Martin Baart has more than 17 years of experience in the renewable energy industry with more than 13 years in emerging markets. He started his career with a German regional municipality on grid integration of grid-scale solar PV projects. During his master’s he lived in Australia, working for the global leader in Microgrids, Powercorp, on the technical integration of solar and wind solutions into Microgrids. Moving into business development he opened their European office. He then supported the management in its sale of the business to ABB. For ABB he built up the Microgrid business unit in Madrid, after which he left to join Berlin based Start-up OneShore Energy as CTO. With them he developed the East African markets and technologies suited for the risk minimization of Off-Grid Solar PPA’s. After building up the company, he left in 2015 to prepare for the foundation of ecoligo, addressing the key barrier for solar projects in emerging markets: a fully serviced and financed solution. Since then, he led the business into a global player, active in 8 countries with more than 100 projects realised, saving more than 600k tons of CO2 emissions. Martin is a qualified Electronics Technician, has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Trier University of Applied Science, a Master of Business and Engineering from Steinbeis University in Berlin and a Global Executive Master of Business Administration from IE business school in Madrid. He also is a Certified Expert for Climate & Renewable Energy Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.