World Biofuels Markets

WBM 09 Congress Speakers

Cutting insight from 200 leading biofuels minds including:

Name

Title

Company

Sir Bob Geldof Activist, Businessman & Musician  
Paul Roberts Author  
Jeff Mettais VP Strategic Business Development A2BE Carbon Capture
Dominique Ribola Development Director A2BE Carbon Capture & ABO
Agustin Bianchini Technological Prospective Area leader AAPRESID
Pedro Carrillo Managing Director - Trading Europe ABENGOA
Melissa Stark Senior Executive Accenture Energy Industry Group
Joaquin Ancin Managing Director Acciona Biocombustibles
Gustavo Idigoras Minister Counselor Agricultural Affairs for Argentina
Christian Dumas VP Sustainability and Eco-Efficiency Airbus
Tim Peara Managing Director ALTERNA
Eduardo Caldas Project Manager Apex
Frank Roerink CFO Avantium
Gert-Jan Gruter Chief Technology Officer Avantium
Luuk A.M van der Wielen Professor B-Basic
Dietrich Klein Secretary General BDBE German Bioethanol Association
Edgar Ahn Technical Director BDI - BioDiesel International
Hermann Stockinger Member BDI - BioDiesel International
Dirk Wens President Belgium Biopackaging
John Benemann   Benemann Associates
Willem Prins Director BFP Africa
Dr Tom Cornelissen   Bio Oil
Naren Raju CEO Bioenergy Plantations
Michael Cooper Director Biofuel Brokers
Malcolm Shepherd Managing Director  Biofuel Matters
Jim Lane Editor Biofuels Digest
Marie Mikkelsen Research Manager Biogasol
Michael Weaver CEO Bionavitas
Kelly Ogilvie CEO Blue Marble Energy
Darrin Morgan Director, Business Analysis Boeing Commercial Planes
Philip New President BP Biofuels
William Lese Managing Director Braemer Energy Ventures
Mike Lu President Brazilian Jatropha Growers Association
George Joannou Chairman Cams Agri-Energy
Cristian Sainz Managing Director CARBIO
Rene van Sloten Cefic Executive Director Industrial Policy CEFIC
Gabriel F de Scheemaker CEO and Co-founder Cellana BV
Christian Egenhofer Senior Research Fellow Centre for European Policy Studies
Spencer Swayze Business Development Director Ceres Power
Patrik Lownertz Vice President Marketing & Sales Chemrec
Don Roberts Managing Director CIBC
Eva Sunnerstedt Project Manger Clean vehicles in Stockholm City of Stockholm
Manfred Kircher President CLIB 2021
Tom Baruch Founder/Managing Director CMEA Ventures
Olivier Gross Founder  Commosupply
Andre Faaij Associate Prof Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development
Wesley J Bolsen Vice President of Business Development and Chief Marketing Officer Coskata
Boris Hinz Head of Sales Cropenergies
Marco Fattore   De Smet SA Engineers & Contractors
Rolf Koster   Delft University
Kieran Power Bio-energy and Renewable Materials Team Department of Energy & Climate Change, UK
Francesco Soragna Biodiesel Product Manager Desmet Ballestra
Linda Lopez Corporate Market Development Manager, Chemistry and Metabolomics Dionex Corporation
Michael Persson Vice President Dong Energy
Jo Howes Managing Consultant E4TECH
Rob Vierhout Secretary General Ebio
Dr Zoran Stancic Deputy Director General EC Commission Research
Marc Londo Scientific Researcher ECN
Bart Dehue Senior Consultant, Bioenergy ECOFYS
Eric Van de Heuvel Senior Consultant Ecofys International
Philipp Hasler Investment Director Emerald Technology Ventures
William Thurmond President & Founder Emerging Markets Online
Dr Rainer Zah Head of Group EMPA
Dr Stefan Kromus CEO Enbasys
Lukas Hablutzel Global Industry Manager Renewable Energy Endress + Hauser
Tomas Jonsson Task Force Leader, Lead Market Initiative for Bio-Based products, European Commi Enterprise & Industry DG
Jacob Rookmaker   Essent Trading
Mauro Poinelli   EU Commission
Camille Burel Manager EuropaBio
Willy De Greef Secretary General EuropaBio
Rafaello Garofalo Secretary General European Biodiesel Board
