Cleantech Group

Adrian Ferrero

Adrian Gillespie

Alison Edwards

Anastasia Hofmann

Andrew Griffiths MP

Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott has worked in the marine renewables sector for over 15 years within two pioneering Scottish R&D programmes which have seen more than £100 million invested in technology innovation, marine engineering, and product commercialisation. He worked with Pelamis Wave Power for over 10 years prior to joining Orbital as CEO in 2015, where he leads on corporate strategy and business planning as well as overall management of the Orbital team. Andrew remains closely involved across all aspects of technology development at Orbital; helping to provide challenge and vision to the development process. As CEO he is also responsible for leading the outward facing functions for the company; working extensively with external stakeholders, public and private, to grow the value of Orbital and progress the commercial development for the emerging tidal sector.

Andrew is currently a board member of the Ocean Energy Europe trade association. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from Strathclyde University and a postgraduate MSc in Energy from Heriot-Watt University. In 2019, he was awarded the Lennard-Senior prize for outstanding achievement in the field of marine energy.

Andrew Voysey

Andy McDonald

Ann Mettler

Anthony DeOrsey

Beatrice Boehm

Ben Murphy

Ben is an Investment Manager at IP Group focussed on cleantech. His portfolio boards include Mixergy innovating in domestic demand side response; C-Capture, bringing word leading CO2 separation chemistry to market and Ngenics, which uses evolutionary algorithms to optimise circuit designs.

Ben has spent over ten years working in low carbon technology. Including working for Google screening low carbon investments in Europe; doing scientific research at the European Commission; in the Carbon Trust helping governments and corporations to allocate innovation funding and for the Brazilian National Development Bank advising on the redesign of multi-£bn energy efficiency loan schemes.

Ben has a first class degree in physics and mathematics as well as a masters in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. As well as working in England he has also worked in Italy, Spain and Germany.

Ben Ullman

Product Manager, Energy Markets at Opus One Solutions Ben Ullman has spent X  years pioneering economic valuation and trading methodology for transactive energy markets. Prior to joining Opus One Solutions Ben spent four years at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as an Economist. During his tenure at the FERC, Ben analyzed allegations of market manipulation in power and gas trading. Later Ben joined Navigant Economics as a Managing Consultant where he continued his work in economic valuation in North American Energy markets. At Opus One Solutions Ben brings his years of experience as an economist to lead product development strategy, with a focus on bringing energy trading concepts to the distribution system. Working with Opus One Solutions utility partners, Ben develops and deploys transactive energy markets throughout the U.S, E.U and Canada.

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Bert Wank

Bert Wank is a veteran of the semiconductor and cleantech industries. Before founding infiniRel, Bert held senior product management positions with companies including Dallas Semi and Burr-Brown, which was acquired in 2000 by Texas Instruments for $7.6-Bn. During his semiconductor career he defined and launched 14 power management product lines, including the world’s first Li-Ion battery safety chip.

At infiniRel Bert raised its seed round during the 2010 financial crisis, and secured $400,000 in awards, prizes and grants from the Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission for the advancement and commercialization of infiniRel’s Inverter Health Scanner technology. Bert is a named inventor on its core patents granted in the U.S. and Europe.

In 2012 he was also invited to serve as external director on the Board of Directors of a capacitor manufacturer. Bert holds an MBA in International Business from Thunderbird, and a BSEE in Control Systems Engineering from Germany.

Beverly 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.

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.

Cameron McNatt

Cassidy Shell

Christopher Brandon

Christopher Brandon (Director) – began his career in banking at Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva in 1995 and thereafter in London and Singapore with UBS Warburg, as a foreign exchange proprietary trader. In mid-2000 Mr Brandon co-founded a leading currency hedge fund, managing over 750mio USD in assets for global institutional investors from its base in Singapore.  He is focused on developing business strategy & finances at EHG since 2018. MA (Hons) in Economics – University of Edinburgh

Chris Milne

Chris Milne joined Orbital as CFO in October 2016 where he leads on finance, reporting and funding. He was previously Vice President of an energy focused private equity fund after holding a number of senior finance leadership positions at SSE plc (previously Scottish and Southern Energy plc). This included sitting as a Director on the Board of its Generation business as Head of Finance for all generation, gas storage and exploration and product activities, as well as various other non-executive director roles. Prior to joining SSE, Chris was a manager in KPMG’s Private Equity M&A team in London.

