People on the move: OYA, Lectron, Solar Gik, Qcells and more

Twelve, the carbon transformation company, has hired Jimmy Chuang as its first chief financial officer. Prior to Twelve, Chuang was the CFO of Strata Clean Energy. Chuang will bring that experience to bear at Twelve as carbon transformation scales to meet demand for sustainable fuels, chemicals and consumer products.

OYA Renewables, an energy transition solutions platform, announced the appointment of Rob Roberti as executive vice president of project finance. A highly-skilled and accomplished clean energy executive, Mr. Roberti brings more than two decades of corporate finance, project finance, M&A experience and renewable energy project development to the role. As OYA’s EVP of project finance, he will lead the company’s project finance team to execute its growing 9 gigawatt (GW) pipeline.

Lectron, an electric vehicle charging manufacturer, announced the appointment of Jay Goldman as chief revenue officer (CRO). Goldman has a 20+ year track record of accelerating growth at some of the top EV and EV charging companies. As CRO of Lectron, Goldman will be responsible for driving revenue with car OEMs, fleets, DC charging companies, grid operators, dealership networks and more.

SB Energy Global, LLC announced that Gaetan Frotte joined the company as chief financial officer to lead SB Energy’s corporate finance functions. Mr. Frotte joins SB Energy from NRG Energy, where he held various leadership positions in corporate and project finance for over 16 years. Over the course of his career, Mr. Frotte has developed broad financial experience in the power and renewable industry including successfully leading a company through the public offering process and raising over $25bn of financings. As interim CFO of NRG, he led all finance functions during a period of unprecedented financial and energy change.

Highland Electric Fleets, a provider of fleet electrification-as-a-service, appointed Brian Buccella as its new chief commercial officer. An industry veteran in the mobility space, Buccella brings more than 20 years of business strategy, policy efforts, and market growth experience to Highland’s team. As CCO, Buccella will oversee Highland’s commercial efforts to help school districts, municipalities, and third-party fleet managers across the U.S. upgrade their diesel school bus fleets to electric. Before joining Highland, Buccella served as SVP of Global Policy & Consumer Products at electric micromobility company Bird, spearheading strategic government partnerships and a robust consumer products portfolio.

Additional job moves provided by EnergeiaWorks:

Julie Ungerleider started a new position as EVP, Head of EPC at QCELLSUSA Corp.

Collin Rhodes started was promoted to chief technology officer at Fosler Solar

David Miles started a new position as managing director, Americas Sales at Solar Gik

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