Felipe Branch CV

Renewable Energy Transactions & Infrastructure Industrial Engineer | Spain - Switzerland 🇪🇸 🇨🇭

Professional Experience

GdOSolar. Renewable Energy Transactions & Advisory.

July 2022 - present

Transactions in Spain for international institutional investors across solar, wind, and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Built a systematic pipeline of solar, wind, and storage, projects and assets representing 400+ MW pipelines.
Supported renewable startup with patented technology in mapping and reaching international institutional investors.
Advised 3 Swiss companies on Spanish market entry: 2 battery manufacturers on partnership identification and market positioning, and 1 BESS operator on project acquisition evaluation.
Developed a beta trading platform for Guarantees of Origin and Power Purchase Agreements that attracted the interest of 26 producers with over 310 MW.
Conducted applied research focused on flexible ownership and software development for community solar projects and compensation strategies through green certificates.

BaselDAO - Kunst21. Founder and Team lead.

July 2020 - July 2022

Founded and led the development of a regulated digital investment vehicle for physical assets, structured under the Swiss Distributed Ledger Technology Act.
Designed tokenization, governance, and investor protection frameworks for fractional ownership of real-world assets (artworks).
Established Kunst21 GmbH (Germany), hired and managed a team of three, and raised grant funding from FutureSAX and the Stellar Development Foundation.

HTW Dresden University. Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory.

March 2020 - June 2020

Student Assitant. Employed at the autonomous vehicles laboratory. Final research project for bachelor's degree. Developed Multi-Object test procedures for ADAS/HAD (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems Highly Automated Driving) with MATLAB.

2024 Prize best project at Hackathon Stoos, organized by Schwyz Next, business association canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.
2021 Grant by the Stellar Development Foundation from San Francisco via the Stellar Community Fund.
2020 Grant by FutureSAX the innovation agency from Saxony, a German federal State.

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