John Felipe Branch

Felipe Branch CV

Intermediation · Market Intelligence · Cross-Border Transactions

Intellectual Property | Renewable Energy | Industrial Engineer

Almeria, Spain

Open to relocation: Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Qatar (GCC)

Professional Experience

IPGlobalBroker - Deal Advisor

Spain · November 2025 – Present

Open to new mandates. Actively responding to inquiries.

Intellectual property commercialization and transaction advisory: deal origination, investor and buyer outreach, and buyer–seller matching for intangible assets (patents, licenses, and research outputs) across cleantech, industrial, and mobility sectors. Converting primary research into commercial outcomes in global markets. Upfront engagement model

GdOSolar — International Renewable Energy Advisor

Spain / Switzerland · July 2022 – Present

Open to selective and well-scoped collaborations (deal origination, asset screening, buyer/investor matching, market intelligence for Spain).

Cross-border advisory experience in renewable energy transactions, connecting Spanish generation and storage assets with international institutional investors and strategic counterparties across solar, wind, and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

  • Built a systematic pipeline over 400 MW of solar, wind, and storage projects and operating assets.
  • 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.
  • Developed a beta trading platform for Guarantees of Origin and Power Purchase Agreements that attracted the interest of 26 independent producers with over 310 MW in operational assets.
  • Conducted applied research focused on flexible ownership and software development for community solar projects and compensation strategies through green certificates.

BaselDAO/Kunst21 GmbH — Managing Director, Digital Asset & Capital Market Infrastructure

Germany / Switzerland · July 2020 – July 2022

  • Led the development of a regulated digital investment vehicle for physical assets, structured under the Swiss Distributed Ledger Technology Act.
  • Designed tokenization, governance, and investor protection frameworks for fractional ownership of real-world assets (artworks).
  • Established Kunst21 GmbH (Germany), hired and managed a team of three, and raised grant funding from FutureSAX and the Stellar Development Foundation, with support from the university HTW Dresden accelerator.

HTW Dresden University — Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory

Germany · March 2020 – June 2020

Student Assistant. 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.

Awards

  • 2024Prize best project at Hackathon Stoos, organized by Schwyz Next, business association canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.
  • 2021Grant by the Stellar Development Foundation from San Francisco via the Stellar Community Fund.
  • 2020Grant by FutureSAX the innovation agency from Saxony, a German federal State.

Education

  • 2015–2020Industrial Engineering, Production Systems — Universidad de Málaga
  • 2020Final research project: autonomous driving tests simulation — HTW Dresden
  • 2018–2019Exchange year, production systems + business — HTW Dresden
  • 2017German language course — LMU München

Additional

  • International exposure: United Kingdom (8 months), United States (2 months)
  • Public education Spain