Chris graduated from the University of Dundee in 2001 with a first-class honours degree in Business Economics and Marketing with Psychology, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and holds the CFA UK Level 4 Certificate in Investment Management.

Chris Sworder

David Gunn

Dean O’Connor

Dean O’Connor is a growth specialist with a track record of scaleup and execution in blue chip industrial corporations. His experience spans strategy, commercial & new product development disciplines and he spent more than 15 years establishing and leading businesses in the manufacturing world. Dean has a passion for developing people and delivering strategies that improve value and enhance investor returns. Committed to accelerating sustainability, he has previously led businesses in the solar and LED sectors.

O’Connor spent nearly twenty years in the industrial gases industry with BOC and Linde, joining as a Graduate Trainee. He started and scaled businesses in LCD, LED and solar sectors, based in UK, Tokyo and Singapore, before being appointed Vice President of Global Marketing and Technology for Linde’s Electronics division. Dean subsequently joined Laird Plc, where he became VP/GM of their $500m Performance Materials business in Asia. In this role, he led a $300m P&L and over 3000 personnel. He graduated from Glasgow University in 1994 with a B.Eng in Aeronautical Engineering and also holds a Diploma in Marketing.

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of NanoSUN in 2019, Dean is accountable for defining and executing the growth strategy of the business to deliver superior returns for our investors, while accelerating the energy transition in the hardest-to-electrify transport segments.

Devrim Celal

Devrim is a highly successful, award-winning entrepreneur with a career spanning leadership roles in technology, finance and energy. Educated in Paris, London and Yale, where he was a Fulbright scholar, Devrim has since held senior roles at A T Kearney where he led strategy development, Sapient where he established the European operations and as a partner at Lansdowne Corporate Finance.

He is now CEO of UK energy tech company KrakenFlex, leading the organisation from its initial days as a start up (then called Upside Energy) through dynamic growth and subsequent acquisition by Octopus Energy Group.

Donal O’Riain

Douglas Johnson-Poensgen

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.

Elham Hassanzadeh

Elham is the founder and CEO of Arxax, a UK-based company accelerating decarbonisation of freight and logistics using hydrogen-based smart and digital infrastructure. She has over 14 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience in building renewable energy projects across emerging markets.

Elham was formerly a political economy advisor to the World Bank and a post-doctorate research fellow at Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (OIES), University of Oxford where she published a book on geopolitics of natural gas with Oxford University Press. She is a commercial lawyer by training and holds an LLM degree from University of Cambridge and a PhD from Centre for Energy Studies, University of Dundee.

Eric Ingersoll

Erik Tveteraas

Erik Tveteraas is Investment Director in NuFrontiers – Nutreco’s breakthrough investment team. Erik works in the interface between investment execution, strategy and portfolio value creation. He is especially interested in how novel ingredients, alternative farming systems and data-driven precision farming can drive step increases in the sustainability and productivity of the global food system. Prior to joining Nutreco in 2019, he was head of the seafood practice of a UK-based corporate finance advisor focusing on seed, venture and growth equity transactions in Agritech. Erik is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and holds an MSc degree in International Business & Emerging Markets from the University of Edinburgh.

Ezhil Subbian

Felicity O’Kelly

Fredrik Ekström

President of Nasdaq Stockholm and Head of European Fixed Income and ESG.

