CWP Global is a frontrunner in the transition to sustainable energy

We are committed to accelerating the path to net-zero emissions by 2050, driving innovation, and fostering global collaborations to create a sustainable and equitable future for all.

Who We Are

CWP Global is no ordinary renewables developer

 

· We have developed Europe’s largest onshore wind farm

· We have developed the largest renewable power portfolio in Australia

· We continue to build out Southeast Europe’s largest grid-connected power portfolio across 10 countries

· We are pioneers in the development of ultra large scale green hydrogen hubs

Our History

Our business has two key focus areas:
– Grid-connected renewables in Europe.
– Ultra-large-scale green hydrogen hubs across five continents

Founded in 2007, the CWP group began its journey as a developer of windfarms in Southeast Europe. Building on two key early successes – the first wind farm in Serbia (Cibuk 1, 158 MW) and the largest on-shore wind farm in Europe (Fantanele-Cogealac, 600 MW) – the company expanded its operations to Australia, under the name CWP Renewables. In Australia, CWP developed a portfolio of over 1.5 GW of wind and solar projects, with a strong emphasis on community collaboration. CWP Renewables, CWP’s Australian arm, was a joint platform with Partners Group, and sold for $4 billion to Squadron Energy in 2022.

CWP Global continues to develop wind farms and solar parks in Southeast Europe, under the name CWP Europe, and has a pipeline of 7+ GW of grid-connected projects under development in Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Slovenia.

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CWP Global began another key step of its journey in 2015, identifying an early opportunity to produce green hydrogen in Australia and using its experience developing utility-scale renewables projects to launch the groundbreaking Australian Renewable Energy Hub. The 26 GW hub, now operated by bp, marked the beginning of an expansion into green hydrogen which CWP Global recognizes is an energy carrier that will be essential to decarbonizing key industries such as steel or maritime shipping. Since 2015, CWP Global has been able to identify the best sites across the world for the development of ultra-large-scale green hydrogen projects, and has a 200+ GW portfolio in the works, aiming to deliver the first million tonnes of green hydrogen and derivatives by 2030.

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Our Values

Integrity

We believe in doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. Integrity is at the core of every decision we make, ensuring that we are always aligned with our mission and vision.

Innovation

The challenges of transitioning to a sustainable future require innovative solutions. We encourage creativity and are committed to staying at the forefront of technological advancements in renewable energy and green hydrogen.

Collaboration

We understand that we can achieve more when we work together. Collaboration is key to our success, whether it’s within our team, with our partners, or with the communities we serve.

Tenacity

The race to net-zero emissions by 2050 is not just a goal; it’s an imperative. We operate with a sense of urgency in all our endeavors, understanding that the time to act for a sustainable future is now, while maintaining a long-term vision of what is needed to get to a carbon-free planet.

Transformative Impact

Sustainability is not just a part of our business; it is our business. We are committed to creating a sustainable future for the planet and improving the quality of life for its inhabitants.

Empowerment

We are deeply committed to empowering people and uplifting communities, ensuring they have the tools and opportunities to shape their own futures. Our dedication to empowerment is rooted in fostering growth, collaboration and celebrating shared successes.

Sustainability
& Ethics

At CWP Global, we are committed to creating a sustainable future for both people and the planet. Our mission is to lead the transition to renewable energy, with a focus on green hydrogen and grid-connected renewables projects. We understand that sustainability is not just about the environment; it’s about creating value for everyone involved — our communities,
our partners, and our team.

Our Commitment to ESG

We are proud to provide an annual insight into our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Starting with a commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040, we take our ESG responsibilities seriously. We are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly focusing on:

Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.

Climate Action

Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Gender Equality

Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.

 

Our People

Our people are our greatest asset, and we are committed to creating a workplace that promotes health and well-being. We are working towards equitable female representation at all management levels and are exploring initiatives to encourage and support more women in the renewables industry.

Safety and Well-being

Safety is a priority at CWP Global. We have modernized our reporting structures to allow for infield reporting and developed automated real-time dashboards to collate this information. This enables a greater site-specific awareness of risk areas and strengthens our safety culture.

We are active and value-adding members of our societies. Our community investment strategies for each project are developed in collaboration with our communities and are regularly tracked for effectiveness.

