About: Our Leadership Team | Pexapark

Our Leadership Team

Pexapark’s global leadership team brings together decades of experience in renewables, PPAs, and risk management. With backgrounds spanning power trading, technology, and energy investment, they guide the strategy and culture behind Pexapark, the price intelligence platform for clean energy.

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Michael Waldner

CEO & Co-Founder of Pexapark

Michael has 20+ years of experience in renewable PPAs, international energy trading, origination and portfolio management.

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Luca Pedretti

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder

Luca has 15+ years’ hands-on experience in energy risk management for renewables in open markets – valuating, structuring, negotiating and managing PPA transactions across Europe.

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John Lake

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

John brings 15+ years of experience driving revenue growth and scaling SaaS and marketplace businesses across Europe as CRO, MD, and CEO (SMF1). He is a hands-on commercial leader with a strong track record in building sales teams and executing successful acquisitions and an IPO.

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Jens Hollstein

EVP Advisory

Jens has more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry. The last 5 years he worked on structuring of renewable offtake agreements and industrial supply contracts.

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Shalini Sunder

VP People

Shalini has 16+ years of experience in HR, working with diverse and multicultural teams across the globe. She strives to create a workplace where employees are happy and feel intrinsically motivated to bring their best to work every day.

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Dominique Hischier

VP Analysis & Editorial

Dominique has 9 years of experience in advancing the global energy transition in a variety of roles, including management consulting, international organisations, power trading and academia. She holds a Master's Degree in Energy Science & Technology from ETH Zurich.

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Ann Cocquyt

VP PPA & BESS Transaction Advisory

Ann has 13 years of experience in originating structured contracts and negotiating long-term offtake agreements in Central Western Europe. She also advised corporates on how to optimise their energy risk management.

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Isaac Gow

VP Product

Isaac has 20+ years of experience building products and businesses across a range of capital markets and industries. He is particularly knowledgeable in the development of data and analytical platforms for enterprise clients.

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Zuzi Tuckwell

VP Sales Europe

Zuzi has 15 years as a senior sales and account management executive in the energy market both in Europe and the Asia- Pacific region. Zuzi has worked with a wide range of energy, utilities, trading and infrastructure clients helping to deliver business critical pricing and market intelligence solutions.

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Hubert Raich

Director of Software Engineering

Hubert is a Director of Software Engineering with over 10 years of experience leading and building software in both public and private sectors, including energy, health, banking, and government. He has a strong track record of growing and mentoring engineering teams, fostering high-performing, collaborative cultures, and aligning technical execution with business goals. With a deep background in Java development, he combines hands-on technical expertise with architectural oversight and end-to-end delivery experience.

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Itamar Orlandi

Director - Commercial Strategy

Itamar has 13 years experience in the energy finance sector, with extensive knowledge in launching and managing investment vehicles and analysing energy commodity markets.

Advisory Council

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Christian Schaffner

Executive Director, Energy Science Center (ESC) ETH Zürich

Christian has been working in the energy field for over 20 years. His experience covers startups, policy making and science.

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Walter Steinmann

Senior Advisor at Energy Infrastructure Partners

Walter is the former director of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) and was member of the Governing Board of IEA (Paris) and IAEA (Vienna).

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Pol Budmiger

Entrepreneur / Startup Coach

Pol has 25 years of experience as entrepreneur in IT, engineering and cleantech and supports young companies as a coach.

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Christian Hürlimann

Renewables CEO, MET Group

Christian has 15+ years of experience in field of renewables and energy, including M&A, asset management and origination.

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Kevin Heffron

Fintech Founder, Investor, Advisor and Business Developer

Kevin is the former President of Trayport Limited. He has over 40 years of experience in commodity, financial and derivative markets finance, trading, structuring and software platform management.

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Daniel Mischler

Chief Digital Officer

Daniel is a former global CIO, regional CEO and experienced investor in startups with successful exits. He maintains a global network to peers.

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Caroline Lytton

Non-executive Director International Project Finance Association; COO Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at University of Oxford

Caroline has more than 20 years’ experience in project finance, including 15+ years across all stages of the energy and power value chains.

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Florian Müller

Co-Founder of Pexapark

Florian co-founded Pexapark and served as its CTO for eight and a half years. He loves building software and has over 15 years of experience in creating applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science.