ECO11 Berlin Speakers

Ecosummit Berlin 2011 took place on 24-25 March 2011 in the Scandic Hotel. Below you find our 86 ECO11 Speakers. Please scroll down to learn more about our speaker lineup. Click “expand” to read the speaker profile, click “collapse” to close it. Follow the company link to visit the external homepage.

Rolf Adam
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Director Sales Europe Utilities & Smart Grid
Cisco
http://www.cisco.com
Rolf Adam is a Director with Cisco. He is responsible on a global basis for the solutions development for the utilities industry and leads the European Utilities and Smart Grid Sales Business Development for Cisco. In addition to his responsibilities at Cisco, he is an industry advisor to WHEB Partners (Cleantech fund), sits on the Advisory Board of Entelios AG (Demand Response start-up), and is an expert to the European Commission on Smart Grid. Prior to joining Cisco he was a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton where he had built and managed the European Smart Grid Practice and an Associate at A.T. Kearney. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Eichstaett and a MBA from Webster University.

Dr. Franz Alt
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Journalist
Sonnenseite
http://www.sonnenseite.com/
Studies: Political Science, History, Philosophy, Theology
1967 PHD Doctoral Thesis on Konrad Adenauer
1968 Editor and reporter with Südwestrundfunk (South German Radio and Television)
1972-1992 Head and presenter of the political program “Report”
1992-1997 Head of “Zukunftsredaktion” at Südwestrundfunk
1997-2000 Head and presenter of the political program “Querdenker” (Unconventional thinker) in 3sat
Until 2003 Head and presenter of the 3sat program “Grenzenlos” (Boundless/without borders)
From 2003 Freelance writer of background reports and commentaries for over 40 newspapers and magazines and guest lecturer/speaker at conferences and events worldwide

Dr. Christoph Ballin (Pitch)
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Founder & Managing Director
Torqeedo
http://www.torqeedo.com
Christoph Ballin is one of the founders of Torqeedo, a leading clean transportation player in the boating industry. Together with his partner Dr. Friedrich Böbel, Christoph launched Torqeedo in 2005. Since then Torqeedo has become the global # 1 in the emerging market for electric outboards. Prior to founding Torqeedo, Christoph was working for Gardena, Europe’s leading brand in gardening equipment, where he served as Managing Director of Gardena Deutschland GmbH and Corporate Sales Director of Gardena AG. Before joining Gardena, Christoph was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Out of McKinsey’s Hamburg office, he worked mainly with clients in the European consumer goods industries and left McKinsey as an Engagement Manager. Christoph’s educational background is in Business Management with a PHD from the University of Bamberg.

Carsten Bartholl
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Partner
Taylor Wessing
http://www.taylorwessing.com/
Carsten Bartholl co-ordinates Taylor Wessing Germany’s activities in the field of renewable energies, cleantech investments and carbon emissions reduction. He specialises in corporate structuring and M&A transactions, primarily in connection with renewable energy projects. His practice extends to all stages of project development from early-stage structuring through financing and share or asset deal exit transactions. His services include the ongoing consulting for clients regarding the supply and exploitation of their services and products. In addition to energy Carsten also focuses on the entertainment and technology-related industries. Carsten studied law in Hamburg. Following his exams and two years professional research employment at Hamburg University he has worked as an attorney since 1996. He is a native German speaker, but is also fluent in English and French.

Markus Becker (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Ecointense
http://www.ecointense.de/
Markus Becker is one of the founders and CEO of EcoIntense, Berlin. The business focus is on developing software solutions in the field of health, safety and environmental management. In 2006, Markus graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin and received the master’s degree in Environmental Computing. He worked for Daimler in South Africa as a consultant and supported the establishing of a local environmental management system. In 2006, he managed the project of implementing a software system for the audit management of the Berliner Wasserbetriebe, the Berlin water supplier. In the following time, he co-developed a standard software solution for the corporate environmental protection. In August 2007, he founded the EcoIntense GmbH. Since then, he is CEO and Head of Sales and Marketing.

Carl Berninghausen (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Sunfire
http://www.sunfire.de
Carl Berninghausen is one of the founders and CEO of SunFire, a startup developing a technology to produce renewable fuels from CO2, H2O, and renewable energy. Prior to founding SunFire, Carl was head of Steinbruegge+Berninghausen GmbH, a German company in the wood processing industry. After successfully managing the turn-around of the family-owned business, he founded a framehouse production company called Karibu GmbH, soon becoming market leader in Germany. Carl sold Karibu in 2007 and began investing into Cleantech companies via the newly found bw-energiesysteme GmbH. His educational background is in business administration at the European Business School (Oestrich-Winkel) and in economics at the University of Frankfurt.

Dr. Thomas Beyerle
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Head of Research & CSR
IVG Immobilien
http://www.ivg.de
Dr. Thomas Beyerle studied Economic Geography at the University of Mannheim and in 1998 obtained a Doctorate in Natural Sciences at the University of Stuttgart. Leader of the Research Department of Dr. Lübke GmbH in Stuttgart from 1994 to 1998. Upon the foundation of the Dresdner Bank Immobiliengruppe (real estate group) in 1999, transfer to Frankfurt with responsibility there for all real estate research. After the merger of Allianz AG with the Dresdner Bank AG in 2002, he became Director and Head of the Allianz Global Investors Division Research & Consulting and Press Management at the DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH Frankfurt and from 2008 on he was working as Head of Global Research at Aberdeen Property Investors. Since January 2011, he is Head of CSR and Research at IVG Immobilien AG, Bonn.

Harry Böhme
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CFO
Novaled
http://www.novaled.com/
Harry Böhme is the CFO of Novaled, the leading provider of materials and technology for organic electronics. The company is based in Dresden, Germany, and has developed from a spin-off from the University of Dresden towards a major player in the industry since its foundation in 2001. In August 2013, Novaled was successfully sold to Samsung. Harry has a legal background, working as a lawyer for ten years, before joining a US-based software firm in 2000 as General Counsel. From 2002 until 2006, he served as General Counsel and Director Finance for Intershop, a leading German provider of eBusiness software. In 2007, he joined Novaled, where he is responsible for all internal and external financial activities, with a strong focus on Private Equity and Capital Markets activities.

