Speakers

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
 

CANDICE BEAUMONT is a managing director who runs L Investments, a single family office with a vast portfolio of public and private equity that is primarily focused on commodities.  She oversees all capital allocation decisions for the fund of funds as well as the direct investment portfolio. She is also a financial consultant to Genoil Inc, an emerging heavy oil technology and portfolio company of L Investments. Ms. Beaumont is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.  

DR. MICHAEL BRANDKAMP is the executive director of High-Tech Gründerfonds and has focused on the investment business for young technological companies since 1997. In 2004 and 2005, he was the department manager for innovation financing and shareholdings within the KfW banking group, and was previously the associate executive director of tbg Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH of the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank. In 1999 he became the director of the tbg Berlin office.  

AMADEO BRENNINKMEIJER is a founder of Nycon Energy AG. He has gained international experience in the fields of energy, retail, real estate, investment banking and retail financial services. He previously worked for C & A Netherlands, C & A Buying Brussels, Redevco Europe Services BV, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Lazard Ltd. and Banco IBI SA.

DR. JULIA BALANDINA JAQUIER is a founder of an investment consultancy that advises institutional, private and sovereign investors in structuring and deploying capital for impact. Among other non-executive roles, she is a board and investment committee member of SIFEM (Development Finance Institution of Switzerland). She is the author of “Guide to Impact Investing for Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals – Managing Wealth for Impact and Profit”.

SCOTT E. JACOBS co-founded and co-leads McKinsey’s global CleanTech practice. Mr Jacobs works with both emerging innovators and market leaders to build CleanTech businesses; with leading institutional investors on the risks and opportunities related to natural resource scarcity and sustainability; and with public sector clients on the topic of “green growth.”

 MICHEAL LIEBREICH is the head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the leading provider of information and research to senior investors, executives and policy-makers in clean energy and the carbon markets. Michael founded the company in 2004 and acted as chairman and chief executive until its acquisition by Bloomberg at the end of 2009.

GREG NEICHIN is the executive vice president of the Cleantech Group. He leads the Cleantech Group’s Research & Advisory business where he assists global enterprises, investors, and public institutions in evaluating cleantech companies and assessing the development of cleantech markets. Mr Neichin began his professional career as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting (Oliver Wyman) and subsequently advised a global client base on technology trends and commercialisation for SRI Consulting Business Intelligence.

IYAD OMARI joined Frog Capital in 2006 to focus on cleantech, and has a particular interest in advanced industrial processes, materials recovery/recycling, water treatment, and next-generation energy transmission/distribution. Iyad is involved with SiC Processing, agri.capital, Ostara, SolarCentury and Oxsensis. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from LBS. 

PATRICIA VON PAPSTEIN is a private investor, with analytical skills and a love for play. She sees the attraction between Eros and Wealth as the most creative force in economic matters. In her business life she performs in many roles: as an investor, a founder, a manager, a mentor, a patron and a donator.

TOBIAS REICHMUTH, CEO of  Susi Partners, is a thought leader in financing measures against climate change and is privately engaged in fighting poverty and driving entrepreneurialism, targeting the base of the economic pyramid. As founder and CEO of SUSI Partners, he successfully structures financial products which invest in infrastructure energy efficiency measures as well as in renewable energy infrastructure.

CONOR ROCHE joined NTR in 2003 as business development director for Greenstar UK, later moved into a business development role in NTR Group in 2008 before becoming vice president of corporate finance in 2009. Prior to joining NTR, Conor was CEO of CampusAer and marketing manager for Oldcastle Architectural Products Group, the US arm of CRH. 

JOHN ROWLAND has worked in cleantech private equity funds for over 5 years. He is currently a cleantech transaction advisor to the Evolution One Fund. He is also an investment manager at Consensus Environment, the $500m new energy and environmental infrastructure private equity investment arm of the London-based Consensus Business Group.

ROBERT RUBINSTEIN - for the past fifteen years, Robert Rubinstein, the CEO of Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) Group, has been instrumental in integrating ESG and Impact Investing into the culture and strategy of international corporate business and investment companies.

