Cleantech Group

Michael Matheson

Michael Matheson was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport in May 2021.

He was born in Glasgow in 1970 and educated at St John Bosco Secondary School. He went on to study at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, where he obtained a BSc in Occupational Therapy. He also holds a BA and a Diploma in Applied Social Sciences from the Open University.

Prior to becoming an MSP, Mr Matheson practised as a Community Occupational Therapist with Stirling Council, Central Regional Council, and Highland Regional Council.

He was elected as the MSP for Falkirk West following the May 2007 elections. Prior to this, he was a Regional MSP for Central Scotland from 1999 to 2007. Before being appointed Minister for Public Health and Sport, Mr Matheson was Vice Convenor of the European and External Relations Committee. He also sat on the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee, and previously served on the Justice and Enterprise and Culture Committees. Michael Matheson was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Justice in November 2014 and reappointed in May 2016. He was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity in June 2018.

Beverley Gower-Jones

Beverley has a proven track record and is a thought leader in early stage cleantech investments and commercialisation, she has over 30 years’ experience in the international energy sector. She specialises in accelerating innovation to market and scaling companies by providing strategic insights, developing industry partnerships and identifying novel ways to overcome barriers to entry. Her ambition is to create a better, sustainable world and she firmly believes that this will be achieved through innovation playing a transformative role in the global economy. Prior to Managing Partner at Clean Growth Fund and CEO of Carbon Limiting Technologies, she was a founder and Vice President, Shell Technology Ventures, instrumental in Shell’s technology venturing strategy.  Fellow of the Energy Institute, BSc Mining Geology, Cardiff.

Poonam Malik

Jon Saltmarsh

Jon Saltmarsh is Deputy Director, Engineering and Research, within the Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy directorate, in the UK government’s department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He is responsible for engineering studies, technical analysis and research that the department undertakes to provide robust technical evidence and advice to underpin policies on reducing energy demand and decarbonising energy supply. This work covers low carbon generation (e.g. wind, carbon capture, utilisation and storage, solar); energy efficiency (in buildings and industry); fuel switching (e.g. electrification, hydrogen); and integration of solutions (e.g. smart technologies).

Prior to joining BEIS, he worked in the private sector on a range of cutting-edge defence technology programmes including solar powered unmanned aircraft, automated landing systems and simulation-based training.

Jon holds a degree in engineering and an MBA.

Teresa O’Flynn

Managing Director – Decarbonization Partners. Deep sustainable investing expertise with extensive renewable power energy infrastructure experience both in the fund management sector and at operating company level. Experienced in establishing new investment strategies, building out diverse teams and fostering talent and culture.

Ulrich Seitz

Working in cleantech and sustainability for more than 10 years as managing director, advisor and entrepreneur to push innovation where it is strongly needed. COVID-19 as a major threat for our health and economy will vanish, CLIMATE CHANGE and it’s various disastrous facets will stay an ongoing challenge. A main pillar in the fight against it, is the transformation of the energy system through innovations. To find, support and develop them is my purpose as managing director of BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures – the venture capital holding of BayWa r.e. AG.

Alexander Lidgren

Alexander Bigge Lidgren is Partner and CEO Cleantech Invest. Previously, he was managing the cleantech portfolio at the Swedish Energy Agency. He has an entrepreneurial background having co-founded Cleantech Scandinavia and Nordic Cleantech Open where he was also the managing director. Among his previous ventures are Blokks, a broadband technology company later exited to a stock listed company, and Big Bear, cafe, gallery and store in central Lund (still around, go there for good coffee). By education, Bigge is a M.Sc. (Environmental Management and Policy) and Ba.Sc (Business Administration and Marketing).

Natasha Fowlie

Natasha Fowlie is a Principal on the investing team at BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic’s climate investing venture, based in London.

 Prior to joining BNZ, Natasha was a Principal at Riverstone Holdings, an energy focused private equity fund, where she led a number of the fund’s investments in Europe, including investments in both conventional and renewable power. Natasha served on the board of a number of Riverstone’s portfolio companies, including Forsa Energy (formerly Velocita Energy Developments), Onyx Power and HES International. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2012, Natasha spent four years at Goldman Sachs, in the Merchant Banking Division where she primarily focused on investments in the energy services sector.

