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Passion. A word that aptly describes Matteo Brambilla.

Red hot passion.

Red Rocket passion.

The type of passion he brings to any boardroom he enters and the same passion which has seen him and his team turn Red Rocket energy, of which he is CEO, into Africa’s top renewable energy business.

Under Brambilla’s guidance, Red Rocket, born out of the management buy-out of Building Energy and supported by EVOII Fund managed by Inspired Evolution, has been on an upward trajectory characterised by consecutive wins in each of the bid rounds of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers’ Procurement Programme.

The company has also invested an estimated $1 billion (R18bn) in renewable-energy projects across Africa and the group has

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