Julian Nebreda leads the Fluence team and its efforts to accelerate energy storage adoption globally, and to transform the way we power our world to ensure a more sustainable future. He brings over 20 years of experience in the energy industry as well as his expertise as a Fluence board member since September 2021.

Prior to joining Fluence, Julian was President of the South America Strategic Business Unit of The AES Corporation since October 2018. Mr. Nebreda has also acted as the President of the AES Brazil Strategic Business Unit from April 2016 to October 2018, and the President of the Europe Strategic Business Unit from 2009 to April 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Nebreda held several senior positions, such as Vice President for Central America and Caribbean from 2007 to 2009, Chief Executive Officer of Electricidad de Caracas from 2005 to 2007, and President of AES Dominicana, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 2003 to 2005. Mr. Nebreda serves as Chairman of the Board of AES Andes and AES Brasil. Before joining AES, Julian held positions in the public and private sectors, namely he served as Counsellor to the Executive Director from Panama and Venezuela at the Inter-American Development Bank from 1993 to 1999.

Mr. Nebreda earned a law degree from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He also earned a Master of Laws in common law with a Fulbright fellowship and a Master of Laws in securities and financial regulations, both from Georgetown University.

As Chief Financial Officer, Manu Sial is responsible for the financial management of Fluence and the development of financial services for Fluence customers, and from a finance perspective the tendering and execution of projects and managing the procurement function.

Prior to joining Fluence, Mr. Sial has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at SunPower Corporation for four years, where he led SunPower’s treasury, project finance, investor relations, financial planning, and accounting organizations. Prior to joining SunPower, Mr. Sial served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VECTRA, which was a portfolio company of certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, from 2015 through 2018. Prior to his employment with VECTRA, Mr. Sial held various global finance and operations leadership roles with SunEdison Inc. from 2011 to 2015, including serving as Senior Vice President, Finance in 2015 and Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific and South Africa from 2013 through 2014. Before joining SunEdison Inc., Mr. Sial spent 11 years with General Electric (GE) in a variety of roles. Mr. Sial earned his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and his Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University in India.

As Chief Product Officer, Rebecca Boll is responsible for developing products and services that anticipate customer needs and that leverage our leadership position within the energy storage industry. In this role, she will be leading a team of experts in market applications, marketing, and product management.

Prior to joining Fluence, she was Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Buildings business at Schneider Electric. There, she led a team assessing advanced technologies to make buildings more autonomous and sustainable. Prior to that, she was Chief Technology Officer at GE Licensing & Technology Ventures, guiding investments for technology transfer and intellectual property creation. Before that, she held various other leadership roles at GE, including starting and leading GE’s Edge Computing & Software Solutions business segment, and helping lead business, product and technology functions for GE Aviation, GE Global Research and GE Power. Before entering the private sector, Rebecca served for six years as an Electronic Combat Officer in the United States Air Force.

Rebecca received her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Boston University and master’s in human relations from the University of Oklahoma.

As Chief Technology Officer, Brett Galura leads Fluence’s technology selection, integration design, controls development and market & system modeling for Fluence’s energy storage solutions. He also oversees Fluence Next, which focuses on advancing Fluence's long-term technology R&D strategy.

Prior to joining Fluence, Brett served in a variety of capacities over 20 years’ experience with the AES Corporation, including leading AES Energy Storage’s Solution Development team from 2010 onward, architecting and managing the deployment of multiple global information technology projects, overseeing commercial operations development in an AES retail electricity business, co-founding an AES telecom business, and directing AES’ IT operations expansion in Asia and the Middle East.

As Chief Digital Officer at Fluence, Krishna leads the strategic growth of Fluence’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. In this role, Krishna oversees teams of AI and data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and operations and commercial sales experts to accelerate Fluence’s digital offerings globally.

Krishna brings more than 16 years of demonstrated expertise in building customer solutions through senior technology and product management roles across multiple industries. Prior to joining Fluence, he served as the Chief Product Officer at InCharge Energy. Prior to that, Krishna was also Founder and CEO of MyShoperoo, ranked 6th among the most fundable startups in the U.S. and featured in Entrepreneur magazine. He also worked as an executive at Telogis, Inc., where he built and managed product teams, one of which built the world’s first and fastest cloud-based route optimization engine.

Krishna holds a Cum-Laude B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, and an M.B.A. from Georgia State University.

As Chief Human Resources Officer, Larissa Cerqueira is responsible for the Fluence Global HR Strategy and deployment, enabling the business and our employees to fulfill their highest potentials. Larissa and her global team drive all HR initiatives and operations, including organizational development, business partnering, talent management, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, and payroll, among others.

Her 20+ years of experience and solid track record in people, leadership and organization development support Fluence’s continued international growth and expansion. Prior to joining Fluence, Larissa acted as VP - Global Talent Management, heading talent management for four international operational platforms under a large industrial conglomerate. With a strong background in all HR disciplines, she drove global talent strategies and initiatives across business verticals, with a strong focus on business growth and talent pipelines.

