Pierre PADILLA

Information

Company

N-ABLE

Position

Founder and CEO

Biography

Dr. Pierre Padilla is CEO of N-ABLE and runs our strategic lines in Consulting and Financing. Co-founder of the company, he oversees the expert team of the advisory and focuses on leveraging the company's impact over its client base. Pierre currently leads the missions of N-ABLE within the area of Rare Earth Elements Permanent Magnets, fostering the (re-)anchoring of the value chain within EU borders and setting new approaches toward international partnership for a resilient EU supply chain. He enabled sustainable mining technology investments (e.g., I4-GREEN, LAIN, Atalaya Mining) including the extraction of REE from Iron ore (e.g., Leonore, Gevora) and fostering circular mining (e.g., RISE). Pierre advises both corporate and government entities at global level on Green and Deep Tech financing and investment (batteries, natural assets, circular economy, sustainable mining, REE, etc.). His clients encompass large firms, global industry networks and consortia, SMEs, but also public entities such as the European Commission, World Bank, OECD, and Technology Organisations. As Expert, Chair or Coordinator, Pierre was assigned multiple mandates by the European Commission, the OECD, and other entities investing in sustainable innovation. He also acted as Advisory Board Member, and in other positions toward several innovative firms and entities. Along these lines, Pierre contributed to the design of investment funding schemes and financial products and unlocked multi-million financing rounds for various entities to accelerate innovation deployment. He was awarded his PhD in Governance of Knowledge and Innovation from the University of Twente (NL). In that context Pierre was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy – The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs; and at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR - Manchester Business School) as well as at Ecorys UK (London). He is also certified from the Vlerick Business School (Corporate Finance, VC/PE) and holds an exec. Msc in Tax and Financial Engineering from the ESCP Business School.

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