From Banana Farms to Battery Storage: Roberto Jimenez's Unlikely Path to BW ESS

Roberto Jimenez is Executive Director of BW ESS in Germany and previously spent more than 13 years at Shell, most recently as VP of Onshore Power Europe. In this episode, Roberto takes us through a career that started far away from renewables. He grew up between the Philippines, Brazil, Guatemala and Cameroon because of his father’s work, before starting his own career at a small engineering company in Louisiana. He was originally hired because he spoke Spanish, but ended up helping the company grow its business across Latin America. His early work covered everything from ai...