Ezio has a National French Postgraduate Degree of Master in Management from the SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis. He has worked most of his career as a marketing business development consultant for European and South African companies and institutions, including the UN FAO. He has held very senior positions in both private and parastatal companies where technology and engineering have been central elements of the marketing mix. Ezio is the majority shareholder and a co-founder of Natura Energy.

Annitta is a graduate of the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science. She has 25 years experience in Project Management and R&D. She spent 14 years with the De Beers Group developing and project managing state-of-the-art remote sensing and robotics projects. Since then, Annitta has carried out various private consulting assignments in the field of renewable energies. Annitta is currently Project Manager of Natura Energy’s various power generation projects.

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Economics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. She also is a Chartered Financial Analyst. She has worked and consulted variously to a number of banks and financial institutions in the capital markets arena. She has substantial experience in structuring financial instruments issued to various institutional investors.

Wessel has extensive commercial and business management experience, working both as an engineering and management consultant for over 30 years. He has practical and technical experience as applied to power, mining, related infrastructure and manufacturing and engineering projects. He specialises in financial modelling, integrated with commercial risk analyses, and project due diligence. Wessel is an outstanding project manager within the team. Wessel has a BEng (Mechanical) from the University of Stellenbosch and subsequently obtained in 2002 a B B&A (Hons) degree, cum laude, and was awarded the Old Mutual medal for outstanding academic achievement. In 2003 he completed an MBA, cum laude, at the University of Stellenbosch Business School.