Leadership and Experience

SolydEra’s management team brings together professionals with extensive experience across technology, industry, finance and business development.

By leading international and multidisciplinary teams, the company’s leadership defines SolydEra’s strategic direction, drives innovation and supports the development of reliable, efficient and competitive energy solutions.

The combination of expertise, vision and execution capabilities enables SolydEra to build on its technological and industrial strengths and further reinforce its position in the power generation and hydrogen production markets.

Dr. Alexander Liberov

CEO

Dr Alexander Liberov has gained over twenty years of international experience in many areas of application including energy. His multidisciplinary background unfolds from business development to logistics, factory management, sales, service and M&A.
PhD degree in Marketing from State University of Hamburg
Post-graduate degree in Business Administration, Erlangen, Germany
1996-2012 Siemens AG, Healthcare, Energy Divisions: appointed several leadership positions in business development, logistics, factory management, sales and service, including M&A in Germany and USA
2012-2015 Siemens AG, Mobility and Building solutions Divisions: acts as CFO in the Asia-Pacific region with HQ in Singapore
2015-2018 Siemens AG: acts as CFO in the CIS Region
2018-2023 Siemens AG: acts as President and CEO in the CIS Region with business responsibility for 1.5 billion Euro Revenue, 9 factories and approx. 7000 employees
Board memberships: Board Director in Solydera Group (2023-now), Chairman and Board Member of Association of European Businesses (2016-2023), Chairman of the Board in JV UralLoko (2018-2022), Board Director in Siemens Signaling Pte and Pty, Singapore and Australia (2013-2015)

Massimo Bertoldi

Group CTO, GM Italy

49, married, two sons.
PhD Material Engineering
CTO of SolydEra since 2006
18y expertise in fuel cell and electrolysis technology. Lead the development of SOC-based products from an early stage to a commercial deployment into EU market
His ambition is to continue making technology more and more accessible to people

Mats Christer Pramborn

CFO

Degree in Finance and Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Proven CFO with over 20 years’ experience gained in the industrial sector. Semperit Group, CEAG AG and Boeing are some of the companies he worked for.
Having worked and lived in multiple countries both in Europe and Asia, Mats has gained extensive international and operational experience in multicultural environments.
Mats is married and has one daughter.

Alexandre Closset

Head of Business Development & Engineering

Physics engineer at EPFL, Switzerland.
Executive MBA in Technology Management.
He co-founded and chaired HTceramix SA (2000 – 2006), a company developing and marketing ceramic fuel cells (sold to SOLIDpower SpA in 2007).
From 2000 to 2010, he was Co-founder and CEO of VHF-Technologies SA (Flexcell), a company producing flexible photovoltaic panels.
From 2010 to 2015, he was Director of Belenos Clean Power Holding Ltd within the Swatch Group.
From 2015 to 2017 CEO of Swiss Hydrogen SA, a start-up that acquired a license to market the fuel cell technology of Belenos Clean Power (Swatch Group) and was then sold to the Auto Inergy division of the Plastic Omnium group.
From 2018 to 2022 Business Line Director of Fuel Cell Systems within the Plastic Omnium Group.
From 2023 to 2024 Responsible for industrial partnerships within the Coalition for Green Energy Storage at EPFL.

Olga Luzik

Chief Operations Officer

Extensive financial experience across global organisations including several CFO roles
Led project for establishing Shared Services centre with a scope of > 100 companies under service agreement
CFO of SolydEra Group from 2019 to 2024
Focus on financial planning and analysis, financial strategy and IT

Fabio Lui

Head of Legal

Degree in Law, University of Trento, Italy.
Counselor at Studio Legale Pavia e Ansaldo, Milan, Italy.
14 years of experience as an External Consultant in international law firms, assisting medium and large companies in various industries, primarily in corporate, commercial, export compliance, and M&A transactions.
Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)

Corporate Governance

SolydEra SpA is committed to apply the highest standards of Corporate Governance. With the growth and the capital market activities, the management and board have set out to implement rules, practices, and processes at the level of a publicly listed company.

This concerns the controls and disclosure, sustainability, environmental and social impacts, risk management, compliance and ethics, and culture under the guiding principles of integrity, accountability, and transparency.