Francois Bordes (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
MyCO2
http://www.myco2.com/
Founder of Aloke, smart solutions for the planet
Sustainable Development Director, Capgemini Consulting (2007 to present)
Animation of the European workshop on the sustainable city on behalf of the Ministry of Ecology. Creation of Bluenext, subsidiary of the “Caisse des dépôts” and of NYSE Euronext. Energy-climate Advisor in the private office of the Minister of Ecology and sustainable development, Paris (2004-2006)
Advisor in the private office of several successive ministers: Roselyne Bachelot, Serge Lepeltier and Nelly Olin. Implementing the Government policy on renewable energies, energy management and fight against climate change (Climate Plan, national sustainable strategy). Establishing the greenhouse gas emission trading market.
Director of the private office of the Directorate General for Companies, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Paris (2002-2003)
National expert seconded to the European Commission, Brussels (1999-2001). Anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations on behalf of the European Commission.
Education: Ecole Polytechnique, 1993 Chief Engineer in the Corps des Mines

Dr. Philipp Bouteiller
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Partner
Finfortec
http://www.finfortec.com/
Philipp is a partner at Finfortec, a boutique investment bank and corporate finance advisory for technology companies, where he signs responsible for cleantech and digital. He has been a speaker at electric mobility conferences and published on electric mobility and passenger information systems.Philipp has extensive entrepreneurial and consulting experience. After several years with McKinsey, where he specialised on high-tech and TIME industries, Philipp founded and built several companies, amongst them IGA Worldwide (leading independent provider of In-Game Advertising, New York), sMeet (leading browser based virtual world) and HIT Labs (advanced picture based object and face recognition systems).He acts as business angel and adviser for a number of clients and earned his PhD in international management and social psychology from the London School of Economics.

Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart
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CEO
EPEA
http://epea-hamburg.org/
Professor Dr. Michael Braungart is founder and scientific director of EPEA Environmental Protection and Encouragement Agency in Hamburg, Germany. He also is co-founder and managing director of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBCD) in Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) and scientific director of the Hamburger Umweltinstitut (HUI, “environment institute”). Together with the American architect William McDonough he developed the Cradle to Cradle®-concept. Braugart studied Chemistry and Process Engineering in Konstanz and Darmstadt (Germany). EPEA was founded in 1987. Since that time, Michael Braungart dedicates his life to the research of and consultation for eco-effective products. Since 1994 he teaches as professor of Process Engineering at the University of Lüneburg and is head of an interdisciplinary program which does research of material flows. In 2002 he accepted a visiting professorship at the Darden School of Business (Virginia, USA), lecturing on topics such as eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness, Cradle to Cradle®-design and intelligent materials pooling. Since 2008 he additionally teaches at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam – where a chair of Cradle to Cradle® had newly been established.

Michael Bültmann
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Managing Director (Public & Legal Affairs)
Nokia Germany
http://www.nokia.com
Since 2008 Michael Bültmann has been a member and spokesman of the managing board of the Nokia Deutschland GmbH. He studied law in Würzburg, Heidelberg, and St. Gallen. His professional experience encompasses 5 year occupation as a lawyer and lecturer for international business law. He joined Nokia in 2001. As a lawyer and managing director Michael Bültmann accounts for legal matters as well as the department for governmental and public affairs. Besides regulatory issues concerning the internet and telecommunication Michael focuses on education and corporate citizenship. Thus, Michael Bültmann is closely connected to both governmental departments and organizations for education and the advancement of learning. Michael Bültmann held various international positions at Nokia, including the controlling department. He was acting as Senior Legal Counsel, for Germany and several eastern European countries.

Erwin Burth
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Head of Cleantech Business Development EMEA
Autodesk
http://www.autodesk.co.uk/cleantech
Erwin Burth is an industry expert in the area of 2D/3D design and engineering solutions for the manufacturing, automotive and building industry and heading up Business Development for “Clean Tech” in EMEA at Autodesk. The main focus lies on supporting start-ups and established companies which are significantly contributing to a more efficient utilization of scarce resources like energy and raw material. Prior to joining Autodesk in 2005 Mr. Burth was Vice President at Mensch und Maschine Software SE, a leading European Vendor of Computer Aided Design / Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) with locations in Europe, USA and Japan. Mr. Burth is very experienced with start-up businesses, especially through his 3-year assignment as COO of a European eCommerce Application Service Provider for Business Process Automation. Mr. Burth is an engineer by education and he holds an MBA in international Marketing from the “Export Akademie Baden-Württemberg”.

Dr. Thomas Butter (Pitch)
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Founder & Managing Director Research & Development
Ubivent
http://www.ubivent.com
Thomas holds a PhD from the University of Mannheim in Computer Science and Business Administration. Thomas is an experienced software developer. He actively participated in multiple open source projects and has conducted extensive research in novel software development tools and methods. He was working in different roles on various software projects, the last one being the technical manager for several virtual event projects at SAP AG. Dissatisfied by the existing platforms he quit his job in early 2009 and started his own virtual event company. At ubivent he is responsible for research and development.

Gianluca Cecchetti (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Enatek
http://www.enatek.it
Gianluca Cecchetti is one of the founders and CEO of Enatek. Enatek is developing a new kind of micro-wind turbine specifically thought for roof-top installations on industrial and residential buildings. Prior to founding Enatek, Gianluca was the managing director of PIN, a research center holding also a renewable energies incubator. Before joining PIN, he was the Organization & Strategy Director of Pramac, a public company listed in Italian stock exchange operating in Energy industry. Previously he served as management consultant in Deloitte Consulting and A.T.Kearney. Gianluca holds a degree in Business Administration at the Bocconi University in Milan.

Daniel Dendra
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Founding Partner
OpenSimSim
http://opensimsim.net/
Daniel Dendra is founding partner of the Open Source Design Network OpenSimSim and also initiator of FutureCityLabs. Daniel Dendra was working as an architect at various design offices in London, Moscow, Düsseldorf and Rotterdam such as A.M.O. (Rem Koolhaas) and Zaha Hadid Architects. He was involved in projects of all scales from regional planning (Hollocore – AMO 2002), master planning, several large scale tower projects in Spain, Dubai and Australia, architectural design (shopping centers, offices and residential in Spain, Russia, Germany and UK), exhibition design (Spymaker – London and Indianapolis 2006) and small scale installations (Urban Nebula, London, 2007). After leading a studio together with Dr. Jenny Lowe at Brighton University (UK) Daniel Dendra was appointed visiting professor at DIA (Dessau Institute of Architecture | Bauhaus Dessau) in 2007 where he is leading a design studio. Since 2010 Daniel has become a studio master of GREENlab together with Thomas Auer (Transsolar) at the Ecole Spéciale d ́Architecture in Paris (ESA Paris).

