Koovashni co-founded ACE Power with Mark in 2021, bringing along a 1.3GWp pipeline of solar and wind projects, developed under CleanGen Projects which she founded in 2012.

Koovashni is a passionate environmental entrepreneur with over 32 years’ experience in the Australian energy industry. She is a specialist in renewable energy, business development, financing, investment, energy trading, planning and power purchase agreements.

She has held senior roles at Wind Power, Industry Funds Management, AGL, Energy Australia, Integral Energy, Delta Electricity and Pacific Power.

Koovashni holds a B Bus and Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.

Andy has 7 years’ experience in the renewables industry across the UK and Australia, having been involved in the development, financing and construction of over $1.2bn worth of renewable assets to date.

Prior to co-founding ACE Power, Andy established the Australian branch of Wirsol Energy in 2016. Whilst serving as Managing Director, he oversaw the acquisition and construction of 6 solar farms and a BESS totalling 575MWp, all of which are now operational; and a further 850MWp under development. He also established the company’s internal O&M and Asset Management divisions, taking projects through the entire lifecycle from development through to operations.

Andy is passionate about the green energy revolution, and specifically finding technical & financial solutions to facilitate the transition. He holds a first class degree from the University of Manchester in Business and Management.

Mark is the co-founder of ACE Power with Koovashni. He is the founder of BOOM Power Ltd who are developing and constructing over 1.5GWp of solar projects in the UK and Spain. He was formerly the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Wirsol Energy Limited from 2014 – 2020 who constructed and financed over 700MWp and developed more than 800MWp of projects across the UK and Australia.

His renewable accomplishments follow on from 20 years’ experience in power electronics – designing and manufacturing leading high efficiency products installed within the renewable sector, mobile communications, data centres and high-end networking/storage equipment to customers such as Google, Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson with global revenues in excess of US$2.5b.

Guido is Managing Director of Pelion Green Future and oversees the Group’s investment strategy.

Prior to joining Pelion Green Future, Guido worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division where he advised clients on strategic transactions across multiple industries. In addition, Guido gathered practical experience in large- and mid-market real-estate M&A transactions.

Guido holds a MSc in Finance from WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany.

Garth leads the Network Connections for the ACE Power Projects. He has over 30 years of experience in the Australian electricity industry. In recent years he was a Senior Manager at AEMO, Executive Engineer at professional firm GHD and Connection Manager at Wirsol Energy.

He has managed the successful approval of a portfolio of renewable projects with various jurisdictional bodies including AEMO, Network Companies, DNRME, Essential Services Commission and the CER.

Garth seeks to understand the technical capabilities of a project and how it can best be utilized to comply with the regulatory requirements in a commercial world.

Garth holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Grad Dip Management. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy.

Prior to joining ACE Power, Colm worked at RINA Consulting based in Sydney, where he acted as Owners Engineer on the Middlemount and Edenvale projects, as well as working in a variety of lenders advisory roles on over 300 MW of solar farms across NSW, VIC and QLD. Prior to arriving in Australia, Colm worked for renewables consultancy SgurrEnergy in Glasgow for almost 3 years and large-scale windfarm developer Enerco Energy for over 2 years.

Colm holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Sustainable Energy Engineering from Munster Technological University.