HUMAN ENERGY
Parterns and International Experts
Mercados EMI is recognised as a firm with highly experienced
professionals. Our experts have a wide range of expertise and skills to
find new paths and solutions for the energy business. Key experts and
staff include:
Jordi
Dolader
Jordi Dolader is an expert in energy policy and regulation, with an
extensive experience in Latin America and Europe. From April 1999 to
2005, he was Commissioner at the National Energy Commission, Spain
(CNE). Previously (1998-1999), he was Director of Distribution and
Commercialization of the Spanish National Electricity Commission (CNSE);
from 1992 to 1998 he was Vice- president of the power utility Edenor,
Buenos Aires (Argentina); from 1996 to 1998, he was Director of the Dock
Sud Thermal Power Plant in Buenos Aires. He worked previously in the
company Enher (Spain) as manager of planning and electricity demand
forecasting department (1973-1992). He started his professional career
in the utility Fecsa (Spain). From 2000 to 2005 he cooperated with the
European Commission, through CEER and ERGEG, in the construction of the
internal energy market.
Alberto
Pototschnig
Alberto Pototschnig is an economist with extensive experience in energy
policy, regulation and market design issues, with a focus on European
markets. After seven years in the consultancy business with London
Economics, Alberto joined the Italian Energy Regulatory Authority. As
the Director of electricity regulation, he was responsible for the
design and implementation of technical and economic regulation for the
electricity sector. In 2000 he was appointed CEO of the Italian
Electricity Market Operator, and later joined the Italian Transmission
System Operator (TSO). Alberto also currently acts as Adviser to the
Director of the Florence School of Regulation, a joint initiative of the
Council of European Energy Regulators and the European University
Institute, where he frequently teaches on regulatory and market design
issues. Alberto joined Mercados EMI in 2006.
Luis
María Caruso
Luis Caruso specialises in institutional reform and public policy in
infrastructure sectors, and in particular the design and regulation of
efficient competitive markets and the development of regional markets.
As the National Director of Energy in the 1990s, Luis directed the
transformation of the Argentine power industry, its regulations and
institutions, including the start up of the Wholesale Electricity Market,
the organisation, regulation and privatisation of the transmission
activity and the creation of the Independent Market and System Operator.
With Mercados EMI he has worked extensively in many Latin American
countries and in the most recent power sector reform processes in China,
Spain, Turkey, and Central America, including the general design of the
regional Central American electricity market.
Jorge
Karacsonyi
Jorge Karacsonyi is our chief specialist in generation planning, energy
systems operation and modelling, and an expert in regulation and tariff
design for the integrated electricity and gas business. He has advised
private companies in over one hundred privatisation processes,
development of green field projects and procurement of assets in
electricity and gas businesses. Jorge has particular expertise in the
technical and economic management of hydro generation, and has
successfully planned numerous national and regional transmission
interconnection projects. He has directed many Mercados EMI key projects
in Spain, the EU and South East Asia, such as the creation of the rules
for the future Greater Mekong regional electricity market. Before
joining Mercados EMI in 2000, Jorge had built up a 20-year career in the
energy consulting business and was the President of Hagler Bailly in
Latin America.
Jorge
Bircher
Jorge Bircher specialises in power systems planning and operation, the
design and structure of power markets, regulation of energy sectors,
training and technology transfer. He has been a long-term advisor to the
Electricity Regulatory Commission of Jordan in the development of the
regulatory framework to support the liberalisation of the country’s
energy markets. In Spain, he has advised the major Spanish power
utilities on regulatory issues and participated in the expansion
planning of the natural gas network in Catalonia. His international
experience also includes the design and implementation of regulatory
frameworks and competitive markets in the electricity sectors of China
and Tanzania. Previously, he was the Director of the Consulting and
Studies Division of CIDESPA, one of the largest Spanish engineering
firms, where he directed or participated in over one hundred projects in
the planning, management and utilisation of power systems and large
industrial facilities.
Roberto
D'Addario
Roberto D’Addario specialises in the restructuring of power sectors,
particularly in the institutional and regulatory design of competitive
electricity markets, incentive-based mechanisms for promoting private
sector participation, restructuring process implementation, procedures
and operational standards, and the design of regional energy markets.
