Apricum is pleased to welcome Carsten Rohr as senior advisor, further strengthening the firm’s technical and commercial expertise in renewable energy, with a particular focus on solar PV manufacturing.
Carsten is an experienced international senior executive with deep expertise across the solar value chain. With more than 15 years in senior leadership roles at NorSun, a Norwegian manufacturer of monocrystalline silicon ingots and wafers, he played a key role in shaping large-scale expansion strategies in Europe and the USA, securing multi-billion-dollar long-term offtake agreements, and steering the business through highly volatile market conditions.
His experience spans industrial-scale manufacturing, strategic partnerships, policy engagement, and financial restructuring. He has been closely involved in the development of multi-gigawatt expansion projects in Europe and the USA, including securing significant public funding, and has actively contributed to shaping solar manufacturing policy at both EU and national levels.
Carsten is a founding member and co-chair of the European Solar Manufacturing Council, representing more than 70 companies across the solar value chain, and a founding member of the Ultra Low Carbon Solar Alliance. He holds a PhD in physics from Imperial College London and a master’s in physics from RWTH Aachen.
We are delighted to welcome Carsten as senior advisor where he will support Apricum’s clients on strategy, transactions, and industrial scale-up across the energy transition, with a particular focus on solar manufacturing and resilient supply chains.