Eelco Haarsma Secretary General European BiofuelGO Association
Veronique Hervouet Chair European Biofuels Technology Platform
Kyriakos Maniatis Directorate General for Energy and Transport European Commission
Dr Hilkka Summa Head of Unit - Bioenergy, Biomass, Forestry & Climate Change European Commission
Assaf Oron Executive Vice President Strategy & Business Development Evogene
Dr Rene Koschabek Manager Product Development Evonik
Dr Nicolas Rudinger Project Manager / DG-F-EVB Evonik Degussa
Mr Ian Waller Consultant FiveBarGate Consultants
Brian Balmer Programme Manager Frost & Sullivan
Robert Outram Team Leader, Specialty Chemicals Frost & Sullivan
Stephen Rush CEO Fuels for Freedom
Peter Hanratty Chief Executive Officer Fuelstock
Dr Nikos Brouzos Biofuels Sustainability Compliance Officer Galp Energia
David Hazlebeck Program Manager General Atomics
Richard Gilmore President/CEO GIC Group
Alex Major Executive Director Green Flight Initiative
Andrew Owens Chief Executive Officer Greenergy
Alex Smith Sustainability director Greenergy
Meghan Sapp Managing Director HG Consulting
Tim Vink Director of Regulatory Affairs Honeywell International Inc
Suzanne Hunt Founding President Hunt Green LLC
Ilya Golubovich Managing Partner I2BF Venture Capital
Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho   IADB
Peter Defranceschi   ICLEI
Antonio Pfluger Head, Energy Technology Collaboration Division IEA
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve Executive Director, Europe & Africa International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC)
Urszula Szalkowska Manager Europe & Africa International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC)
Dr Hermann Scheer President International Parlimentary Forum & Member of German Parliament
Arvind Chudasama Editor International Sugar Journal & Sugar Cane International
Kurt Tyssen Business & Analytical Development Manager Intertek
Giuseppe Caserta President / Vice President ITABIA / Biofuels Italia
Jeff McNeely   IUCN
Thilo Zelt Director Jatropha Sustainable Biofuels Alliance
Giovanni Venturini Del Greco President Jatrophabook Association
Klanarong Sriroth Director Kasetsart University
Jonathan Kingsman President Kingsman
Philipp Riedel Manager LMC
Mr Greg Archer Forrestry officer Low CVP
Bill Haywood CEO LS9
Kona Haque Commodities Analyst Macquarie Bank
Ulrich Weihe   McKinsey
Nicolas Denis Associate Principal McKinsey & Co
Ramani Narayan Distinguished Professor Michigan State University
Miguel Almada National Biofuels Programme Ministry of Economy & Production Argentina
Andre Aranha Correa do Lago Director Ministry of External Relations
Al Darzins Director of Research Centre for Biofuels National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Simo Honkanen VP, Health, Safety & Environment Neste Oil
Harry Boyle Senior Biofuels Analyst New Energy Finance
Michael Liebreich Chairman & CEO New Energy Finance
Michael Wilshire Head of Research, UK New Energy Finance
Mark Morgan Principal & Global Directory Biotechnology NEXANT
Jonathan Scurlock   NFU
John Williams Technology Transfer Manager NNFCC
Stefano Facco New Business Development Manager Novamont
Marco Versari Strategic Marketing Manager NOVAMONT SpA
Cynthia Bryant Marketing Manager Novozymes
Peder Holk Nielsen Executive Vice President Novozymes
Uwe Fritsche   Oeko-Institut
Junpen Meka-Apiruk Minister Councellor Office of Science & Technology, Royal Thai Embassy
John Moran Chief of Staff (acting) OPIC
Bruno de Wilde Lab Manager Organic Waste Systems
Riggs Eckelberry Found and President OriginOil
Dr John Scott Chairman Petro Algae
Fred Tennant V.P. Business Development PetroAlgae
Peter Welters CEO Phytowelt GmbH
Doug Berven Director of Public Affairs, Poet
