Managing Director, Regional Leader
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Managing Director with over 14 years’ experience across renewable energy supply chains, covering infrastructure and manufacturing across critical minerals, energy and power products, and automotive. Giulia is responsible for leading Quinbrook’s North America investment team, working across existing and new investments in critical infrastructure for renewable and carbon-free power solutions. Giulia is a member of Quinbrook’s Investment Committee. Giulia joined Quinbrook from the US Department of Energy (DOE), where she was the inaugural Director of the Office of Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains (MESC), a new investment arm of the DOE focused on furthering energy security through domestic manufacturing and infrastructure investment. During her tenure, MESC deployed tens of billions of dollars into infrastructure projects in verticals including critical minerals, batteries, transmission, hydrogen, and automotive. She also oversaw DOE’s funding to develop and skill the US energy manufacturing workforce. In addition to her capital deployment responsibilities, her team led DOE’s energy supply chain analytics in service of the National Security Council and other interagency and allied partner organisations. Prior to her time at DOE, Giulia was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. For over a decade there, she focused on scaling low-carbon systems and value chains across leading investors, major corporations, and emerging start-ups, covering zero-emissions energy, vehicles, and materials. In addition to her scale-up work, she fostered new ways to signal demand for emerging clean energy technology, co-founding Frontier, a USD 1bn+ advance market commitment by industry-leading corporations to catalyse high permanence carbon dioxide removals. She previously worked at Adobe on clean energy procurement and data centre decarbonisation. Born in California, Giulia holds a dual BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2025, she was appointed as a Distinguished Industry Fellow by Dartmouth’s Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society.
