Kadri Simson is the European commissioner for energy, a position she has held since December 2019. She previously held the position of minister of economics affairs and infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia from 2016 to 2019. During the Estonian presidency of the council of the EU (from July to December 2017), Simson chaired both the meetings of the energy ministers and transport ministers in the transport, telecommunications and energy (TTE) council as well as the meeting of economy ministers in the EU competitiveness council. From 2007 to 2016, she was a member of the Estonian Parliament (“Riigikogu”) and was re-elected in 2019. Simson has a degree in history at the University of Tartu and holds a master’s degree in political science from the University College London.

Adelaide Cracco currently leads the department for Climate and Environmental Impact at EIF. She holds an MBA from the University of Navarre (Spain) and a Master’s in Economics and International Relations from the University of Louvain (Belgium).

EIF was founded in 1994 to support Europe’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) by enhancing their access to finance. EIF designs and develops venture capital and guarantees instruments which specifically target this market segment. In this sense, the EIF has played a significant role in the growth of a venture capital market in Europe.

Above all, EIF sees the venture capital industry strongly supporting innovative European entrepreneurs that are at the forefront of global disruption, primarily in technology (ICT) and life sciences, but also across various other sectors.

Phil Giudice has over 40 years’ experience in the energy industry as a geologist, consultant, entrepreneur, executive, CEO, board director and State energy official.

Most recently Phil served as Special Assistant to the President for Climate policy during the start-up of the Biden Administration, focused principally on the power sector. Previously he was CEO of Ambri, and senior executive at EnerNOC (now EnelX), as well as Massachusetts Undersecretary of Energy and was founding Treasurer and Vice Chair for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

Currently, Phil is Board Chair for FirstLight Power, a leading clean power producer and energy storage company in New England, with a portfolio that includes nearly 1.4 GW of pumped-hydro storage, battery storage, hydroelectric generation, and solar generation. FirstLight aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the electric grid by owning, operating, and integrating large-scale renewable energy and storage assets to meet the region’s growing clean energy needs and to deliver an electric system that is clean, reliable, affordable, and equitable.

Jens Wiese is the Head of Group M&A, Investment Advisory and Partnerships at Volkswagen AG. He has held multiple roles during his tenure at VW, including as Head of Group Battery Strategy.

He is a member of the Supervisory Board of QuantumScape Corp. Prior to joining VW, he served as a management consultant and held senior roles at AlixPartners and Roland Berger, focusing on the automotive and other industrial sectors.

He holds an MBA from Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.

Benoit Lemaignan is the co-founder and CEO of Verkor, a venture launched to accelerate the production capacity of low-carbon batteries in southern Europe, in collaboration with EIT InnoEnergy, Schneider Electric and the Groupe IDEC. Prior to the launch, EIT InnoEnergy brought Benoit on board to build synergies with the European Battery Alliance.

An aerospace engineer by training, Benoit is a serial entrepreneur. He previously founded and financed Waga Energy in 2015 and Aniah in 2019. He was also Managing Director of OSER ENR from 2015 to 2019 – a public-private partnership supporting the development of renewable projects. Earlier in his career, Benoit was a strategic advisor at Carbone 4 where his passion for energy and climate-related initiatives took root. From his time at Airbus, Benoit retains a strong drive for innovation and team work.

Victoria joins Santander CIB as Global Head of Sustainable Capital Markets, bringing with her over 8+ years of experience in sustainable banking and finance, having previously worked at CA-CIB, HSBC and Fidelity in the ESG / Sustainability area.

Prior to joining SCIB, Victoria was Head of Sustainable Banking, APAC + Middle East for CA-CIB, based in Hong Kong. There she was involved across all Corporate, FIG and SSA clients funding needs in Green /Social /Transition and Sustainability-linked format with recent focus on developing the APAC Green and Sustainability Linked markets business, structuring APACs first Green Swap and Green Guarantee.

Prior to this, Victoria established and built up the HSBC Sustainable Bonds team from early 2015 – end 2018, where she was based in London. With primary responsibility for EMEA clients, she supported the build out of US and APAC satellite teams. Here she was involved in the structuring of several inaugural frameworks across Corporate, FIG and SSA and Sovereign clients in Green, Social and Sustainability, Transition and Sustainability Linked format.

