Carlalberto Guglielminotti
In a nutshell
Guglielminotti is a serial entrepreneur who served as CEO of NHOA Group for 12 years, leading its listing on Euronext in 2015 – with less than €1 million in revenue – and overseeing three Public Tender Offers: ENGIE's in 2018, TCC Group Holdings' in 2021, and subsequently the 2024 offer aimed at delisting and exiting the Paris stock exchange, achieving an Enterprise Value of €540 million.
Guglielminotti transformed a distressed spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Turin and Milan, close to bankruptcy in 2013, into NHOA Group, with over 600 employees from 42 nationalities across five continents, a management team composed of 60% women, and one of the most advanced corporate wellbeing programs in Europe. The Group has become:
• A tier-1 global technology player in battery storage systems for renewable energy storage, with over 2 GWh of installations by NHOA Energy (source: Bloomberg).
• A leader in electric mobility across Europe and North America, with over 60,000 wallboxes produced annually by Free2move eSolutions, a joint venture with Stellantis, and more than 4,000 fast and ultra-fast EV charging points across Southern Europe through the Atlante network.
Entrepreneurial and Institutional engagement
Guglielminotti has also co-founded two other successful startups: Blackshape Aircraft and TheFork (TripAdvisor), formerly known as Restopolis.
Appointed in 2020 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum 2020, Carlalberto Guglielminotti was also recognized in 2023 with The Executive Award Italy - Honoring Sustainable Leaders and in 2018 with the Innovation Award of the European Investment Bank.
Carlalberto Guglielminotti is also member of the Board of the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and of Leadersel Innotech ESG Scientific Committee (Ersel).
Family and Social Commitment
Carlalberto is a passionate alpine skiing enthusiast and a devoted admirer of Val Vigezzo, where he spends over 100 days a year with his wife Claudia and their children Tommaso, Edoardo, and Vittoria.
He is also deeply committed to social causes and supports the community through various roles:
• Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, an international independent organization improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, and academic leaders;
• Ambassador of the Theodora Foundation, which provides moments of play for children hospitalized in high-complexity wards;
• Secretary-General of the Ciolina ETS Foundation, which promotes the artistic and cultural heritage of Italian divisionism and post-impressionism, as well as that of Val Vigezzo;
• President of the NHOA Ski Team, a ski club and social project that involves Paralympic athletes and World Cup coaches, aiming to become a national educational model for fostering young talent in a context of excellence, balance, and inclusion.
Unconventional education
Carlalberto Guglielminotti was born in Turin in 1983 and spent his childhood and adolescence primarily focused on alpine skiing and mountaineering. In parallel, from the age of 15 until his move to Paris, he worked as a metalworker alongside his father, spent his holidays as a sports manager in tourist resorts and cruise ships, and volunteered for emergency medical services with the 118. After abandoning his dream of a professional sports career, he turned his focus to academics, earning two law degrees in France and Italy, becoming a qualified attorney in Milan in 2010, and pursuing further studies in philosophy at Haifa University in Israel. He also earned an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management and subsequently enriched his education in the United States at Wharton and Stanford University.
NHOA’s history: from a start-up close to failure to a global leader in energy transition
Guglielminotti turned NHOA Group from a spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino and Milano into a worldwide player in energy storage and e-mobility. Born in 2005 as Electro Power Systems (EPS), and close to bankruptcy and failure in 2013, with the arrival of Guglielminotti the company completed a complex financial restructuring in record time and in 2015 was listed on the regulated Euronext market in Paris, with a market cap of 55 million euros. In 2018 ENGIE, global energy leader, acquired a majority stake of EPS for an Enterprise Value of over 100 million euros from its historic shareholders, and then subsequently launched the takeover bid on the French stock exchange leading it to acquire over 60% of EPS capital. In 2021 TCC Group Holdings, an industrial Asian group third cement producer worldwide, acquired ENGIE’s stake for an Enterprise Value of over 240 million euros, unfolding “new horizons ahead” for EPS, which on 20 July 2021 became NHOA – New Horizons Ahead. NHOA Group has offices in France, Spain, US, Taiwan and Australia, and maintains R&D in its Global Engineering Center in Milan, production and manufacturing in its industrial plant in Valtellina.
Sustainability has always been the main focus for NHOA Group: enabling the global transition towards clean energy and sustainable mobility, shaping a better future for next generations so that they can live in harmony with our planet.
With over 130 patents worldwide and more than 1,200 registered trade secrets, innovation and people have always been at the heart of NHOA's strategy. For this reason in 2023, Guglielminotti launched an ambitious employee policy, the People Strategy, rooted in the values of inclusion and diversity, and the physical and mental wellbeing of employees. This includes one of Europe’s most advanced corporate wellbeing programs, the NHOA Élite Program, which provides NHOA's 600 employees—spanning 42 nationalities across 5 continents—and a management team that is 60% female, with the tools to harmoniously integrate professional and personal wellbeing.
The NHOA Élite Program also extends to initiatives developed or supported by NHOA that embrace communities and educate on diversity and inclusion. Among these is the NHOA Ski Team, a unique social project with the ambition to become a national educational model for all sports clubs that feel the responsibility to raise young people in a context of excellence, balance, and inclusion.
In 2023, NHOA achieved over €270 million in revenue, meeting all financial targets announced to the market, and continued to post growth in the first half of 2024, prior to delisting.
In conjunction with the launch of the second public tender offer by majority shareholder TCC Group Holdings aimed at delisting the company and exiting the Paris stock exchange for a total Enterprise Value of €540 million, on October 31, 2024, Carlalberto Guglielminotti submitted his resignation as Group CEO, as well as from all operational positions and roles he held.
