OUR TEAM OF EXPERTS
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President
Michael Salomon, Ph.D

Michael obtained his Engineer’s degree at Mines ParisTech (France) and his Ph.D. at Stanford (USA). In 2009, he founded Clean Horizon, a consultancy entirely devoted to energy storage. Since its creation, Clean Horizon has confirmed its status as the only consultancy in the world specialized solely on energy storage and acting both as market analyst and a technical consultant.

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Partner / Head of Technical Consulting
Samuel Portebos, MSc.

Samuel graduated in engineering at Ecole Centrale de Lille (France) and in electrical engineering at Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Samuel brings heavy analytical knowhow to Clean Horizon, with previous experience including the modeling of a Brazilian distribution grid and the realization of a PV plus storage system implemented on vehicles.

At Clean Horizon, Samuel is the head of engineering and as such spearheads al the company’s technical consulting activities.

 

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Partner / Head of Market Analysis
Corentin Baschet, MSc.

Corentin Baschet graduated in engineering at Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and studied his master in sustainable energies at the Imperial College in London. He worked in anaerobic submarine energy propulsion systems and racing yachts electricity system. In early 2016, he joined Clean Horizon’s team, where he works as a technical expert to assess the value of energy storage systems for electricity grids.

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Power System Experts / Head of Hydrogen Team
Krehi Serge Agbli Ph.D

After a Master’s degree in electrical and electronic systems in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, Dr AGBLI obtained his doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Franche-Comté in France. After a postdoctoral career where he worked on industrial projects in the modeling and experimental validation of energy provision, he joined Clean Horizon Consulting to reinforce to become the company’s leading power systems expert and to lead the company’s R & D activities.

Its main task on the R&D axis is the causal/non-causal, static and/or dynamic, optimal and suboptimal modeling of power grids with a focus on storage integration. He is therefore actively involved in projects relying on Clean Horizon’s CRE-STORE simulation tool. In addition, Serge develops models of electrical network under MATLAB-SIMULINK®, CYME® or PowerFactory® to execute more detailed stability and transient analyses.

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Lead Consultant / Head of Training
Naim El Chami, MSc.

Naim El Chami is a graduate of Centrale Supélec in France, Université Paris Saclay in France and Saint Joseph’s University in Lebanon. After initial experiences in Saudi Arabia on project management and at EDF in France developing a market analysis for a novel power storage solution, Naim joined Clean Horizon in 2018.

A key analyst in the company, Naim has been in charge of conducting multiple market studies on geographies as different as the Nordics, Latin America and Middle-East countries. He is spearheading knowledge management activities in the company as the one-stop person both for market analysis – due to his involvement in Clean Horizon’s CHESS storage project database- and regulatory watch – due to his central role in delivering Clean Horizon’s monthly analyst note, Update from the Field.

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Lead Consultant
Rachel Locquet, MSc.

Rachel Locquet serves as a Lead Consultant at Clean Horizon, joining the team in 2020 following her graduation from Institut d’Optique Graduate School and completion of the Sustainable Energy Futures master’s program at Imperial College London.

In her role, Rachel leads engagements encompassing energy storage training, market analysis, electricity and ancillary services price forecasting, energy storage business model optimization, and commercial due diligence.

Additionally, Rachel contributes to R&D efforts, including the development of Clean Horizon’s in-house BESS optimization tool, COSMOS, and coordinates the company’s price forecast activity.

Her expertise extends to European countries, with a focus on France, Germany, as well as the Nordic and Baltic regions.

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LEAD CONSULTANT
Mohamed Amine Benchfira, MSc.

Amine obtained his two Engineer’s degrees at Centrale Paris (France) and Imperial College London (UK). At Clean Horizon, he works mainly on the design of trading algorithms for COSMOS simulation tool that calculates revenues for storage and renewables projects.

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Senior Analyst – Senior Electrical Engineer
Keila Santiago, MSc.

KKeila graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pernambuco, Brazil, with a specialization in Electrical Engineering. She is an engineer with over 16 years’ experience in the operation of electrical systems, measurement and analysis of disturbances on transmission systems, analysis of abnormal events on electrical systems. commissioning and maintenance of high-voltage equipment, At Clean Horizon, Keila works as a senior electrical engineer and is in charge of site audit activities and supervision of works and commissioning stages. She speaks French, English and Portuguese.

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LEAD CONSULTANT
Rosemary Colaert, MSc.