Natasha holds a Masters Degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Victoria McIvor

Victoria is an investor at the World Fund, investing in startups with the ability to abate 100MT C02 or equivalent at scale. Prior to the World Fund, she worked at SET Ventures investing in the energy system transition. She is a physicist from Glasgow University and went on to work in nuclear decommissioning as a Radiological Protection Engineer and later Accredited Health Physicist. She relocated to Japan in 2017 with a Daiwa Scholarship, where she worked for two startups in renewable energy before making the transition to venture capital. Victoria is also the founder of the Climate Tech Foundation, through which she co-runs organisations The Climate Lab and Climate Mosaic.

Christian Hernandez Gallardo

Founding Partner and Venture Capital investor at 2150, a firm investing in technology companies that seek to sustainably reimagine and reshape our urban environment.

David Farquhar

Quentin Scrimshire

Quentin founded Modo Energy in 2019 to analyze the performance of battery energy storage assets. Modo is now used by over 80% of the GB energy storage market to monitor assets, operators, and optimizers. Before Modo, Quentin worked in optimisation at Kiwi Power and capital projects at Centrica. Quentin holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering with a specialism in power systems economics.

Dr. Peter Hellich

Peter Hellich specialises in national and international M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and advises clients on all questions of corporate law. The focus of his practice is on technology-based industries. He has wide experience in transaction management.

Howard Palmer

Howard Palmer is a partner in the Corporate Technology group and specialises in advising on M&A transactions and venture capital investments, for both companies and investors. He primarily works with companies in the technology, media and life sciences sectors.

Nicolas De Witt

Nicolas joined the Paris office’s corporate department as partner in November 2008. Admitted to the Paris and New York Bars, Nicolas specializes in financing transactions for listed and non-listed corporations.

He has extensive expertise in fund raising (from venture capital to LBO transactions) and M&A transactions, advising both French and international clients, investment funds, managers or targets.

For over 15 years now, Nicolas has been advising issuers or banks on stock exchange law, in the context of initial public offerings, rights offering, block sales, public offers to buy or exchange, and delisting on French and American markets.

He also advises issuers as part of tax exemption transactions by public offering without listing.

Pat Stirling

John Cant

Simon Hombersley

Fredric Petit

Annie Leeson

Eoin Condren

Highly experienced investment professional with demonstrated expertise in fundraising and capital deployment across asset classes throughout the UK and Europe. Skillsets include sourcing opportunities, raising capital, underwriting, negotiation, and asset management. Deep knowledge in technology having led the expansion of a technology company into Europe and having invested in other companies. MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Stuart Gibbons

As Director of Product & Marketing at Arval UK BNP Paribas, Stuart leads the UK Product, CSR, Marketing and Consulting teams focused on positioning Arval as a leader in sustainable mobility, leading its customers’ transition to electrified and zero-emission travel, helping to protect the environment and create safer roads.

A key focus for Stuart is to translate Arval Beyond, the business’ strategic plan to 2025, for the UK market. Within his remit, Stuart is committed to delivering an integrated mobility experience for Arval’s UK customers, providing them with support for their energy transition, creating simplicity through connected and flexible products and services, while building added-value and innovative solutions working with new partners.

Prior to joining Arval, Stuart holds more than 20 years’ experience with leading financial services and automotive brands including the AA, Yell and BCA, where he held senior positions across Product, Marketing and Commercial divisions.

Pascale Favre

Pascale Favre has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector associated with technological equipment. After a first position at BNP Paribas Factor from 1994 to 1999, she joined DELL Financial Services as Account Manager and then Head of Sales for Large Corporate and Public Accounts. Then, in January 2009 she became Business Development Manager at Siemens Financial Services.

In 2012, she joined the Technology Solutions International Business Line of BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions. She started as International Key Account Manager and she was in charge of the commercial relationship with major partners – manufacturers and publishers of technological equipment. In 2016, she was appointed ITC (Information and Communication Technologies) Manager. Then, in 2019, Pascale was appointed  Managing Director of the TLS International Business Line.

