Nelson S. Falcão is Sr. Director, Business Development for the Energy segment at Flex since 2013, where he has been supporting the development of the solar industry. After the acquisition of Nextracker by Flex in 2015, he is responsible for the sales of its advanced solar trackers in Brazil. Nelson is VP, Supply Chain, and member of the board of ABSOLAR (Brazilian Photovoltaic Solar Energy Association).
He received his BSEE degree from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1980, and got a specialization in Reactive Power Compensation in Sweden in 1983. He worked in various projects for the Brazilian transmission and distribution system at ABB, Cegelec Alstom and Cooper Power Systems, being appointed in 2007 General Manager of the Substation Automation business based in Quebec, Canada.