Rosemary is a senior energy storage analyst at Clean Horizon. Her expertise lies in the profitability assessment of energy storage projects and in the conduction of market analyses on various European countries. She also dimensions energy storage projects by using optimization models to dispatch assets on energy and ancillary services markets in specific geographies. Rosemary graduated with an engineering degree from Institut d’Optique Graduate School and received a Master of Science in physics from Imperial College London.

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HEAD OF GROWTH MARKETING & COMMUNICATION
Oksana Shkiray MSc.

With an experience in market and regulatory analysis for energy storage, at Clean Horizon, Oksana leads growth, marketing and communication initiatives, contributing to the company’s strategic objectives. Additionally, she is also involved in the company’s commercial development activities.

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HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE 
Anne-Laure Poite

Anne-Laure works at Clean Horizon as Head of Data. Her role involves building robust forecasting models, building data pipelines, and managing and growing the data science team.

Anne-Laure graduated with an engineering degree from Telecom ParisTech and has an additional Master of Science in Statistics and stochastic modelling from Paris Diderot. She worked in the Tech industry as a Machine Learning scientist for several years before joining Clean Horizon

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SENIOR ANALYST
Pratik Ashwekar

Pratik is a Senior Energy Storage Analyst at Clean Horizon. He comes with more than 7 years of experience in sustainability and clean energy consulting.

His last five years were focused on energy storage consulting for the Energy Markets of the US (with expertise in the ISO New England region) but also other emerging technologies such as EVs and Hydrogen. Among other things, he specializes in building complex Excel models to analyze new market constructs and unique client requirements.

Pratik holds a Master of Environment Management, (Energy and Environment) from Duke University and a B.E in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University.

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SENIOR ANALYST
Vitor Carvalho, MSc.

Vitor Gialdi Carvalho has a double degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Mines Paris (France). He previously worked with machine learning and data treatment algorithms as a data analyst.

At Clean Horizon, Vitor is a technical consultant and market analyst, as he has participated in the sizing of energy storage projects in various regions including Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Vitor speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English. 

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HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Elodie Rabille

Elodie is a head of human resources at Clean Horizon. Her expertise lies in
recruitment, training, career management, school relation and employer brand.

Elodie has worked as a human resources manager for over ten years in a variety of companies, including major international groups.

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SENIOR ANALYST
Amira Belazougui MSc.

Amira graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from École Polytechnique in Algeria and obtained an additional Master’s degree in Physics & Energy Engineering from CentraleSupélec, as well as a Specialised Master in Optimization of Energy Systems from Mines Paris (France).

Before joining Clean Horizon, Amira worked on examining the carbon footprint of a drug production process. She focused particularly on the impact of energy usage, recognizing the significant role it plays in greenhouse gas emissions.
She currently works at Clean Horizon as an analyst in both technical consulting and market analysis teams. Amira speaks English, French and Arabic.

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Senior Electrical engineer
Roberto Dias Ph.D

Roberto is a senior electrical engineer at Clean Horizon. He has expertise in the technical analysis of storage systems, studies on integrating storage stand alone or co-located with intermittent renewable energy sources in electrical systems, and the design & analysis of protection, automation, and control systems for grids and microgrids in the presence of distributed energy resources. Roberto graduated with an engineering degree from University of Pernambuco and received a Doctor of Science in electrical engineering from Federal University of Pernambuco.

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Chief Information System Officer
Alassane Lam

Alassane received his master’s degree in Cybersecurity and Data Science from the University of Paris 8. He then obtained a certification in ethical hacking (CEH), GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer and ISO/IEC 27005 Risk Manager. As part of his master’s project in cybersecurity, he studied the management of computer security and data protection within a growing SME. At Clean Horizon, Alassane is a Chief Information Security Officer and DPO (Data Protection Officer). He manages the design and implementation of Clean Horizon’s IT security, technical audit and assessment, compliance, manages the development and maintenance of the website and he also ensures the administration of the Clean Horizon servers.

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ANALYST
Florian Didier
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ANALYST
Salomé Perperot

Salomé graduated in engineering at Centrale Méditerranée (France) and in chemical engineering and management at the University of Queensland (Australia).

At Clean Horizon, Salomé conducts insightful market analyses for various countries and technical reviews of energy storage projects.

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JUNIOR ANALYST
Pauline Bernard
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BILLING AND COLLECTION ASSISTANT
Anne-Michèle Ndong
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OFFICE MANAGER
Anais Bigeon
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