Bruno Derungs
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Partner
Climate Change Capital Private Equity
http://www.climatechangecapital.com/
Bruno Derungs is a co-founder and partner of Climate Change Capital Private Equity (CPE), a €200m fund in London, which invests in growth capital and buyout in clean tech companies. He is member of the board of PPC – a German smart grid company – and Enerqos – a leading Italian solar EPC contractor. Over the last 10 years Bruno has invested in the solar, biogas, biomass, water, energy efficiency and smart grids space in Europe and the USA. Prior to joining CPE Bruno was a principal at SAM Private Equity in Zurich and managing director of an investment company investing in VC in technology companies. Bruno was a consultant at Bain & Company in Geneva and Zurich where he mainly worked for PE clients. Bruno Derungs has a MSc degree from the ETH Zurich in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

Dr. Klaus Dibbern (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Flinc
http://www.flinc.org
Klaus is co-founder and CEO of flinc, the social mobility network which will revolutionize the way we think about ridesharing. Klaus met the original flinc team in 2009 at a founder/investor “speed dating” which he attended as member of the Business Angels Frankfurt. Prior to flinc, Klaus had co-founded DENC AG, a professional services firm for product life cycle management, which he led and grew as CEO from 1999-2005. He sold the company to PTC (global leader for product lifecycle management solutions) and oversaw the successful post-acquisition integration. Klaus had already been sales director at PTC before founding DENC – and he had come to PTC in 1995 through the company’s acquisition of Rasna, a silicon valley startup, for which he had built up the European sales and support organisation. Klaus earned an MBA from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Karlsruhe University.

Gina Domanig
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Managing Partner
Emerald Technology Ventures
http://www.emerald-ventures.com
Based in our Zurich office, Gina Domanig is the Managing Partner of Emerald Technology Ventures. In 2000, she founded Emerald (formerly SAM Private Equity) as the first independent cleantech venture capital fund in Europe. Emerald is one of the largest dedicated cleantech funds and the first with a transatlantic strategy. Gina serves on the boards of Identec Solutions, Inge, Pelamis and TaKaDu. Gina has over 20 years of international business experience including banking, M&A, strategic development, and venture capital. Prior to starting Emerald, she was senior vice president at Sulzer, a Swiss multinational, responsible for strategic planning and M&A. During her ten year tenure, she built up a team which completed 45 transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs and JVs in industrial technology sectors. Gina holds MBA degrees from Thunderbird in Arizona and ESADE in Barcelona and is fluent in English, German and Spanish.

Bettina Drehmann (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
FutureE
http://www.future-e.com/
Bettina Drehmann, a qualified physicist, has a broad spectrum of experience in the commercial activities surrounding fuel cell technology and international program management. Her expertise spans development, purchasing, and logistics. Her last role, before founding FutureE, was as a senior member of the international product development and market entry team at Ballard AG & NuCellSys GmbH, a Joint Venture of Daimler Chrysler AG and Ford Motor Company.

Dr. Tilman Eichstädt
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Management Team Member
Inventux
http://www.inventux.com/
Dr. Tilman Eichstädt is a member of the Management Team at Inventux Technologies AG. Founded in 2007, Inventux is a developer and producer of micromorph solar modules and integrated micromorph systems. Mr. Eichstädt joined Inventux in 2009 as Head of Purchasing and Logistics. Prior to Inventux, he has been working as a management consultant and research analyst at McKinsey & Company for eight years, with a focus on automotive and railway industries. This experience was preceded by a three year experience as research assistant at Ecologic, a private research institute based in Berlin. Mr. Eichstädt holds a degree in economics and a PhD in procurement management at the university of Rostock.

Konrad Erzberger (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Tamyca
http://www.tamyca.de
Konrad Erzberger, 24, is one of the founders and CEO of tamyca, Germany’s first and leading peer-to-peer carsharing company. The young entrepreneur made his first steps during Waldorf school as a provider of game servers, web and rackspace. After graduation as valedictorian, he voluntarily served a community service in Rhode Island, United States, as a substitute to the mandatory military service. He then studied law at Bucerius Law School and Hong Kong University. He specialized in labor law and received a scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation. With tamyca, he seeks to nudge mobility towards economic and ecological efficiency.

Conrad Ess
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Managing Director
Green Technology Staffing
http://www.greentechstaff.de
7 years with Reutax AG, specialized recruiting, Co-founder, COO, CEO, Germany – USA – Switzerland
1 year with Management Angels, Interim Management recruiting
7 years with Ascena (Hays), specialized recruiting, Managing Director
Education: MBA, University of Bradford (Nimbas) and Dipl. Ing. (FH) Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Joerg Fabri
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Managing Director
Kienbaum Management Consultants
http://www.kienbaum.de
4 years Shell, Manager “Marketing Technology Department”
5 years VEBA AG (E.ON AG), Head of “Corporate Strategy”
5 years RWE AG, Head of “Strategic Planning” and Vice President “Multi Utility Operations”
4 years Arthur D. Little, Partner
6 years Droege & Comp., Managing Director
Since 2011, Kienbaum Management Consultants, Managing Director and London & Oxford Capital Markets since 6 years (in parallel)
Education: Dr. rer. nat., RWTH Aachen, Germany and Diploma in Chemistry, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Dr. Alexander von Frankenberg
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Managing Director
High-Tech Gründerfonds
http://www.htgf.de/
Dr. Alex von Frankenberg is Managing Director of the High-Tech Gründerfonds. Before taking that position in October 2005 he was responsible for spin-offs as Venture Manager at the Siemens Technology Accelerator (STA). Before joining the STA in April 2002 Alex was head of sales and marketing of an IT start-up. Prior to that he headed the Innovation Practice at Siemens Management Consulting. He started his career designing and implementing large IT systems with Andersen Consulting. Alex holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin (1992) and a PhD from the University of Mannheim (1997).

Ralf Fücks
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Director
Heinrich Böll Foundation
http://www.boell.de/service/home.html
Ralf Fücks studied social science, economics, and history in Heidelberg and Bremen. After graduation he worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Bremen and as an instructor in adult education. He co-founded the magazine Moderne Zeiten (Modern Times) in 1980 and worked there as an editor. Fücks joined the German Green Party in 1982. Starting out as a research assistant for their faction in the Bremen city parliament, he later became a delegate and chaired the party’s parliamentary group from 1985 to 1989. He was elected co-chairman of the Green Party’s national executive committee in 1989/90. In 1991, he returned to Bremen politics and became Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, as well as the second mayor in the Bremen “traffic light” coalition: the first coalition of Social Democrats (red), Free Democratic Party members (yellow) and Greens to be formed in West Germany. Fücks has been the director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 1996. He is in charge of the Foundation’s domestic work, as well as foreign and security policy and Europe and North America. He also supervises the Grüne Akademie (Green Academy) scholarship program, a think tank of researchers and policymakers. Fücks has published on the subjects of ecology and economics, political strategy, Europe and international politics in Germany’s larger daily and weekly newspapers, in international political journals and on the Internet.

