José Cabrera-Kábana, Managing Partner

José has over 22 years of professional experience in investment banking, asset management and structured financing. His earlier career developed in the private equity and consulting industries.

Since early 2011 José has been a Managing Partner with Solar Opportunities. During 2011 Solar Opportunities has invested approximately €189m (of which €88m was equity) in a variety of photo-voltaic assets (7 plants, 37 MWp) which it then manages.

From 2002 until 2011 he was a Managing Director with Goetzpartners Corporate Finance, a pan-European independent advisory/principal investment boutique focused on mid-market transactions, where he completed numerous transactions in Iberia and Europe, often of a cross-border nature.

Between 1995 and 2000, José advanced through different positions at Lazard in London, from Manager in the corporate finance division to Senior Marketer in the structured finance division, responsible for Iberian and German coverage, where he had full responsibility for the generation and execution of strategic, long-dated, equity derivative transactions of a corporate finance, accounting, tax and fund raising nature. In the corporate finance division he was a deal maker with a focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions responsible for the day-to-day management of project teams on the execution of transactions.

Between 1992 and 1995 José was a Manager with Schroder Ventures (currently Permira) in Spain investing and early-stage US$60 million Spanish fund and between 1987 and 1989, he was a business analyst with McKinsey & Co.’s Madrid office, working mostly with consumer goods companies in Spain and Portugal.

José received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1991 and a BSc in Economics from MIT in 1987. He is fluent in English and Spanish, and has a working level knowledge of German and French.