X1 Wind has made a series of new appointments to help accelerate full-scale commercial operations.

New additions to the team include Strategy and Business Development Director João Neves, Mechanical Engineer Javier G. Cervilla and Junior Structural Engineer Lucy Milde. The recruits bring a wealth of experience from world leading firms and institutions including the Boston Consulting Group, General Electric and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

"Our new recruits will play an important role, helping to inform and accelerate our technical and commercial strategy", said X1 Wind CEO & Co-Founder Alex Raventos.

“We are thrilled to announce a series of new high-profile appointments, which will charge up the X1 Wind operation at a critical phase as we accelerate towards commercialisation,” he said. “We have focused on carefully refining our technology, in order to create a truly unique and disruptive floating wind energy solution. Our overarching aim is to make a meaningful contribution to help combat climate change through large-scale decarbonization of the energy system. With this goal in mind, we have taken time to assemble a close-knit group of excellent engineers covering all core areas necessary to develop our innovative floating wind technology as well as experts on strategy and business development. Our new recruits will play an important role, helping to inform and accelerate our technical and commercial strategy. Importantly, they bring shared values, which is crucial to the X1 Wind company ethos, backed by passion, experience and talent. In the coming months we will be progressing through a series of important stages with the PivotBuoy pilot project deploying our first operational prototype in an open ocean environment. In parallel with this we are working on the design and certification of our first full-scale floating wind unit, while evaluating pre-commercial sites and projects.”

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