Our Team

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Our main asset is our people

Our team, with over 500 employees, is the heart of Elmya and works daily to move towards a better future. Their commitment and passion for sustainability reflect our vision of a world where renewables have transitioned from being an alternative to leading the energy transition. A cohesive, diverse, and multidisciplinary force united by a shared purpose. Highly qualified and specialized professionals who contribute their effort, value, and experience to achieve our goals. We firmly believe that it is the people who drive our growth and success.

We deeply value each member of our team. Therefore, we strive to foster an inclusive, collaborative, and supportive work environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.

We grow with you. Training is our priority

Our commitment to the development and training of our employees is an integral part of our corporate culture. By investing in the professional growth of our team, we not only strengthen our company but also create an enriching and rewarding work environment where everyone can fully develop their capabilities.

In our company, we care about the physical, emotional, and social well-being of our employees. A happy and healthy team is a guarantee of success for our organization. That’s why we continuously implement initiatives and measures to promote the overall well-being of our team: work-life balance (flexible hours, remote work days…), team-building activities (creating cohesion and camaraderie among our employees), internal contests.

Your well-being matters to us

We are committed to diversity

We are committed to diversity as a driver of transformation. By bringing together people from different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, multiple perspectives are generated, leading to more effective solutions. A diverse environment also fosters empathy and understanding, as well as a more collaborative work atmosphere, which is a driver and catalyst for talent.

Our team

We invite you to discover the management team that leads Elmya towards new horizons of success. Each member brings extensive experience, dedication, and strategic vision, thus driving our shared mission.

José María Piñar
José María Piñar CEO / Chairman
Carlos Piñar
Carlos Piñar Managing Director
Gerardo Rodríguez Pagano
Gerardo Rodríguez Managing Director Elmya EPC
Jose Poza del Val
Jose Poza Managing Director Elmya Instalaciones
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Ignacio Lojendio Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
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Antonio Moreno Engineering Global Director
Marta
Marta Fontana Chief Legal Officer
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María Morales Gómez People and Communication Global Director
Carlos-Guzman
Carlos Guzmán Renewables USA Director
Santiago-Lopez
Santiago López Construction Director
Almudena Valverde
Almudena Valverde Contracts and Risk Global Director
Angel Gonzalez
Ángel González Procurement Global Director
Maria Montero
María Montero de Espinosa Gómez Preconstruction Director
Enrique Gahete
Enrique Gahete Business Development Director
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Isabel Torres Valdavida Planning & Scheduling Director
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José Alejandro Avilés CIO
Hernan
Hernán Arredondo Corporate Quality Global Director
Rafael Nuñe
Rafael Núñez HSE Global Director - SPP
Juan
Juan Manuel Asencio Cost Controlling Global Director
Miguel Ángel Maseras
Miguel Ángel Maseras T&D Operations Global Director
Javier
Javier Martínez Sánchez O&M Global Director
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James Innes Head of Project Development UK
Colin Mott web
Colin Mott Head of North America Elmya Energy
Patrick Doyle web
Patrick Doyle Country Director UK – Elmya EPC
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Luca Nardi Country Manager Italia de Elmya EPC

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José María Piñar

José María Piñar

CEO/ Chairman

José María Piñar is the CEO of Elmya, where he joined in 2004 as an intern in the Business Development department. Twenty years later, he leads the company alongside his brother Carlos, achieving recognition for Elmya as a leading EPC developer and contractor, characterized by its commitment to innovation and quality in all its projects. In addition to his work at Elmya, he has founded and directed several development companies, as well as an energy services company (ESCO), which are now part of the Elmya ecosystem. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Alfonso X El Sabio University, a master’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Vienna University of Technology, an EMBA from San Telmo Business School, and a postgraduate degree from Harvard Business School.

Carlos Piñar

Carlos Piñar

Managing Director

Carlos Piñar Celestino is the Managing Director of Elmya, with over 13 years of experience in the renewable energy sector. Throughout his career, he has held key positions within the company, such as HR Director and Corporate Director, contributing to the creation and development of Elmya’s corporate areas. In 2019, he took on the role of General Director of Elmya Energy, leading the creation and expansion of the project development area within the company. Since April 2024, he has been the General Director of Elmya, with a mission to implement the company’s strategy while supporting the executives in both the corporate areas and Elmya Energy. Carlos holds a degree in Business Administration and Management and an Executive MBA (EMBA) from IESE Business School.

Gerardo Rodríguez Pagano

Gerardo Rodríguez

Managing Director Elmya EPC

Gerardo Rodriguez is a senior executive with 20 years of experience in the energy and biofuels sector, leading projects in Europe, Africa and Latin America.