Carmen Ene

Carmen Ene, CEO, 3stepIT and BNP Paribas 3 Step IT

As CEO of 3stepIT and BNP Paribas 3 Step IT, Carmen is focused on a single objective: to take care of the world’s technology by helping businesses to manage IT more sustainably.

Carmen’s mission is to work with businesses across Europe to tackle corporate e-waste. As a result, every year more than half a million IT devices are diverted from landfill and given a second life.

In 2019, she led 3stepIT’s joint venture with BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions. Together, the companies provide sustainable technology lifecycle management services across the Nordics and Western Europe, with 2.3 million devices under management.

Carmen has more than 20-years’ experience in international IT and Finance, having held senior positions at IBM, including Vice President of Enterprise in the Global Business Services.

Ernst Van Orsouw

Ernst van Orsouw is the CEO of Roslin Technologies, an Edinburgh-based biotech company and the leading player in supplying animal stem cells to the cultivated meat sector. Ernst joined the company in the summer of 2021 to drive the commercialisation agenda and lead the company through its next phase of growth. Prior to Roslin Technologies, he was global director for strategy and marketing at Genus, the global leader in livestock genetics for pork, beef and dairy. In that role he was responsible for bringing to market Genus’ disease resistant animals that were developed with gene editing and helped set up a food-system wide coalition for responsible use of gene editing in agriculture. Before Genus, he spent ten years at the Boston Consulting Group in New York, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Ernst was born and raised in the Netherlands, has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and lives with his family in Edinburgh.

Aniruddha Sharma

Jo-Jo Hubbard

Jo-Jo Hubbard is the CEO and co-founder of Electron.

Electron is a leading player in the flexibility market platform category and a pioneer in asset-to-asset markets such as renewable curtailment mitigation.

Jo-Jo has spent the last 12 years working on various challenges facing distributed energy resources, including renewable and battery asset financing, system digitisation and transformation and local energy market design. She sits on Ofgem’s RIIO2 and ED2 Challenge Group (UK), National Grid ESO’s Technology Advisory Council (UK), and the board of Future Cleantech Architects (EU).

Tyler Hamilton

Tyler Hamilton is Director of Cleantech at MaRS Discovery District, responsible for building a network of investors, innovation organizations and government agencies that can help Canadian cleantech ventures raise capital and scale globally. He leads the newly launched Mission from MaRS: Climate Impact Challenge program and co-founded the RBC Women In Cleantech Accelerator program, powered by MaRS. Previously, Tyler spent two decades as a business and technology journalist (Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, MIT Technology Review) and wrote extensively about Canada’s clean technology sector and global climate tech trends. He was also Editor-In-Chief of business and sustainability magazine Corporate Knights. In 2011, Tyler authored Mad Like Tesla, a book that examined the various barriers to clean energy innovation and surveyed the landscape of some potentially world-changing clean technologies. A recipient of the Cleantech Group’s “Pioneer” award for his early writings on the sector, Tyler was also recognized in 2016 on Canada’s “Clean50” list for his thought leadership on clean energy and climate issues.

Mike Skirzynski

Mike has over 7 years of experience working cross culturally and in various markets around the world spanning Cleantech and High Technology Sectors. At Peak Power, Mike plays a crucial role in advancing the company’s vision, working with multiple stakeholders, including real-estate owners, electric utilities, and government bodies, to bring innovative concepts in the energy space to life. Mike has helped shape the future of many tech startups by specializing in helping companies find their product-market fit. He has also worked with large corporations and clients in emerging markets to develop clean energy projects, plus he has orchestrated the technical work for one of North America’s largest rooftop solar portfolios. If you fly over Toronto and see solar panels on a school, there’s a good chance Mike has worked on it.

Nicolas Bosse

Nicolas Bossé leads the expansion and positioning of BrainBox AI’s pioneering AI offering for the global energy markets. Nicolas has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector, with a deep understanding of the global competitive energy market dynamics and regulatory frameworks, paired with an extensive understanding of creating value through innovative transaction structures in the renewable energy sector. He has held roles in regulatory affairs, investments, as well as strategy and growth initiatives in companies such as Hydro Quebec and Brookfield Renewable.