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Gege
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Chairman
B.A.U.M.
http://www.baumev.de/
After academic studies 1968 Auditing Assistant, Manager Corporate Auditing Triumph International Munich, Circle of Future Executives, 1970 Assistant Financial Director, Controlling – Planning International Subsidiaries (Europe, USA, South America), Director for Planning and Environment – Member of the Executive Board – Winter, Hamburg. 1979 crucial experience: Book by H. Gruhl –“A Planet is plundered“, during a trip to Greece, foundation of AUGE (Aktionsgemeinschaft Umwelt, Gesundheit, Ernährung e.V. – Action Group Environment, Health, Nutrition) with Loki Schmidt, Heinz Sielmann et. al., foundation of B.A.U.M. e. V. (German Association of Environmental Management) with Dr. Winter and other entrepreneurs. Role of Managing Executive Member of the Board; development of B.A.U.M. to become Europe’s largest economic environmental initiative from 1984 on. Chairman since 2003.

Dr. Henner Gladen
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Founder & Advisor to the Executive Board
Solar Millennium
http://www.solarmillennium.de/
Dr. Henner Gladen is an expert surveyor for new technologies and strategic project development in the environmental sector and power generation. He has an extensive experience in Research and Development of power plant and structural engineering. Furthermore, he is member of ESTELA, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association. Apart from that Dr. Gladen represents the Solar Millennium Group as a founding member of DII GmbH which aims at the implementation of the DESERTEC concept in the MENA region.

Antoine Gourdon (Pitch)
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Development Director
TMW Technologies
http://www.tmw-technologies.com/
Antoine Gourdon is development director of TMW, a company which develops and sells equipment for seawater desalination and industrial waste water concentration. Antoine has 20 years experience in water and waste water either through managing position in VEOLIA group or as manager or founder of various startups. He successfully turned around a €15M revenue company, raised more than €90M in subsidies and capital and participated in 4 startups as founder or manager. Antoine holds a degree in biology at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lyon) and started a PhD in cognitive sciences at College de France (Paris).

Christian Graeff
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District Council & Founder
CleanTech Park Berlin-Marzahn
http://www.cleantechpark.de/e_start.htm
Since 1995: Member of the CDU (German Christian Democratic Party)
2000–2003 and since 2005: Vice Chairman of a CDU District
2002–2009: Board member of the CDU in Berlin
Since 2007: Chairman of CDU District Organization for Biesdorf
1995–1998: Training as retail merchant
1998–2004: Authorized Representative and subsequently Managing Director of a retail company
1999–2001: Member of Parliament of (Federal state of) Berlin
2004–2006: Freelance businessman
2006: Member of Parliament of (Federal state of) Berlin
Since Nov 2006: District Council, Marzahn-Hellersdorf Borough

Knut Hechtfischer
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Founder & CEO
Ubitricity
http://www.ubitricity.com
Knut Hechtfischer advised national and international clients in leading international law firms in London, Frankfurt, and Berlin with a focus on Regulatory, Acquisition Finance and last but not least Renewable Energy related projects. Following a bank traineeship he studied law and, in addition, holds a university degree in business administration (M.B.A. equivalent). Not only as an attorney has he been concerned with the potential of the renewable energy sector for several years. Knut also has a strong technical background and envisioned important parts of ubitricity’s mobile metering concept. In 2008 he founded ubitricity together with his colleague and friend Dr. Frank Pawlitschek.

Dr. Manfred Heil (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
WeSustain
http://www.wesustain.com
Manfred held several executive roles in the high-tech industry including Senior Vice President of SAP AG, where he led the SRM business and the global partner management. Prior to SAP he founded Goodex AG, where he served as CEO. The company was acquired by Ariba Inc. in 2003. He has a strong background in sales, marketing, software development and IT-strategy. He created and managed international business networks with focus on co-innovation and collaborative sales. Manfred received his PhD from the Technical University of Munich. He studied business administration at the University of Hannover.

Dr. Peter Hellich
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Partner
Taylor Wessing
http://www.taylorwessing.com/
Peter advises clients in all aspects of Corporate and Commercial Law and is specialized in national and cross-border M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions, including public takeovers. He has broad experience in transaction management. Peter studied law at the universities of Bonn, Munich and Regensburg and graduated from the University of Regensburg in February 1993. As assistant lecturer at the Institute of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law of the University of Regensburg he wrote his doctoral thesis on European and German antitrust law, finished his second state examination in July 1996 and was admitted to the bar in January 1997. From November 1996 until December 1997 Peter worked as a foreign associate with Dr. Widmer & Partner in Bern/Switzerland and as associate with Weiss, Walter, Fischer-Zernin in Munich. From January 1998 until 31 August 2002 he worked as senior lawyer in the Düsseldorf office of Clifford Chance (since 1 January 2000 Clifford Chance Pünder), and joined Taylor Wessing as partner in the Düsseldorf office on 1 September 2002. Since November 2007 he is the head of the Practice Department Corporate.

Jan Michael Hess (Host)
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CEO
Ecosummit
https://ecosummit.net
Jan is Founder and CEO of Ecosummit and the Berlin-based consulting firm Mobile Economy. Ecosummit is the smart green business network and conference connecting startups, investors and corporates to accelerate smart green innovation. Ecosummit’s goal is the global transformation to the smart green economy powered by 100% renewable energy and ubiquitous internet and cleantech. Ecosummit Market is an open online platform to support the marketing and business development of smart green startups. Since 2010, Jan produced 6 international cleantech conferences in Berlin, London and Düsseldorf. He advises startups on fundraising, strategy, marketing and sales. Moreover, Jan acts as Editor-in-chief of the Ecosummit Blog and Ecosummit TV. Prior to founding Mobile Economy in 2000, Jan worked for Pixelpark, Icon Medialab and Ciao as Strategic Planner, Project Manager and Head of Marketing and Sales. Jan holds a business degree from the University of Mannheim, lives in Berlin with his wife Simone and their son Mateo and is a big fan of Japan and Jazz.

Staffan Hillberg (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Heliospectra
http://www.heliospectra.com/
CEO/co-founder of Heliospectra. Partner of Wood & Hill Investment, a small private equity company. Earlier, managed MVI, largest and oldest business angel network in Europe (175M€ invested in 75 companies). Prior ran local VC as well CEO/co-founder of network security company AppGate with operations in Europe and the USA, raising US$20M from ABN Amro, Deutsche Telecom and GE Equity. Before, managed online activities and MIT Media Lab sponsorship of Bonnier Group, largest media group in Scandinavia. Earlier, QuickTime Product Manager at Apple in Cupertino and before this Multimedia Evangelist with Apple Computer Europe in Paris. Extensive experience as an investor, business angel and board member, with companies like Mirror Image, Digital Illusions (acquired by Electronic Arts) and Spotfire (acquired by Tibco). Board member of Procera Networks, Inc. (AMEX) (sales grew US$2M-$20M in 3 yrs). M.Sc. studies at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Ulfert Hoehne (Pitch)
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Consultant
HEI Solar Light
http://www.hei-solarlight.com/
Ulfert Hoehne took a degree in Physics at the University of Vienna. In the early 90s he worked with Greenpeace as a climate and energy expert, and subsequently as a consultant for the renewable energy industry. As founder and manager of the Austrian Renewable Energy Association he pushed on the political scene for supportive legal conditions for renewables and energy efficiency in Austria. In 1999 he founded Vienna-based green power utility oekostrom AG whose CEO he was until 2008. Since then Ulfert Hoehne is engaged as an entrepreneur and consultant in the field of energy and sustainability, e.g. he is co-founder of Berlin-based KlimaGut AG, member of the board of directors of GreenTech Invest AG and consultant of the HEI group. In spring 2011 Ulfert Hoehne is going to join HEI group as full-time CEO of HEI Eco Technology of which HEI Solar Light is a spinoff. Within HEI group he will take on responsibility for innovation management and communications for HEI Solar Light.

