket.

Red Rocket is a Cape Town based developer and owner of renewable energy projects in Africa, formed from a management buy-out of Building Energy's African business. Under Brambilla it has won projects in consecutive rounds of the REIPPPP.

In the job

  1. Red Rocket raised $160 million from investors, the year before the group began building a further 750 MW of projects. Source

Career before

  1. Chief financial officer, Italian car dealership group
  2. Chief financial officer, Italian wind developer
  3. 2012-2018Head of the South African business, Building Energy

Education

Master's in law, economy and organisational behaviour

Sources

  1. redrocket.energy
  2. iol.co.za
  3. iol.co.za

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