Larissa holds an MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas as well as an undergraduate degree in psychology from Universidade de Brasília.

Frank Fuselier is Fluence’s lead attorney and brings significant expertise in energy, commercial contracting, cross-border transactions and governance.
Prior to joining Fluence, Frank served as General Counsel North America for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, a global manufacturer and service provider of wind turbines, where he oversaw legal matters relating to turbine sales, operations and maintenance, project development, M&A, litigation management, real estate and human resources. He also served as Associate Counsel for the Conair Corporation, a worldwide manufacturer of consumer products, handling a wide variety of commercial, transactional and general corporate matters. Previously, Frank also managed all legal affairs as SVP, Secretary and General Counsel for Gateway Energy Services Corporation.

Earlier in his career, Frank practiced as an Associate at global law firms Mayer Brown and Bingham McCutchen. He holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Columbia Law School, as well as a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and master’s degree in theater from Villanova University.

As Chief Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Services Officer, Carol is responsible for manufacturing, logistics and supply chain at Fluence. With 25 years of experience throughout the end-to-end value chain, she has worked with many of the world’s largest contract manufacturers and suppliers to drive the best total cost of ownership throughout the supply chain. Carol has a proven track record of piloting change management efforts, increasing market share and expediting time to market.

Before joining Fluence, Carol was vice president of supply chain operations at Itron. Prior to that, she was chief operating officer and member of the board of directors at DataLogic, vice president of Hewlett Packard’s EG AMS manufacturing and supply chain operations, and held senior leadership roles at companies including Intermec and Plasmon, Inc.

Carol holds a dual BSc in information management and finance with a minor in psychology and an MBA in supply chain, manufacturing, and operations management from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

In his leadership role at Fluence, Marek leads the Global Strategy, Partnerships & M&A team and oversees the Commercial function of the company. He provides in-depth industry and market insights to Fluence and its customers and partners while driving growth and enhancing the efficiency of Fluence’s commercial operations.

Prior to joining Fluence, Marek was a managing director of strategic partnerships, energy storage at The AES Corporation, where he was instrumental in the development of key storage projects throughout the world, as well as the transition of the storage business from AES to Fluence.

Previously, Marek was part of the Infrastructure Investment arm of Partners Group, a global private equity firm and part of the Valuation & Strategy team at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also founded several startups in the technology space.

Marek holds an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Diplom-Kaufmann degree from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

As president of the Americas, John is responsible for go-to-market implementation and honing customer-centric solutions for customers in the region. Prior to this role, John acted as chief operating officer where he directed the Fluence teams that create and deliver storage solutions and services to leading customers around the world. Working with progressive power system players, John and his teams create valuable business use cases for grid-scale storage, educate storage users in these benefits, manage the deployment of new systems, and help service these systems throughout their complete lifecycle.

John was a cofounder of AES Energy Storage in 2007, a recognized market leader, and led AES' team in pioneering nearly 500MW of utility-scale applications of battery-based energy storage projects in the U.S., Chile, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic.

Accomplishments include the deployment of the world’s largest grid connected lithium ion battery (five times), the first power purchase agreement for energy storage at the 100MW Alamitos Power Center, and the first multi-megawatt scale storage systems approved in six countries.

John is a regular industry speaker on energy storage, innovation, and leadership and is often quoted on these topics in mainstream and industry journals. Prior to energy storage, John worked at AES in retail power and fiber telecommunications, and as a consultant and market analyst to the telecommunications industry.

John holds a master's degree in public policy from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's in economics and social science from Florida State University.

As president of APAC, Jan is responsible for go-to-market implementation and honing customer-centric solutions for customers in the region. In his previous role, Jan was vice president for global markets where he oversaw Fluence’s global sales and product marketing efforts.

Prior to joining Fluence, Jan led development of Siemens’ global energy storage business, as well as serving in senior marketing and sales capacities for Eaton’s solar inverter business and Siemens in southeast Asia. Jan has worked in the fields of product development, project management, sales and marketing for over 20 years and has a deep understanding of existing power grids and the challenges they face.

While employed by major distribution systems suppliers in Europe and several Asian countries, he built broad knowledge in power distribution products and systems and solutions, for conventional and power electronics-based technologies.

Jan holds a degree in electrical engineering from University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern.

As president of EMEA, Paul is responsible for go-to-market implementation and honing customer-centric solutions for customers in the region. Prior to this role, he served as vice president of EMEA at Fluence where he directed the sales organization throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

Paul has diverse expertise across the Energy and Information Technology industries, having held leadership roles for more than nine years with AES Corp as Vice President Energy Storage EMEA, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Europe and Asia, Vice President of Shared Services Europe and Mergers & Acquisitions Europe Solar.

Prior to his work with AES, Paul worked with the Saon Group in Dublin, Ireland where he was a founding member of a technology start-up, Candidate Manager Ltd. Having initially led the development of the technology, he went on to establish and build the UK division becoming COO and then CEO.

Paul has an MBA from the Ulster Business School and is a BSc Agricultural Economics & Management graduate from Queens University Belfast.