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Ahmed Pasha

  • SVP & Chief Financial Officer, FLNC since 2024-01src

Former AES treasurer and head of IR; Fluence CFO since January 2024

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design67revenue, ebitda, margin, fcf, strategic, time only · 99.2% for · company lost money
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
57src
In the role
3 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Red flag 1

  • His FY2024 PSUs (two-year cumulative adjusted EBITDA and revenue) were forfeited: $98m of EBITDA against a $315m target, $5.0bn of revenue against $8bnsrc

Watch 4

  • Started as CFO seven weeks before the February 2024 short-seller report. The SEC's formal investigation into Fluence's financial reporting is ongoing; the securities class action (class period to February 2025) was dismissed without prejudice in March 2026src
  • FY2024 pay of $3.28m was inflated by hiring awards: $521,452 in the bonus column and $1.56m of stock, against the offer letter's cash sign-ons and $750k sign-on LTIsrc
  • Career AES finance executive now running the books of a company in which AES holds 66.1% of the vote and is a customersrc
  • Holds 38,841 shares at the 2026-01-13 record date, all from vesting; no open-market purchases or sales in the last twelve monthssrc

Career

  1. 2024-01 – now
    Fluence Energysrc
    SVP & Chief Financial Officer
  2. 2022-01 – 2023-12
    The AES Corporationsrc
    CFO, US Utilities and Conventional Generation
    Also a director of AES Ohio and IPALCO (from 2022-10) and DPL (from 2023-07) until joining Fluence
  3. 2020-01 – 2021-12
    The AES Corporationsrc
    Corporate (Global) Treasurer, alongside Investor Relations
  4. 2012-01 – 2021-12
    The AES Corporationsrc
    Vice President, Investor Relations
    The 2023 8-K places this in AES's turn toward renewables growth

Undated in the sources

  • The AES Corporationsrc, Finance, treasury, IR and business-development roles in the U.S., Asia and Europe, including CFO of AES Asia
  • Deloitte (Asia)src, Tax and financial-planning advisory to multinational clients

Not located: Ten years are covered from filings (2012 on). Dates of the pre-2012 AES roles and the Deloitte years not located; they rest on a search summary of the company bio

Achievements

  • Spent roughly a decade as AES's head of investor relations (2012-2021) and two years as its corporate treasurer before running finance for AES's US utilitiessrc
  • Ranked Best IR Professional for electric utilities by Institutional Investor in 2019, per the company biosrc
  • CFO through FY2025's record $5.3bn backlog and revenue of about $2.3bn, which fell short of plansrc
  • Fluence reported $22.7m of attributable net income in FY2024, his first year as CFO, and a $48.3m loss in FY2025src

Education

  • University of the Punjab, Bachelor's Business/commercesrc
  • Not stated, Chartered Accountant Accountingsrc

Background

  • Family The 2026 proxy and the 2023 appointment 8-K state there are no family relationships between him and any director or executive officersrc
  • Boards Former director of DPL Inc. (2023-07 to 2024-01), AES Ohio and IPALCO Enterprises (2022-10 to 2024-01), all AES subsidiariessrc
  • Other Hired from AES, Fluence's controlling shareholder, with a $250k sign-on bonus, a make-whole for his 2023 AES bonus capped at $507,400, a $1.2m first-year LTI grant and a $750k sign-on LTI grantsrc
  • Other At-will under the offer letter and covered by the Executive Severance Plan; retirement-eligible for LTI and bonus purposes because the company credits his AES servicesrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

10
  1. Filing Fluence Energy DEF 14A for the 2026-03-12 annual meeting (accession 0001140361-26-002380) · 2026-01-26
  2. Filing Fluence Energy 8-K Item 5.02, CFO transition and Pasha offer letter (0001868941-23-000073) · 2023-11-16
  3. Filing Fluence Energy 8-K Items 5.02/5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001868941-26-000008) · 2026-03-16
  4. Filing Fluence Energy 8-K Item 5.02, COO appointment, signed by Pasha as SVP & CFO (0001104659-26-108270) · 2026-09-16
  5. Filing Fluence Energy 10-Q for the quarter ended 2026-06-30, legal proceedings (0001868941-26-000029) · 2026-08-05
  6. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1868941 (FY2025 10-K, 0001868941-25-000081) · 2025-11-25
  7. Filing SEC EDGAR submissions index for Fluence Energy (CIK 1868941), Form 4 listing 2025-09 to 2026-09 · 2026-09-24
  8. Filing Form 4, Ahmed Pasha, RSU vesting and tax withholding of 2026-01-01 (0001104659-26-000613) · 2026-01-05
  9. Filing Form 4, Ahmed Pasha, option grant of 2026-02-18 (0002005435-26-000002) · 2026-02-20
  10. Web search result WebSearch: Fluence investor-relations bio of Ahmed Pasha (CFO AES Asia, Deloitte Asia, Chartered Accountant, 2019 Institutional Investor IR ranking); page itself egress-blocked, read via search summary · 2026-09-24