Team

Pedro Neto
Senior Manager
Delivery and Execution

Ahmed Ben Romdhane
Regional Manager
North Africa

Barbro Ciakudia
Manager
Business Development

Monikandan Arumaithangam
Head
Technical Thermal

Mohamed El Banna
Senior Manager
Project Finance

Rajesh Ramesh
Manager
BD/Project Development

Saurabh Mongia
Manager
Project Finance

Mohamed Ansi
Senior Manager
Finance

Nick Daniil
Head
Technical Renewables

Abeer Elayyan
Project Development
Associate

Sultan Rasoul
Business Development
Associate

Joel Musikingala
Project Development
Associate

Emir Benelmir
Manager
Project Development

Fallon Fernandes
Accountant
Finance

Ignacio Carreras
C & I
Manager

Raymond Ewart
C & I
Manager

Jonathan Tintinger
Manager
Technical Solar

Karuna Kumar
Coordinator
O&M

Laith Shalan
Project Finance
Analyst

Maro Turner
Technical Solar
Associate

Meryem Zahzouhi
Associate
Delivery and Execution

Karuna Kumar
Coordinator
O&M

Laith Shalan
Project Finance
Analyst

Vito Saluto
QHSE
Head

Bushra Alhendi
Project Development
Technical Associate

Amine Araqi
Senior Project Manager
Technical

Ashraf Jaunbocus
Project Development
Manager

Nour Makhoul
Coordinator
Projects

Sarim Ali Khan
Controller
Project

Mohammed Tabbakh
Associate
Wind

Arushi Chaturvedi
Project Finance
Analyst

Dalia Adel
Paralegal
Legal

Karim Safa
Engineer
Projects

Mohamed El Banna
Senior Manager - Project Finance
Mohamed has 7 years of experience in corporate and project finance. He is responsible for financial modeling, market sounding, evaluating, structuring and negotiating project financing including multilateral insurances and possess a successful track record of financing renewable energy projects in the MENA region.
Since joining AMEA Power in 2016, Mohamed has managed the project financing and the successful closure of a 50 MW Wind power project and a 50 MW Solar PV project in Jordan. He is also a core member of the team currently developing a 2GW + ultra-super critical coal fired plant in Egypt with an investment worth USD 4 billion.
Mohamed has a Master’s degree in Finance from Regents University in London and holds a BA in Business Management from Middlesex University in London.

Vito Saluto
Head - QHSE
Vito has 15+ years of experience in the development, implementation and management of the Quality, Health, Safety, Security, Social and Environment (QHSE) Governance processes and strategies across the Renewable Energy Industry.
Vito leads the AMEA Power’s QHSE Department working closely with the investment, development and delivery teams and Partner Companies in identifying, assessing and managing ESG risks associated with the company portfolio projects and fostering the sustainable development of the company business, generating long-term value and creating a positive social impact in communities.
He has solid knowledge of segment Regulations, International HSE Standards (ILO, ISO, OSHA) and Development Financial Institution ESG Standards (including but not limited to IFC, EBRD, EDFI). In particular he’s fully familiar with the World Bank Group’s Industry-specific EHS Guidelines for the energy sector.
Prior to join AMEA Power, he has worked as QHSE Manager for well-known energy companies such as Alcazar Energy for 4 years and Martifer Solar (today’s Voltalia) for 7 years. His international work experience includes different countries across the Europe, Africa, Asia and Middle East.
Vito holds a Master-Degree in Civil-Engineering, a post-Master Degree in Environmental and Natural Resources and is International NEBOSH qualified.

Karim Safa
Engineer - Projects
Karim is a Mechanical Engineer specialized in the Oil and Energy Industry, with experience in various fields.
He started working in the Oilfield where he has undergone training with Stewarts & Stevenson in Houston, TX. He then started working as an On-site Engineer with Superior Oilfield Services Ltd in Abu Dhabi undergoing coiled tubing operations. Later on, he joined a start-up company SmartWatt Energy & Water Solutions as an intern, where he was composing project proposals and financial models for off-grid hybrid solar systems.
Karim has completed a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London, an MBA in Financial Management from Richmond the American International University in London, as well as an MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering from Kingston University London.