HANS BJORN (TEDDY) PUTTGEN has been director of the Energy Center at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) since April 2006. Professor Püttgen was previously Georgia Power Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and later served as president and CEO of Georgia Tech Lorraine, the European campus of Georgia Tech in France.

CONSTANTIN SALAMEH is the chief executive officer of the Al Masaood Group of Private Companies, a diversified family business based in Abu Dhabi with operations in several sectors including services, general trade, industrial, automotive and real estate. Salameh has more than 25 years of general management experience with leading family offices and family businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.

DIPENDER SALUJA  is managing director at Capricorn Investment Group, the family investment office for Jeff Skoll, the co-founder of eBay. Based in the head-office in Palo Alto, California, Saluja oversees investments and helps incubate companies in energy technology, cleantech, IT and emerging markets. His areas of interest are solar, electrification of vehicles, energy efficiency, energy storage, smart grid, water, and medical devices. Dipender is also president and CEO of Automatiks Inc, a Capricorn portfolio company that is developing wireless connectivity platforms.

JEAN-LOUIS SCARTEZZINI joined EPFL as associate professor and head of the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) in 1994. A full Professor in Building Physics at EPFL since 1999, he founded in 2002 the Institute of Infrastructures, Resources and Environment (ICARE), as well as the EPFL Doctoral Programme in Environment, and headed both until 2008. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications, member of several federal and international expert panels and associate editor of international scientific journals in the field of solar energy. 

DR AUDREY SELIAN has been active in the impact investing sector since 2006. She has a particular interest in small sustainable businesses in emerging markets, and has focused (through a family-office supported initiative called "Artha") on building a portfolio and helping find ways to galvanise like-minded 'impact' investors working in bottom of the pyramid (BoP) markets in India.

FAYSAL SOHAIL is general partner at CMEA Capital and Chairman of Altair Group in San Francisco, CA. He joined the firm in 2002 as a general partner, bringing with him more than a decade of senior executive experience in engineering, marketing, business development and building start ups. Since 2002, he has led venture capital funding to several key start ups in both the energy and technology sectors. 

HUGO SPOWERS is a partner in Riversimple LLP and former motorsport engineer. During an MBA at Cranfield, he studied the commercial feasibility of bringing hydrogen cars to market. He concluded that a step change in technology was both essential and possible and, furthermore, that the principal barriers were not technical but to do with people, politics and business. This led to the LIFECar project with Morgan cars and founding Riversimple with Sebastian Piech of the Porsche family.

HERTA VON STIEGEL established Ariya Capital in 2008 to focus on Africa as the next major opportunity for sustainable venture and private equity investments. She has 25 years of experience in international finance with a consistent track record of building profitable highly regulated structured finance businesses and has led/executed debt and equity transactions in excess of $10 billion. She has specific sector expertise in finance, renewable energy and carbon credits.

PAUL SIMON manages the family office of Lord Stanley Fink, former CEO of Man Group Plc. In this role Paul focuses on impact investing and venture philanthropy. He is an associate partner with Earth Capital Partners LLP, a sustainable investment manager, the executive director of the Earth Capital Partners Foundation as well as a trustee of the Ashden Awards for sustainable energy. Paul has 12 years’ experience in investment banking and private equity with a particular focus on emerging markets, agriculture and cleantech venture capital investing.

MATTHEW D. STEPHENS is a P.H.D. chemist with an MBA from INSEAD. He has worked in cleantech most of his career in both public and private companies, with a focus on materials and manufacturing technologies, including recycling of industrial wastes and byproducts. About two years ago, he started a consultancy, Cleantech Strategies. On behalf of clients, he is currently working on cleantech opportunties in China.  He is also working on projects to address critical material shortages caused by China’s rare earth export quotas. 

DR ROB WYLIE has focused on the clean technology investment area for over 20 years and is a founder partner of WHEB Partners. WHEB Partners now manages two specialist cleantech PE funds with total assets under management of €150m and whose investors are a mixture of family offices and institutions. Rob is also a co-founder of other WHEB Group companies: WHEB Asset Management for investment in quoted sustainable stocks and WHEB Infrastructure Partners for investment in renewable energy projects.