During the power sector reforms in Argentina, Roberto participated
directly in the development of the new regulatory framework for the
wholesale market, the drafting of detailed rules for transmission and in
the creation and start-up of the Independent Market and System Operator.
With Mercados EMI he has directed many power sector restructuring
projects in Latin America, China, the Greater Mekong Subregion, Nigeria,
Tanzania, and Russia.
Carlos
Migues
Carlos Migues specialises in economic and financial analysis of projects,
public service regulation and institutional issues, and the economics
and strategy of the utility business. He has conducted a wide range of
market analyses, pricing studies, and tariff reviews for regulators and
electricity distribution clients in Spain, South East Europe, Russia,
China and Latin America. Prior to joining Mercados EMI, Carlos was as
independent consultant in Latin America, for the financial assessment
and privatisation of electricity, gas, water and sanitation industry
projects.
Enrique
Patiño
Enrique Patiño specialises in market regulation and restructuring,
tariff studies, and the financial, economic and risk analysis of
projects in the electricity and natural gas sectors. He is responsible
for the Mercados EMI practice in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and has
recently managed projects in Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, and the
Democratic Republic of Congo. From 2000 to 2002, Enrique was the
Director of the National Bureau of Energy in the Ministry of Industry,
Energy and Mines of Uruguay where he was responsible for the development,
legislative negotiation, and practical implementation of energy and
water sector regulation, as well as the liberalisation of the Uruguayan
oil sector.
Leonardo
Lupano
Leonardo Lupano is an economist specialising in energy sector regulation
and institutional issues. He has extensive international experience in
the design and calculation of tariffs, financial analysis of regulated
companies, due diligence processes, performance benchmarking of
distribution companies, integrated analysis of utility management,
tariff renegotiation strategies, concession contract analysis and design,
and public audits. He has participated in numerous projects related to
his field of expertise with companies and governments in the EU, China,
India, Africa and Latin America.
Daniel
Urgoiti
Daniel Urgoiti specialises in the administration and management of
economic and financial resources in the electric power industry, supply
management and human resources policies. He held various managerial
positions in UTE (Uruguay's vertically integrated electric utility)
where he was Manager of the Management Control and Economic & Financial
Department. Mr. Urgoiti played a key role in the process of
organisational and managerial restructuring of the company. He was later
Director of Soluziona in charge of the projects for efficiency and
management improvement of Unión Fenosa Group's electric utilities in
Spain, Colombia, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Panama and Guatemala. In
that role, he directed the implementation of the systems and models for
financial management, management control and human resources policies.
Jorge
Colomer Sanchez
Jorge Colomer has ten years experience in the energy sector, as power
engineer in a distribution company, an energy consultant and currently
as Operations Director of Mercados EMI. He is in charge of Mercados EMI
internal operations and international marketing activities. Jorge’s
international experience includes Spain, Belgium, Italy, Serbia and
Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Yemen, Argentina and USA. Before joining Mercados EMI he worked in the
Electrical Department of CIRCE (Research Centre for Power Plant
Efficiency, Spain), where he participated in a number of power system
studies in collaboration with the Planning Department of ERZ (Spanish
power distribution utility).
Joanne
Dixon
Joanne Dixon is the Business Development Manager with Mercados EMI,
working with the company since 2004. She previously coordinated business
development as well as capacity building and needs assessment activities
in energy sector reform in several countries in South Asia, Africa, and
Latin America for the Energy Group at the Institute of International
Education in Washington, D.C. Joanne also served two years in the Peace
Corps in Senegal, where she specialized in natural resource management
and small business development.
Germán
Nieto
Germán Nieto is an electrical engineer with 12 years of experience in
power system analysis and planning for large companies of the energy
sector and government entities of Spain, Argentina and Colombia. He
specializes in the analysis and modelling of infrastructure and economic
systems for the electricity and gas industries, regulatory analysis and
implementation of tools for the optimisation and simulation of the
models. He received a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the
National University of Colombia in 1991.
Jorge
Alarcón
Jorge Alarcón is an Industrial Engineer, graduated at the Alfonso X El
Sabio University of Madrid. He has completed several courses on Supply,
Distribution and Transmission Code, as well as in Management and
Finance. During his professional career he has specialised in network
planning and regulation development and energy markets liberalization,
having been involved in projects in Ecuador, Portugal and Bulgaria. He
has also managed the development of power lines in rural areas in
northeast of Spain. Jorge has actively worked in projects related to the
development of renewable facilities projects, distributed Generation and
energy saving systems for official buildings.
