Santiago Villagomez

CEO | Energía Real

Santiago is CEO and co-founder of Energía Real, an energy company pioneering in the distributed generation Power Purchase Agreement space. Since its inception post-deregulation of the Mexican energy sector Energía Real has been the leader in the commercial and industrial distributed energy markets; its clients include REITs and International Private Equity Real Estate Funds, as well as some of the largest privately held companies in Mexico.

In 2021, Riverstone invested in Energía Real. As part of the transaction, Riverstone acquired a controlling stake in Energía Real and committed capital for future growth. The total capital commitment allows Energía Real to keep pursuing its goal to develop 500MW of solar rooftop installations, covering up to 4 million square meters of rooftops, and offsetting more than 400,000 tons of CO2e per year.

Prior to Energía Real, Santiago was head of investments at Gran Ciudad (in charge of deploying $111 million); as well as investments and asset management associate at MIRA Companies, where he invested US$140 million in 9 real estate transactions.Since 2018, Santiago is an advisor to Dark Horse Ventures, a regional VC Fund.Santiago is a Chemical Engineer, from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.