Prof. Dr. Peter Höppe
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Head Geo Risks Research/Climate Centre
Munich Re
http://www.munichre.com
Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Höppe joined the Munich Re in 2004. He was appointed Head of the Geo Risks Research Department in January 2005. Before joining Munich Re Prof. Höppe has worked in different institutes at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and as a post doc at Yale University (USA). Most time of his university career Prof. Höppe spent at the Insitute of Bioclimatology and Applied Meteorology and the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. His academic education is in meteorology (Masters and PhD) and human biology (PhD). His main areas of research have been effects of atmospheric processes (heat/cold, UV radiation, air pressure fluctuations) and air pollutants (ozone, particles) on humans and the general assessment of environmental risks. Currently his research focus is on trends of natural catastrophes and their drivers and on climate change effects on insurance industry in general.Prof. Höppe is scientific member of many scientific societies, from 1999 to 2002 he has been the President of the International Society of Biometeorolgy. He has held different expert functions in WHO and WMO. In 2005 he founded the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, which has become a relevant player in the UNFCCC climate change negotiations. In 2007 Dr. Höppe has been appointed member of the Global Warming Advisory Board of the Bavarian State Government and Chair of the “Finance-Forum: Climate Change” of the high-tech Strategy of the German Federal Government. In 2009 he has been one of the initiators of the Desertec Industrial Initiative, which is supposed to become the largest renewable energy project.

Doerte Höppner
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Managing Director
BVK – German PE & VC Association
http://www.bvkap.de
Doerte Höppner is the Managing Director of BVK – the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Before joining BVK in 2007 she worked for the German Institute of Economic Research and as a TV journalist for the German television. Doerte is a member of the “Forschungsunion” of the German Federal Minister of Research and Economics and a member of the Public Affairs Executive, which is the steering committee for all public affairs issues of the European private equity and venture capital industry.

Mads Jensen (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Sefaira
http://www.sefaira.com/
With more than a decade of professional experience in Information Technology innovation, management and leadership, Mads brings technology vision to the building and construction industry. He is especially passionate about the way technology can help drive industry transformation, bringing everything from better building materials, more powerful renewable energy systems and of course software that helps practitioners design, manage and optimise everything to make the most of Earth’s limited resources. Mads was a Business Executive at IBM Global Services prior to founding Sefaira. He holds a BSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and an MBA from INSEAD.

Dr. Nick Kanopoulos (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Brite Solar
http://www.britesolar.com/
Dr. Kanopoulos is the Founder and CEO of Brite, a startup company founded in mid 2009, engaged in the development of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell technology for solar glass applications. He is a 28-year veteran of the semiconductor industry with appointments as Managing Director for Channel Development in EMEA for the Solar Business Unit of Applied Materials; Director of the Multimedia & Communications (MMC) business division of Atmel Corp.; Founder and CEO of Data Communications Technologies and Manager of the Integrated Electronics Dept. at Research Triangle Institute. He also taught at the Electrical Engineering department of Duke University as adjunct professor for 10 years. He holds a BS from the University of Patras, Greece and a MSC and PhD from Duke University, Durham, NC, all in electrical engineering.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
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Head of Energy Department, Professor of Energy Economics
German Institute of Economic Research, Hertie School of Governance
http://www.claudiakemfert.de
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert is Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004, and Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. She is economic expert for climate and energy policy strategies. Claudia Kemfert advised EU president José Manuel Barroso, and she acts as an external expert for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). She is highly awarded as top scientist and a well known expert for politics and media.

Dr. Wolfgang Kessling
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Principal
Transsolar
http://www.transsolar.com
Dr. Wolfgang Kessling is principal at the Munich office of Transsolar. Since 1992 Transsolar Climate Engineering is designing concepts for sustainable and energy saving in the building sector with many projects in the USA, Middle and Far East. Wolfgang Kessling is frequently lecturing on comfort and energy saving strategies in the buildings and teaching on Climate Engineering and Solar Architecture at the Donau University in Krems, Austria.

Pascal Klein (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Pyrum Innovations
http://www.pyrum.net
Pascal Klein is one of the founders and CEO of the Pyrum Innovations Group. He founded the company while studying in New York, and then began to raise funds for a semi-industrial pilot plant. Pyrum Innovations has found an economically interesting way to turn polymer and mainly rubber wastes into raw materials, such as fossil fuels and carbon black. Mr. Klein studied international management at ISM Paris and St. John’s University New York. He concluded his studies with an MBA in 2008. Specialized in finances, he also takes care about the communication between the company’s technical and commercial teams as he is passionate in new technologies. Due to his young age (24), he is very open minded, flexible and has a huge ambition to succeed. Before founding Pyrum, Mr. Klein had the possibility to work for companies such as Arcelor/Mittal, Koch Fördertechnik and Metro.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
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Managing Director
InnoZ
http://www.innoz.de
Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie received his diploma in political science at the Free University of Berlin in 1986, his Dr. phil. at the Technical University of Berlin in 1990. He is a senior fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Social Science Research Centre Berlin) which he joined in 1987 and cofounder of the WZB’s Project Group on Mo-bility. Since 1996 he held a position as professor at the Department of Sociology at the Technical University. His research interests focus on Public Transport, Transport Research, Technology Policy, Science Policy Studies, and Analysis of Innovation Processes. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles. Since 2002, he has been area manager for Intermodal Services at the Deutsche Bahn AG and since 2006 he is one of the Managing Directors at the Centre for Innovation in Mobility and Social Change (InnoZ) GmbH.

Dr. Alexander Krajete (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
Krajete GmbH
http://www.krajete.com
Alexander Krajete is the founder of the biotech startup “Green Thitan” which focuses on the storage of renewable electricity as natural gas while using CO2. This newly established bioprocess represents cutting edge technology, yielding 4th generation biofuels. Alexander has raised 400.000 EUR in startup funding. Alexander has a doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck and he was a post-doc at the University of California, Berkeley (Schroedinger Fellowship). He has 13 patents and 10 publications in chemistry, catalysis, material science and bioprocess engineering.

