Dr. Mahmoud Hamada is a distinguished authority in short-term power trading and real-time balancing across European and Eastern European markets, with more than 25 years of hands-on experience in energy consulting, data science and financial structuring. He began his career developing quantitative trading models for battery storage arbitrage and intraday optimization in the Nord Pool and EPEX SPOT markets. Later, as Head of Quantitative Analysis at RWE Supply & Trading, he led a team that designed cross-border conditional bidding strategies between German, French and Central-Eastern European price zones.

At Ernst & Young in Geneva, he served as Executive Director, advising system operators and market participants in Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic on balancing-market participation and regulatory compliance. He now serves as CEO of SAMAWATT, a Swiss technology firm that enables wind, solar and battery-storage operators to extract higher revenue through advanced predictive analytics, automated conditional bidding and real-time arbitrage across Europe’s intraday and balancing markets.

Dr. Hamada holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from the University of New South Wales (Sydney), an Executive MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and an M.Sc. in Financial Engineering from Grenoble INP–ENSIMAG (France). He is a frequent speaker at European power-market conferences and a published thought leader on the integration of renewables and storage in liberalized electricity systems.