Soly
Igor de Groot is an experienced sales professional with a diverse background in various industries, currently serving as Sales Lead B2C and Sales Coach at Soly since May 2022, a company focused on making solar energy accessible to everyone. Prior roles include Sales Consultant for solar energy, Sales Advisor at Nefkens Peugeot, and Account Manager at Eneco. Igor's experience also encompasses sales positions at VodafoneZiggo and Budget Energie, along with managerial roles at Poiesz Supermarkten B.V. and internships in the sales sector. Educated in Commercial Economics at Hanze University and with earlier studies in Economics, Igor combines a solid educational foundation with extensive hands-on sales experience.
Soly
Soly is an international Clean Energy Tech company with a mission to make solar energy available to everyone. The company was founded in the summer of 2013 by brothers Patrick and Milan van der Meulen. The brothers were inspired at a young age by Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and have since decided to use their entrepreneurship ‘As a force for good’. The company is today one of the European market leaders in the field of decentralized energy generation and storage through solar panels, batteries and charging stations. Soly focuses on the residential and business markets and is active in the Netherlands, South Africa (2019), Belgium (2022), Germany (2023) the United Kingdom (2023) and Italy (2024). By developing its proprietary software platform, Soly is one of the most capital-efficient energy providers with only 140 employees across six countries. The Soly platform won a spot in the Deloitte Technology Fast50 in 2021. Soly is an impact driven company and since 2018 B Corp certified. B Corp is an international label for companies that strive for the highest standards of sustainability, financial transparency, and social justice.