Mariano
Salto
Mariano Salto is an economist from the National
University of Córdoba (Argentina); he has completed his studies with a
Master degree in Industrial Economics at Carlos III University in
Madrid, specializing in Economics of the Energy Sector and Transport
Economics. As a professional, he has developed his career through
research, analysis and modelling of economic-focused solutions to be
applied in the energy sector, with special emphasis in the natural gas
sector. Prior to joining Mercados EMI, he worked as consultant and
analyst for several governmental entities, international organizations
and private companies in Latin America, the United States and Spain.
Arnaldo
Orlandini
Arnaldo Orlandini has ten years experience in the energy sector, and in
particular gas and electricity. Before joining Mercados EMI he
worked in a variety of positions for ENI SpA in Italy, including as
Business Analysis Manager for the Planning Department in charge of the
analysis of gas and power markets in Europe, assessment of the gas value
chain in major European countries and benchmarking studies. As
Head of Commodity Risk Control he developed in-house financial models,
controlled and reported all gas trading risks. He also worked on
the design of a gas transportation tariff model for third party access
to the Italian network.
Arnaldo has a Master degree in Energy Economics from
Scuola Superiore Enrico Mattei (Milan).
Nicola
Gallo
Nicola Gallo joined Mercados EMI as a consultant in electricity market
modelling, market design, business modelling and project valuation. He
previously worked as a Senior Consultant at Pöyry Energy Consulting,
Milan where he provided strategic, commercial, regulatory and policy
advice to a number of European energy companies and institutions.
He has also worked in renewable energy policies and carbon markets,
energy and network tariffs and regulation. Nicola was also previously an
Official at the Italian Electricity and Gas Regulator (AEEG) where he
participated in twinning projects with the Turkish and Lithuanian
regulatory agencies. Nicola has also contributed in several
articles and publications related to Energy markets and regulation
amongst others. He has a degree in Economics from Luigi Bocconi
University (Milan).
Jeremy
Hornby
Jeremy Hornby is an economist with particular expertise in applying
economics to regulatory issues in the energy sector. Jeremy has
significant experience advising on the incentives and efficiency
consequences of regulatory arrangements with more than twelve years of
experience in consulting roles and for economic regulators in the United
Kingdom and Australia. He has worked on a wide range of issues
including the setting of regulated prices, policy development,
regulatory reform and business strategy. Jeremy holds a BA in
Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Economics from the
London School of Economics.
Miguel
Angel Hernández
Miguel
Hernández is a power engineer with a wide experience in the management
and reorganisation of power distribution companies, including the
application of IT systems and the design of programs for the reduction
of energy losses. From 1999 to 2008, he worked with Spain’s Union Fenosa
International acting as Manager of performance improvement projects for
distributors controlled by Unión Fenosa in Eastern Europe (Moldova) and
Latin America (Dominican Republic and Guatemala). For the Dominican
Republic’s distribution companies EDE Norte and EDE Sur, he was
responsible for the improvement of the commercial operations management.
In Guatemala’s DEOCSA and DEORSA he was Head of the Energy Management
Centre, in charge of the implementation of a new metering system and the
execution of a program for the reduction of energy losses. In Eastern
Europe, he participated in the implementation of a prepaid metering
system for the electricity distributors RED Centru, RED Chisinau and RED
Sud in Moldova.
Eduardo
Bergerie Pagadoy
Eduardo Bergerie is a power engineer with a wide
experience on management and performance
improvement projects in utilities.
Has participated on main reengineering
projects covering Distribution and
commercialization processes in the Uruguayan
Electric Utility (UTE), achieving dramatic
improvements of the Quality of Service of
the Distribution Network, the re-orientation
of processes focused on the customer
service, the shortening of the billing
cycle, implementation of Corporate
Management Systems (Outage Management
Systems, Geographical Information Systems,
Customer Care and Billing Systems, Work
Management Systems and Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition Systems). His
experience also includes advisory activities
in the electric utilities of Philippines (Meralco),
Venezuela (CADAFE), Haïti (E’dH) and
Honduras (ENEE).