Pedro Neto
Senior Manager - Delivery and Execution
Pedro is brings to AMEA Power more than 10 years of experience in the renewable energy sector, first as a consultant and later as a developer in both wind and solar projects.
Pedro is part of the Delivery and Execution Team at AMEA Power, which is involved from the late development stages of the project, until COD.
Pedro joined AMEA Power following his role as Senior Project Engineer at a UAE-based developer, where he worked with the development and construction teams on a vast portfolio of solar and wind projects in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia.
Prior to that, Pedro was working as a Senior Consultant for ARUP in South Africa, where he worked as Owners Engineer, Lenders Technical Advisor and Independent Engineer in both wind and solar projects, mainly in South Africa’s Renewables Energy Program (REIPPP). Pedro was part of the original team who started the Renewable Energy Team at Arup and participated in over 3 GW of projects.
Pedro holds a (BEng) in Environmental Engineering and is also a registered with PMI as a Project Manager Professional.

Nour Makhoul
Coordinator - Projects
Nour is a Project Coordinator in the Renewable Energy Industry (multi-million-dollar wind and solar projects). She is involved in the late development and construction stage of the project. Nour joined AMEA in Jan 2020 from Alcazar Energy with three years experience.
During her time at Alcazar, she was responsible of overlooking project’s activities during the construction stage. She also analysed costs, analysed contracts and ensured compliance, performed progress reporting and key performance indicators and participated in tending processes.
Nour holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Moravian College in the United States with cum laude honors. She is an Arabic and English speaker.

Mohamed Ansi
Senior Manager - Finance
Mohamed brings over a decade of financial experience in controlling robust financial frameworks and providing strategic finance advice. His experience spans across projects in Renewables, and on-site services throughout Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Prior to joining AMEA POWER, Mohamed previously worked as Regional Finance Manager for FRV where he was leading the corporate finance during the development, construction and operation phases of the project companies in the Middle East, Africa and Caucasus regions. Prior to that Mohamed worked as Financial Controller for Sodexo (On-site services, benefits and rewards service) leading the finance department of the French Military dedicated entity in Middle East and Africa.
Mohamed speaks English and French (Native) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Burgundy School of Business, and a Master degree in Management (Specialization in Finance) from Neoma Business School.

Barbro Ciakudia
Manager - Business Development and Corporate Social Responsibility
Barbro joined AMEA in 2018. She is a business development professional with more than 7 years of experience in Project Management and Project Origination in East, West, Central and Southern Africa.
Prior to joining AMEA Power, Barbro was VP of Business Development for Invest Africa and one of its founding members. Through this role, she worked very closely with private investors, family offices, private equity firms, legal firms, high level government officials and DFIs in identifying key investment opportunities, market entry strategies and bridging the gap between project holders and access to investments.
Barbro has worked with and advised several African governments in their drive to attract investments into various sectors. Furthermore, she also managed projects focused on financial inclusion within key government and private sector institutions.
Amongst other languages, she is fluent in English, French and Norwegian. She completed her MSc in Banking and Finance in London, and her Bilingual Bachelor in International Studies in Toronto.

Saurabh Mongia
Manager - Project Finance
Saurabh has 7 years of experience in corporate planning and financial modelling. He is responsible for evaluating projects, structuring, negotiating project financing, financial modelling and possess a successful track record of closing key corporate transactions with ACWA Power.
In the course of his career, Saurabh has worked on a number of projects, mainly in power and public transport. Saurabh joined AMEA in 2019. Prior to that, he was part of the Corporate Planning team at ACWA Power, where he was responsible to support financial due diligence and valuation for a sell side equity transaction with PIF (KSA’s main sovereign wealth fund) and providing financial modelling support for bond issuance of 814 USDm.
Saurabh graduated as a Computer Science Engineer and holds an MBA specializing in Finance from India. He has also been a member of CIMA (a London based Management Accounting body).

