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Team

Elyse Energy relies on a team of experts in hydrogen and carbon capture and utilization technologies, specialists in financing and development of large energy projects, all of whom are committed to the transition to an energy that respects both nature and the climate. We all believe in a collaborative organization based on trust and responsibility while promoting flexibility.

Management team

Cédric de Saint-Jouan (Vol-V)

President of the Strategic Committee

Cédric has been focusing on renewable energies for over 20 years and is also president of Vol-V.

Pascal Pénicaud

President

Pascal has been involved in the energy transition and renewable energies for 15 years. Pascal is also president of Falkor, an investment firm dedicated to the energy transition.

Stéphane Guillard

Chief Financial Officer

As a specialist in renewable energy finance, Stéphane has led several transactions worth over €2 billion, including as head of financing and mergers and acquisitions at Ténergie, the second largest solar operator in France.

Benoît Decourt

Chief Operating Officer

First in industry at Schlumberger, and then in research at University College in London, Benoît has been working for 12 years on the development of economic models for green hydrogen and carbon utilization.

Manuel Arbona-Vidal

Director of Development

For nearly 20 years, first at the E.ON group SNET, then at COFELY GDF SUEZ – that will become ENGIE Solutions – and now with Elyse Energy, Manuel has been supporting industrial companies to carry out their utility and energy production and decarbonation projects.

Freddy Durán Martinez, Ph.D.

Scientific Director

Both a doctor and engineer in process engineering, Freddy has worked with IFPEN, Total and GRT Gaz since 2013 on several R&D programs combining hydrogen production and low-carbon molecules for chemistry and industry.

Advisory board

Composed of leading experts, the Advisory Board guides and supports Elyse Energy in the development of its business model.

Philippe Marchand

Philippe is a renewed international expert of bioenergy and biofuels. Philippe has spent 40 years in the downstream Branch of TotalEnergies in France and abroad. Philippe has notably been in charge of developing biofuels for aviation and the maritime sector within the R&D Strategy Directorate of the Refining-Chemicals division, after having led their development and sales for the New Energies department.

Olivier Salvi

President of INERIS Développement, Olivier is a renowned expert on safety and industrial risk issues in international environment. Within INERIS, Oliver notably led a R&D program on major technological accident prevention, then coordinated international activities at the Scientific Division before managing since 2013 the international subsidiary, Ineris Développement. In that context, he is involved on projects related to the energy transition in Asia & Africa.

Cédric Philibert

Cédric was an advisor to the French Minister of the Environment, then to the Director General of ADEME, before spending 20 years at the International Energy Agency to investigate climate change and renewable energy. He is now collaborating to work on role of electrification and hydrogen in the decarbonization for industry and transport.

Shareholders

Falkor is an investment company dedicated to the transition of companies and communities towards carbon neutrality, focusing specifically on four areas: renewable power, electricty storage, green hydrogen and Civic Tech.

Vol-V is a major historical player in renewable energies (wind, photovoltaic and biomethane). Today, Vol-V focuses on the following areas: energy transition, ecological transition and, by extension, support to the innovation of technologies and processes that make a positive and lasting contribution to societal and environmental challenges.