Our Team
TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation Asia Pacific
Managing Director
Asia Pacific
Elodie Renaud
Elodie Renaud is the Managing Director of TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation Asia, today present in 9 affiliates.
She is also a Board Director of TotalEnergies ENEOS Renewables Distributed Generation Asia, which is a joint venture between TotalEnergies and ENEOS. Initiated in 2022, the Joint Venture aims to develop 2 GW of onsite B2B solar projects across Asia over the next five years.
Elodie has 15-year experience within TotalEnergies, in both Renewables and Oil & gas. Starting from power and solar in TotalEnergies, after winning the largest scale Concentrated Solar Power project (Shams, 109MW), Elodie moved to oil & gas to get exposed to operations. She has been a field engineer during the start-up of the FPSO Pazflor (deep offshore Angola, 9B$ project), moved to the Yamal LNG project within the project team (Artic Russia, 20-30B$ project), conducted a simplification project of standards across the affiliates and has been an offshore site manager in Scotland (North Alwyn, around 200 persons on board) during intense change management period (major site retrofit, reorganisation following Maersk oil acquisition, 3 major IT projects, COVID). More recently, part of a newly appointed team, with the objective to deliver an ambitious target of 1B$ value creation by 2025, she developed from scratch a roadmap and execution plan of the digital transformation of oil & gas, including digital product development and end users’ adoption, leveraging TotalEnergies Digital Factory and existing TotalEnergies’ ecosystem.
Previously, she had experience in utility power business development within EDF Russia. She also initiated, raised finance and completed a personal “out of standards” project with a friend, “The Energy World Tour”, meeting start-ups, labs and industries on Energy Innovations in Europe, Africa, Asia and America over a period of 8 months, which received various prizes (McKinsey, BMW, European Commission…), and from which a general public book had been published.
Elodie has an engineering degree (Master’s degree equivalent) from Ecole Polytechnique, and a double Master’s degree from IFP School and Colorado School of Mines.
Regional Commercial &
New Markets Director
Richard Pullen
Richard Pullen is the Regional Commercial Director and Director of New Markets for TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation Asia (excluding China).
With over 25 years of experience in the renewable energy sector, he possesses extensive knowledge of renewable energy technologies and their application to business creation, development, and operational management. His expertise covers solar, onshore wind, biogas and biodigesters, and waste-to-energy technologies.
In addition to his roles as Director of New Markets and Regional Country Manager, Richard has been recently promoted to Regional Commercial Director. He has a wealth of global work experience, having managed as many as 10,000 employees in over 20 countries across five continents.
With a background working for large multinationals, governments, and non-profit organisations, Richard has a proven track record of successfully delivering renewable energy startups and managing multifaceted projects from conception and implementation to full operational capacity.
Vice President
Indian Subcontinent
Rohit Kumar
Rohit Kumar is the Vice President of TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation (DG) for India.
Rohit is a seasoned industry veteran with over 23 years experience with over 13 years in the solar industry, having rich and varied experience from working in companies specializing in Manufacturing to EPCs, thus giving him a 360-degree overview. The prominent ones being Wipro Eco Energy, Moser Baer, Delta Electronics, Eaton Electrical, etc.
In his last assignment with REC, one of the largest, non-Chinese solar panel manufacturers and one of the technology companies in this space, Rohit was responsible for establishing REC as the largest European modules brand in India with over 500MW+ install base in India at the same time expanding footprint into Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of Middle East & Africa.
Notable achievements at REC being USD 115m revenue between 2016-2018 establishing REC as in top #3 module brands in C&I market during this period leading to him receiving CEO award for Customer Excellence at REC in 2017.
Rohit has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela (India).
Sales Director
Japan
Kento Nakai
Kento is a Japan Sales Director for TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation (DG), where he heads up B2B solar solution business in Japan.
He has 15+yrs hands-on experience and abundant network in renewables and energy solution business. He has walked though 100+ industrial and commercial sites to help clients solve energy issues.
Prior to the services in the renewables and energy solution business, he was a business risk professional at leading consulting firms.
He earned an MA degree in environmental policy from Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA, and a BA degree in economics from Osaka City University.
Sales Director, TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generations Indonesia
Dedy AYUNDA
Dedy Ayunda is the Sales Director at TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generations for Indonesia, where he leads a team dedicated to developing solar PV solutions for the Commercial and Industrial sectors.
Dedy has been working in the Energy sector for over 18 years, focusing on B2B business. He has worked with several national and multinational companies in Indonesia, focusing on energy efficiency, utility, and power generation IPP (covering coal, gas, and renewable energy). Notably, he has successfully managed Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for a 400 MW power plant in collaboration with consortium partners.
Prior to joining TotalEnergies Renewables as a senior sales manager in 2022, Dedy was responsible for developing new business for C&I Solar in Indonesia.
Dedy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics Engineering from ITB Bandung (Indonesia).
Key Account Director
Singapore
Rachel Toh
Rachel Toh is the Key Account Director for TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation Asia.
With over a decade of experience in the energy sector, Rachel specializes in sales, business development, and marketing for renewables and battery solutions. Her current profile plays a key role in driving strategic growth and fostering key business partnerships within the TotalEnergies’ Distributed Solar Energy Solutions across APAC.
Prior to this she has built up extensive experience in the BESS industry through her various roles within Sales, Marketing, and Product Management. Her background is in leading sales teams and marketing initiatives, with a focus on industrial batteries, solar energy, and comprehensive contract management has made her an expert in crafting and executing strategies, ensuring sustainable and scalable business success.
Country Head
Vietnam
My Hanh Nguyen
My Hanh Nguyen is the Country Head of TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation (DG) in Vietnam.
Joining TotalEnergies since 1994 in Marketing & Services branch, My Hanh had been involved in many projects to start up TotalEnergies’ activities in Vietnam (Lubricants and LPG).
In 2006, My Hanh moved to TotalEnergies’ regional office in Singapore in charge of Regional Communication. Back to Vietnam in 2010, My Hanh had been appointed as VP HR & Communication. She took part in M&A and play a key role in organisational restructure process.
In 2019, she moved to LPG business and took over Managing Director of a Joint-Venture Company, Elf Gaz Danang, in the Centre of Vietnam.
In 2022, My Hanh moved to Renewable Energies, in charge of growing solar energy business in Vietnam that contributes to better energies and sustainable development of Vietnam.