Board of Directors

Enrique Selva Bellvis

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Bellvís is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Umbrella Group and majority shareholder of Umbrella Solar.  

Mr. Bellvís has been dedicated to the photovoltaic solar energy sector since 2003, both in Spain and Chile, where he has played a key role in the development and growth of the Umbrella Group. In addition to his work at Umbrella, Enrique serves as Vice-President of the Valencian Association of Energy Sector Companies. Before his career in the solar energy sector, Enrique was the founder and CEO of Innova Ingenieros Consultores from 2000 to 2003.  

  Enrique holds a degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in energy from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, which he earned in 2000. He also completed the Management Development Programme at the IESE Business School in 2006.

Mariano Soria

Director

Mr. Soria has served as the Chief Innovation Officer for the Umbrella Group since March 2021. He serves as Turbo Energy General Manager since October 2022.  

Mr. Soria has been the General Manager for Turbo Energy Since October 2022. From November 2012 to March 2021, Mr. Soria was Chief Executive Officer for Punt Moble XXI S.L., having initially participated in the rescue of this Spanish furniture iconic brand company, after a bankruptcy process, from the Board of Directors of a Venture Capital Company (V.I. II, Sociedad de Capital Riesgo), and until today on the Board of Directors and as a shareholder of Punt Mobles. Before joining Punt Moble XXI S.L., Mr. Soria was the General Manager of REJMAR SA, a land development company, from February 2003 to November 2012, where he was responsible for the development of residential and industrial properties.  


 Mr. Soria received his degree in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Organization, both from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and his Master’s in Business Administration from the European University of Madrid.

Miguel Valldecabre

Director

Mr. Miguel Valldecabres. Mr. Valldecabres has been our Director since February 2023.

Mr. Valldecabres’ interest in racing and e-mobility enthusiasm began at a very young age. After completing his degree in Economics followed by an MsC at the University of Southampton (U.K.), he got involved with Campos Racing as a CFO where he acquired the knowledge about motorsports.

His next engagement for 5 years at PwC, in Spain and U.K., as Senior Auditor gave him business knowledge which he used to start his first entrepreneurship venture in the food industry in a company called Chic-Kles. where he was leading 180 people with a turnover of 25 million € a year.

He pioneered QEV Technologies - an engineering company specializing in the field of electro-mobility, which includes design, construction and homologation of electric vehicles, the potential and the use of electric vehicles in the racing world as well as the installation, control and maintenance of electric charging infrastructures. From December 2017 to October 2020 he served as the CEO of QEV Technologies.

Since October 2020 to the date of this prospectus, Miguel is serving as the CEO for Ev Dynamics. Ev Dynamics is a listed company in Hong Kong and pioneer in the manufacturing of Electric Buses and Vans.

Emilio Cañavate

Director

Mr. Emilio Cañavate. Mr. Cañavate will become our director upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Mr. Cañavate joined the Umbrella Group as its Chief Financial Officer in 2017. Before joining Umbrella, he held the position of CFO in the agro-industrial sector from 2010 to 2017. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Valencia, which he obtained in 2007, and a Master in Finance, Institutions and Markets from CUNEF, earned in 2009. Additionally, he completed an Executive MBA from EDEM Valencia in 2019.

Daniel Green

Independent Director

Mr. Daniel Green. Mr. Green will become our independent director upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Mr. Green is an English businessman since 1994, he is a successful serial entrepreneur, known for conceiving and scaling profitable businesses. Early in his career, he founded the breakthrough retail concept YouMeTV, which sold to BSkyB. It is Daniel’s vision and customer focus which have driven the team’s success with HomeSun’s residential solar programme and then FlowGem, an IoT water leak detector sold to Centrica as part of the Hive proposition. Mr. Green is also a Crown Representative, working through the Cabinet Office to advise the UK Government.

Mr. Green currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Electron Green since July 2022 and Chief Executive Officer of HomeSun since April 2010.

Mónika Micak

Independent Director

Ms. Mónika Micak. Ms. Micak will become our independent director upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Ms. Mikac currently holds the CEO position at NAD Capital since March 2022, an investment fund that focuses on a whole circle of electric mobility. Monika is also a Board member of QEV Technologies (since March 2022) where she previously held a CBO position (from March 2018 to March 2022) and member of the board advisors of XEnergy – Empowering Women in Energy Transition (since April 2023).

Her recent success within QEV was closing of a 17M€ round with the European Investment Bank. Awarded as one of European Automotive Rising stars, she started an automotive career as COO in Rimac Automobili. She helped grow the company from 1 to 350 employees. As 1 of the first 5 employees within the company, Monika covered different scopes: from PR & marketing to financial & administrative. She actively participated in the fundraising process and helped the company to raise more than 50M€ of financing. After her success with Rimac Automobili, Monika started helping other companies develop and grow their businesses. She is an International Advisor in e-bus pioneer company EV Dynamics based in Hong Kong and a Board Advisor in logistics company Hubbig based in Croatia.

Monika holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and is a certified Project Manager. Additionally, she holds a degree in Venture Capital Executive Program from Berkley ExecEd, USA.

Hector Dominguis

Independent Director

Mr. Hector Dominguis. Mr. Dominguis will become our independent director upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Mr. Dominguis has been the Chief Executive Officer of GD Energy Services (GDES) since May 2012. During the period 2021-23 he held the presidency of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE) and is currently a member of the Steering Committee Member of Valencian Association of Entrepreneur, Vice President of LAB Mediterraneo Foundation, Independent Board member at Grupo Guzman SA. and Independent Board member at Umbrella Solar Investment SA.

Mr. Dominguis received a Materials Engineering degree from Imperial College, London with an MSc in Management from Surrey University, a master’s in business administration from ESADE and was part of the Management Development Programme (PDD) at IESE. Prior to GD Energy Services (GDES), Héctor worked as an Assistant to the Commercial Management at Plexi, SA (Röhm Group) and as a Consultant in Estrategia y Dirección, SL.

In 2010, he was awarded the Valencian Community Innovator of the Year award by the newspaper El Mundo and the Valencian Community and Murcia Region Business Executive of the Year Award by Ernst & Young.