Gianluca Boccanera

Global Managing Director at Starlight Energy

Speaker

Gianluca joined the NextEnergy Group in 2008 and is currently responsible for the entire development platform of Starlight.

Previously he headed NextPower II, a private equity fund managed by NextEnergy Capital which was successfully exited at the end of 2021 after having invested €232 million in operating solar PV assets in Italy. Gianluca has over 15 years of experience in the renewable energy sector, spread across different areas, from the development to the financing, construction and then technical, administrative, financial, accounting and fiscal management of solar PV assets in various jurisdictions.

Before joining the NextEnergy Group, he worked in the investment banking industry for 6 years, across different financial institutions (Calyon, Mediobanca, Dresdner Kleinwort and lastly Morgan Stanley) and countries (Italy and UK), gaining extensive expertise in the energy and infrastructure sector, having worked on several landmark M&A and capital market transactions closed in various countries.

He graduated cum laude in Business Administration with a major in Corporate Finance at the Bocconi University (Italy) in 2003.