Expertise: • Project Finance • Structured Finance • Financial Advisory • Impact Investing • Capital Raising • Fund Structuring • Renewable Energy • Deal Origination • Negotiation • Financial Modeling Career Highlights: • As First Vice President at Apple Bank sourced $700m+ in utility-scale renewable energy loan opportunities on over $8bn in cumulative total project costs in six months; closed loans to Vineyard Wind, Calpine Geysers, wind projects in Japan, a distributed energy portfolio in the U.S., among others. • As Founder and CEO of C- (CarbonNegative OÜ), provided analyses to government, public, and private institutions to support their energy transitions while simultaneously sourcing a multi-billion-dollar pipeline of potential projects and cleantech investees to lay the groundwork for an innovative investment platform. • As Vice President, Project Finance, Power & Infrastructure with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, played a key role in winning the Hedging Strategy Bank role and bringing the 330MW Sarulla Geothermal project to financial close.

Giulio Teodoro Maellaro was born in Brindisi (Italy) in 1955. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Padua (Italy). He was an officer in the technical services corps of the italian army in the motorization sector. He taught thermotechnics and heating systems in industrial technical institutes. At the “Carnaro” Nautical Institute in Brindisi he taught marine machinery, on-board technical systems and mechanical technology. Expert in sustainable energy and energy transformations. Freelance designer engineer in the construction, plant engineering and energy saving fields. Convinced advocate of the need to immediately implement the energy transition. He created the SEWAT (Sustainable Energy by Waves Trap) device to obtain sustainable energy from sea waves.

Peer is the Founder and Research Director of the Sustainable Solutions Hub. He has over 30 years’ experience in R&D as Lead Scientist and Professor at the University of Queensland and Shanxi Agricultural University. His work led to five start-up companies, seven patents and >250 scientific papers that are highly cited (h-index 79). Peer’s expertise lies in Plant Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering and Regenerative Agriculture, and he developed the areas of Large-Scale Algae Cultivation and Plant Microbiome Engineering in Australia. He is a regular advisor to the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Research Council and the European Science Foundation. He shares a strong passion with his team to develop and advance sustainable and profitable technologies to address the most pressing issues on this planet.