He joins Elmya in February 2019 as Chief Operating Officer after 12 years in senior positions in the Andalusian multinational Abengoa. Since January 2023, he has been Managing Director of Elmya EPC globally.

He holds an engineering degree from the University of the Republic in Uruguay, an Executive MBA from ESADE in Spain and a Senior Executive from the London Business School in the United Kingdom.

Jose Poza del Val

Managing Director Elmya Instalaciones

Jose Poza del Val

Jose Poza del Val joins Elmya Instalaciones in April 2025 as Managing Director Elmya Instalaciones . Throughout his career, he has dedicated much of his time to the renewable energy sector, accumulating vast experience in projects in Latin America, the Middle East and Spain. Jose is a civil engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the construction industry.

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Ignacio Lojendio

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Ignacio Lojendio Camilleri has been Chief Financial Officer at Elmya since April 2018. With more than 16 years of professional experience, he started his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young and, throughout his career, has held various positions of responsibility, both nationally and internationally, most of them, in construction companies in the renewable energy sector. 

At Elmya, his main responsibilities include overseeing group-wide accounting and ensuring efficient financing for the activities carried out by the company’s different business lines.

Ignacio holds a degree in Law and Business Administration and has been a student of the San Telmo International Institute in different training programs.

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Antonio Moreno

Engineering Global Director

Antonio Moreno has been Elmya’s Engineering Global Director since 2022. Since joining Elmya in 2014, he has held other positions in the bidding and engineering departments.

Previously he has developed his work in building and infrastructure companies, holding the positions of director of tenders and contracting, having led the achievement of contracts with public administrations such as the Ministry of Education and the Pablo de Olavide University, and the expansion into new markets such as Peru and South Africa.

He is the technical head of the company’s three divisions, EPC, Development and Facilities, and is in charge of managing the engineering teams. The expansion to markets such as Argentina, Mexico, Italy, UK and Portugal, and the work for clients such as Iberdrola, Enel and Naturgy, are his main achievements in the engineering field.

He is an industrial engineer with a master’s degree in thermal energy systems from the University of Seville, and number one in the 2013-14 class of the Executive MBA of the Chamber of Commerce of Seville.

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Marta Fontana

Chief Legal Officer

Marta Fontana has held the position of  Chief Legal Officer at Elmya since September 2023. She has extensive experience in corporate legal advice, international contracting, M&A and board secretarial services, having led the legal department of other companies in the energy sector. She has also participated in the legal management of numerous civil and corporate proceedings, specializing in contractual and non-contractual litigation, disputes related to energy commercialization, renewables and competition law.

She holds a degree in Law from the University of Seville and has completed university expert courses in Compliance and Data Protection.

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María Morales Gómez

People and Communication Global Director

María Morales Gómez has been People and Communication Global Director at Elmya since January 2020. With more than 18 years of experience in the industry, she has worked in national and international companies, holding several key positions such as Head of Recruitment, HR Coordinator, Head of Compensation and Benefits, and HR Business Partner.

In her current role, she leads the People and Communication department, promoting initiatives to attract and retain Elmya’s greatest asset: its human team.

María has a degree in Psychology, with a specialization in Organizational Psychology, and has completed a Management Development Program at the San Telmo Business School.

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Carlos Guzmán

Renewables USA Director

Carlos is an executive with over 20 years of experience in EPC projects across the renewable energy, conventional energy, Oil & Gas, and biofuels sectors. He began his career at Abengoa in the operations area of energy and biofuels. Subsequently, he took on the role of Project Manager for reneable energy projects in Spain and conventional energy projects in Israel. His international career continued in 2018 in the Oil & Gas sector in Kazakhstan before joining Elmya in 2020. At Elmya, he led photovoltaic projects as a Project Manager and later as Portfolio Manager, managing client portfolios. Since January 2025, Carlos has been the Director of Renewables in the USA and President of EMC Renewables, the subsidiary through which Elmya manages its EPC business in the country. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Higher School of Engineers of Seville and has completed an Executive Development Program (PDD) at IESE Business School.

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Santiago López

Construction Director

Santiago López Pérez, Renewables Europe Director, has over 19 years of experience in EPC projects in the reneable energy, conventional energy, and biofuels sectors. He worked for more than 15 years at Abengoa, leading EPC projects. In 2012, he began his international career in South Africa, where he executed 200MW in solar thermal plants with molten salt thermal storage. During part of that period, he combined his work in EPC, guarantees, and the O&M of the plant until 2021. In 2021, he joined Elmya EPC as Project Director, overseeing various photovoltaic projects in Ciudad Real, Toledo, and Seville. Subsequently, he took on the management of several client portfolios, utilities, and investment funds in his role as Portfolio Manager and now assumes the position of Director. Santiago studied at the School of Naval Engineering in Cádiz, specializing in Ship Propulsion and Services, and holds an Executive Development Program (PDD) from Loyola University.