We are inspired by the opportunity to contribute to a profound and lasting positive change in the life of our planet and the people we work with. Our sustainability framework encapsulates our values, our way of work, and our priorities related to our sustainability efforts. It serves to inform and inspire those who take part in our journey so that we can together build a greener and more sustainable world.

 

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Meet our team

  • Mark Crandall

    Founder & Chairman

    Mark Crandall

    Founder & Chairman

    Mr. Mark Crandall co-founded Morgan Stanley's commodity trading business in 1984. Subsequently he was the head of Glencore’s oil trading business, and then was a founder of Trafigura which has now become one of the largest physical commodity traders in the world with over €100 billion in revenues. Upon leaving Trafigura in 2005, Mr. Crandall started investing his own personal funds in renewable energy development through PostScriptum Ventures. In 2007 he officially formed CWP where he currently serves as the Chairman and Member of the Executive Board.

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  • Alex Hewitt

    Founder & Board Director

    Alex Hewitt

    Founder & Board Director

    Alex is a founding partner of CWP. Engineer by degree, entrepreneur, and keen surfer. With over three decades of experience built from spectacular successes across five continents and the odd humiliating failure, he has developed and financed over 2,000MW of wind energy projects in Europe and Australia since 2005. During his long career, Alex has been involved in the delivery of major power and water infrastructure across Asia, Australia, Europe , and Africa. He is now focussed on the development of CWP’s massive green hydrogen projects across the globe.

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  • Mike Scholey

    CEO

    Mike Scholey

    CEO

    Mike assumed the role of CEO of CWP Global’s Hydrogen business in 2024 after serving on the board for several years. Before joining CWP, he was the CEO of Globeleq, where he started in 2015. Prior to that, he also led the original CWP grid-connected wind business as CEO.With 30 years of experience in the international power sector, Mike has worked across five continents, developing, building, financing, and operating projects involving a wide range of technologies, including gas, engine, solar, wind, hydro, battery, and biomass. He spent twelve years at AES, where he rose to the position of Division President.Originally trained as a geologist, Mike is also a Chartered Accountant. Though his time in the oil and gas industry was brief, he is now deeply involved in the Energy Transition, where he thrives on the scale and complexity of the challenges it presents.

  • Guido Schumacher

    Chief Technology Officer

    Guido Schumacher

    Chief Technology Officer

    Guido is a highly professional business executive in the Renewable Energy sector with 26 years of experience in Sales, Commercial Operations and Business Leadership. He structured and negotiated wind-turbine contracts in over 30 countries and closed transactions worth over $16B, many of them with global energy companies like Iberdrola, EDF, EDPR, E-ON, Engie, ERG, Total, CEZ and ENI.

  • Charles Haworth

    Chief Operations & Finance Officer

    Charles Haworth

    Chief Operations & Finance Officer

    Charles has a wide range of international expatriate business experience working in the energy industry since 2006. This includes roles in Onshore Wind, Offshore Wind, Hybrid Renewables, Gas Turbines, Services, Nuclear Energy and Reciprocating Engines. As a business leader, Charles has led teams across a multiple-B$ portfolio. He is committed to delivering innovative solutions to support the global energy transition. Charles is a graduate of two leadership programs within his previous company GE, the Commercial Leadership Program and the Accelerated Leadership Program and holds a PhD in Laser Physics and an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London, UK. In his spare time, he enjoys sports (martial arts, climbing, running and board sports) and writing articles on leadership, technology, investing and sustainability.

  • Ramy Lotfy

    Chief Commercial Officer

    Ramy Lotfy

    Chief Commercial Officer

    Ramy Lotfy is the Chief Commercial Officer for CWP Global’s Hydrogen division Ramy is an established Business leader within the energy industry assuming senior leadership roles in PLC environments with accountability for strategy, M&A, Asset management, fund raising and commercial operations. He has led large and complex businesses globally with multi-billion dollar developments in the extractives, infrastructure and energy business. Ramy was most recently the group Head of Commercial for Tullow Oil PLC and held previous positions at BG Group and Wood Mackenzie.

