The people behind Yuso

Bart (Ir. Electrical Engineering, Ghent University) has over twenty years of experience in the energy sector. He led the trading activities of a Belgian utility company from the beginning of the market opening and he was more recently active in Switzerland with an international commodity trading company.

Michel (Dr in Sciences, KULeuven) has fifteen years of experience in the liberalized energy market in Belgium, Germany and Austria. He experienced the strong growth of wind and solar energy in Flanders first-hand in the wholesale sector.

Sofie has been active in the energy sector for over 20 years, in operational, support and management roles. She joined Yuso in 2018 as Finance, HR and Risk Director.

Dimitar (Macedonia, 1984) obtained his BSc in Computer Science in 2009 and MSc in Software Project Management in 2011. He has over 10 years of professional experience as a software and website developer, mainly using JavaScript technology such as Node. js and React. Currently, he's working as an IT Director at Yuso on various projects, managing its AWS infrastructure, and exploring new technologies.

Jasper is a commercial engineer who has been working at Yuso since 2018. He joined Yuso as a portfolio manager and became Head of Trading and Portfolio Management in 2022. Today he is responsible for a team of portfolio managers who are in charge of managing and optimizing Yuso’s renewable portfolio on the wholesale and flexibility markets, on a 24/7 basis and for assets in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Elias obtained a Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering with a specialization in Operations Management. Being Yuso’s Head of Projects and Products, he is leading a team of functional analysts, product owners and project managers. Together with his team he is responsible for the on-time delivery of the various project-specific implementations. Furthermore, he has to guarantee that the different products are streamlined and he ensures a smooth communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Neha is an engineer who started working at Yuso as Full Stack Developer. Since the start of 2022 she is occupying the role of Project Manager. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the finance team projects. She is closely working together with the IT department.

Nicolas has many years of experience in forecasting (extreme) weather. Via nowcasting, he goes in search of subtle changes in the weather every day. He follows the weather situation at all times and examines the influence of the weather on the energy market.

Kliment (Macedonia, 1994) student at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. He is a full-stack developer at Yuso to further develop and optimize Yuso's applications.

Thijs obtained his engineering degree in Energy Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven. He was associated with a research institution in the field of renewable energy and storage for 5 years, where his focus was on applied research, services and technology transfer to industry. He takes care of the management of the flexible assets in portfolios and their connection with the Yuso cloud platform.

Nikolce is a Macedonian Full Stack Developer that graduated in Computer system engineering automation and robotics on the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University.

In addition to his MSC in Physics & Astronomy, Jan also obtained a Postgraduate degree in Weather & Climate Modeling. As Yuso’s Quantitative Analyst, Jan is meticulously optimizing Yuso’s energy portfolio by modeling our assets in a constantly changing weather and energy landscape.

Sabine has a Master's degree in Bio-Engineering and was manager of an SME in medical software for 8 years. As Sales & Growth manager, Sabine ensures a smooth onboarding of new customers, the identification of growth potential and the development of a market-oriented product portfolio.

Kasper studied Mathematics at the University of Antwerp and Financial Engineering at the KU Leuven. Being a portfolio manager, he shares the responsibility of balancing Yuso’s portfolio of decentralized production plants on the wholesale markets.