Ekström joined the OM Group in 1999 and has held various leading roles in clearing and fixed income throughout his career, including the role as Business Analyst at EDX in London and Head of Risk Management at NeoNet Securities. In 2010 he joined Nasdaq as Chief Risk Officer for Nasdaq Clearing. Over the past decade, he has held a variety of senior leadership roles, including President Nasdaq Clearing and Head of Nasdaq Nordic Fixed Income Exchange. Ekström holds a degree in Economics from Uppsala University.

Ekström sits on the board of the Helsinki and Icelandic Exchange, and act as Chairman of the Board for Puro.earth. He is also a member of the SNS Board of Trustee. SNS is an independent, non-profit organization and is Sweden’s premier venue for fact-based public debate.

Harsh Pershad

Heidi Genoni

Heidi is part of Arup’s Energy Advisory team and is experienced in delivering multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.  In recent years her work has focused on whole system energy transition and particularly the role that innovation and hydrogen can play to support the achievement of a decarbonised future. She has helped lead and shape Arup’s thought leadership in the role of the hydrogen economy. Her background is in programme & project management and she is a chartered civil engineer. She is currently leading the Arup+ team on the Hy4Heat programme.

Holly Stower

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.

Ian Hayton

Ian Mackenzie

Inna Braverman

Jan Reid

Jens Struckmeier

Dr. Jens Struckmeier is a physicist, inventor and entrepreneur from Germany. Whilst still a student, he initiated and was responsible for planning the first fully green passive house in North Rhine-Westphalia, for sustainable living without a conventional heating system. Between 2000 and 2003 Jens worked as a project lead in device and software development in Santa Barbara, USA. From 2004 to 2009 he successfully founded and managed a German nano-biology instrumentation company (eventually bought by Bruker). In 2009 Jens started developing water cooling systems for data centers, which led to the foundation of the green computing business Cloud&Heat Technologies. Since then, the vision of the Dresden-based company has been to make sustainability the driver of digital innovation. Cloud&Heat develops, builds and operates energy-efficient, green, secure and scalable (edge) data centers, meeting the growing demand for distributed and highly available IT infrastructures. Jens is not only the driving force behind the company’s hardware development but is also focused on a variety of other topics, such as data security, AI, AR, VR and blockchain. Jens’ disruptive inventions have led to Cloud&Heat being awarded several innovation prizes, including the Saxon environmental prize in 2013; the German Data Center Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019; the European Culture Innovation prize in 2018 and being named the Deloitte Fast 50 winner in 2019. Jens is frequently invited to both national and international conferences as a keynote speaker and was named Best Speaker at the German Data Center Day 2016.

Jim Mann

Jim grew up on a hill farm before studying Ecology at university.

After university he founded several successful businesses in technology, retail and leisure before his environmental background drew him back to the fight against climate change and the ecological disaster it’s bringing with it.

The Future Forest Company was born with the aim to deliver large scale reforestation projects of degraded land in the UK to have a meaningful impact in the fight against climate change.

When he’s not in the forest Jim runs competitively at ultra-distance, his favourite events being 100 mile or more mountain races.

João Metelo

Johnathan Stone

Jules Besnainou

As a director at CTG, Jules helps corporates and investors find top innovators worldwide. In the past few years, he has led scouting efforts for some of the largest utilities and industrials across Europe and the US, and opened new coverage areas for CTG, such as Blockchain, AI, and Augmented Reality. Jules also heads product development for i3, Cleantech Group’s online platform. Before CTG, Jules was an entrepreneur in the fashion space in Paris, and trained in Mergers & Acquisitions at HSBC. Jules graduated summa cum laude from Sciences Po Paris.

