Managing Body
The eeef is managed by the Board of Directors, which has the exclusive power to administer the Fund and to determine the course of conduct of its business affairs, in compliance with the articles, the issue document and applicable laws and regulations. The Board shall have the broadest powers to act in any circumstances on behalf of the Fund, subject to the powers expressly assigned by law or the articles to the general meeting of shareholders. The Board of Directors will have prime responsibility for all aspects of the administration of the business of the Fund.
The directors are elected by the general meeting of shareholders and appointed annually, subject to approval by the CSSF of any new directors. The current Board of Directors consists of the following members:
Chairman:
Robert Nuij heads the unit for energy efficiency in buildings and products at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy. He leads the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and oversees ecodesign, energy labelling, and tyre labelling policies.
Previously, he was deputy head of unit for the Energy Efficiency Directive and financing of energy efficiency. He began his Commission career in DG Environment, working on integrated product policy and the EU Eco-label, and later moved to DG Health and Consumers, focusing on product safety and market surveillance coordination.
Before joining the Commission, Robert was a senior consultant in environmental product policy, eco-design, and waste management. A Dutch national, he holds an MSc in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology.
Members:
Daniela Matiz is a multilingual certified independent board member based in Luxembourg and provides directorships for companies of various industries (investment funds, banks, insurance companies). She is a seasoned professional and offers broad expertise in audit, risk management, compliance, governance and ESG.
She started her career as an auditor at the leading accounting firm KPMG and has held key leadership positions in the financial industry cumulating twenty years of experience with nine years dedicated to the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and eleven years to the PayPal Group, spearheading the audit, risk and global entity management functions, interacting with various boards and audit committees across the world. She currently serves as a board member in regulated and non-regulated entities, provides valuable insights into industry-specific risks, internal controls, regulatory changes and governance best practices.
Mrs Matiz holds a master’s degree in Economic Sciences from the University Louis Pasteur as well as certifications in audit, director practices, ESG and sustainability (from the University of Oxford).
Antoniorosario Lovascio currently holds the position of Head of Private Multi-Asset in Generali Investments, and he is responsible for over-seeing and steering different investment strategies within the Private Assets spac, from fund selection through all the asset classes to direct minority co-investment exposure in Private Equity.
Previously, he held various roles within the Generali Group, of which he has been a member for 12 years, gaining experience in Business Development in Real Estate, Asset Management strategy and Finance.
Prior to Generali, which he joined in June 2014, he worked in the Investment Banking division of Unicredit Group as a Relationship Manager for the Multinational Corporations’ portfolio. He began his professional career by gaining 3 years of experience in Risk Management, also in Unicredit Group.
Mr. Lovascio holds a Master Degree in Management Engineering with a specialization in Finance from Politecnico di Milano and an Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari.
Ciprian Cristea is the Adviser for Project Finance in Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), in the European Commission.
He has joined the European Commission in 2012 as an Adviser to the Director for “SMEs and Entrepreneurship”. Between 2013 and 2025, he was the head of the “Access to Finance” and “Digital Tools” units in DG GROW.
In 1999 he graduated from the "Babes-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, specialising in "Banking and Stock Exchange Markets".
Between 1999 and 2006 he worked mainly in the banking sector, as Head of the Loans Department and Deputy Branch Manager in an Italian bank in Romania (Banca Italo-Romena Spa), part of Veneto Banca Group.
Between 2006 and 2012 he has co-owned, in Romania, an insurance broker and a financial consultancy which was mainly providing bank finance intermediation, drafting and implementation of projects for Romanian companies, financed by the EU cohesion funds.