Felipe Branch CV

Broker Renewable Energy Projects Industrial Engineer | Spain - Switzerland 🇪🇸 🇨🇭

Professional Path

GdOSolar. Renewable Energy Broker. July 2022 - present

Renewable energy transactions in Spain for institutional international investors. Built a systematic database of renewable project developers representing 400+ MW pipelines across solar, wind, and storage.
Supported renewable startup with patented technology in mapping and reaching international institutional investors.
Advised 3 Swiss companies on Spanish market entry: 2 battery manufacturers on partnership identification and market positioning, and 1 BESS operator on project acquisition evaluation.
Built a beta trading platform for Guarantees of Origin and Power Purchase Agreements that attracted the interest of 26 producers with over 310 MW.
Conducted research focused on flexible ownership and software development for community solar projects and compensation strategies through green certificates.

BaselDAO - Kunst21. Founder and Team leader. July 2020 - July 2022

Led product development until its launch and team of 3 members, from Basel (Switzerland). A decentralized investment fund concept for art, following the Swiss Distributed Ledger Technology Act.
Created a crowdinvesting platform concept for art investment using blockchain. Raised funding from FutureSAX, innovation platform from Saxony, and support from the HTW Dresden accelerator (Gründungsschmiede). Established a limited liability company, managing director Kunst21 GmbH (DE), hired and managed a team of 3 members, and raised funding from the Stellar Development Foundation.

HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences. March 2020 - June 2020

Student Assitant. Employed at the autonomous vehicles laboratory. Final research project for bachelor's degree. Developed Multi-Object test procedures for ADAS/HAD (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems Highly Automated Driving) with MATLAB.

2024 Prize best project at Hackathon Stoos, organized by Schwyz Next, business association canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.

2021 Grant by the Stellar Development Foundation from San Francisco via the Stellar Community Fund.

2020 Grant by FutureSAX the innovation agency from Saxony, a German federal State.

Industrial engineering, production systems. Universidad de Málaga · 2015 - 2020

Final research project. Autonomous driving tests simulation. HTW Dresden 2020

Exchange year. Production systems. HTW Dresden · 2018 - 2019

German language course. LMU München · Summer 2017

8 months in Portsmouth, England, and 2 months in the USA.

Public education Spain

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