Adrien Pinsard

Adrien Pinsard is an Operating Executive focused on Carlyle’s investments in renewable and sustainable energy, with a specific focus on the European market. He is based in London. 

Mr. Pinsard brings 15 years of European renewable energy investment and development experience along with a deep network of relationships with developers, investors, banks and advisors. Most recently, Mr. Pinsard served as the CEO (interim) of Lumani Energy. Mr. Pinsard founded Lumani in 2020 to incubate and grow European renewable energy developers, together with a large infrastructure investor. He has since moved to the infrastructure investor’s development platform in a C-suite role and currently leads deal origination, capital allocation, strategy, acquisitions, divestitures and financing for an 8 GW pipeline across France, Spain, Italy, UK, Poland and Greece. 

Prior to forming Lumani Energy, Mr. Pinsard was leading the energy team of Platina, a UK private equity firm focused on the European renewable energy sector. 

Mr. Pinsard received an M.S. Applied Physics from INSA Lyon and an M.S. Corporate Finance from EM Lyon.