They are leaders in their professions and functions. The top team provides leadership for the international teams of specialists. They make sure SolydEra, with its technological and industrial prowess, has an industry leadership role on the way into the future of energy supply.
Leading the way
into the energy future
Leadership is what in one word best characterises the quality of the top experts and decision-makers at SolydEra.
Dr. Alexander Liberov
CEO
- Dr Alexander Liberov has gained over twenty years of international experience in many areas of application including energy. His multidisciplinary background unfolds from business development to logistics, factory management, sales, service and M&A.
- PhD degree in Marketing from State University of Hamburg
- Post-graduate degree in Business Administration, Erlangen, Germany
- 1996-2012 Siemens AG, Healthcare, Energy Divisions: appointed several leadership positions in business development, logistics, factory management, sales and service, including M&A in Germany and USA
- 2012-2015 Siemens AG, Mobility and Building solutions Divisions: acts as CFO in the Asia-Pacific region with HQ in Singapore
- 2015-2018 Siemens AG: acts as CFO in the CIS Region
- 2018-2023 Siemens AG: acts as President and CEO in the CIS Region with business responsibility for 1.5 billion Euro Revenue, 9 factories and approx. 7000 employees
- Board memberships: Board Director in Solydera Group (2023-now), Chairman and Board Member of Association of European Businesses (2016-2023), Chairman of the Board in JV UralLoko (2018-2022), Board Director in Siemens Signaling Pte and Pty, Singapore and Australia (2013-2015)
Massimo Bertoldi
Group CTO, GM Italy
- 49, married, two sons.
- PhD Material Engineering
- CTO of SolydEra since 2006
- 18y expertise in fuel cell and electrolysis technology. Lead the development of SOC-based products from an early stage to a commercial deployment into EU market
- His ambition is to continue making technology more and more accessible to people
Mar van Sluijs
CSO
- 30+ years international sales career in metal, marine, energy and chemical industries
- MSc. Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Technical University Eindhoven
- INSEAD Advanced Management Program, Singapore
- CSO of SolydEra since 2023
- 1993-1999: Area Manager Nigeria/General Manager Vietnam at GEMCO Industries based in Nigeria/Vietnam
- 1999-2006: Regional Sales Director Asia Pacific at DAMEN Shipyards, Netherlands
- 2006-2017: Managing Director Vietnam/Indonesia/ASEAN, President APAC at VOITH based in Vietnam/Singapore
- 2017-2019: Regional Director South East Asia at KAEFER based in Singapore
- 2020-2023: Managing Director & Sales Director at SEMPERIT Group based in Austria
Howard Sutton
Chief Operations Officer
- Proven COO with over 30 years experience of taking high tech products from R&D to volume production
- 10 years experience working for large corporations, Thales, Nortel networks.
- 20 year experience of start ups, VisionTek, Ceres power, G24i, NGB, Qualus, SolydEra
- Founder of 2 start ups, one successfully grown and sold to US Company
- Built 8 factories from concept to full production
- Successfully raised over £30m of funds from venture capital, private equity and government funds.
- Global experience including setting up and running facilities in Singapore, Italy, UK, Germany, Canada.
- Technical expertise in precision electro – optics, medical devices, solar cells, waste to energy and fuel cells.
Mats Christer Pramborn
CFO
- Degree in Finance and Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Proven CFO with over 20 years’ experience gained in the industrial sector. Semperit Group, CEAG AG and Boeing are some of the companies he worked for.
- Having worked and lived in multiple countries both in Europe and Asia, Mats has gained extensive international and operational experience in multicultural environments.
- Mats is married and has one daughter.
Alexandre Closset
Head of Business Development & Strategy
- Physics engineer at EPFL, Switzerland.
- Executive MBA in Technology Management.
- He co-founded and chaired HTceramix SA (2000 – 2006), a company developing and marketing ceramic fuel cells (sold to SOLIDpower SpA in 2007).
- From 2000 to 2010, he was Co-founder and CEO of VHF-Technologies SA (Flexcell), a company producing flexible photovoltaic panels.
- From 2010 to 2015, he was Director of Belenos Clean Power Holding Ltd within the Swatch Group.
- From 2015 to 2017 CEO of Swiss Hydrogen SA, a start-up that acquired a license to market the fuel cell technology of Belenos Clean Power (Swatch Group) and was then sold to the Auto Inergy division of the Plastic Omnium group.
- From 2018 to 2022 Business Line Director of Fuel Cell Systems within the Plastic Omnium Group.
- From 2023 to 2024 Responsible for industrial partnerships within the Coalition for Green Energy Storage at EPFL.
Corporate Governance
SolydEra SpA is committed to apply the highest standards of Corporate Governance. With the growth and the capital market activities, the management and board have set out to implement rules, practices, and processes at the level of a publicly listed company.
This concerns the controls and disclosure, sustainability, environmental and social impacts, risk management, compliance and ethics, and culture under the guiding principles of integrity, accountability, and transparency.
