About Navega

Small by design,
built for the pace of the energy transition.

Specialist Partners with deep operating experience inside the European energy market, with the conviction to stay at the table through execution.

The firm

Why Navega exists.

Navega exists because the best advice on clean energy comes from people who share the DNA of the companies they serve. Closer to the market, smaller by design, and at the table through execution, with our advice answering to the client's interest.

Our Partners bring full value-chain experience across European energy markets: strategy, risk, procurement, project development, origination, energy trading. We pair that with an AI-native operating architecture that gives a small firm structural advantage, and a craft standard that holds external identity to the same bar as intellectual output.

The energy transition is the defining industrial challenge of our time. Navega exists to address the challenges this transition brings, with senior-led advice, sector-deep knowledge, analytical rigour, and transactional expertise.

The team

Founding Partners.

Gonçalo Ferreira, Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Navega Partners
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer
Gonçalo Ferreira

Nearly twenty years inside the renewable energy value chain: strategy, risk management, energy management, procurement, equity investment, project development, and power trading.

Leads the firm's client delivery, analytics, and business development. As CEO, he carries direct accountability for every mandate with oversight of the firm's legal, financial and compliance risk governance.

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Paloma Schröder, Founding Partner and Chief Design Officer of Navega Partners
Founding Partner & Chief Design Officer
Paloma Schröder

Leads the firm's brand, communications, and the AI-native operational architecture Navega was built on. Works across design, technology, and how teams will actually operate as AI changes the work.

Owns how the firm looks, reads, and works day to day, so the experience of being a client matches the quality of the advice.

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"The energy transition is the defining industrial challenge of our time."
Navega Partners · Founding principle
Five values · Five themes

What we hold,
and why.

Five principles, and the tensions they hold open. Scroll to read them one by one.

Five values · Five themes

What we hold, and why.

01 — Character

We lead with character.

Joy, kindness, and honesty are the operating system of every relationship at Navega: with clients, between partners, and in how we build this firm day by day.

TensionProfessionalism and warmth. We hold that rigour and warmth belong together.
02 — Conviction

We have skin in the game.

We bring the perspective of people who have been inside these businesses, and we stay in the room for the hard decisions. Our advice is only as good as its consequences, and we hold ourselves to that.

TensionAdviser distance and client partnership. We choose partnership.
03 — Craft

We hold craft as a non-negotiable.

Rigour comes before speed, with premium attention to every detail: in analysis, in writing, in design, in how a spreadsheet is structured. Beautiful and precise sit together.

TensionSpeed and craft. AI gives us capacity, and craft holds the standard.
04 — Closeness

We think from the inside out.

We speak the language of the businesses we serve because we have lived it. Our starting point is always the client's reality: their constraints, their pressures, their ambitions.

TensionAdviser positioning and client immersion. We stay more interested in the client's problem than in our own solution.
05 — Courage · North Star

We build for a future we believe in.

The energy transition is the defining industrial challenge of our time, and Navega exists to accelerate it. We are forward-looking, adaptive, and ambitious about what a small AI-native firm can do.

TensionCommercial ambition and broader purpose. We pursue both, and let each strengthen the other.
The Firm Constitution

A document we wrote before we needed it.

Our Constitution sets down the choices we made deliberately, while there was still time to choose them: who Navega is, what we hold, how we behave, and what we protect.

We wrote it to tell the world who we are, in language we can stand behind. We invite you to hold us to it.

Read the Constitution
Public Edition · First edition 2026
IWho Navega is
IIWhat we hold
IIIHow Navega behaves
IVWhat Navega protects

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