Ahead of joining BrainBox AI, Nicolas was the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Growth Initiatives at Brookfield Renewable. He built and led a team of 15 professionals who covered the North American wholesale energy market design along with the states, provincial, and federal energy policies. Nicolas studied economics and holds a BA from the Université Laval and a masters from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Hao Yin

Charlie Blair

Tom White

Tom White is CEO of C-Capture, developers of next generation, world-leading carbon capture technology. His breadth of experience extends internationally across the energy, defence, infrastructure and industrial sectors. This includes a technical, early-career foundation in carbon dioxide capture utilisation and storage.

Tom has held numerous international business leaderships roles including CEO of an Enhanced Oil Recovery service company in Oman; Regional Business Development Director for a multi-national UK PLC engineering organisation; and General Manager of a 500-person engineering and project management organisation. The latter incorporated supervising teams working across 4 continents and a $10bn capital project portfolio. A former British Army Officer, he commanded emergency civil construction units supporting the Gurkhas and Royal Marine Commandos. He holds a B.Eng from University College London and  served for 3 years on the board of the Institution of Chemical Engineers as Vice-President Regions, with responsibility for UK and international local member groups.

James Morrish

Casper Peeters

 Casper Peeters is CEO of E-magy, an advanced material specialist which creates nano-porous silicon for advanced Li-ion batteries. With E-magy silicon instead of graphite, batteries enjoy a 40% increase in energy density. Casper also advises and invests in other fast-growing companies that make the world smarter and more sustainable. Previously he was CEO of Xsens, a 3D motion tracking company which he co-founded and sold to Silicon Valley icon Fairchild Semiconductor in 2014. He holds a Master’s degree in Physics from University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Jamie Arbib

Lucy Kennedy

Ofer Shochet

Will Barker

Founder and CEO of Mint Innovation, Dr. Will Barker is a seasoned start-up executive with a background in IP security, partnership development, building high performance teams and capital raising. Will has a dependable track record: he closed fund raising transactions in excess of $200M for a number of cleantech companies including LanzaTech and Mint.  Mint Innovation has developed a world first biotechnology for recovering precious metals from electronic waste.

Stefanie Kaiser

Stefanie is Sector Head for Nature-based Climate Solutions and Forestry at NatureMetrics. Together with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and business developers, she works with businesses, organisations, and standard setters to help them use DNA-based tools to understand and measure their biodiversity impact.

She believes that eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring tools have the power to revolutionise the nature-based solutions sector by addressing the long-standing barrier of ‘measuring’ nature in an accessible, robust, and scalable way – and at an unprecedented scale. She helps clients in the wider nature-based solutions sector find solutions for integrating biodiversity into their environmental monitoring frameworks. She is particularly interested in working with certification bodies looking to develop robust monitoring methodologies for carbon and emerging biodiversity markets.

Stefanie has an interdisciplinary background covering molecular biology and ecology, forestry, international development, global environmental policy, natural capital, impact investing, and remote sensing – nicely seasoned with a pinch of creativity and experience in client communication. She has a profound industry knowledge of the UK forestry and timber sector, is well connected in the global natural capital community, and benefits from a multicultural background spanning the UK, Spain, the Americas, and the DACH region.

Stefanie has worked for over eight years as the communications and members engagement lead for the UK’s Confederation of Forest Industries, acquiring in-depth insight into the sector and the recent market developments around carbon and natural capital.

Previously, she worked for a Swiss in impact investing start-up, mainly focusing on sourcing carbon forestry and renewable energy projects, and on developing green due diligence processes to ensure social and environmental safeguards were considered. Earlier in her career, she worked in remote sensing for the Spanish ministry of agriculture and has since remained in touch with the Earth Observation community in Edinburgh.

Stefanie studied Biological Sciences (molecular and environmental) at SEK University (Segovia, Spain) and Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). She holds an MSc in Environment and Development (University of Edinburgh) and an MSc in Tropical Forestry (Bangor University). Her research has taken her to Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda

Harriet Howey

Harriet Howey is the global lead for non-financial reporting and ESG at Diageo, a company with an outstanding collection of over 200 spirit and beer brands sold in more than 180 countries. With a career spanning ESG strategy and impact communications in corporates and not-for-profits in Europe and Asia Pacific, Harriet is passionate about using ESG data and insights to engage stakeholders and drive change. She believes the delivery of ESG goals deserves the same rigorous approach as financial performance.