In both prior banking roles Victoria was an active contributor to the ICMA Green Bond Principles Executive Committee, also holding cp-chair roles in a couple of the historic Working Groups.

Before this, Victoria was an ESG investment analyst at Fidelity Worldwide Investments, based in London, but speaking to the global equity and fixed income portfolio manager and analyst teams.

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.

Sopna joined the board of RWE Generation SE in February 2021, responsible for coordinating RWE’s hydrogen activities and driving strategy development, regulatory affairs and integration management.

At the start of her career in management consultancy with McKinsey & Company, Sopra mostly served clients in the financial services sector, and worked on transformation topics. She later joined the energy industry and held various positions at E.ON such as Director Energy Solutions, Director Business Development & Business Affairs for the renewables business and member of the inhouse consulting management team. At Uniper she was leading the area Energy Services & Infrastructure.

RWE all energy and resources are put towards making a sustainable life possible. Investing massively in expanding renewables and staying involved in innovative hydrogen projects, RWE is consistently reducing carbon emissions to become carbon neutral by 2040.

Using his years of experience in Venture, Private Equity and Project Finance, and a strong background in financial analysis, Bastien Gambini has been investing across Europe and North America in both Venture and Private Equity. He holds specific knowledge of Environment and Energy industries (including renewable energy, waste and water treatment, energy efficiency, smart grid).

Former Managing Director for Europe at Equinor Ventures, he previously led the Spanish team at Demeter Partners as Partner and worked for Société Générale and Caisse des Dépôts. He has led deals in the renewable, power-grid, waste-management, artificial-intelligence and energy industries. Bastien has been a board member to more than 12 companies and holds two post-graduate degrees in Finance from Paris University Panthéon-Assas, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Aurélien Narminio is Head of Equity Listing at Euronext. Prior to joining Euronext in 2019, initially as Chief of Staff to the Group CEO, Aurélien worked in foreign exchange sales within the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division of Goldman Sachs in London, and then as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Paris. Aurélien holds a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Daniel Goldman covers over 25 years of energy industry experience in strategy, corporate and project finance, and project development, as well as private equity/asset investment and early-stage venture investing.

Beside holding a wide range of advisor and board roles worldwide, Dan has been investing at the project and venture stages for most of his career with over $4 billion in transactions completed. He has also focused on policy advocacy work to bring investors, policy makers and technology developers together to address issues of finance, scale-up and commercialization, among other key issues.

Clean Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage climate tech companies commercializing disruptive advanced energy technologies that can grow to scale and address global climate disruption. Clean energy innovations are poised to disrupt markets and achieve extraordinary growth in the coming decade.

Andreas Carlsson is Sustainability Manager at IKEA Industry and a member of the Inter IKEA Supply Sustainability Management. He is responsible for leading an ambitious agenda on health & safety, forestry, environment, and supplier code of conduct, with a specific engagement and focus on the energy and climate transformation and the IKEA Climate Positive initiative.

IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. The company strives towards 100% renewable energy use in 2025 and a constant reduction of energy use, with the target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2025 from the baseline year 2016.

Chris Burns is a Franco-American journalist and media expert with more than 30 years’ reporting
experience in Europe, the U.S., Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. He’s covered armed conflicts,
election battles, financial crises, natural and human disasters as well as film festivals. For Euronews he’s
been globetrotting to shoot magazine shows and was host of the hard talk show “The Network”. He was
a Bloomberg TV reporter based in Brussels and Berlin, and a CNN correspondent based in Germany and
the White House. He reported for the Associated Press from Paris, New York and Nashville. He’s also a
media consultant, media trainer and video producer, and has moderated panels including for the World
Economic Forum, OECD, OSCE, United Nations, World Bank and EU institutions. He graduated in political
economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and did post-grad studies in Europe. Chris speaks five
languages and has dual US-French nationality.

Diego Pavía is a serial entrepreneur, having created seven companies in his lifetime. His main endeavour is to innovate, create – and implement operationally – all with the objective of creating value.

