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Alexander Luedi

General Manager

Alexander Lüdi (Alexander Luedi) is the owner and General Manager of Arlanco Power Limited. He is a seasoned professional with an international career in engineering, finance, manufacturing, and industrial services.

He holds a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich and an MBA from the International Management Institute, Geneva (now IMD Lausanne).

Alexander began his career as an oil-field engineer with oil company Shell. During this time, he gained hands-on experience in the design, prefabrication, and installation of onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities.

After completing an MBA in 1985, Alexander spent 10 years as a project finance professional with UBS, based in Zürich, New York City, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He was involved in numerous complex, structured, and syndicated non-recourse financings, collaborating with ADB, IFC, export credit agencies, and commercial banks. His projects spanned industries such as the Eurotunnel, coal-, gas-, and solar-based power generation, waste-to-energy, coal and gold mining, and rail and road infrastructure across Europe, the USA, Africa, and Asia.

In 1995, he joined the China Light & Power Group in Hong Kong as a developer of Independent Power Projects (IPPs) and served as International Finance Manager at CLP International Co. Ltd. He was primarily responsible for project finance activities for CLP's major power ventures in India, Taiwan, Thailand, and China.

From 1998 to 2002, Alexander held the role of Senior Project Finance Manager at US Company Mirant Asia Pacific Limited, focusing on financing power generation projects, particularly in China, India, the Philippines, and South Korea.

In 2003, Alexander transitioned into entrepreneurship, becoming involved in various consulting, manufacturing, and service ventures, including:

• Establishing a fashion watch and accessories manufacturing business in China, exporting over 1 million fashion watches to the USA in 2005 through his company, Prador Limited.
• Co-founding the start-up M&A advisory boutique Capitaleight in Shanghai, PRC.
• Serving as Partner and Senior Consultant at AWR Lloyd Limited, managing the Hong Kong office.
• Launching an online shop on TMall.com for European luxury brands.
• Managing a start-up in Hong Kong, licensing an online gas-explosion boiler-cleaning technology from Switzerland. Through Arlanco Power Limited (Hong Kong) and its subsidiary, Arlanco Environmental Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., he serviced clients in the waste-to-energy industry in China and Taiwan.

He was instrumental in developing applications of the gas explosion cleaning process for cleaning and descaling finned boiler tubes in heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs).

Now semi-retired in Hong Kong, Alexander is available to share his vast professional and geographical experience, particularly for doing business in Greater China.