Joseph Deignan

Current

CEO at Solarland, Slovakia
CEO at OptiEnergy

Past

CEO at Opticentre
Business Director - EMEA at Alchemy Software
Business Director : EMEA at Moravia Wordwide

Business Skills Trainer at Chambers of Commerce of Czech republic
Senior Account Manger at BT plc, YELL.com

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Education

University of the West of England
National University of Ireland, Galway
Clongowes Wood College

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360 connections

Industry

Renewables & Environment

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Joseph Deignan’s Summary

Joseph Deignan drives OptiEnergy, the only large-scale integrated Solar PV Developer and EPC player in Bulgaria, Czech republic, Macedonia and Slovakia: emerging renewable power economies blessed by an essential combination of essential sunshine and bankable incentives for Solar PV.

OptiEnergy thrives by being the absolute best in the region in each of in 3 distinct theaters: (1) Technical/EPC, (2) Financials and (3) Compliance/Regulatory and orchestrating these to deliver world-class solutions to demanding global utilities with world-class project management.

That this 'Trinity' can synchronize so efficiently to execute all aspects of large-scale Solar PV projects in Central and South East Europe is a tribute to flawless workflow and world-class organization.
That leading global Utility players choose OptiEnergy for rollout of their Emerging Market PV portfolio is further approval.

Joseph has unrivalled contacts in all theaters of the energy domain: Government/Institutional, Financial, Commercial, EU, US, etc. His intimate familiarity with all aspects (legal, financial, structural, and technological, etc) of large scale project development from conception through delivery is unmatched in this emerging sector.

Joseph is a Solar Energy Consultant to Guidepoint Global Capital, Reuters, Standard & Poor, a member of the Society of Industry Leaders, a member of the McKinsey Quarterly Executive Panel, an educator with the Gerson Lehrman Group as well as a frequent conference chair.

Prior to his solar epiphany, Joseph founded Opticentre, the world’s largest dedicated provider of Pre-Press /DTP and Technical Publishing/Documentation solutions to demanding global product shippers such as Toyota, DELL, Kodak and many more demanding global players. Based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria with a sales offices in Boston, this business employs 45 documentation engineers today.

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Joseph Deignan’s Specialties:

solar PV energy, romania, bulgaria, croatia, macedonia, makedonija, makedonia, serbia, romania, hungary, turkey, Central Eastern Southern Europe, SEE, Desktop Publishing, DTP, Prepress, Solar Panel, PV module, Q-Cells, Grid-Tie Systems; BIPV, CSP, CHP, CPV, Solar Power Plants, CleanTech, inverters, Wind Energy, First Solar, SunPower Corporation. albania; bulgaria; kosova; macedonia.

Joseph Deignan’s Experience

CEO

Solarland, Slovakia

(Renewables & Environment industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Developing a high velocity, superior production portfolio of 200 sites for 1MW PV projects in EUROzone, FIT-generous Slovakia. Stay in touch for our next Portfolio Event at our Showcase site near Bratislava.
CEO

OptiEnergy

(Public Company; Renewables & Environment industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

OptiEnergy is SouthEastern Europe's most bankable Solar PV pureplay orchestarting the best in Technicals, Financials and regulatory issues to deliver high velocity PV plants with zero risk and target-smashing production in emerging PV geographies.
With real projects, direct control of all our own resources, zero tolerance agents, 3rd parties, passengers and all forms of intermediary we exceed the project pipeline expectations of the world's most demanding utilities.
Currently in play in sunny, bankable, FIT-generous climes of Bulgaria and Slovakia.
CEO

Opticentre

(Privately Held; Translation and Localization industry)

October 2005 — May 2009 (3 years 8 months)

Opticentre: The world’s largest dedicated Technical Publishing, Multilingual Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Localization Engineering Outlet; delivering industrial-scale pro-active solutions via world-class project management to the world’s most demanding localizers. Humming from Hubs in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Galway, Ireland.
Business Director - EMEA

Alchemy Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2004 — April 2005 (1 year)
Business Director : EMEA

Moravia Wordwide

(Translation and Localization industry)

February 2002 — April 2004 (2 years 3 months)
Business Skills Trainer

Chambers of Commerce of Czech republic

(Management Consulting industry)

November 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Senior Account Manger

BT plc, YELL.com

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 1994 — November 1999 (5 years 10 months)

Joseph Deignan’s Education

University of the West of England

PGCHE , 1998
National University of Ireland, Galway

B. Commerce , Business Law, Spanish Marketing , 1988 — 1992
Clongowes Wood College

1982 — 1990

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Joseph Deignan’s Interests:

ski, mountain biking, tennis, squash, travel, opera,

Joseph Deignan’s Groups:

Member of the Society of Industry Leaders (SIL); CEO forum at Guidpoint Global, New York, California Solar Energy Industries Association (CalSEIA), European Association for Renewable Energies (EUROSOLAR), European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources (EUFORES), Illinois Renewable Energy Association, Independent Energy Producers Association, New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA), Solar Electric Power Association, European Solar Industry Federation (ESIF), Swiss Solar Energy Society, European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), founder member of Balkan Energy Alliance