At Diageo, she oversees internal and external measurement and reporting on all sustainability and responsibility activity across the company’s global footprint. Every year, her team delivers one of the fastest published integrated annual reports in the world (35 days from year end to publication), including a comprehensive GRI submission, UN Global Compact index, Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures update, and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board response.

Mauro Cozzi

Mauro Cozzi is the CEO and Co-founder of Emitwise – the carbon management platform that empowers companies to understand and reduce their carbon footprint across their operations and supply chain.
Driven by the mission to accelerate the world’s transition to net-zero, Emitwise works with organisations throughout the manufacturing sector to take profitable data-driven climate action.

Josh Gilbert

Josh Gilbert is Chief Executive Officer and founder at Sust Global.

Sust Global is the leading provider of climate data and APIs, providing the climate data foundations for global financial institutions, data providers, investors and corporates.

Sust Global’s product delivers satellite-validated insights and integrations, by transforming climate science with satellite and geospatial datasources and cutting-edge deep-learning techniques.

Josh is a global expert and leader in climate tech and sustainable finance, having worked across climate tech, cleantech and geospatial analytics.

Josh is a thought leader and regular speaker on climate tech sustainable finance, quoted in publications such as TechCrunch, Reuters, FT/Sifted and UKTN. Josh holds a BA & MSc in Economics & International Development, and wishes he had more time to play music and Dungeons & Dragons.

Richard Youngman

Since January 2016, Richard Youngman has been CEO of San-Francisco based Cleantech Group (CTG). This followed 7 years of driving the growth of CTG’s activities outside North America, especially in Europe and Israel, and Asia, based in CTG’s office in London.

Richard has more than ten years’ experience researching cleantech innovation, venture capital markets, and start-ups across Europe and globally. He is a regular keynote speaker at major cleantech events and is the driving force behind the annual Global Cleantech 100, a list of the world’s most promising private cleantech companies.

Holly Stower

Holly is a Senior Associate leading Resources & Environment research at Cleantech Group and is based in the UK. She is focused on emerging innovation and trends, including those in water, waste, the circular economy, natural resources, and corporate sustainability. ​

Prior to joining Cleantech Group, Holly was a Public Affairs & Communications Executive with the Solar Trade Association and the Association of British Insurers. Before this, Holly worked in advocacy for climate and wildlife charities. ​

Holly earned an Undergraduate and a Master’s in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia.

Chris Sworder

Lucy Chatburn

Nicole Cerulli

Nicole is an Associate, Transportation & Logistics at Cleantech Group and is based in Spain.  She focuses on emerging innovation and trends in transportation and logistics and has experience across all cleantech sectors.  ​

Nicole earned a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies and Sustainable Development from Barnard College and a Master’s in Urban Resilience Design and Management from Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.​

Jules Besnainou

Jules Besnainou is the Executive Director of Cleantech for Europe, the initiative helping the EU lead the race to net zero by bridging the gap between cleantech leaders and policymakers. He was previously a director at Cleantech Group, where he advised the world’s foremost cleantech investors, corporates and governments, helping them assess and invest in new innovations. After starting his career in San Francisco and London, he moved back to France to head the group’s EU presence and clients. Jules graduated summa cum laude from Sciences Po Paris.

Laura Gillions

Jamie Vollbracht

Jamie is a Partner at IP Group, a ~£1bn market cap entity, where he invests in technologies for the transition to net zero, something he has devoted his career to.

Jamie is a Director on a number of IP Group portfolio company boards, including Bramble Energy (cost-effective fuel cells) and Oxbotica (viable autonomous vehicles), both of which are represented at this Cleantech Forum. He has been involved in a number of successful exits including two Scottish businesses: Dukosi (battery monitoring) and GSS (transistor optimisation).

Prior to joining IP Group, Jamie devised and led corporate venturing and government funding programmes at The Carbon Trust, after various business development roles in the early years of the solar industry. He has a first-class engineering degree from Cambridge University. And when not working, he likes to get out adventuring in the hills.

Alexandra Zakreski

Sofia Karagianni

Ed Craig

Ed is a leader with vision who drives innovation and change with the fortitude and energy to deliver his vision. He challenges assumptions, raises ambitions and finds new ways of tackling complex issues locally and globally.

