Dr. Santiago Fronda is a strategic finance and project development leader focused on making complex energy transition and sustainable infrastructure projects bankable, financeable, and execution-ready. With 20+ years of international experience across the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Central Asia, and Europe, he has supported and led multi-billion-dollar initiatives spanning renewable energy, green hydrogen, green ammonia, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and broader industrial decarbonization platforms.

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business Management (graduated with distinction) and a postdoctoral qualification in Strategic Leadership and Management, combining rigorous academic grounding with deep, real-world delivery experience across capital projects and project finance.

Dr. Fronda is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Director of NEOX Development Services Group (Masdar City, Abu Dhabi). He advises developers, sponsors, and investors on feasibility, lender-grade financial modeling, capital structuring, and risk allocation aligned with institutional requirements. He brings extensive experience in lender-group engagement and negotiations with commercial banks, development finance institutions, and Export Credit Agencies, as well as coordinating full due diligence workstreams (technical, legal, insurance, environmental and social, and market) to support successful fundraising and investment decisions.

A defining strength of his work is translating Net Zero ambition into financeable and executable transactions—shaping the commercial model, strengthening revenue certainty, and structuring bankable contracts with key project counterparties, including Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), operations and maintenance, feedstock and supply, and offtake arrangements. He has supported projects from early concept and development through Final Investment Decision and financial close, ensuring governance, Special Purpose Vehicle structuring, and lender-ready documentation meet investor expectations.