Double Energy
Our team
Headed by Ivone Saraiva and Sergio Ribeiro, our executive team is highly qualified and able to identify the priorities and objectives of clients, working with them, assessing their business goals and connections to their needs, seeking the best possible solution from consolidated financial operations, customized case-by-case basis.
Ivone H. Takahashi Saraiva
General partner
Brazilian, graduated in economics from the Federal University of Pará, and an MBA in Management and MBA in Marketing on COPPEAD - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, and the General Planning Course ILPES - Latin American Institute of Economic and Social Research, in Santiago, Chile. Worked at BNDES - National Bank for Economic and Social Development where he held several roles including Director of FINAME - Special Agency for Industrial Financing, a wholly owned subsidiary of BNDES to finance machinery and equipment and Superintendent Area of Infrastructure, responsible for oil and gas, energy, telecommunications, logistics, ports, roads, navigation, urban transportation and sanitation, with a budget of over $ 8 billion sectors. It was also the CEO of Schahin Group, composed of the Construction, Real Estate and Bank Schahin and later CEO of PEM SETAL Group, consisting of the companies: Setal Construction and Engineering; Fels Setal (now Keppel FELS Brazil); Setal Telecom Participators Pempar and having served for six years on the Board and the Strategic Council of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industry - ABDIB. Has extensive experience in the financing and implementation of infrastructure projects in Brazil and other Latin American countries. Consultant is currently accredited by the Securities Securities Securities Commission-CVM and Managing Partner of Double Energy.
Sérgio Feliciano Ribeiro
General partner
Brazilian electronic engineer graduated at FEI - Faculty of Industrial Engineering with specialization in systems and computation. Degree in business administration from FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas, specializing in international finance. Represented in the BUSAIF Brazil - Banco Union SA de Inversiones y Fomento and President of Interamerica Associates & Partners in Washington - DC, company that provides services to multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank, IFC, US Eximbank, OPIC and MIGA. Representative in Brazil China Base Jiake, Trading company belonging to the Federal Government of China. Has extensive experience in financial structuring of projects providing services to clients such as South America Insurance, Porto Seguro Insurance, Petrobras, Odebrecht, Telefonica, ICF Kaiser, VONROLL, ABB, Guascor, Suzuki Corp., Pirelli, Samsung, SK Global, UOL , Sharp, Duferco, Credicard, among others. In the area of trade finance operates for customers: Duferco (Ferrous Metals); Minter (Telecom); Total (Wood and Food); Bunge (grains); Iacex (Fuel); besides many producers / exporters Wood, Soy, Meat and Cotton. He is currently Managing Partner of Double Energy.
Executivos associados
Claudio Moura Andrade
Expert in financial structuring and commercial
Bachelor of Law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an MBA in Management and Finance COPPEAD-UFRJ.
Performance in the financial markets for 35 years, having worked at Citibank, National Bank, Unibanco and Banco Santander, in the areas of Leasing, Real Estate Loans, Finance, Rural Credit, Project Finance and Transfers Government.
Participated in financing of relevant projects in oil and gas, road concession, telecommunications, electricity, sanitation, automotive, chemical and petrochemical, steel, mining, sugar and alcohol, industrial deployment and expansion of several sectors of the economy, having led various consortia Financing Agents of projects in these areas.
Consultant of Securities by Securities Commission - CVM
Ieda Gomes
Expert in Gas Project, LNG and Alternative Energies
Brazilian, graduated in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Bahia, with MSc in environmental engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and MSc in Energy by the University of São Paulo. He worked for almost 13 years at BP plc, where he served as Vice President of New Ventures for natural gas and NGLs, Brazil Associate President, Vice President Regulatory Affairs and Vice President of BP Solar. Was president of the Gas Company of São Paulo, and responsible for re-structuring, opening the company's capital, negotiating funding with the World Bank and the hiring of new natural gas supplies. A member of several international associations such as the International Gas Union and Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in the UK. He has several articles published in Brazil and abroad.
Felix Ah-Kee (USA)
Expert on Renewable Energy and Carbon Credits
American, Chemical Engineer and MSc from the University of Houston and a BS in chemistry from Louisiana State University, has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Founder Felix Ah-Kee & Associates Inc., a consultant to clients worldwide in the areas of Renewable Energy and Reduce Carbon Emissions and negotiation of credits under the Kyoto Protocol. Its customers include government agencies, public and private companies and multilateral financial agencies such as the World Bank and the IFC.
Shelka Cavalcanti Marques
Expert in projects of Solar and Wind Energy
Brazilian, graduated in electrical/electronic engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco and Business Administration from the Catholic University of Pernambuco, MBA in Project Management from FGV, Post MBA in Advanced Project Management from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and master (MSc) in Project and Portfolio Management from Boston University. Has 18 years of experience in the area of ​​renewable energies and a portfolio above 3GW of Wind and Solar Energy projects developed in Brazil and abroad.