Almudena Valverde

Almudena Valverde

Contracts and Risk Global Director

Almudena Valverde Villegas has held the position of Contracts and Risk Global Director at Elmya EPC since June 2023, where she is primarily responsible for monitoring and managing project risks throughout the contract lifecycle, both with clients and subcontractors.

She has extensive professional experience of more than 20 years in the renewable energy sector, having participated in large international projects for both public and private clients, assuming roles ranging from the bidding phases to the execution and dispute resolution phases.

She holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Granada.

Angel Gonzalez

Ángel González

Procurement Global Director

Ángel González has held the position of Procurement Global Director at Elmya EPC for more than 10 years. In 1987 he started in the company as a Bid Technician. A couple of years later, he began to combine this position with the company’s purchasing, being responsible for both areas for approximately twenty years. Later he became Head of Purchasing, and currently, Purchasing Director of the company.

He began his professional career doing projects and construction management of electrical installations, then worked in two companies of low and medium voltage electrical assemblies. He studied Industrial Technical Engineering, specializing in Power Plants and Networks at the E.U.I.T.I. of Badajoz.

Maria Montero

María Montero de Espinosa Gómez

Preconstruction Director

María Montero de Espinosa Gómez has held the position of Bid Global Director at Elmya EPC since October 2020. From 2005 to 2020 she worked in a leading multinational company in sectors such as infrastructure and energy, with milestones such as the contracting of the Mecca-Medina Railway.

Within Elmya EPC she is in charge of the international contracting of the company, leading a team of engineers with high experience in the photovoltaic and infrastructure world.

María holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Extremadura, and a master’s degree in Programme of Leadership Development from Loyola-ESADE.

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Enrique Gahete

Business Development Director

Enrique Gahete Cárdeno is Business Development Director at Elmya EPC since December 2017. He has 16 years of experience in the renewable energy sector at international level (more than 4 GW of projects), developing functions such as Construction Project Manager, Greenfield Project Development, Innovation Director and EPC Business Development.

He currently heads the Business Development Department at Elmya EPC from where he continues to meet the company’s growth objectives. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering (Industrial Organization Specialty) from the University of Seville.

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Isabel Torres Valdavida

Planning & Scheduling Director

Isabel Torres Valdavida holds the position of Deputy to the General Manager, as well as Head of Planning & Expediting at Elmya EPC since 2022.

Throughout her career in the company, she has held other key positions such as Project Management, both in Spain and Portugal, as well as Project Coordination, leading the creation, standardization and optimization of work methodologies at Elmya EPC.

Isabel has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oviedo, with more than 12 years of experience in the renewable energy sector.

José Alejandro Avilés

CIO

José Alejandro Avilés Flores is the CIO of Elmya, with over 20 years of experience in technology leadership, digital transformation, IT governance, and industrial operations.

Throughout his career, he has held management positions across all areas of IT, from security to innovation, including the execution of critical projects and the provision of IT services for multinational companies. Most recently, he assumed the top IT role for the Cox Group, as well as the general management of the group’s technology company, responsible for evolving and supporting an ecosystem of over 70 IT/OT services for 200 companies and more than 4,000 users worldwide.

In February 2026, he joined Elmya as CIO with the mission of accelerating the company’s transformation, process redesign, evolution in work methods, and operational efficiency, positioning technology, data, and security as strategic enablers of business growth.

José Alejandro is a Technical Engineer in Management Information Systems from the University of Seville and is accredited as an ITIL® 4 Managing Professional and PMP®.

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Hernán Arredondo

Corporate Quality Global Director

Hernán Arredondo holds the position of Corporate Quality Global Director at Elmya S.A since November 2019.  He has been leading the development, implementation and improvement of Quality Management Systems in companies dedicated to EPC projects of conventional and renewable energies for more than 13 years. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rafael Nuñe

Rafael Núñez

HSE Global Director - SPP

Rafael Núñez López holds the position of HSE Global Director – SPP in Elmya since September 2020, with the aim of improving the working environment and environmental management in our worksites and work centers.  Since 2005 he worked in the area of Health and Safety with positions of responsibility in several companies, mainly in the industrial construction sector, at a national and international level.