Ronald Backers Business Developer Bulk Cargo & Shipping Port of Rotterdam Authority
Robert Wilson Chairman Poyry
I.N Mallikarjun   Praj Industries
Robert Johnsen President and CEO Promethegen Corp
Marika Veringa Niemela Vice President-Biofuels Pšyry
Paul Cordfunke Market Manager PURAC
Oliver Bach   Rainforest Alliance
Daniel Oh COO Regenesis
Lord John Browne Managing Director Riverstone Holdings
Charlotte Opal   Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels
Robert Carling Director, Transportation Energy Center Sandia National Laboritories
Blake Simmons Manager Sandia National Laboritories
Katherine Dunphy-Guzman Staff Member Sandia National Laboritories
Jeremy Goodfellow Vice President of Energy Sanimax
Jason Pyle CEO and Co-founder Sapphire Energy
Cynthia Warner President Sapphire Energy
Malcolm Wells Communications Manager Sasol Chevron
Marc Van Aken Director & Member of the Board SBAE Industries
Koen Vanhoutte Science Director and President of the Board SBAE Industries NV
Michele Stanley Microbial and Molecular Biology Scottish Association for Marine Sciences
Guy Ouimet Senior Advisor SDTC Next Generation Biofuels Fund
Snehal Desai Vice President Segetis
Jan Lindstedt CEO SEKAB Biofuels & Chemicals AB
Per Carstedt CEO SEKAB South Africa
Floris Mulder   SenterNovem
Per Godfroij Policy Advisor SenterNovem
Jonathan Wolfson CEO Solazyme
Ronald Bray Senior Consultant SRI Consulting
Kevin McGeeney CEO Starsupply Renewables
Joachim Emanuelsson COO Starsupply Renewables
Francis X Johnson Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Stockholm Environment Institute
Graham Noyes Partner Stoel Rives
Antti Jaaskelainen SVP, Head of Biorefining & Bioenergy Stora Enso
Sonja Vermeulen Director, Programme on Business and Sustainable Development Sustainable Markets Group
Mats Johnson CEO SweTree Technologies
Jerome Peters Senior VP and Group Director, Project Financing TD Banknorth
Dr David Penfold Research and Development Manager The Carbon Trust
Jim Lunt VP Sales & Marketing Tianan Biologic
Hamish Curran CEO TMO Renewables Ltd
Prof Shi-Zhong Li Prof. of Bioenergy Tsinghua University
Udo Muhlbauer Chemicals Engineer Uhde Inventa-Fischer
Astrid Agostini Forestry Officer, Environment Climate Change and Bioenergy Division UN Food & Agriculture Organisation
Stephen Gitonga Energy Policy Specialist, Environment and Energy Group UNDP
Emmanuel Desplechin Chief Representative in the European Union UNICA
Melinda Kimble Senior Vice President United Nations Foundation
Marcel Van de Voorde Professor University of Technology Delft
James Clark   University of York
Hans Sohlstrom Executive Vice President UPM-Kymmene
Mary Ann Curran LCA Research Programme Manager US EPA
Bill Orts Research Leader USDA
Martin Patel Associate Prof. Utrecht University
Mr Carlos Riva President and CEO Verenium Corporation
Greg Keenan Vice President Virent Energy Systems
Shai Weiss Managing Partner Virgin Green Fund
Josef Modl Executive Vice President Vogelbusch
Jacco van Haveren Programme Corordinator Wageningen Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group
Wolter Elbersen research scientist  Wageningen University
Rene Wijffels Head Bioprocessing Engineering Wageningen University & Research Centre
Erik Rietkerk EU Representative Office Wilmar Oleo Pte Ltd
Gene Gebolys President World Energy Alternatives
Dr Robert Bailis Assistant Professor Yale

 

WBM 09 Sponsors

Platinum sponsors

PetroAlgae
sbae Industries
Starsupply

Gold sponsors

Endress + Hauser sponsors the World Biofuels Markets 2009
Evonik
Novozymes sponsors the World Biofuels Markets 2009
Poyry
Silver sponsors
Biodiesel - An ADM product
Desmet Ballestra
Intertek
Vogelbusch
Strategic partners

EBB a strategic partenr at the Wolrd Biofuels Markets  EBIO a strategic partenr at the Wolrd Biofuels Markets