Rajesh Ramesh
Manager - Project Development/ Business Development
Rajesh Ramesh joined AMEA in 2019, with a focus on identifying, screening and developing power generation (conventional and renewable) opportunities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He has 5 years’ experience ranging from consulting, technical research, policy advisory, Government liaison, business development and project management in the solar PV and wind energy sectors.
Prior to AMEA, Rajesh worked with Access Power and its strategic partner Total Eren from 2016 – 2019 in successfully developing and financially closing a 50 MW wind power project, a 100 MW and a 30 MW, solar PV projects in Kazakhstan. He was also involved in the early-to-late stage development and financing of about 280 MW of renewable energy projects in Africa and Asia and has originated multiple solar PV sites across the continents. His origination scope covered in-depth technical, financial, economic and project feasibility assessments in countries like Sudan, Bangladesh, Zambia, Kenya, Uzbekistan among several others. He also specializes in identifying and mitigating land acquisition challenges in emerging markets.
He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Anna University, India (2012) and a Masters in Electrical Engineering for Sustainable & Renewable Energy from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2015).

Ahmed Ben Romdhane
Regional Manager - North Africa
Ahmed joined AMEA in 2018 as Regional Manager for the North African Market. He is responsible for the project origination.
Before joining AMEA, Ahmed served as Vice President Business Development for Winch Energy and was focused on the off-grid business in West Africa and also worked for UPC North Africa Renewables and has been involved in wind projects Khalladi 120 MW in Tangiers, project Tarouma 150 MW in Laayoune and the hybrid wind/desalination project in Dakhla. He was asked in November 2016 to take the lead of North Africa and to focus on the development of the Tunisian portfolio of the production of renewable energy within the framework of the law 12-2015.
Ahmed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Engineering from the IHEC Carthage University and Master degree from Louvain School of Management, Université Cathholique de Louvain (Belgium).

Sarim Ali Khan
Project Controller
Sarim is Finance professional with over 12 years of experience mainly focused on renewables, power and the financials sector.
Previously he was a Financial Analyst at Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), where he was managing Solar PV Plants based in Jordan and India to comply with Financing and Project Agreements, commencing from the development phase until the Operations and Maintenance phase.
Sarim was also associated with ENGIE as Senior Finance Associate at their local Assets which are (Combine Cycle Gas Turbine) in Pakistan to manage finance operations at various phases of the Projects. Prior to that he worked with Saudi Pak Investment Company as Manager Finance managing statutory reporting with Central Bank in Pakistan, which are applicable to Development Financial Institutions.

Monikandan Arumaithangam
Head - Technical Thermal
Monikandan is the Head – Technical (Thermal) in AMEA Power and is responsible for the Technical (Thermal) projects in the company.
He has twenty-five years of experience in Power and Water Generation plants, covering project development, project execution, detailed engineering, plant commissioning, planning, operation & maintenance.
Monikandan joined AMEA Power in the year 2017 and prior to joining AMEA, he worked in Sembcorp Industries (a Singapore based leading power developer / Utility).
He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and MBA in Operation Management from Universities in India.

Nick Daniil
Head - Technical Renewables
Nick joined AMEA Power in 2019 as Technical Head of the renewable energy division, focused on leading the operations at the whole project technical pipeline from Site Screening and Development to Construction and Operation.
He has over 9 years of industry experience in the wind and solar PV energy sectors in a broad range of fields as for instance in consulting, research & development, project development and asset management.
Prior to joining AMEA Power, Nick worked with Access Power originally as Wind Specialist, where he originated at least 4 GW of large scale wind power assets across Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe and Canada, and then as Head of Engineering, leading the Project Technical Department of the company, where he successfully developed a wind portfolio exceeding 700MW.
He holds a BEng degree in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering from Cardiff University, an MSc degree in Renewable Energy & Environmental Modelling from Dundee University and a double MSc degree in Wind Physics from DTU, Delft & Oldenburg Universities.

