Patrick Stein-Kaempfe is a senior advisor to Enertrag, Germany’s leading renewable energy developer, and a project director at Hyphen, Namibia’s first Gigawatt-scale green hydrogen-to-ammonia project. Patrick is a seasoned private equity professional with experience at leading investment houses H.I.G. Capital, Penta Investments and Cranemere across the US, Europe and Africa. Patrick’s experience in the energy sector includes the successful buyout of Haltermann (today H.C.S. Group), a specialty refinery and a €100 million series E growth capital round for MiaSolé, a CIGS solar PV technology company. Patrick’s experience on the Africa continent further includes the co-founding of Actus Education Africa, an Africa-focused K-12 education holding platform and led successful investments in Kenya’s leading affordable private school chain with 6 schools and close to 5,000 enrolments. Patrick started his career as a project manager at Siemens across a range of global assignments. He holds an MBA and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, as well as Master’s Degrees in Engineering from both RWTH Aachen in Germany and Ecole Central Paris in France.