Jules Hammond

Julia Padberg

Karin Ebbinghaus

Keith Wiggins

Keith Wiggins is the CEO of Econic Technologies. Keith is an advocate for sustainable manufacturing businesses, latterly with early-stage businesses – notably Worn Again Technologies and Nanoco. He started work with ICI, in R&D and manufacturing, before progressive commercial and business roles with Dow Chemical located around the world. He is a graduate from Imperial College, London, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Kirsty Gogan

Kirsty Gogan, MSc. is co-founder and executive director of Energy for Humanity (EFH), an environmental NGO focused on large scale deep decarbonisation and energy access. EFH led a delegation of the world’s most highly regarded climate scientists to Paris COP21 in order to make the case for nuclear to be recognised as a vital part of the clean energy mix. EFH was subsequently shortlisted for the Business Green Leaders “Green NGO of the Year” Award in 2016. At COP23, EFH published a new report on European Climate Leadership 2017 and presented a new study on Decarbonizing Cities with Advanced Nuclear. She is also founding director of CleanTech Catalyst (a consultancy specialising in climate and energy), recently commissioned by the UK-based Energy Technologies Institute to lead the Nuclear Cost Drivers Study in partnership with Lucid Strategy (based in Cambridge, MA). The Study has proven foundational for current UK policy on nuclear new build.

Kirsty is regularly invited as an expert speaker on science communication, nuclear competitiveness and innovation to high profile events around the world. She has more than 15 years’ experience as a senior advisor to industry, non-profits and Government, including at 10 Downing St, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change, where she ran the national public consultation on nuclear new build, reviewed the national communications response to Fukushima and revised national guidance for civil nuclear emergency planning and response.

Kosuke Kobayashi

Kosuke is an associate with AP Ventures, a UK-based independent venture capital fund, which focuses on investment into breakthrough technologies in the hydrogen sector. Within the fund, Kosuke is responsible for deal sourcing and execution, as well as supporting the management of portfolio companies.

Louis Brasington

Lucy Chatburn

Ludwig Goris

Obtained a Master in Chemistry (UGent) and a PhD in Physics (Hasselt University) focusing on organic solar cells research. After his post-doctoral scholarship at Stanford University Ludwig re-joined Hasselt University to develop new thin film diamond applications. In parallel, he was actively involved in technology transfer from lab to start-up company. Ludwig joined Capricorn in 2011.

Luis Arturo Hernández Salmerón

Luis Hernández is a specialist in the area of citizen energy communities and energy network optimization of thermal and electricity networks. He started his career at E.ON in 2013 and is currently heading the innovation team for “Energy Communities and Networks.” Based on his wide knowledge range in business, regulations and technical topics in the energy industry, Luis is driving forward-thinking projects across Europe.

Luke Johnson

Luis Manuel

Luis Manuel, Executive Director of EDP Inovação since 2008; responsible for corporate VC (EDP Ventures) and startup engagement activities. Board member or observer of Effizency, Defined Crowd, Arquiled, Feedzai, Aperio, Principle Power, Gridbeyond and Vyntelligence, among others. Previously he worked 2 years at Explorer Investments (private equity) and 6 years at Galp’s Strategy and Business Portfolio department. He also worked in Espírito Santo Investment in the Project Finance and Corporate Finance Advisory divisions in Portugal and Brazil. Member of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State of Economic Development and Innovation during the XVI Portuguese Constitutional Government. He is also a member of the board of the Portuguese Electric Vehicles Association (APVE). Luís has a degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Luke Tan

Luke co-founded Supercritical in mid-2020. A chemical engineer by background, Luke cut his teeth in the world of hydrogen with Johnson Matthey, starting in traditional process technologies before leading business development for JM’s fuel cell division. With little more than a great idea and the tenacity to pursue it, Supercritical have moved in leaps and bounds in their novel high pressure electrolyser development.

Marcin Lewenstein

Marc Struhalla

Mariana Costa

Mark Neller

Mark Neller is a Director at Arup with over twenty years experience working in the energy sector, specialising in gas and electricity transmission and distribution.  He leads a team of project managers and consultants with a diverse portfolio of commissions supporting clients the in the de-carbonisation of the energy system.  Mark’s team have a number of live hydrogen projects, including the role of Programme Manager for the BEIS Hy4heat Programme, which is addressing the safety case, technical and consumer engagement issues related to the use of hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas.