Abeer Elayyan
Project Development - Associate

Arushi Chaturvedi
Project Finance - Analyst
Arushi is a recent graduate with an experience of 6 months working as an Accounts intern.
Before joining AMEA Power, she was working with NMC Specialty Hospital as a Finance intern where she assisted the finance team in data entries related to payables and receivables and furthermore processed e-claims related to the insurance. She also interned as a Sales assistant in GITEX and also worked as a student intern at The Indian High School.
She is currently a CFA level 1 candidate, and has an MA in Business and Finance (Hons) from Heriot Watt University. She also has high school Diploma from The Indian High School.

Bushra Alhendi
Project Development - Technical Associate
Bushra has 2 years of experience coordinating Renewable Energy projects in Jordan. She is responsible for coordinating project management activities, resources, equipment and information, breaking projects into doable actions and setting timeframes. Furthermore, assigning tasks to internal teams and assisting with schedule management, overseeing project procurement management, monitoring project progress and handling any issues that arise.
She acts as the point of contact and communicates project status to all participants and works with the Project Leader to eliminate blockers.
Apart from project coordination she carries out PV System Analysis and basic design of all the Solar projects evaluated by AMEA, and conducts technical due diligence on renewable projects.
Bushra joined AMEA Power in 2016.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sharjah, UAE.

Joel Musikingala
Project Development - Associate
Joel has in-depth knowledge and experience of projects in Africa and Central Asia.
As a qualified Electrical Engineer and Financial Analyst, as well as a bilingual speaker (French and English) with 4 years of experience in renewable energy development (Solar and Wind), Joel displays a well-rounded set of skills in technical, commercial assessment and project development lifecycle.
While demonstrating his most recent professional achievement at his prior role at Access Power, Joel was actively involved from the early development phase to financial close of 3 Solar PV projects (Kazakhstan and Uganda), with a total capacity of 181 MW and investment of more than 200 million USD.
Joel holds a Masters in Energy (Renewables) from Cape Peninsula University of Technology and a Post Graduate Certificate in Mechanics of Project Finance from Middlesex University London

Mohammed Tabbakh
Associate - Wind
Mohammed has acquired one year and a half of experience in onshore wind resource assessment, wind data and quality control analysis, mast monitoring and design based on the IEC 61400-12-1 standard, and pre-construction energy yield assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and wind turbine site suitability check.
He has extensive knowledge in Python programing language and data analysis libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, and other libraries, in which he has developed his own in-house data analysis and monitoring codes.
Mohammed has a Master’s in Renewable Energy from Carl Von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, a Wind Energy Specialization degree from the Technical University of Athens, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from the American University in Dubai with Cum Laude honors.

Amine Araqi
Senior Project Manager - Technical
Amine brings more than 13 years of experience in solar and wind energy projects. He managed several projects during design and construction stage as well he has been involved in international bids as technical leader.
Prior to join AMEA Power, he was associated with Elys SAS -Morocco in the role of Senior Project Manager, and prior to that he was associated with EDF for 5 years in Morocco and France as Senior Project Manager with construction and delivery team. Amine has worked in several international renewable projects in many countries like Morocco, Spain, France, Germany, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Madagascar.
Amine has a general engineering degree with a specialized Master in management and sustainable development. He speaks fluent English, French and Arabic.

Sultan Rasoul
Business Development - Associate
Sultan Rasoul is a Business Development Professional with experience in project origination, investor relation and raising capital in the Middle East and the US.
Prior to joining AMEA Power, Sultan worked within several different industries. He started working at Grasshopper.com, a tech start-up in Boston where he was focused on client retention. He then joined Medina Capital in Boston, where he worked within Investor Relations and Research. After that he joined HGX creative as an Account Executive where he managed and originated projects. He then joined the Jibrel Network, a block chain based financial services company where he worked in business development and raised capital before its ICO.
Sultan speaks French, Arabic and English and graduated from Northeastern University with a BSBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Venture Growth.

Karuna Kumar
Coordinator - O&M
Kumar brings with him 19-years of experience in industrial engineering, including 15-years in Middle East working in O&M of utility-scale solar and conventional power plants.
Prior to joining AMEA Power, Kumar was associated with First Solar for 6-years as an O&M Engineer, and before that he was working in Bahrain with Electricity and Water Authority as an Electrical Engineering Technician. Kumar worked with DEAWA as well from 2005 -2012 as an Electrical Technician in Dubai and prior to that he was working with Rolls Royce Industrial Power in India.
Kumar holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from K.S.O University in India.

