Roberto Jiménez is an Executive Director at BW ESS, responsible for sourcing and developing new investment opportunities in the grid scale energy storage space.
Prior to joining BW ESS, Mr Jiménez was the Vice-President/General Manager at Shell, responsible for the company’s onshore power business in Europe. In 2017, he started-up Shell’s renewable power business in the region and developed the first utility-scale solar and wind parks. Mr Jiménez was responsible for starting and scaling up Shell’s renewable power business in Europe to 9 GW pipeline of projects and team of 100 professionals. He also held various corporate strategy and innovation roles at Shell. Early in his career, he worked in engineering and management consulting roles at URS (now AECOM) and ERM.
Mr Jiménez has an MBA from Yale University and a BSc. in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University.