Ivan Oliveros
Chairman of the Board
Ivan Oliveros is the Chairman at LAC CORE and is also a Partner at Atlántico Capital. He has more than 20 years of experience in banking, complemented by earlier hands-on engineering experience in LatAm. His career has been focused in project finance, M&A, acquisition finance and corporate finance both as investment banker and debt and equity advisor in the Power and Renewables space.
Mr. Oliveros has worked in transactions all across Latin America, including México, Panama, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay and also in the US across the Power, Renewables and Infrastructure sectors. He has been involved in corporate and structured finance transactions in excess of US$ 20 billion, including debt capital markets, syndicated loans, acquisition financings, project bonds and private placements, mergers and acquisitions, as well as very large and complex project and structured finance deals.
Ivan Oliveros holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and an Industrial and Environmental Engineering Degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He also completed all coursework for a MS (thesis pending) in Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. Mr. Oliveros is Bilingual Spanish (Native) and English and has conversational level of Portuguese.
Patricia Derez
Patricia Darez is Managing Director at 350renewables (since 2015) and a member of the board of directors of the Chilean Renewable Energy and Storage Association, ACERA (since 2016). She has over 15 years’ international experience. From 2017 to 2019 she was Country Manager of DNV and responsible for projects in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Colombia.
From 2011 to 2015, she worked as Energy Analysis Manager for Mainstream Renewable Power where she was the technical lead for solar projects worldwide and led a team of wind and solar analysts in Latin America. From 2007 to 2011, she worked for Wind Prospect Limited in the UK, for projects located across several continents.
She has a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Bristol and regularly appears as a key note speaker at conferences.
Jorge Barrigh
Jorge Barrigh’s career has focused on climate change and green financial instruments as well as renewable energy, with posts at Ecoressources, Inc in Canada; Natsource LLC in Panama; as Fund Manager for the Corporacion Andina de Fomento/CAF in Venezuela. He has advised the Peruvian COP and the IDB on green strategies. He is also a board member of the Latin American and Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC-CORE).
Jorge holds a BS in Economics from Messiah College in Grantham, PA and an MBA from Temple University Fox School of Business in Philadelphia.
Barbara Rubim
Bárbara Rubim is the Managing Director of Bright Strategies, a São Paulo-based legal advisory firm focused on renewable energy. She has been working in the energy sector, with special focus on just transition and climate change, for over ten years and currently also serves as the Vice-President of the board of the Brazilian PV Association (ABSOLAR).
Bárbara Rubim has a degree in law and an MBA in Finance and Strategy Development. Prior to joining Bright Strategies, Bárbara has worked in other energy companies in Brazil, leading their innovation and strategy areas. She also worked and engaged with Greenpeace in Brazil and Internationally for almost 10 years, being 05 of them as a Renewable Energy Project Leader.
Barbara also worked as a parliamentary legal adviser, a researcher for the Cities Ministry and helped consolidate energy-related projects within the UN-habitat sector and the Covenant of Mayors.
As a solar industry advocate and adviser, she has actively lobbied MPs and has been consulted by the government for policy and law-making, being involved in the drafting and approval of energy-related Federal, State, and Municipal legislation in Brazil.
In 2021, Barbara was elected one of the 100 most influential people in the Brazilian Energy Sector of the 2010-2020 decade. In 2022, she was again elected one of the most influential people of the energy segment.
Patricia Tatto
Graduated in law for University Iberoamericana with studies in Human rights for Birkbeck University in UK. Patricia has dedicated her career to develop and drive the Renewable Energy Industry into the upcoming energy markets, serving as a technical advisor and business guide creating strategies for the industry in new markets.
As a VP for Ata Renewables in America, leads a team of renewable energy experts, providing technical advisory, engineering and certification for Financial Institutions, Investment Funds, Governments Utilities, IPP, suppliers and EPC, on the successful implementation of large-scale renewable energy projects. President and founder of Women in Renewable Energy Mexico AC, (MERM) a non-profit Civil Association in the renewable energy sector, with the purpose of empowering women in the field of renewable energy in LATAM.
She is part of the Mexican delegation at W20 official G20 engagement group forming a transnational network of women’s organizations, female entrepreneur’s associations and think tanks.
Elodie Phounsombat
Elodie has 15 years of international finance/banking experience across Paris, Singapore and New York, with a focus on Latin America for the past 10 years. Acting as lead transactor in charge of originating, structuring and executing project financings in the international bank markets in the various sectors (Natural Resources, Power & Renewables and Infrastructure).
Fluent in English, Spanish and French. Main areas of expertise include: project finance, acquisition finance, bidding processes, credit risk, documentation. Strong interest in leading a deal team in charge of originating and executing high value added lead arranging and financial advisory opportunities in Latin America.
Past Members Contributions:
Ernesto Hanhausen
Ernesto Hanhausen has more than 20 years of experience in originating, developing, analyzing, structuring, implementing and managing investment projects and business opportunities in sustainable sectors such as energy efficiency, ESCOs and renewable energy and water in Mexico and Central and South America. He has actively collaborated in the formation, structuring and development of successful ESCOs and renewable energy platforms in Mexico, and has generated substantial deal flow and structured, developed and managed a number of investments.
Luis Aguirre-Torres
Luis Aguirre-Torres has been recognized by the White House as Champion of Change for his work promoting the development of low-carbon solutions to climate change, and in 2013 he was also recognized as High Impact Entrepreneur by US President Barack Obama during his official visit to Mexico.
He holds a first degree on Computer Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a Masters in Computer Science and a Doctorate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College London.
Patrick Longmire
Patrick Longmire is a Managing Director at SEAF, a leading impact investment fund with activities worldwide, where he is co-lead of a new private equity fund to focus on clean energy in the Caribbean and Central America. He has over 25 years of experience in energy finance in the United States, Latin America and Africa, during which time he has closed project financings with a total transaction value in excess of $1 billion.
Roland Clarke
Dr. Roland R. Clarke has been in private practice as an independent energy consultant in his native Barbados since 2008. He is the Director/CEO and Founder of Clarke Energy Inc. D/B/A Clarke Energy Associates. His clients have included the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Development Organization (UNDP),the World Bank and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). He has also advised the Governments of Canada, Guyana and Barbados.