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.