He has worked in the construction of solar thermal plants, photovoltaic plants, desalination plants, tunnels, etc., traveling through different countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. He was expatriated for almost two years in Israel. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Seville and a Master’s Degree in Occupational Risk Prevention, specializing in Health and Safety, Ergonomics, Psychosociology and Industrial Hygiene.

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Juan Manuel Asencio

Cost Controlling Global Director

Juan Manuel Asencio has held the position of Cost Controlling Global Director at Elmya since March 2021.

With extensive professional experience in the renewable sector, he currently performs the functions of Head of Economic Control, directing the activity of a team of cost engineers, whose ultimate purpose is to establish at all times an accurate estimate of the cost at the end of work and the amount of the contract at the end of the project, among other functions.

He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering (Mechanical Specialty) from ESI in Seville and has a Course in International Negotiation (CMI International Group).

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Miguel Ángel Maseras

Miguel Ángel Maseras

T&D Operations Global Director

Miguel Ángel Maseras Gutiérrez is since January 2025, T&D Operations Global Director at Elmya. With more than twenty-five years of experience, he began his professional career in Inabensa, a subsidiary of the multinational Abengoa, in 1998, where he held various positions of responsibility always associated with the activity of Substations and High Voltage Power Lines, both in Spain and later making the leap to projects of greater scope abroad.

In his last stage, he has participated in the launching and consolidation of the High Voltage activity in Lantania.

Miguel Ángel holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Seville. He holds a Master of Science (Research) from the University of Sheffield and an Executive MBA from the EOI in Seville.

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Javier Martínez Sánchez

O&M Global Director

Javier Martinez is the O&M Global Director at Elmya EPC since September 2021. He has more than 18 years of experience in management, operation and maintenance in power generation assets. Since his incorporation he has successfully led the growth of the department, managing almost 1 GW of plants between O&M and warranty management.   From 2011 to 2021 he was in charge of the Monitoring Department and Technical Support Center of more than 3GW in Mexico and during this stage he led the digital transformation at international level implementing different digital technologies for the optimization of the production and performance of the plants.

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James Innes

Head of Project Development UK

James Innes joined Elmya Energy in the UK in February 2024, bringing with him a wealth of professional experience and over 29 years in the energy sector, including 19 years in the onshore renewable energy sector in the UK market. 

He is a chartered mechanical engineer with an MBA and verifiable experience in international renewable energy organizations. He has successfully developed large scale wind and solar PV projects, from greenfield to ready to build (RTB) projects, including supporting projects to reach financial close, notice to proceed (NTP) and supporting EPC teams to reach commercial operation date (CoD).



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Colin Mott

Head of North America Elmya Energy

Colin Mott serves as Head of North America for Elmya Energy, where he leads the company’s growth and execution strategy across the region. With over 15 years of experience in renewable energy, he brings deep expertise in project development, interconnection strategy, and electric transmission.

Colin has supported the development of more than 13GW of renewable energy projects and over $1B in assets to ready-to-build status. He is widely recognized for building high-performing teams and driving strategic initiatives that position organizations for long-term success in the clean energy transition.

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Patrick Doyle

Country Director UK – Elmya EPC

Patrick Doyle is the Country Director for Elmya EPC in the United Kingdom, where he leads the company’s engineering, procurement and construction business. He is responsible for driving strategic growth, ensuring operational excellence, and overseeing the delivery of Elmya’s energy and infrastructure portfolio across the UK.

Since 2014, Patrick has built his career in the UK energy and infrastructure sector, working across a broad range of projects including solar PV, battery energy storage systems (BESS), hydrogen, and energy efficiency solutions.

He began his career in engineering and onsite project management roles before moving into senior commercial and business development leadership positions.

This combination of technical, operational, and commercial expertise enables Patrick to lead EPC projects with a holistic perspective, effectively integrating project delivery, commercial performance, and stakeholder value to support the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

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Luca Nardi

Country Manager Italia de Elmya EPC

Luca Nardi is Country Manager for Italy at Elmya, where he leads the company’s business development and project execution activities across the Italian market. He has extensive experience in the construction industry and international business relations, with a strong track record in managing industrial and government projects of high technical complexity and strategic importance.

Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a proven ability to lead operations and manage international projects, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, budget constraints, project schedules, and the highest standards of quality and client satisfaction. His expertise includes overseeing multiple large-scale projects simultaneously, managing project risks, and collaborating with senior executives and stakeholders in multicultural environments.

He has successfully led strategic projects across Central Europe and the Middle East, ensuring their successful delivery while building strong, long-term relationships with clients and business partners in highly competitive markets.