Bio

Luca is an Operating Partner at Asterion Industrial Partners, having joined in 2021. He is also CFO of Energy Assets Group (portfolio company of Asterion Fund I). He has over 23 years of industrial experience in the energy sector, of which 16 years serving as a Chief Financial Officer of global energy companies and Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe, Russia and Middle East. Prior to joining EAG, Luca was the Group CFO of Nebras Power, a Qatar-based, State-owned global energy company managing a 6.5 GW portfolio of strategic investments in power and renewable energy assets across Middle East, Europe, Africa, South East Asia, Australia and South America. In Nebras Power Luca played a pivotal role in the business start-up and development and execution of the company’s internationalization strategy, driving a two-fold growth in asset base and international diversification across 8 Countries. Before joining Nebras Power Luca was Senior Vice President & CFO of the Global Power & Water Business of publicly listed TAQA in Abu Dhabi. Previously he served as CFO and Deputy CEO of Enel in Russia as well as Deputy CFO of the European business of Endesa in the early to mid-2000’s. Luca has gained a significant experience in cross-border M&A and has successfully executed transactions in the energy and infrastructure space for a combined value of U$D 3.5B+. He has also gained a proven track record in capital structuring strategies, fund raising and debt management with exposure to multiple financing structures and with more than U$D 11B of debt raised across bank and debt capital markets, including U$D 6.5B of award-winning international project financing. Luca’s global executive career is complemented by board level assignments as independent non-executive director of sovereign wealth funds, national power grid companies, national energy holdings and global smart grid companies. Luca holds a Master’s degree in Business Economics with honors from L. Bocconi University of Milan, Italy and a Global Executive MBA from the I.E. Business School of Madrid, Spain. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Director from the U.K. Institute of Directors (C IoD).