Florian Reuter has been CEO of DB Energie GmbH since May 1, 2024.

After studying industrial engineering with a focus on business planning at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Florian Reuter worked for a Hamburg-based management consultancy from 2005 to 2009 on international projects, primarily in Southeast Asia and the USA. From 2009 to 2014, he then worked as a venture manager in the central research department at Siemens AG in Munich, where he was responsible for establishing technology companies. Before joining DB Energie GmbH, Florian Reuter was Managing Director of the German aviation company Volocopter GmbH from 2015 to 2022. Volocopter GmbH develops, certifies, and operates innovative, all-electric aircraft for the transport of people and goods. There, his responsibilities included strategic direction, organizational structure, product development, and fundraising. He represents DB Energie, among other things, as a board member of the Forum for Future Energies e.V. in Berlin.

José Antonio de las Heras is the CEO of FertigHy, a new player in low-carbon fertiliser production, launched to accelerate decarbonisation of the food value chain. He brings more than 25 years of c-level executive and non-executive corporate and venturing experience, many of them in the fields of green hydrogen, renewables and natural gas. Combining his engineering background and commercial mindset, he previously served as CEO of Sunrgyze, a green hydrogen technology start-up owned by Repsol and Enagas as well as developed national markets working for Enagas and Renovalia. 

Dr. Philipp Matthes is a senior investment manager at Siemens Financial Services and has over 15 years of experience in the energy industry. With his background in different roles such as strategy, business development and M&A he is now promoting sustainable investments to drive the energy transition and industrial decarbonisation. He has established a successful cooperation between Siemens Financial Services and InnoEnergy and facilitated several co-investments. In addition, for the past 5 years he was managing director of WUN H2, one of the largest operating green hydrogen plants in Germany which he successfully drove through development and construction into operations. He has a diploma as well as a PhD in business administration from the University of Regensburg, Germany and a MBA from Murray State University, USA.

Mrs. Dr. Yun Luo is co-founder and CEO of ROSI, a French deeptech startup company leading the campaign of circular economy for photovoltaic industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree of physics from Fudan University in Shanghai (CN), a Diploma of Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (FR), and a PhD degree in Microstructure Physics from Max-Planck-Institute in Germany. With full respect to science, technology, and industry, today Dr. Luo is leading ROSI team at worldwide forefront towards high value critical raw materials recycling and revalorization from and for photovoltaic industry, a key element for the successful relocalization and revival of European PV manufacturing.

Tetsuya Shinohara is an Executive Vice President and Chief Regional Officer for EMEA at Mitsubishi Corporation (MC). Currently stationed in London, he serves as the Managing Director of Mitsubishi Corporation International (Europe) Plc and concurrently as the General Manager of the London Branch.
Since joining MC in 1990, he has held various roles, with a primary focus on global strategy and regional management at the Tokyo headquarters. Early in his career, he gained invaluable international experience through assignments in France, Senegal, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
In addition to his current responsibilities, Mr. Shinohara serves as the President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the UK and holds several non-executive directorships within the Mitsubishi Corporation Group

35+ years of experience in Industry with international management position in Strategy, R&D, Product development, Business & services.

Prior experience :

– 5 years in GE Vernova, Leading Product & Technology Roadmap with a focus on external growth since early 2025

– 3 years in Danfoss as CTO and responsible for the key technology partnerships.

– 19 years in Schneider-Electric, (Head of Energy Strategy and Innovation , head of advanced services and project engineering for Industry, Managing the Automation Division of Schneider for more than 4 years, head of Drives R&D and then the Drives product portfolio making the Joint-Venture between Schneider and Toshiba,)

– 7 years in Alstom Transportation (project manager of the Northen Line embedded computer system in the last position)

Elina Roine was appointed Deputy Director General of the Operations Directorate (OPS) as of 1 September 2024.

In addition to her new role, she continues to lead the Business Planning and Support Department within OPS, a position she has held since December 2021.

Prior to her current role as Director, she established the OPS Climate Office (CO) and led it for two years, championing the EIB’s transition to being the EU climate bank and spearheading the operationalisation of the Climate Bank Roadmap. Notably, Elina and her OSD team are also at the forefront of the Bank’s digital transformation journey for front-line operations.

Elina joined the EIB in 2006 as a Loan Officer. She was responsible for the German market, covering multiple customer and product segments, from corporates to financial institutions and from high-risk private sector operations to public sector infrastructure financing. She was appointed Head of the German Division in 2013, and later moved to lead the Corporate Division in the Baltic Sea and Northern Europe Department (BSNE).

She began her banking career in the Nordea Group in Helsinki, starting in risk management before moving into a front-line role in international banking. In 2001, she relocated to London to join the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). As part of the Financial Institutions business group, she worked across several countries where the EBRD operates and led transactions ranging from senior debt to trade finance and equity, until her move to the EIB.

Elina holds a master’s degree in political science and economics from the University of Helsinki and a post-graduate master’s degree in advanced international studies from the Vienna School of International Studies.

Olivier Sala was appointed the Group Vice President of Research & Innovation at ENGIE in July 2021. Passionate about energy & carbon transition challenges and how technologies can contribute, Olivier is an experienced VP with a demonstrated history of working in the Energy and Services industry.

In 1993, Olivier Sala graduated from the University of Technology in Compiègne with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, and in 1996 from ESSEC. He began his career at Air Liquide before moving into consulting at A.T. Kearney, followed by the Boston Consulting Group.