Mark Taylor

Markus Wilke

Markus Wilke is co-founder of HeatNeutral, which is a Swiss Clean Tech Start-Up in the cleantech sector which is focusing on delivering CO2 solutions for industrial and domestic heating applications. Markus is an Environmental Engineer (ETH Zurich) with 14 years experience in the biofuels sector. He is the expert for the Swiss standards committee for biofuels and also owns the largest used oil collection and refining operations in the Italian part of Switzerland, His company www.heatneutral.com is rapidly gaining interest from the industrial sector as they have developed the cleanest, most efficient multi fuel burner system which can reduce CO2 impacts from heating processes to zero.

Margaux Peltier

Margaux Peltier is an engineer and science entrepreneur, holding a MSc. in Civil Engineering from EPFL Lausanne. During master thesis, she developed a strong interest in renewable geo-energy systems and testimonies the untapped potential of shallow geothermal energy and need for innovation in this domain. She co-founded Enerdrape, where as CEO she defines and oversees the startup vision and strategy. Prior to founding Enerdrape, she worked as engineer on several R&D projects on BIPV-T and solar-power houses (Canada) as well as HVAC engineer in Geneva. Margaux also worked on several international projects, as engineer consultant in the domain of energy geostructures.

Marianne Tikkanen

Marianne is a seasoned professional with work history in energy and software industries. She decided to found Puro.earth as she saw the opportunity to accelerate carbon drawdown as the 1990’s accelerated mobile telecommunications. Marianne believes CO2 can be removed at scale with the latest science-based methods and technology. Puro.earth is driving net-zero economy by operating w two-sided marketplace for verified carbon removals. Puro.earth has become de-factor standard of engineered carbon removal certificates.

Matt Lipscomb

Dr. Lipscomb is CEO and Founder of DMC Limited. His career has included a range of development stages from early R&D to commercial deployment in a variety of sectors, including both industrial and pharmaceutical biotechnology. Previously, he was a founding employee of OPX Biotechnologies and served in various roles during his tenure there. His technical leadership supported multiple successful fund raising rounds totaling more than $60M. He provided project leadership on the execution of a successful Department of Energy (DOE) ARPA-E Electrofuels program ($6M) for the production of biodiesel from H2 and CO2. His technical expertise includes microbial fermentation, process development, process modeling, analytical chemistry, and technoeconomic analysis (TEA) of bio-based processes.

Matthew Williams

Systems architect by nature, mechatronic engineer by education, design leader and facilitator by passion. With a decade in the front seat of global systems-engineering companies, Matthew provides a conduit of understanding between complex interdependent dynamic systems and the world.

A native of Australia, he recognised the technological disconnect between the capabilities of power grids and the predicted transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles and set out to tackle this challenge. He is the founder of energy technology company, IONATE, working on a new underpinning technology for electricity grids and designing the energy ecosystem that enables a truly sustainable energy future.

Michael Groves

Michael Sonsogno

Michelle Howell

Mike Bishop

Prior to joining Climate Investments, Mike was a Principal at Spring Lane Capital, responsible for originating, executing and managing investments at the intersection of venture capital and distributed infrastructure in the energy, water, food and waste industries. Previously, Mike was a Vice President at Black Coral Capital, the direct investing arm of a family office making venture capital, growth equity and project finance investments across the cleantech sector. Mike started his career in investment banking, first with Lehman Brothers covering the real estate industry, then at Nomura in Sydney, Australia. Mike holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BBA from the University of Michigan.

Molly Iliffe

Molly Iliffe leads the commercial and economic analysis of hydrogen projects at ERM. She is the economics and financial manager of the ERM Dolphyn green hydrogen project, as well as leading a range of projects for commercial clients in the hydrogen and energy transition space. Prior to working in hydrogen, Molly spent more than 10 years as a technical and commercial advisor in the renewables sector, including more than five years on the senior management team of a leading renewable energy consultancy business.