Raymond Ewart
C & I - Manager
Raymond has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University London and a Masters in Power Systems Engineering from UCL (University College London), which have been the foundation of Raymond’s career in being an integral part in achieving 700MWac of Solar PV EPC and Development Projects throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Starting off in the technical realm and shifting towards the commercial side of the industry, Raymond has positioned himself as a bridge between both the Technical and Commercial aspects of the business. Raymond’s primary role for the past 4 years has been leading a team of engineers and draftsmen from bid strategy, design optimization and solution/equipment selection, to contract negotiation, signature and handover to the execution team.

Ignacio Carreras
C & I - Manager
Ignacio is an industrial engineer with a master in corporate finance and 10-years’ experience in renewable energy, mostly solar but also wind.
Ignacio’s background is a mix of technical and commercial which has allowed him to develop multiple models which aims to optimize power plants depending on the key constraint conditions of each case. Ignacio has also been in charge of cost estimation for many years, in both EPC and O&M Projects which can be very helpful on different stages of the development process, from early stage and site/technology selection to EPC Contract negotiations.

Jonathan Tintinger
Technical Solar - Manager
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Meryem Zahzouhi
Delivery & Execution - Manager
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Fallon Fernandes
Accountant
Fallon is an Accountant at AMEA Power. For the last eight years, she has worked in Finance and Accounts, with her most recent role being with ‘The First Group’. A large part of her role there was to support post implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Dalia Adel
Paralegal
Prior to joining AMEA Power, Dalia was a Paralegal with ACWA Power. She has international experience in arbitration, litigation, contracts ( renewable energy & oil and gas related contracts) and gained significant experience working on landmark multi-billion dollar projects and contracts in Egypt, France and UAE.
She holds a Master degree (DEA) in European and International Business law, University of Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne) – France, a Master degree (DEA) in Juriste International, double major French and English in International Business Law, University of Toulouse 1- Capitole – France and a Bachelor of Law from Cairo University – Egypt.
Dalia speaks fluent Arabic, French and English.

Maro Turner
Technical Solar - Associate
Maro is a solar PV and wind engineer with six years of experience in the renewable energy sector.
Previously, Maro worked as a lender’s technical advisor for 3E, a consulting company in Cape Town, conducting technical due diligences on solar PV and wind projects in Africa. Before that, he was a design engineer for a solar PV EPC company, also in Cape Town.
He graduated from Stellenbosch University in South Africa with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Laith Shalan
Analyst
Laith is an Analyst at AMEA Power. Prior to joining, he spent the last two years working at Alcazar Energy as an Analyst in the Investment Management team.
He holds an MSc in Energy, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School, a GDL from the University of Law and a BA in Political Science from Boston University.

Emir Benelmir
Project Development - Manager
Emir has 9 years of combined international experience in project finance/ power projects.
Prior to joining AMEA Power, he worked in consulting for CrossBoundary in Senegal, investment for Rothschild in UK, industry for Veolia in Japan and EDF in France. He was also appointed as independent energy advisor by the European Commission in 2017 and 2020.
Emir is a French Mechanical Engineer and holds a Master in Strategy from Essec Business School. Emir speaks fluent French and English, conversional Japanese and Spanish.

Ashraf Jaunbocus
Project Development - Manager
Ashraf has more than 8 years experience in the energy sector, with focus on strategic business development, project development and execution of large scale PV projects in the Indian Ocean and Sub-Saharan Africa since 2013.
Prior to joining AMEA Power, Ashraf played a leading role in the development, financial close and execution of over 100 MW of PV projects in Mauritius, South Africa, Namibia and Kenya at GreenYellow and Corexsolar International.
He has strong engineering background with a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, specialization in management from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada). Ashraf also holds a MBA from Paris-Dauphine University (France) and a Masters in Economics, Management and Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (France). He speaks fluently French and English.