  • Tom Dimitroff

    General Counsel

    Tom Dimitroff

    General Counsel

    Tom Dimitroff is a lawyer, strategy advisor and senior leader with wide-ranging experience in project, structuring, project de-risking, M&A and finance. Tom has spent 25 years working in energy and infrastructure and has led negotiating teams that have structured and delivered globally significant infrastructure projects across The Former Soviet Union, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

  • Audrey Hackett

    Chief ESG Officer

    Audrey Hackett

    Chief ESG Officer

    Audrey leads the ESG function across CWP Global and CWP Europe and brings over 15 years of sustainability-related experience across a broad range of issues including human rights, health and safety, ethics and compliance, stakeholder engagement, environmental stewardship, and strategic planning. Audrey is a passionate risk management advocate who believes that strong governance is the key to ensuring effective resource allocation and maximising efficiency across the organisation. To support a personal transition from the mining sector to renewable energy, Audrey completed an MSc in Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex (UK) during which she developed a keen interest in the concept of environmental and, more specifically, energy justice. Her vision is to differentiate the company on environmental stewardship, social performance and governance such that it becomes the global developer of choice.

  • Dean Bialek

    Chief External Affairs & Government Relations Officer

    Dean Bialek

    Chief External Affairs & Government Relations Officer

    Dean Bialek is a leading international lawyer, diplomat and expert on energy, climate change and sustainable development. Dean took up his role with CWP in late 2021, and now leads the company’s engagement with external stakeholders on the policy, diplomatic and development finance aspects of the company’s portfolio of green hydrogen hubs. He recently relocated with his family from Australia, where he worked on the flagship 26GW Australian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) project, to a new base in Spain to focus more intently on projects in North Africa and the emerging green hydrogen market in Europe. Before his work with CWP, Dean was lead political advisor to the UN High-Level Champion for Climate Action, Nigel Topping, on preparations for COP26 in Glasgow and the UN ‘Race to Zero’ campaign. Prior to that, he worked as a Principal Advisor to former UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, and her Mission 2020 campaign. Earlier on, Dean worked for six years as an Australian diplomat, including representing his country at the United Nations in New York. He then worked as a lead negotiator and legal advisor to the world’s island states (AOSIS) in the six years of talks that led to the adoption of the 2015 Paris Agreement. He helped to draft many of the Agreement’s key provisions. Dean has a PhD (International law) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Laws (Environmental Law) from the University of London (LSE / SOAS).

  • Bobby Pecotic

    Chief Product Definition & Offtake Officer

    Bobby Pecotic

    Chief Product Definition & Offtake Officer

    After graduating with a degree in Philosophy and Economics, Bobby set up a record label in London which led him to developing a youth influencer campaign with Converse UK, which he ran for three years. Following this, Bobby went into real estate in London, eventually setting up his own real estate trading, investment & development company. In total, his company developed and traded land for just under 300 houses and apartments in and near London in under 4 years.

  • Nouri Chahid

    Chief Business Development Officer

    Nouri Chahid

    Chief Business Development Officer

    Nouri is an Aerospace Engineer graduate of Parks College of St Louis University (USA) and holds an MBA from the Nottingham Trent University (UK), with close to 30 years of experience in various business industries, of which 20 years spent in general management. Besides aero engineering (work on the MD-11 and MD-12 at McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach and on the L-59 at the Czech Aero Research & Testing Institute), Nouri’s field of expertise is in FMCG both in food and non-food, responsible for the Africa, Middle East and Indian regions at Outboard Marine Corporation, and CEO/Deputy CEO of the Klas Group/United Bakeries, as well as in automotive production & steel processing, as Managing Director of Worthington Industries cylinders division in the Czech Republic. After some short-term consultancy work within the last 10 years, Nouri joined the CWP Team in late 2019 and is now overseeing the development of some very exciting PtX projects on the African continent. Other than his work, his personal interests range from aviation, powerboating, cosmology, international politics, to simply skiing some slopes in his favorite Austria, playing tennis, chess or the violin at home.

