Olivier Brigaud is Executive Vice President and Chief Project Officer of Orenda. In this capacity, he is responsible for the execution of the project pipeline. Prior to joining Orenda, he was founder and President of iESS, a technical energy storage advisory, where he had a number of long-term mandates for some of the largest developers of energy storage in North America. Prior thereto, he was VP of Energy Storage Solutions at Saft, a French multinational that designs and manufactures batteries. Mr. Brigaud has an extensive educational background at top higher education institutions in France, including a PhD in Chemistry from Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), a graduate degree in Business and Government Administration from Ecole des Mines de Paris, and undergraduate degrees from École Normale Supérieure.