Morten Rynning

Neil Spann

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.

Niclas Davidsson

Niclas Davidsson is a business developer and manager who most recently was VP Business Development at Meva Energy.

Before that he worked as VP Business Development, responsible for the CHP segment at Cleanergy AB, another R&D focused technology company within the renewable energy industry. Niclas Davidsson has also worked as sales manager and consultant within the IP consultancy Awapatent AB and as management consultant at Accenture.

Niclas Davidsson holds a MSc of Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

Nisa Mirza

Olivier Bordelanne

Olivier joined the team of DEMETER Ventures at the beginning of 2014. He is involved mainly in the technological files related to the domains of energy, environment, sustainable mobility and smart-city.

Before joining the team of DEMETER Ventures, Olivier worked about 15 years in the sectors of the energy and the environment in France and abroad (US, Scotland) into functions in connection with the innovation and the business development, at the same time within technological start-ups (Alterg, ITI Energy) or within big industrial groups (Atofina Inc. (Total), ENGIE).

Olivier holds a PhD in Physical-Chemistry of materials and a MSc from the University of Bordeaux (France) and a post-graduate diploma in physics and physical chemistry of the University of Metz. He is the author of several scientific papers and several patents.

Olivier is DEMETER Ventures’ permanent representative on the Supervisory or Management Boards of: APIX Analytics, Deepki, Kemiwatt, eLichens, Nexdot, Sweetch Energy, Ergosup and Géoflex

Olivier Wragg

Oliver Wragg is the Commercial Director at Orbital Marine Power. With 15 years’ experience in clean energy and science, he has facilitated the raise over £180m of funding to back the development of innovative technology to enable the energy transition.  As a leader in the ocean energy industry, he holds a board positions on both the UK Marine Energy Council and European trade body Ocean Energy Europe.

Paddy Campbell

Patrick Sagisi

Patrick Sagisi is the Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Acario Innovation and a Kauffman Fellow. Acario is the Silicon-Valley based Corporate VC and Open Innovation arm of Tokyo Gas. Acario invests in early-stage startup companies in the Decarbonization/Hydrogen, Grid 2.0, Mobility and Transport Electrification, and Industry 4.0 sectors. Acario’s investments include Electriphi, Heila, and Geli.

Prior to Acario, Patrick was a Principal at DBL Partners, the leading impact investing VC firm. While at DBL, Patrick was a board observer at Mapbox, Kateeva, Urbansitter, Siva Power, Yerdle, ZincFive, and Brightsource, and worked closely with View, The RealReal, Planet, Brainscope, and SpaceX. Prior to DBL, Patrick was a Director in Samsung’s Corporate Audit Team and a member of the Global Strategy Group. Prior to Samsung, Patrick held corporate strategy, business development, marketing, and product roles at Ventana Medical Systems. Prior to Ventana, Patrick held corporate strategy and product manager roles at Adobe. Patrick also helped spin out Xerox Mobile Solutions, an enterprise mobile data startup, from Xerox PARC. Patrick began his career as a product engineer at Dallas Semiconductor.

Patrick received his MBA and MS-Engineering degrees from Stanford, and BS degrees in EE/CS and Materials Science from UC Berkeley. Patrick is a three-time Olympian in swimming, and was Guam’s Opening Ceremonies Flag-bearer in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games

Peter Rowe

Petr Baca

Piero Abatte

Pieter Vis

Pippa Gawley

Pippa is the founder and managing director of Zero Carbon Capital, th​e home of the Zero Carbon Fund. This is a new EIS fund to invest in early-stage companies that are on a mission to fix climate change through scientific innovation. We are looking for knowledge-intensive, hard-tech solutions that have the potential to make half gigaton-level reductions of CO2e at scale; and vision-aligned, ambitious teams to go with them. We can accelerate the zero carbon transition if we create technologies that are better and cheaper than fossil incumbents.​

