Aer Soléir was founded and is led by European clean energy industry veteran, Andy Kinsella. Andy brings over 35 years of experience in the international energy sector and has held leadership positions at companies including Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB), ESB International, GE, Siemens and, most recently, Mainstream Renewable Power, where he served as Executive Board member and CEO. Andy is a graduate of University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and Harvard Business School.

In addition, Andy has been a member of the Renewables Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency (Paris), was Chairman of Smartwind (a Mainstream-Siemens-Ørsted JV offshore wind development company), a member of the Energy sub-Committee of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce, a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Independent Committee on Climate Change (London), and Chairman of Emergy AB (Stockholm based renewable energy developer)