He is an electrical engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with a major in electronics and automation. In 1988, he was as co-founder and CEO of a start-up, Knowledge Engineering, dealing with industrial controls systems using artificial intelligence and neural networks. Three years later he joined Sema Group, and started a long career with private companies. In SchlumbergerSema, Diego headed multicultural working groups all over the world in the field of energy, with revenues of $650M. Between 2002 and 2010, Diego was the CEO of Atos Origin, a leading international IT service provider, where he was responsible for Spain and South America, about 9,000 employees, and an annual turnover of €450 million.

Since 2010 and under Diego’s leadership, EIT InnoEnergy has become the largest global organisation supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in sustainable energy, having directly deployed €650M to nearly 500 innovative products and services.

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.

Bo Normark is a pivotal figure in the field of energy storage. Having served in the electrical engineering industry working for ABB for nearly 40 years, Normark became Thematic Leader for smart grids and storage at EIT InnoEnergy, before settling into his current role as Industrial Strategy Executive, and being the mind behind the EBA, the European Battery Alliance.

As a member of numerous leadership boards and advisory roles, both in his native Sweden and abroad, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences to the Renewable Energy Institute of Japan, Bo looks to not only inspire innovation, but actually transform the industry and achieve a sustainable energy future for Europe, and turn ideas into reality.

David is a non-practising Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, holds a B.Ec and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has had wide experience in the mining industry for over 30 years, with specific expertise in the development and operation of copper/gold projects. David has held executive and non-executive roles in a number of listed companies and has been actively involved in the international resources industry. He was the Senior Independent Director of Anglo Pacific Group Plc from 2014 to 2019. He is the former Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of Savage Resources Limited, Managing Director of Hillgrove Resources Limited, Executive Chairman of PowerTel Limited and Chairman of Hostworks Group Limited. He was a director of Eastern Star Gas Limited from 2006 to 2009.

Dr. Horst Kreuter is a geologist and civil engineer who graduated at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He founded the first geothermal development company in Germany in 1999 and has since then been an expert in geothermal energy working worldwide. In 2018 he co-founded Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd, a company registered on the Australian Stock Exchange with the goal to produce a Zero Carbon Lithium^TM product for the battery industry in Europe.

Jessica Robinson is a mobility investor, entrepreneur, educator, and champion of Detroit.
As Co-Founder and Partner of Assembly Ventures, she invests in and strategically supports
the entrepreneurs and mobility companies moving the Western world. She joined Assembly
Ventures from her prior role establishing the Michigan Mobility Institute, an organization she
co-founded to accelerate the development of talent for the mobility industry.
Jessica previously led the development of next-generation mobility efforts at Ford Smart
Mobility where she was the Director of City Solutions, a team which supported go-to-market
strategies for the company’s entire mobility portfolio. As an early leader in the new mobility
industry, she was a key field leader at Zipcar, the world’s largest car sharing organization,
where she held roles in growth, operations, and marketing across North America.
Her background in technology and innovation includes prior work at Techstars launching
corporate startup accelerators with industry-leading partners like Target and Virgin Media.
She is an active startup mentor, advisor to the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund at the
University of Michigan, serves on the advisory board for the MS Robotics program at Wayne
State University, and is a micro lender who invests in women entrepreneurs and business
owners in Detroit.

This summer, Jessica served as a 2021 Detroit delegate to the Harvard Business School
Young American Leaders Program, an initiative that brings together cross-sector leaders to
drive new strategies for shared American prosperity. In recognition of her public-private
work she has also been named a Next City Vanguard, a competitive distinction for top young
urban innovators working to make change in global cities. Jessica previously served as
advisory board chair for PlanetM, an initiative of the Michigan Economic Development
Corporation, to connect startups to resources, testing, and pilot opportunities in the state. In
2020, she was appointed to the State of Michigan’s Workforce Development Board to
represent mobility businesses.
Jessica graduated with highest honors from the University of Massachusetts with a BA in
anthropology and brings an unexpected perspective to the challenges that fall at the
intersection of mobility and technology.

