About Us
Reef (pronounced: ‘ri:f) is a living barrier of corals, an ecosystem exceptionally rich in bio-diversity which encourages the symbiotic development of countless species of animals and plants. The reef, with its beauty equal only to its fragility, is the symbol of a richness the we are losing.
Re-ef, pronounced in the same way, is inspired by the coral reef in its aim of creating a favourable environment for the development of sustainable technologies for an ethical and efficient use of renewable sources, with minimum long term impact on the environment.
Just like the coral, Re-ef works in small steps with incremental logic, preferring the development of open source tools and solutions with the best cost to benefit ratio.
We have chosen this name for our start-up to constantly remind us what we are going to lose if we will not be able, with individual and collective contribution, to defend the most fragile environments of our planet.
WHO WE ARE
Mechanical engineer, since more than 20 years a technical manager in the industry of renewables, with specialistic hands-on experience in the design and construction (or revamping) of over 200 small hydro power plants and wind farms, reaching over 500 MW of new renewable power.
In his comfort zone both in technical as in management roles, he operated as well in R&D, mechanical and automation design and in project management. Spent six years as CEO and Chairman of a company with 40 employees, which he founded and organized, handling a portfolio of structured customers and jobs, in Italy and abroad for an average turn-over of 15 mlnEuro.
As project manager and/or project engineer, he negotiated, executed and fulfilled dozens of contracts, both with multi-utility and private investors in Italy, e with private investors and financial institutes in the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria).
M.Sc. in mechanical engineering, with a post-graduate formation as expert of computational fluid-dynamics (CFD), has been engaged for more then 10 years in R&D activities, mainly in hydropower sector.
Expert of fluid-dynamics and cold mechanics, specialized in concept design of hydraulic machines, he developed as well research activities and simulation tools for the calculation of hydraulic transient in hydro power plants, and studied the subjects of regulation and efficiency optimization.
In the team of Re-ef, he will be in charge of technology development for innovative concepts of design, installation and supervision of equipment for energy from renewable sources.
Industrial specialist, started his career as workshop engineer and procurement engineer for an industrial construction corporate.
Following employed, for almost ten years, as a construction manager and project manager in a company specialized for small hydro equipment, he spent the last three years mainly as a service manager for defining and handling maintenance activities on existing hydro power plant, both scheduled and for recovery after fault.
With the team of Re-ef, he will be in charge of ordinary and extra-ordinary service activities, with an owner’s engineering approach, for increasing reliability and availability of renewable energy power plant, integrated with specialized digital technology
WHO WE ARE
Re-ef starts from the competences of mechanical, electrical and automation engineers and project managers, communed by a similar background of qualifying and relevant experiences in the renewables.
The technicians of Re-ef have skills and direct experience in the design of power plants for renewables, and in the execution and interpretation of specialistic tests on their equipment, keeping as well a constant opening to collaboration by sharing experiences and knowledge with a network of freelance specialists of the power sector, in order to widen the available portfolio of skills and services, while applying standardized methods and procedures for a repeatable and comparable outcome.
Through a growing partnership with installation companies, Re-ef can easily access to operative personnel, teams and resources to install on the field its technologies.
With its focus on research activity and lifelong formation, the team of Re-ef grows multidisciplinary talents, well at ease in technical in-depth analysis as well as in feasibility or opportunity “lifecycle” evaluation of each project or activity.