Philipp Kunze

Philipp is Vice President Business Development and Sales for Nextpower (formerly Nextracker), the globally leading supplier of PV tracking systems. In this role he drives the tracker adoption across Europe, particularly in countries where trackers are not significantly adopted yet. Prior to that he was VP Strategy for the Renewables at Uniper a Germa the largest Germ gas and power utility and Managing Director of BayWa r.e. Projects Greece leading the Group’s project development and execution activities for wind, solar, hybrid and energy storage projects in Greece. Prior to this Philipp was responsible for the global coordination of BayWa r.e.’s Hybrid and Energy Storage actities. Before he was the Co-Founder and CEO of OneShore Energy, a company which focused on PV diesel hybrid systems for islands and off-grid large scale power plants. Its activities, after the acquisition of BayWa r.e. AG, led to the execution of the largest global hybrid PV diesel off-grid power plant at a mining location in Mali, Africa for B2Gold. Earlier he led the European sales efforts for Solaria Corporation initially based out of California and then Berlin, Germany. Nextracker was subsequently spun out of Solaria and he sold the first trackers to European customers. He also worked in management consulting at Invest in Germany (previously IIC, now Germany Trade and Invest) and for Monitor Company (now Monitor Deloitte). He also gained initial experience in investment banking in the M&A division of UBS, and at HypoVereinsbank (now Unicredit), a retail and investment bank in Munich.