Matthias Kröner
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Founder & CEO
Fidor Bank
http://www.fidor.de/
Matthias Kroener has been CEO of FIDOR Bank AG since 2006, responsible for investor relations, corporate communications, strategic development and communities. He is a passionate and knowledgeable entrepreneur who started his career in the hospitality business. Matthias Kroener studied business management training in Munich and at Cornell University, New York. In 1992 he joined Bankhaus Maffei. From 1993 to 2002 he built the DAB Bank, the first continental European online broker and in 1997, at the age of 32, he became the youngest director of a German bank at Direkt Anlage Bank AG. A distinguished and competent manager, Matthias Kroener has developed many innovative concepts into successful business models. With vast experience of creating new media presence on the pedestrian zones of the Internet (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and XING among others), Matthias provides insights into how to be best positioned in the market place. He is happy to experiment, something critical in social media, and he provides actionable content regarding idea generation.

Renate Künast
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Chairwoman Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
Alliance 90/The Greens
http://www.renate-kuenast.de/
Renate Künast was born in Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1955. She studied social work in Düsseldorf. From 1977 to 1979 she worked as a social worker in the penal institution of Berlin-Tegel. She subsequently studied law and graduated as a lawyer, completing the second state examination in 1985. She joined the Alternative List of West Berlin in 1979 and has assumed various functions for the party since then. She served as parliamentary group chairwoman during the Social Democratic-Green coalition in West Berlin from 1989 to 1990. When the Social Democratic-Green governing coalition ended, Künast continued to serve as a Member of Berlin House of Representatives in the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group, as chairwoman until 1993 and from 1998 to 2000, and as spokeswoman for legal policy from 1993 to 1998. From June 2000 to March 2001 Renate Künast was chairwoman of the federal executive of Alliance 90/The Greens. She was Federal Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from January 2001 to October 2005. Since 18 October 2005 she has served as chairwoman of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She is the Greens’ candidate for Governing Mayor of Berlin in the Berlin state election coming up on 18 September 2011.

Michael Kuhn
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Senior Manager
Daimler Business Innovation
http://www.daimler.com/
Michael Kuhn is founder and project manager of Daimler’s dynamic ride sharing service car2gether which is currently being piloted in the German cities of Ulm and Aachen. car2gether enables short-term matching of empty seats anytime and anywhere – via website (www.car2gether.com) or smart phone. Moreover, he is responsible for the “Business Innovation Community”, a web 2.0 platform for new business ideas in the Daimler Intranet. It is one of the biggest internal innovation platforms with 23,000 employees registered and provides all employees with the opportunity to share their business ideas with colleagues. Before joining Business Innovation in October 2007, he held various positions within Daimler’s Corporate Communications Unit. Michael Kuhn studied Business Administration at the Nuertingen-Geislingen University.

Michael Linse
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Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
http://www.kpcb.com
Michael Linse is a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he focuses on investments with the Green Growth Fund. Prior to joining KPCB in 2009, Michael managed the alternative energy investing team within the European Special Situations Group (ESSG) at Goldman Sachs in London. Michael was responsible for a number of ESSG investments, including the German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex. Michael joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in 1997, in the Financial Institutions Group, working out of the Frankfurt and Hong Kong offices. In 2002, he joined the Structured and Principal Finance Group in London, where he focused on distressed portfolio transactions. Michael joined ESSG in 2003, initially working on German restructuring situations and then, beginning in 2005, on investments in the alternative energy space. He was named managing director in 2007.

Gernot Lobenberg
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Director
eMO – Berlin Agency for Emobility
http://www.emo-berlin.de/
Since Jan 2011: Agency Director, eMO – Berliner Agentur für Elektromobilität (eMO – Berlin Agency for Electromobility)
2006 – 2010: Head of business unit and of the team managing the Logistics Cluster, HWF Hamburgische Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung mbH (HWF Hamburg Business Development Corporation), Hamburg
2002 – 2005: Team head in the fields of telematics and mobility services for fleet customers, DaimlerChrysler Services Mobility Management GmbH, Berlin
1995 – 2001: Department head of the Logistics business unit, IVU Traffic Technologies AG, Berlin
1994 – 1995: Consultant for the traffic sector, focusing on public transportation, WIBERA Wirtschaftsberatung AG, Düsseldorf
1991 – 1993: Research assistant in the Traffic Department, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), (German Institute for Economic Research), Berlin
1988 – 1994: Majored in economics at Freie Universität Berlin
1990 – 1993: Studied traffic and transportation as a minor subject at Technische Universität Berlin

Michael Lowak
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CEO
Kofler Energies Power
http://www.koflerenergies.com/
Michael Lowak graduated from the Cooperative State University of Mosbach where he received the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in mechanical engineering. Michael Lowak started his career as a project manager engineering for BRAUN AG. He had the responsibility for the development of new locations for BRAUN AG business unit ORAL CARE e.g. in Shanghai (China), Carlow (Ireland) and San Diego (USA) and he was also program product manager for the charging units in the oral care business. In 1990 he became divisional director for MVV Energie AG in Mannheim. His task was the business development of energy services as a new business unit (greenfield development). After that he developed and lead the spin-off MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH as managing director within 10 years to one of the three leading energy services companies in Germany. In 2009, the number of employees amounted 800 heads and the sales volume reached 300 million €. In January 2010, Michael Lowak became a member of the executive board of Kofler Energies AG in Munich. He was responsible for energy efficiency B2B and international, engineering services and COO. His main task is the business development of energy efficiency services for business customers. In November 2010 Michael Lowak was assigned to the Kofler Energies Power AG (energy trade) as head of the executive board (CEO) in Bochum.

Denis Lucquin
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Managing Partner & Chairman
Sofinnova Partners
http://www.sofinnova.fr
Denis Lucquin is a Managing Partner and Chairman of Sofinnova Partners who specialises in life sciences, and also, more recently, in cleantech investments. He joined Sofinnova in 1991. Denis began his career in academic research. For five years, he was in charge of the technology transfer department at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France’s agricultural research institute. In 1989, he joined the venture capital industry as director of investments at Innolion (Crédit Lyonnais). He carried out many investments in Europe such as Nicox, Oxford Glycosciences, Oxford Molecular, PPL Therapeutics, Conjuchem, Exonhit, IDM, Innate Pharma and Ablynx (all of which successfully went public), Novexel (sold to Astrazeneca), Crop Design, Cerenis, and Noxxon. He recently invested in DNP Green Technology, a developer of innovative technologies for molecules to the chemical industry. He actively supports all of these companies and acts or acted as a board member for most of them. He is also a founder of Association France Biotech. He is a graduate in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole du Génie Rural des Eaux et Forêts. He also has a degree in Innovation Management from the Université de Paris-Dauphine.