ENGIE is a leading world group that provides low-carbon energy, and aims to meet the challenges of climate change by achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2045. Guided by its objective statement, ENGIE reconciles economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet, using its expertise in four core businesses: renewable energy, energy solutions, networks, thermal generation and energy supply.

After starting his career as a researcher in Portugal, Marco Ferraz moved to San Francisco to work as a visiting researcher at USGS, in collaboration with NASA. In 2009, he relocated to Australia to pursue a PhD at the University of Sydney, where he was also an auxiliary professor at the School of Geosciences.

Upon returning to Portugal in 2012, Marco joined Galp as a Geoscientist in Upstream, contributing to some of the company’s most prominent assets. Today, he leads the Upstream & Industrial Innovation Center at Galp, managing over 60 research, development, and innovation projects in Portugal and Brazil. These initiatives span oil and gas production, refining processes, and energy transition topics such as hydrogen, low-carbon fuels, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), and energy storage.

Marco is also chairman of the board of the Net4CO2 collaborative laboratory and board member of Bioref Colab.

Raphael Vaquer has been with Société Générale for over a decade, holding roles in both Hong Kong and London. He specializes in structuring and financing complex renewables, power, and first-of-a-kind energy transition projects across Asia and EMEA. Raphael has built deep expertise in offshore wind financing, advising clients on numerous large-scale projects in the UK and Taiwan. In recent years, he has become a leading advisor on bespoke financing structures for innovative assets such as interconnectors, carbon capture, and carbon transport and storage projects. Most notably, he advised sponsors of the Net Zero Teesside Power and Northern Endurance Partnership transactions, which together raised approximately £8 billion and represent the first project-financed carbon capture and storage projects globally. These landmark transactions, central to the UK’s East Coast Cluster, were recognized as Deal of the Year at the PFI Awards 2024, where Société Générale was also named Global Financial Adviser of the Year. His work is helping advance the UK’s net zero ambitions and accelerating the global transition to a low-carbon economy. Raphael holds an MEng in Electrical Engineering from CentraleSupélec.

Eduardo Martinez Granados is Director of Energy and Infrastructure Finance at ING Spain & Portugal, where he has spent over eight years structuring and closing more than 20 landmark financing transactions in the Iberian market. Notably, he led the first-ever biomethane project financing in Spain, demonstrating ING’s commitment to advancing the energy transition. Since 2019, Eduardo has been an active member of ING’s New Energy Technologies initiative, contributing to the development of the green hydrogen and derivatives industry in Iberia and advocating for their role in decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors. He regularly participates in industry events, such as the Green Gas Mobility Summit, where he shares insights on renewable gas trends, innovative business models, and investment strategies that accelerate sector growth. Eduardo has also played a key role in major transactions, including ING’s support of AGR Biogás and SWEN Capital Partners in biomethane plant construction, as well as Sonnedix’s €2.5 billion portfolio refinancing, where ING acted as Sole ESG Coordinator and Hedge Provider. His work reflects a strong commitment to sustainable finance, helping clients scale renewable energy, energy storage, and hybrid projects across Europe. Eduardo began his career at Cintra, the road concession subsidiary of Ferrovial, working in Madrid and Dallas, Texas. He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).

Vincent Guerré is the founding partner and current Chairman of ENOSIS, a pioneering French clean-tech company based in Toulouse that transforms CO₂ and non-reusable waste into renewable gases using proprietary biological methanation technology. Since launching ENOSIS in late 2014, he has steered the company from laboratory research to industrial deployment—culminating in the construction of Denobio, France’s first industrial-scale biomethanation facility integrated with an agricultural methanization unit, set to inject synthetic methane into the natural gas network starting in 2025. Under his leadership, ENOSIS has developed and commercialized advanced equipment lines such as Bimotep (a mobile biomethanation testing unit), Demetha (a pre-industrial biomethanation prototype), and Plainenergie (Europe’s first demonstration project converting territorial waste into injectible gas). In 2022, Guerré successfully led a €3 million equity fundraise from Industrya, UI Investissement, and Banque des Territoires—backing ENOSIS’s industrialization expansion under France 2030’s “Territoires d’innovation” program. He also forged a global partnership with engineering group John Cockerill to expand biomethane production and CO₂-recycling solutions across new markets. Early in his career, Vincent worked at STMicroelectronics, where he drove semiconductor innovations for the smartphone sector, and later at PRIMAGAZ, where he led its sales, marketing, and business unit operations. Vincent holds a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Telecommunications, along with an MBA from HEC, anchored by his foundational studies in political science. Through his leadership, ENOSIS now stands at the forefront of the circular economy—harnessing biological methanation to create sustainable, grid-injectible renewable gas, bridging electricity and gas networks while enabling energy storage and decarbonization.

Francois Koppenol has been active in venture capital as a lawyer for 20 years, advising both investors and founders. He focuses on investments (in its many forms such as equity, SAFEs, convertibles, venture debt), shareholders’ agreements, governance, employee incentive schemes and foreign direct investments controls. He has also been involved in many exits and liquidations.

Besides her academic career in the fields of knowledge management, collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship, Elena Bou developed her professional career in the field of management consulting in both private and public companies. In 2010 she co-founded EIT InnoEnergy, the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

She contributed to create InnoEnergy’s trusted innovation ecosystem which operates in more than 26 countries. In Elena’s Innovation Director role, she led the development of major efforts in creating and accelerating new start-ups and scale-ups in the energy field, including the investment process in such ventures. As a result, the company has now supported nearly 500 start-ups, including two unicorns.