Benoit Lemaignan is the co-founder and CEO of Verkor, a venture launched to accelerate the production capacity of low-carbon batteries in southern Europe, in collaboration with EIT InnoEnergy, Schneider Electric and the Groupe IDEC. Prior to the launch, EIT InnoEnergy brought Benoit on board to build synergies with the European Battery Alliance.

An aerospace engineer by training, Benoit is a serial entrepreneur. He previously founded and financed Waga Energy in 2015 and Aniah in 2019. He was also Managing Director of OSER ENR from 2015 to 2019 – a public-private partnership supporting the development of renewable projects. Earlier in his career, Benoit was a strategic advisor at Carbone 4 where his passion for energy and climate-related initiatives took root. From his time at Airbus, Benoit retains a strong drive for innovation and team work.

Managing Director of Mining, Metals and Industries Finance, Regional Head EMEA & CIS, Société Générale

Christophe Roux has more than 20 years experience in natural resources financing and advisory, of which 20 years in extractive industries. As a Regional Head, Christophe supervises the execution of arranging and advisory mandates in Middle East, Africa, Europe, Russia and Central Asia across the different minerals value chains

Between 2006 and 2017, in charge of SG’s upstream oil&gas finance activity in the same region, he and his team led the execution of approx. 70 arranging and advisory mandates. Previously Christophe has been heading origination of structured commodity transactions in Paris and Singapore. He graduated at the University of Cologne and started his career in Frankfurt.

Sandra Bláguez Borrás holds a degree in Chemical Engineering with 17 years of experience in Repsol. Her extended experience comprises the R&D area and the field of Health, Safety and Environment for industrial assets.

In 2019, Sandra joined the Repsol Corporate Venturing team where she manages a technological fund, seeking to invest in start-ups with disruptive technologies that can help Repsol achieve its strategic objectives. One of the fields she is focusing on is investments in hydrogen technologies to meet the relevant challenges the industry is facing. Repsol is committed to achieving to be a Zero Net Emissions Company by 2050.

Janelle Wang is an Industrial Designer turned Entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in Strategic Product Development, Brand Building and New Category Creation & Design for Fortune 500s to Start Ups, bringing breakthrough Innovation and Sustainability to reality. She co-founded ACTON 7 years ago.

Designing the future of Intelligent Micromobility. ACTON is a Bay-Area based, Mobility As A Service (MaaS) solution provider, passionate about moving people and goods. Today, they are offering a platform to empower 100+ local businesses and cities globally to build greener and more efficient cities – starting with micromobility.

Janelle was selected as one of Remarkable Women in Transport 2020; SVIEF Top 30 Innovation Award 2019; one of 19 Influential Women In Mobility in 2019; awarded Female CEO of the Year in 2016; featured in WSJ, FastCompany, CNN, VOGUE, BBC etc. She is a regular keynote speaker and panelist in mobility events. She also holds over 30 utility & design patents.

Nico Buchholz is an accomplished global Executive with 30 years unique international experience covering all continents, mostly in the Aerospace (OEM & Airline) industry and Rail and Leasing (GOAL, Malta). Culturally astute to interact globally, he has a strategic view based on sound market knowledge and focus on sustainable business. Nico is one of the founding partners at FlightLevel500, a management firm specialized in Transport and Mobility.

Jekaterina Boening is committed to finding sustainable solutions for the decarbonisation of the transport sector: electrification of road transport and conversion of air and sea transport to green e-fuels. She is a pragmatic climate protector who works solution-oriented and evidence-based.

Transport & Environment (T&E) is Europe’s leading NGO campaigning for cleaner transport. Jekaterina strongly believes in innovation, but not to rely on it, and considers ensuring a future that is worth living in for the next generation the most important goal of her work.

Dr. Andreas Mündel has been in various strategic roles in the consulting and logistics industry for the past 20 years. After studying physics, he initially worked for management consultancy company McKinsey. He later transferred to Deutsche Post DHL in 2004 as Head of DHL Express Europe.

He is now SVP of Group Strategy and responsible for strategic projects in the production area, including Clean OPS teams, lead of the Sustainable Fuel project, Center of Excellence Automation of Operations, and Group OHS team and Patent Management. In addition, Dr. Mündel coordinates the agenda of the Operations Board, which includes the divisional board members for Operations in addition to the CEO.

