Verso Energy contributes to the emergence of an energy mix with a high share of renewables by developing, financing and operating dispatchable power plants, battery energy storage systems, and carbon-free hydrogen production facilities.
Xavier Caïtucoli
Chairman
Xavier Caïtucoli is a French entrepreneur who co-founded independent energy group Direct Energie in 2003. He ran the group as Chief Executive Officer until it was sold to leading French energy company Total in 2018 for an equity value close to €2bn, and subsequently renamed Total Direct Energie.
Mr. Caïtucoli went on to become Senior Vice-President Power & Gas Europe at Total until 2019, leading the successful integration. Under Mr. Caïtucoli’s leadership, Direct Energie went public on Paris stock exchange and combined with its main independent domestic competitor Poweo to become the leading French alternative energy supplier. At the time of its integration within Total, the group supplied more than 4 million customers in France and Belgium, generated €2bn in consolidated revenues and c.€200m in EBITDA, and operated 2 GW of installed generation capacities including notably renewables assets (solar, wind, hydraulic and biogas) and CCGTs.
Mr. Caïtucoli graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
Antoine Huard
CEO
Antoine Huard was Head of Development of independent solar player Générale du Solaire from 2013 to 2021, as well as CEO of the group international branch since 2018.
In 8 years, Générale du Solaire became one of the leading independent solar operator on the French market with a portfolio of projects under development exceeding 1 GW of total capacity. Its international branch GDS International is active in Italy and Africa and became an established player in the development of solar projects for C&I clients as well as rural electrification programmes.
Antoine is also president of France Territoire Solaire, a think-tank dedicated to the development of solar energy in France.
He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Cambridge.
Brice Robert
Administrative and financial manager
Mathieu Pélissier
Development project manager
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