Carla Whitehead

Senior Asset Manager

Carla Whitehead is a Senior Asset Manager for the CrossBoundary Energy team and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to CrossBoundary, Carla worked at Acciona for over 10 years as a group financial manager and finance team lead in the South African REIPPP Programme, where she participated in submitting compliant tenders in bid windows Round 4.5, 5, and 6 as well as Bid Window Round 1 of the ESIPPPP launched in 2023. Carla managed the operational finance team, which included Generating Assets (Wind and Solar), O&M, and Group companies. Since 2021, Carla has been involved in development of greenfield assets. Carla Whitehead is a qualified CA(SA), having completed academic articles at Deloitte. Post articles, she did a secondment to Deloitte San Francisco, after which she returned to take up a role as audit manager at Deloitte Cape Town. During this time, Carla discovered an interest in the renewable energy sector, swapping assurance for corporate life and taking up the role of financial controller in the Energy division of Spain’s Acciona group.

CrossBoundary Energy
Location
Cape Town, RSA
Division
Engineering