Alight strengthens international team

Alight announce three new flagship hires: a new head of site development, Salomé San Miguel, a head of storage deployment, Youssef Benmakhlouf, and a head of BtM* product & PPA structuring, Samuel Benelbas. As to further Alight’s work in leading the corporate transition to solar, attracting and hiring the very best people in their fields is key. To continue the upward trajectory and growth, Alight have made three major new hires, each of which will strengthen the existing pan-European all-star team.

Salomé San Miguel joins Alight from Falck Renewables, where she was Country Manager for their consultancy business in the Nordics, and responsible for construction and later asset management of their wind farms in Sweden and Norway (170 MW). Salomé has over 20 years of experience in leading roles and managing projects in the energy and clean tech industry and a MSc in Mining, Energy and Materials Engineering.

Youssef Benmakhlouf joins Alight as Head of Storage Deployment, after close to four years with Azelio (a Swedish cleantech provider of long duration storage solutions) where he worked with business development and sales. Hailing from Morocco, Youssef has a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Marseille in France. With both a strong technical background and hands-on commercial experience with stationary energy storage, Youssef will develop and deploy storage for Alight’s solar assets.

Samuel Benelbas is Alight's new Head of Behind the Meter product & PPA structuring. He is based in Madrid, Spain and has +12 years´experience from baking and financial structuring, as well as co-founding a fintech company and a real estate fund. Samuel holds a master´s degree in Business Administration from CUNEF and is currently doing an Executive MBA at IESE Business School.

Welcoming the latest additions to the team, founder and CEO Harald Överholm, said:
“Solar is now the world’s fastest growing energy source, and to satisfy the soaring demand for solar power we need world-class knowledge in land development and co-located energy storage. That’s why I’m very excited about expanding our pan-European team with experts in these respective areas that bring onboard the experience and innovation we need to scale up across Europe, meet customer demand and future-proof our solar sites”.