Guido Lütsch (Pitch)
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CEO
NTS Energy and Transport Systems
http://www.nts-transportsysteme.de
With a master degree as business administrator of the international renowned University of St. Gallen/Switzerland Guido started his business career at Kraft Foods. As Brand Manager he developed new coffees and introduced them in various European countries. He implemented the most successful international roll-out and was a founding member of the Environmental Task Force at Kraft Foods Germany. He founded his first company in 1994 in the field of New Product development and made a successful trade sale with it. 1996 Guido founded an international marketing agency and signed responsible for famous campaigns for global players such as Volkswagen, Schering AG, Veuve Clicquot etc. In 2007, he was assigned as Managing Director for NTS.

Joachim Maass (Pitch)
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CEO
Solar Tower Systems
http://www.solartowersystems.com
Joachim Maass earned two engineering degrees in electrical engineering and data science and telecommunications from the Universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Portsmouth (UK) as well as an MBA from DUKE University in NC (USA). After having worked in the telemetric field for Heusch Boesefeld (acquired by Daimler) he joined Siemens AG as software development engineer and gained fast promotion to positions as product manager of innovative products and as entrepreneur of an internal venture. When Siemens Venture Capital GmbH (SVC) was founded in 1999 he was asked to take over the business unit Internal Ventures where he and his team managed and financed several technology spin-offs in the US and Germany. He left SVC for an executive position at a pan-European incubator and managed several business units on a European scale. Joe set up his own consulting business based in the high-tech industry for marketing and financing.

Eric Mahleb
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Partner
LGM Interactive
http://www.lgm-interactive.com
Eric Mahleb is a partner at LGM Interactive (Little Green Men) in Berlin. LGM Interactive develops interactive solutions and content around green and social issues, with emphasis on the following themes: Cleantech and Renewable Energy, CSR, Human Rights, Climate Change, Poverty Alleviation and Microfinance. Eric’s work has received awards and honorary mentions at the Cannes Lions Festival, the Lead Awards, the INDEX: Award and the Prix ARS Electronica. He also won, as co-writer, the Cinema for Peace Award at the Berlin film festival for the documentary Tea Time in Heiligendamm. LGMi designed and developed the frontend of the Ecosummit website.

Dr. Gregor Matthies
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Partner & Director Automotive
Bain & Company
http://www.bain.de
Dr. Gregor Matthies is a Senior Partner and Director in Bain & Company’s Munich Office. He has been with Bain since 1993 and heads Bain’s European Automotive Practice since 2005. Dr. Matthies has broad expertise in strategy development as well as in restructuring of organizations across a wide range of industries. Dr. Matthies has studied Aeronautical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining Bain, he had worked for the Daimler Benz Group for several years. For more than three years, Dr. Matthies has worked in the e-mobility space and its implications within and beyond the automotive industry. On this very topic he has authored and published two proprietary Bain studies.

Yann Mauchamp
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CEO
Mutual Benefits
http://www.mutualbenefits.net/
Located in Paris, France, Yann is a private investor and the founding CEO of Mutual Benefits, a business advisory network focusing on innovation. Mutual Benefits’ current portfolio includes companies such as amiando, Blacksocks, iTaste, tweegg, dilelui, pay.on, SecondMarket, TallyFox and Cercle des Investisseurs Privés. In the recent past, Mutual Benefits played a key role in the development of companies such as FON, ProjectPlace, Wengo, Wasabi and XING. He is a founding member and manager of portfolio advisory firm AMCI Investments. In this role heʼs advising investors regarding their portfolio strategy and management. Yann was the Executive Director of the Web & Communities TechTour organized in Montreux late 2007 and Member of the Selection Comittee of the French TechTour 2009. Prior to that, Yann advised or managed operations of companies such as NEU.de (sold to Meetic in 2008), Club-Internet (ISP sold to T-Online in 2000), Studio Grolier (web agency) and NewsAlert/Inlumen (CMS sold to Dow Jones in 2004). Yann holds a Master of International Affairs Management and practices Yoga.

Frauke Mispagel (Pitch)
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Managing Director & Founder
Ecogood
http://www.ecogood.de/
Frauke Mispagel studied Business Administration at WHU in Koblenz and Economics at University of York, England. Among others Frauke worked for KfW as well as the World Bank and most recently from 2006 to 2010 she worked in the area of Debt Capital Markets at JPMorgan in London. Since June 2010 Frauke is Co-Founder and Managing Director of ecogood GmbH, a start-up facilitating climate friendly live through means of reducing and offsetting CO2 emissions. ecogood’s vision is to make climate neutrality an integral part of daily life. The company develops easy to use tools and products to help realize emission reductions for consumers as well as companies.

Dr. Andreas Muth
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Chairman of Advisory Board
Bank Sarasin AG
http://www.sarasin.de
Born in 1956, Andreas Muth studied Law in Hamburg and Singapore and received a PHD in law in 1986. He began his banking career at Bankhaus Lampe and has over 25 years of experience as a Director, CEO and Partner at international banks such as UBS and J.P. Morgan. Since 2010 he is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Bank Sarasin AG.

Paulus Neef
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CEO
MAMA
http://www.mama.io/
Paulus Neef has a long track record in the expansion, marketing, management and sale of dynamic companies across a wide range of industries and enjoys an excellent network in industry, media and risk capital. Among others, Mr. Neef was the founder of Pixelpark AG which, in his role as its former CEO, he floated on the stock exchange at a market capitalisation of up to €3.4 billion.

Thomas Noonan
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CEO
JouleX
http://www.joulex.net
Tom Noonan, president and CEO of JouleX, is also the former co-founder and CEO of Internet Security Systems, which was acquired by IBM for $1.5 billion. Noonan and Chris Klaus launched ISS in 1994, taking it from a startup to nearly $400 million dollars by 2008. Prior to ISS, Noonan held senior positions at Dun & Bradstreet Software, where he was vice president, Worldwide Marketing. Before joining D & B Software, he specialized in automated control systems for computer-integrated manufacturing. Noonan also founded two successful technology companies: Actuation Electronics, a precision motion-control company and Leapfrog Technologies, a software development company. Noonan holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a business degree from Harvard.

Soeren Paulussen (Pitch)
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Founder & Managing Director
InvenSor
http://www.invensor.com
2006 until today: Founder and Managing Director of InvenSor GmbH, Berlin, manufacturer of innovative chillers and cooling systems. 2002 – 2005: Head of systems engineering, development of adsorption cooling systems at a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE. Until 2002: Development of seasonal storages with sorption technology at the UFE Solar GmbH, Eberswalde.