  • Roberto Begher

    Regional President LATAM

    Roberto Begher

    Regional President LATAM

    Roberto is the GM for CWP's South American developments. He has an extensive trajectory in the Energy sector where he has been Executive President, Director and CEO of various important companies such as IPI International, CGC and Puma Energy. He has also been member of the board to various banks and companies throughout the years. Roberto has spent most of his professional life creating and establishing new business models for innovative companies and has had close relationship with all the main players in the energy market and political arena. In his early years he graduated  in Law in Argentina (UBA) and in the United States (NYU MCJ) and has combined over the years this skill with his Business Management (Universite de Liege and OCD ) to write and negotiate long term contracts.

  • Josh Mikesell

    Regional President Africa

    Josh Mikesell

    Regional President Africa

    Josh has 25 years of professional experience in energy and geopolitical analysis in executive positions spanning business development, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. He began his career serving as an intelligence analyst at the CIA, providing senior government leaders with insight on strategic energy developments. He then joined Chevron Corporation as a manager of international government affairs, directly supporting major new projects in Asia and the Middle East. Josh also has experience in start-up ventures, including a boutique consultancy providing due diligence and risk assessments in frontier markets, largely for energy focused clients, and a supply chain risk technology firm.Prior to joining CWP Global in early 2023, he also oversaw intelligence and risk assessment at MetLife, a Fortune 50 financial services company. Josh has an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where he was a member of an NCAA Division One swimming national championship team, and a graduate degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Outside of work, Josh enjoys road cycling, mountain biking, architecture, art, and trying to keep up with his three college-aged children.

  • Tim Horneman

    Regional President APAC

    Tim Horneman

    Regional President APAC

    Tim is our Regional President for Asia Pacific and is responsible for our assets in Australia and activities throughout the Asia Pacific region. Tim is a member of the Board of Directors of our Australian projects AREH and WGEH and has relationships with Asian energy buyers. He has been involved in the financial and commercial management of the construction and operation of ultra large scale integrated energy assets which include the capture of upstream energy, midstream transmission and downstream processing and shipping of product.Prior to joining CWP, Tim held a number of roles at Origin Energy in green hydrogen and also as Chief Financial Officer and Deputy CEO of the US$25B APLNG joint venture between Origin Energy, ConocoPhillips and Sinopec and was responsible for managing a US$8B project finance facility. Prior to that Tim managed Petronas’ equity interest in the US$18B GLNG joint venture between Petronas, Santos, KOGAS and Total through the construction and operations phase.

  • Margaret Mutschler

    AMAN Project Director

    Margaret Mutschler

    AMAN Project Director

    Margaret has substantial experience in the packaging, negotiating and managing of infrastructure projects, focusing on environmental sustainability, technical feasibility, commercial viability, legal architecture and financial bankability. She frequently performs due diligence processes for commercial banks, development banks and funding institutions. Margaret provides guidance to development in the infrastructure financing industry, serving on a number of investment fund boards and investment committees. Margaret completed her Electrical Engineering degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 1991 and obtained her Master’s degree in Finance and Financial Law from the University of London in 2011. She also completed a Certificate in Blockchain Strategy during the 2020 COVID19 lockdown period. Since May 2017 she is a partner in Mutschler Consulting Services (MCS), a Namibian owned cross-sectoral consultancy. She provides engineering, management and development solutions on sustainable projects, across different sectors, whilst assisting clients in the development and implementation of projects, processes and structures which will support the ability of current and future generations to maintain a healthy community. She joined the team in 2019 and in 2023 took over the role of Director of CWP Global's 30 GW AMAN project in Mauritania.

  • Momchil Arnautski

    Business & Financial Analytics Director

    Momchil Arnautski

    Business & Financial Analytics Director

    Momchil began his career as an assurance analyst at EY (Ernst & Young). After that he joined a Dutch hedge fund where he gained experience in equity trading encompassing various industries, top-down, bottom-up, quantitative and fundamental research, along with algorithmic trading strategy development. He was passionate to continue his career in value creation and environmental impact industries, thus after 2 years as an equity trader he joined CWP. Since joining CWP in 2017, Momchil has focused his efforts on financial analysis of various wind, solar and storage projects. He is also involved in the research and economic analysis of various technologies related to the power to molecules sector (PtX). Prior to working life, Momchil completed a master’s degree at Rotterdam School of Management and a bachelor’s degree at Bocconi University Milan. Outside CWP you will find Momchil in the park having a walk or learning how to play the guitar.
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