ROBLE POE VELASCO-ROSENHEIM is a co-founder and the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Pacific Clean Energy Partners. He is a clean energy and business growth entrepreneur based out of Bangkok and is dedicated to fostering sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific. Roble supported the establishment and growth of renewable energy certificate (REC) markets in six countries in Asia, and has assisted multilateral development banks in processing more than $150 million in clean energy and sustainable infrastructure loans across 20 countries in the region. He is the founder and CEO of SuSca Group—a for-profit consultancy that delivers environmental and social solutions on an industrial scale. 

In the private sector, Roble supports project developers to operate more profitably, and commercial and industrial (C&I) energy consumers to improve their environmental sustainability. As the Asia Regional Lead for APX, Roble has helped more than 50 project developers and Fortune 500 companies generate and transact RECs and execute clean energy supply contracts. His work in the environmental commodity markets has enabled major C&I power consumers (including Apple, Facebook, and Unilever) to source renewable energy from both on-site and off-site generation sources. Roble has trained hundreds of stakeholders on how to improve the bankability of renewable energy projects, drive rooftop solar sales in the C&I space, and source renewable electricity in challenging markets. He is currently helping utilities structure some of the first green electricity products available to households and C&I consumers in Asia.

In the public sector, Roble works with governments and development partners to scale up sustainable infrastructure. As an international consultant, he has helped write and edit dozens of loans and technical assistance documents for the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations, covering physical works and policy support in 14 Pacific Island nations, as well as in Central and West Asia, South and Southeast Asia. He contributes regularly to knowledge products, publications, and periodicals in the development finance community, and is currently supporting a multilateral development bank to draft long-term strategy documents for client countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. He delivers periodic consultations to government agencies in the U.S. and Asia on how to scale up renewable energy markets through commercial and policy incentives. 

Across sectors, Roble’s work seeks to integrate socioeconomic development efforts into commercial best practices with several goals: to support business growth alongside increased renewable generation capacity, to help utilities provide water and electricity services more efficiently to communities that need them, and to sustain the efforts of multilateral banks through private sector partnerships. Roble’s personal and professional goals are one and the same—to stay curious.