Karsten Rick Radtke is the Global Head of Business Development at Thyssenkrupp, an international group of companies comprising largely of independent industrial and technology businesses. He repatriated to Germany after 6 years in the USA where he took on P&L responsibility and developed a history of working in the global and North American marketplace for technology-driven engineering and EPC industry.

Karsten is a strong process-technology related sales and business development professional, skilled in Chemical, Gas, Petroleum, Fertilizer, Hydrogen, Advanced Power Solutions, Hydrocarbon Conversion (oil, natural/shale gas, coal, biomass, waste), Syngas, Synfuels, e-Fuels, Biofuel, Gasification, Steam Reforming, Propane Dehydrogenation, Green Chemicals, Green Hydrogen, Green Ammonia, Green Methanol, Chlor-Alkali Electrolysis, Water Electrolysis, Petrochemicals and Plastics, Polyolefins, Oleochemicals, etc.

Astrid Schilderman is Technology Director at Synkero, a start-up developing PtL Sustainable Aviation Fuel production capacity, with a first facility in the Port of Amsterdam. Astrid has over 10 years international experience in the Oil & Gas industry at Shell, where she worked in engineering, operations, commissioning and start-up, and project management. In 2017 she moved to the renewable energy industry, focusing on wind project development. She holds a M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology.

Astrid joined Synkero in 2020. Together with partners Municipality of Amsterdam, Port of Amsterdam, Royal Schiphol Group, SkyNRG and KLM, Synkero will focus on realizing a first commercial SAF factory in the Port of Amsterdam. The project will seek to connect with sustainable initiatives in the North Sea Canal area, such as the Hermes project.

Ilka von Dalwigk is a senior technology and policy expert, keen on shaping and operationalizing policy visions into concrete actions and recommendations.

Ilka has more than ten years of experience in the energy transition in commercial, public, private, and policy environments with in-depth knowledge of major research and policy issues covering the battery value chain from the supply of raw materials to applications.

Notably, Ilka is the Policy Manager for Smart Grid and Storage working with the industrial development programme of the European Battery Alliance – EBA250 – with a strong focus on sustainability and supply chain topics. She has been instrumental in building up and managing the vast and complex network of the stakeholders in this initiative, as well as developing the set of recommendations that contributed to the design and content of the 43 actions that have been identified as necessary by the European Battery Alliance, to make the EU a key player in the global battery market.

Jan Votava is a highly skilled and respected Czech engineer and executive leader, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering. For 17 years, he held various managerial roles at LafargeHolcim, the world’s largest construction-materials company, including Head of Transformation Team for Europe, Technical Director for Central Europe, Executive Chairman and Managing Director for the Czech Republic. He also played a leadership role with the team that developed, constructed and optimized a €250 million cement plant in Hungary for Lafarge. He is currently responsible for leading Mangan Chvaletice s.r.o., Euro Manganese’s subsidiary in the Czech Republic including the company’s organizational and reputational development, as well as project permitting and development.

Matti Schurr is the co-founder of Avocargo, launched in March 2021. His professional record in the mobility industry includes positions at SHARE NOW, Free2Move (formerly Carjump), and Porsche. After starting out in the marketing field, he now mainly focuses on product management. Matti holds a Master’s in Automotive Management from HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.

Avocargo is Germany’s first free-floating e-cargo bike sharer. It allows end-users and businesses flexible access shared electric cargo bikes via the Avocargo app. Their aim is to enable urban life without owning cars – to transport larger items, children, pets and more.

Jennifer Dungs has spent nearly 20 years in the automotive industry, including Ford Motor Company (Detroit), BMW (Munich) and Porsche (Stuttgart). She has in-depth knowledge from the industry on topics related to sustainability (CO₂ strategy, air quality), alternative powertrain technologies (energy storage, heat management), technologies and services (autonomous driving, sharing, mobility as a service, last mile mobility) and business models for digital products and services for mobility and Smart Cities.

Jennifer also was the Director at Fraunhofer, responsible for Mobility and Smart Cities and established a joint lab with MIT called Ambient Mobility focused on using big data to understand mobility patterns and create mobility solutions to help revolutionize our cities. She holds both a M.S. Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. Chemistry.