Ed has spent almost 30 years driving positive change in emerging industries- digital transformation of Scotlands enterprise system and SMEs and more recently the transition to a net zero carbon society.

Ed a serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur, has worked within the university sector for over 20 years -always with a strong focus on impact- bringing the public, academic and commercial sectors together to develop new pathways and mechanisms to deliver major strategic initiatives. His efforts led to founding of ECCI, and China’s first Low Carbon College and 30 other initiatives and has supported hundreds of SME leadership teams, over 1000 businesses and organisations to adapt and thrive as part of Scotland’s green eco-system.

Ed is a well known public speaker and thought leader in SME business models, innovation systems and sustainability. Ed holds a number of board and advisory positions nationally and globally and in 2021 Ed was awarded an honorary professorship of the university of edinburgh for his contribution and impact nationally and globally in driving partnerships and solutions to address the climate crisis.

Ed became CEO of Carbogenics in August 2021.

Robert Gerlach

Entrepreneur with a focus on the intersection of technology and sustainability and a passion for products and initiatives that make a positive difference in the world. 15 years of experience in cleantech and social impact related product development and R&D. PhD University of Oxford in engineering science. Originator of the Sustainable Business Model Canvas and the Impact Canvas (Threebility).

Andrew Scott

Andrew leads the team at Orbital Marine Power, having joined the business as CEO in 2015, and has a background of nearing 20 years at the forefront of the marine renewables industry; in both pioneering wave and tidal development programmes.

Andrew has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Strathclyde University and a postgraduate in Energy from Heriot-Watt University. Since taking the helm at Orbital Andrew has directed a targeted engineering process to generate a strikingly innovative technological solution that can enable a new global market in an entirely new renewable energy sector. Complimenting this Andrew is the driving force that generates the vision for the company to engage across stakeholder bases and works closely with the financial and commercial elements of the team to deliver an inspiring breakthrough business focused on helping turn the tide on climate change.

Ian Hayton

Ian is a Senior Associate leading Materials & Chemical research at Cleantech Group and is based in the UK. He is an engineering and business professional with a passion for technology, innovation and the environment. Ian is experienced in strategy, marketing, business support, and R&D activities​.

Prior to joining Cleantech Group, Ian held several roles at Exergy, including Business Process Improvement Manager, Chemical Process Engineer, and Chemical Research Engineer.  ​

Ian earned an MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester​ and a BSc in Biomedical Science from The University of Sheffield.

Nisa Mirza

Prateek Saxena

Prateek Saxena is the founder and CEO of Hygge Energy, which he founded with a vision to create carbon-free communities worldwide. Hygge Energy is a renewable energy marketplace facilitated by our IoT device, the Hygge Box, which works on embedded blockchain and machine learning-based AI. Hygge Energy’s platform enables tracking, measurement, optimization, allocation and accounting of renewable energy. It also facilitates sharing and trading of renewable energy within the communities to help municipalities and councils achieve their net-zero goals. The solution is supported by our transformative consumer app, which promotes interaction amongst community members and tracks payments and transactions. In addition to promoting renewable energy as the preferred choice for communities while enabling our partners and customers to earn financial returns, Hygge Energy endeavours to create a social impact in communities as well.

While the company was being incubated, Prateek led two projects. He and his team worked on Community Action Platform for Energy (CAPE) under the banner of Innovate UK and in partnership with Milton Keynes Council; CAPE is a social energy platform that uses satellite imagery data integrated with the city’s demographic data to assist city councils in defining energy efficiency strategies. They also worked with the Ontario Government to create an Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging System (IEVCS) in partnership with Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro. This platform not only helps manage EV charging, but also monitors the overloading on the distribution transformers on a real-time basis and curtails the charging as required with the help of its analytics tool.

Anne Reaney

Anne Reaney is Co-Founder of Persefoni UK and Persefoni’s Global Head of Sales, & is responsible for the expansion and growth of Persefoni focusing on sales execution across all go-to-market channels.

Prior to joining Persefoni, Anne led AI-driven ESG data company Truvalue Labs’ European business (now a Factset company), and worked with some of the largest and leading financial institutions in Europe & the US to enhance ESG integration across the financial value chain. During this time Anne worked with banks, asset managers & asset owners focused on ESG strategies, data architectures, product creation & reporting.

