Alvaro Perez

Alvaro Perez joined ACWA Power as the Chief Digital Officer and is leading ACWA Power’s digital transformation, as well as managing the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) functions.

He has over 20 years of experience within technology integration and has been responsible for leading large international IT projects where technology and digitisation were key for business transformation. Mr. Perez had been a member of numerous boards including International Oracle Utilities Product Development Advisory Board and several American power generation associations, and participated as an entrepreneur on different ICO, blockchain and IoT initiatives.

Prior to joining ACWA Power, Mr. Perez held different posts during the last 20 years at the largest top five utilities in America and Europe most prominent being CEO of their services companies, CIO and Head of their Digital Hubs where he mainly specialised in distributed generation, demand response and aggregation, energy efficiency and smart cities development.

Mr. Perez is an Economic Science graduate from Complutense University, Spain. He also holds a degree in Executive Strategies from Harvard Business School.