Pippa started angel investing in decarbonisation technologies in California five years ago​, where she was an active member of the impact investing ecosystem​. Prior to that,​she held a variety of roles in general management, business analysis, ​and ​consumer-facing interactive user experience research and design​. She holds a Masters degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Presley McGuire

Sarah Petrie

Shelby Brodman

Siobhan Clarke

Stephen Marcus

Stuart McKay

Stuart holds a Master Degree in Business Administration and spent several years working as a lecturer in Project Management, Business Policy and Operations Management. Stuart joined the Scottish Government in 2005 from a background of air, rail and road freight transport logistics to manage major rail electrification projects, Stuart is now Head of Hydrogen Policy for the Scottish Government leading the development of policy in this exciting and ambitious area.

During his time as head of hydrogen policy the Scottish Government has commissioned and published a range of analysis and research on hydrogen including: the Scottish Hydrogen Assessment Report , the report of the study into Deep Carbonisation Pathways for Scottish Industries (considering hydrogen and electrification) and the Scottish Offshore Wind to Green Hydrogen Opportunity Assessment

All of which provided the evidence base to inform the publication of the Scottish Government’s Hydrogen Policy Statement in December 2020 announcing Scotland’s ambition of generating 5 Giga Watts of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen by 2030.

Following on from the publication of the policy statement the hydrogen policy team in Scottish Government is now preparing a Hydrogen Action Plan for Scotland which will be published in 2021.

Tim Baker

Tim Boeltken

Tim gained experience working in the chemical industry and is a technical expert
in the field of chemical processes. As a founder he supports IC´s sales department and holds close contact to politics.

Toby Gill

Toby is the CEO of IPG, a British clean-tech company, reinventing fuel-based power for the renewable future to de-risk the transition to alternative fuels and enable industries to end their reliance on diesel generators.

A dynamic and innovative leader, Toby draws upon his technical expertise and works closely with IPG’s experienced leadership team and Advisory Board to commercialise IPG’s breakthrough power generation technology targeted for the EV Charging and Construction industries.

Toby began his career in academia at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL, before going on to start an Agri-tech start-up, prior to joining IPG. Toby holds a PhD in Physics and Chemistry from UCL.

Todd Kleperis

An accomplished serial entrepreneur, Todd Kleperis holds over two decades of business experience in both the United States and Asia Pacific markets. Having worked as the Managing Director for Liquid Robotics for Asia his role was critical in creating the first robotic network at sea that still exists today.  He currently holds numerous patents and awards for innovation in frontier industries.

Tom Robins

Tom Robins joined Switchee as Chief Strategy Officer in April 2020 and took over the reins as CEO in Feb 2021. Tom has a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has spent his career leading scale-ups in the technology and infrastructure sectors. Tom is passionate about technology for good and has driven both a customer growth agenda and a B-Corp submission within Switchee.

Rebecca Gu

Rebecca Gu is the UK/EU Business Development Manager for Opus One Solutions. She spent four years as an Economist, focusing on competition and antitrust issues in energy transmission and digital platforms in the EU. She then joined Baringa Partners as an energy economist, advising on retail market design issues with BEIS and Ofgem and regulatory filings for transmission infrastructure projects in the OECD. Prior to joining Opus One, she was the commercial manager for a flexibility market platform provider in the UK, focusing on market design for distribution-level flexibility markets within Active Network Management zones.

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.

Rhea Hamilton

As Managing Director Ventures of OGCI Climate Investments, Rhea Hamilton is responsible for economically viable investments in innovative companies and technologies. Previously, Rhea was a Managing Director for a European family office heading direct investments in clean technology and renewable energy. Prior to this, she was an Investment Director at RobecoSAM Private Equity. Rhea started her career with Royal Dutch Shell, where she held various positions including CFO of Shell Hydrogen. Rhea holds a Geological Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia, and an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, Spain.

Wiatta Thomas