Prior to joining Truvalue Labs in 2018, Anne spent 12 years at hyper-growth financial services firm IHS Markit, where she most recently led Enterprise Data Management technology sales across the UK & Nordic regions, supporting clients with large-scale data management software installations to enhance front office performance, reporting and regulatory compliance. Anne has worked across numerous data and technology businesses, covering credit, private markets and fixed income. Anne holds an MSc in Business Strategy & the Environment (Birkbeck, University of London) and a BA in Business Management (University of Nottingham) and has worked on various international development projects abroad spanning education & conservation, where her passion for sustainability was born.

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Thomas Sauer

Thomas Claude Sauer is President & CEO of the EXXERGY Group, a globally acting consulting firm providing first class consulting and operational support. The international consulting focus is in the fields of Energy, Specialty Chemicals, and in particular Glass. Assuming EXXERGY commitments, besides the operational tasks, Mr. Sauer is engaged in supporting quality control and standardization efforts in the renewable energy sectors (particularly PV) participating in expert circles at IECRE, SolarPower Europe, SunSpec Alliance, etc.

Prior to establishing EXXERGY, Mr. Sauer was Chief Executive Officer of IBC Solar AG. From 2001 to 2006, he was Vice President Corporate Strategy and Development at Schott Glas/Schott AG, and Executive Vice President Business Unit Advanced Materials with global P&L-responsibility. In addition to energy related matters, Mr. Sauer has professional experience in aviation, chemical engineering, and specialty materials. Following his studies in Mechanical and Process Engineering at the Technical University Munich and in Chemical and Process Engineering at the University (TH) Karlsruhe he achieved his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University (TH) Karlsruhe in Germany.

Helen Lin

Yann Lagalaye

Yann Lagalaye is managing partner of BNPP Solar Impulse venture fund and manages all Ecological Transition and Impact within BNPP PAM Private Assets. He has worked in venture capital, private equity & structured finance industries at BNP Paribas and at Demeter and in the energy sector at Elf/Total for the last 28 years. The last 12 years were dedicated to investment in companies and funds in the energy and ecological transition sectors both at private equity and at venture capital stages.

He worked for 2 years as General Partner at Demeter. Before that, he built the Ecological Transition Capital line within Principal Investments post COP21 as part of the initiative of BNP Paribas to invest in technologies supporting the energy transition. Yann has been at the board of Cleantech Group over the past 4 years and at the board of Outsight, Heliatek, Pony, Stockpro, Metron, Foodvisor, and Plan A over the past 8 years.

Yann graduated from Ecole des Mines of Nancy and ESCP.

Felicity O’Kelly old

Felicity is an Investment Associate at OGCI Climate Investments, a $1bn+ climate impact fund, where she conducts commercial and financial analysis of potential investment opportunities. Prior to this she was CEO and Co-Founder of a cleantech start-up focused on tackling urban air pollution. Felicity holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and a CFA UK Diploma in Investment Management (ESG).

Toby Parkes

Toby has a Bsc in Biology and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bath. During his PhD, Toby worked on developing an understanding of how plants communicate with microbes where he used this knowledge to develop a new technique for producing disease resistant plants. Toby has also spent time as a researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew working on the Millenium Seed Bank Project where he worked on cryopreservation and tissue culture techniques for storing and regenerating plant embryos. Since completing his PhD Toby has been on a mission to translate his academic knowledge into applications that are biodiversity positive and carbon negative. Toby joined Deep Science Ventures as a founding analyst after completing his PhD where he worked on building companies in controlled environment agriculture, ecosystem regeneration and soil carbon sequestration before co-founding Rhizocore Technologies Ltd.

Richard Romanowski

Richard has more than 10 years’ experience in both running and investing in businesses in the green energy and power electronics sectors. After decades of experience leading change and commercialisation across organisations in Australia and Canada, Richard turned his attention to the clean-tech sector, co-founding Australian renewable energy company Planet Ark Power and then taking the eleXsys technology solution to the international market. As a Co-Founder of eleXsys Energy, Richard is passionate about the global transition to a clean energy future.

Ella King