Jennifer is responsible for the strategic investments in Energy for Transport and Mobility at InnoEnergy.

Beres Seelbach has been a leader and entrepreneur in e-mobility solutions for over 10 years. At 24, in 2009, he founded the e-mobility solutions company Lautlos, distributing electric vehicles, as well as providing electric fleet management and maintenance services. Lautlos pioneered in providing e-vehicles throughout Germany.

In 2016, Beres, along with co-founders Murat Günak (former head of design for Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen) and Philipp Kahle (light electric vehicles expert), founded Tretbox GmbH,now known as ONO, to rethink and reshape modern urban transportation.

ONO is introducing a new category of emissions-free vehicle: The ONO Pedal Assisted Transporter (PAT) to improve city-life quality by reducing road congestion and road pollution. After a successful launch of the ONO PAT in November 2018, ONO is currently conducting pilot projects with large European and global companies in the CEP, food and urban logistics markets to gear up for mass production and commercialization of the vehicles.

Carina Krastel works at EIT InnoEnergy, a European public-private partnership, as the Commercial Director of the European Green Hydrogen Acceleration Center (EGHAC) – an initiative supported by Breakthrough Energy.
The EGHAC will focus on supporting and accelerating large scale industrial green hydrogen projects to reduce CO2 emissions in value chains like steel making, fertilizer production, synthetic fuel production, shipping etc.
Carina Krastel is a sustainable energy engineer with experience in engineering, business and innovation. Since 2009, she has worked in the construction and the industrial gas industry on sustainable energy, air quality and innovation topics. Prior to joining InnoEnergy, Carina worked as the Director for New Offers for the Energy Transition for the Large Industry Business of Air Liquide, a French industrial gas company, focusing on offers for green hydrogen and carbon capture solutions.

Cagri Selcuklu is the CEO and Co-founder of DUCKT, a smart micromobility infrastructure solutions company, that develops and operates docking, locking and charging infrastructure solutions for micro-mobility in urban environment.

A cosmopolitan, born in Turkey, he graduated with a masters in transportation in Italy and married in Norway, Cagri has worked in the automotive & mobility industries for over 15 years. He is a true believer that micromobility will become an indispensable part of our future in urban environments.

DUCKT was started with two co-founders, in 2019, with the objective to create the “USB standard” for the micromobility infrastructure, solve ecosystem issues, and create efficient and sustainable mobility services for all. Since then, DUCKT has become compatible with all major vehicle manufacturers & software providers globally, and has delivered 1000s of its charging stations across three continents and more than 20 countries. DUCKT is now an award-wining company holding several international recognitions around the globe.

Jacob Ruiter has held various positions in a wide variety of companies all related to energy. In his previous role he was the Director, Country Manager Energy Advisory of Benelux at DNV GL, where he was responsible for energy and renewables advisory activities in the Benelux, Africa and Middle East.

Previous to that, he worked for Dutch Utilities company, Essent, where he had a number of roles including Managing Director for metering data, Managing Director for local energy solutions and Managing Director for B2B.

Jacob began his career with oilfield service company, Schlumberger, as a wire-line field engineer. It was from there that he moved onto more commercial roles, starting with the position of Regional Manager Europe for drill pipe manufacturer Grant Prideco.

Jacob holds an M.Sc. in Mining Engineering from the Delft University of Technology and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management.

Tobias Abt is Manager for Global Raw Material Procurement and Strategic Market Development at Mercedes-Benz AG. Tobias has been working for the company for about seven years and has occupied different functions within the Mercedes-Benz procurement and strategy departments in Germany, China and the US. In his current role, he leads the global raw material strategy, especially for future oriented raw materials within the field of electro mobility and international market observation for direct material sourcing.

Tobias has an engineering background from the University of Applied Science Ravensburg, Germany, with a specialization in international management and manufacturing engineering. Furthermore, he holds a master’s degree in Management of Innovation and Business Development from Halmstad University, Sweden and studied in Bangkok, Shanghai and Tokyo in the field of business model innovation and automotive.