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Marco Krapels is the CEO and co-founder of Micropower-Comerc Energia S.A., a company focused on battery-storage-as-a-service for Brazil’s commercial and industrial sectors. https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/7071168 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-17/ex-tesla-executive-decamps-to-brazil-and-bets-big-on-batteries

Krapels is a former Tesla Vice President of International Expansion for solar and energy storage. Prior to Tesla’s $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity, Marco was a member of SolarCity’s executive team where he held the position of Executive Vice President of Strategy & Global Markets. Marco joined SolarCity in March of 2015 after a 20-year banking career which included 18 years at Rabobank, where he served as Executive Vice President and led its growth in renewable energy finance.

Marco is a co-founder of Empowered by Light Foundation, which has donated over $3 million of solar and battery micro-grids to communities protecting wildlife in Africa, Nepal and South America, including a solar farm at Standing Rock.https://www.empoweredbylight.org/native-american-communities

As an impact investor, Marco is an Advisor to Obvious Ventures https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/08/obvious-ventures/, the impact fund co-founded by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams. Along with actor Mark Ruffalo and Stanford Professor Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Krapels is a co-founder of The Solutions Project[] – a non-profit focused accelerating the 100% renewable energy transition.

Marco appeared in former U.S. Vice President’s Al Gore’s climate change documentary, “Inconvenient Sequel”, and also co- produced Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change documentary “Before the Flood” -- lending his expertise in renewable energy to both projectshttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm8430225/.

Krapels is also a frequent public speaker on the topic of distributed energy, including at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sLt5gNAQs, Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gu4AaUNSA, Georgetown University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE-4kOTa0Yw and The Commonwealth Club’s Climate One https://www.climateone.org/people/marco-krapels