About us
The Powerweave team is made up of co-founders Laurent and Mathilde, who worked together for years at the intersection of power infrastructure and wholesale electricity trading in North America.
They both observed the power grid's shortcomings in the face of the sustainable energy transition and the failures brought about by its aging infrastructure.
They decided to start Powerweave to make the energy transition as smooth as possible. Our belief is that aligning incentives between all stakeholders is key to facilitating this transition. You can trust Powerweave precisely because we win when you win.
Mathilde Mounier
Driven by a passion for the clean energy transition, Mathilde is the legal mastermind behind Powerweave’s strategy.
Before Powerweave, Mathilde was a regulatory affairs manager at SocïVolta, a startup that automates trading in wholesale electricity markets. She brought with her several years of experience in regulations and business expansion into North American and European energy markets.
Mathilde studied law in the Netherlands and Australia before moving to Canada to complete her LL.M. at McGill University, where she also sat on the Institutional Review Board as a legal and ethical expert.
Now a member of the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition, Mathilde is dedicated to enabling a socially just energy transition that benefits and includes all stakeholders.
Laurent P. René de Cotret
Eager to fight climate change, Laurent uses his technical expertise to build Powerweave’s software systems.
Prior to Powerweave, Laurent was a quantitative researcher at SocïVolta, where he used statistics, machine-learning, and operations research to trade electricity in many forms, including physical balance-of-power flows.
He has 15 years of experience in software development, including a couple of years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked on software to hunt microbial alien life. Laurent was also a member of the technical board of the Haskell Foundation.
He also holds a Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University, where he studied quantum condensed matter physics.