Dr. Peter Ripplinger (Pitch)
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CEO
Subitec
http://www.subitec.com
Dr. Peter Ripplinger obtained a PhD in Chemistry at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy at the Heidelberg University. He started out as a freelance executive consultant and has experience in business development, marketing, R&D, project management, product management and set up of operational businesses. In 1999, he founded his first biotech company. Since then, he worked for different companies in the biotech sector as General Manager. He joined Subitec GmbH, Sustainable Biotechnology, as CEO and partner in February 2007.

Dr. Nicole Röttmer
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CEO
The CO-Firm
http://www.co-firm.com/
Dr. Nicole Röttmer is the CEO of The CO-Firm. The Carbon Opportunity firm provides consulting services to enterprises and financial services providers, helping them benefit from climate change-related business opportunities. This includes cost-efficient and revenue-generating carbon management solutions, covering energy efficiency measures, renewable energies, carbon markets and sales strategies for Cleantech products. Prior to founding The CO-Firm, Nicole worked more than seven years for McKinsey & Company in Germany and the USA, co-developing McKinsey’s global service line on energy efficiency and serving clients during the implementation of energy efficiency and climate programs. Prior to joining McKinsey, she worked with UNCTAD, OECD, IDB and GTZ on international development issues. Nicole is member of NKI’s (Nationale Klimaschutzinitiative) expert board. For her PhD-thesis on regional technology innovativeness, she received an award from the European Union’s Committee of the Regions; Nicole holds a diploma in economics and followed a semester program on US Foreign Policy in Washington D.C..

Alexander Romahn
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CEO
Sonne+Wind Beteiligungen
http://www.sonnewindag.com/
Alexander Romahn has started with Sonne+Wind Beteiligungen AG in the Clean Tech sector in Germany when it was in its very early stages. He has gained since then a wealth of experience and worked with the most reputable firms in the Clean Tech sector. Thanks to his early entrance in the Clean Tech sector he knows the industry inside out. As a veteran in the industry he has been part of the different cycles of the industry, including shifts of focus. His network in the Clean Tech is very extensive and he has access to most people which matter within the Clean Tech sector.

Matthias Rosenberger (Pitch)
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CEO
Treems
http://www.treems.com/
Matthias Rosenberger is founder and CEO of Treems, the first global marketplace for protected trees. He has been an entrepreneur for the last 14 years, founded several media companies, is an expert in the green movement, the entertainment industry and also worked successfully as a film producer and movie director. At Treems, he is the visionary thinker and is focused on building up a strong team while working on the strategic activities of the founding phase. Matthias is a graduate engineer for Audio-Visual Media (Stuttgart Media University) and holds a MBA for Innovation & Business Creation (TU Munich/HH Leipzig/UC Berkeley).

Simon Rüger (Pitch)
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Founder & CEO
ZIM Plant Technology
http://www.zim-plant-technology.com/
Simon Rüger is the Managing Director (CEO) of the company ZIM Plant Technology GmbH. Simon Rüger studied biology at the University of Kassel and later at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg. He graduated in biotechnology, biochemistry and plant physiology 2008 (Diploma). At the present time he is performing his PhD thesis in the Department of Biotechnology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg. The thesis will be finished at the end of 2010. In the course of his Diploma thesis and PhD thesis S. Rüger focused on the development and testing of the non-invasive magnetic ZIM-probe. Main emphasis of his work is (i) the development of water-saving irrigation protocols with simultaneous consideration of crop yield (olive, orange, grapefruit, grapevines, etc.) as well as (ii) comparative measurements with the ZIM-probe technique and other methods currently used for the determination of the water supply of plants under labaratory and field conditions (such as Scholander pressure bomb, tensiometer, porometer and chlorophyll measurements). S. Rüger has performed several field and laboratory studies in Israel, Germany, Spain and Switzerland during the last years.

Hendrik Sämisch (Pitch)
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CEO
Next Kraftwerke
http://www.next-kraftwerke.de/
Hendrik Sämisch is CEO of Next Kraftwerke GmbH, a company offering flexibility options to the electricity grid in Germany by connecting small-scale electricity generating units. Mr. Sämisch has studied economics at University of Cologne with several internships in the electricity sector, e.g. at RWE Trading GmbH and ThyssenKrupp AG. As a research associate at the Cologne Institute of Energy Economics (EWI), he did research on short-term electricity markets. Since late 2009, he and Mr. Jochen Schwill founded the spin-off Next Kraftwerke GmbH, a fast growing company in short-term electricity markets in Germany.

Sven-Roger von Schilling
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CEO
European CleanTech 1 (ECT 1)
http://www.european-cleantech.com/
Sven-Roger von Schilling is the Chairman of our Management Board and our Chief Executive Officer. He managed a number of successful investments and restructurings in the Cleantech and IT industry. In the past 10 years, Mr. von Schilling has served as Chief Financial Officer of several companies in these industries, some of which were successfully taken public or sold during his tenure. He also served as vice president of corporate development of Lafarge Roofing GmbH, Germany, from 1998 to 2000. In addition, Mr. von Schilling has three years of consulting experience with CSC Index, Inc., VA, USA, and four years of banking experience with Dresdner Bank AG, Germany. He holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, IL, USA, as well as a degree in business administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Mannheim, Germany.

Holger Schmitz
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Investment Manager
Ventizz Capital
http://www.ventizz.de
Holger Schmitz (business administration graduate) has been an investment manager with Ventizz since 2006. During this time, he has worked on numerous investments in the clean tech area, including PV Crystalox, ersol Thin Films, and QSIL. He is currently a member of the supervisory board of Sovello AG and has also been focusing on the segment of offshore wind during the recent months. Prior to joining Ventizz, he worked in corporate finance advisory for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Düsseldorf/Frankfurt and for ConPAIR AG in Essen. He studied business administration at the International School of Management in Dortmund. He spent part of his studies abroad at the European Business School in London, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Harvard University in Boston.

Dr. Axel Schönecker (Pitch)
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CEO
RGS Development
http://www.rgsdevelopment.nl/
Since September 2005, Dr. Axel Schönecker has been engaged as CEO of RGS Development B.V.; a company founded in 2000 by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and today fully owned by Sunergy Investco B.V. RGS Development B.V. is engaged in the market introduction of the Ribbon-Growth-on-Substrate silicon wafer technology, a breakthrough technology for the high speed, low cost manufacturing of solar silicon wafers. Axel Schönecker has worked in the development of solar energy technologies since 1986. Starting on characterisation of concentrator and multi-junction solar cells at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, he worked between 1994 and 1999 on crystalline silicon wafer and solar cell projects at ECN. As co-ordinator of European projects on rear-contacted solar cells, he demonstrated the advantages of the metallisation wrap-through technology, which is now entering large scale production in the PV industry. He is co-founder of Solar Electricity Development B.V., a company that enables the market introduction of new technologies with the aim to achieve grid parity of solar electricity as soon as possible in the Netherlands. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Freiburg and is member of the German Physical Society, the German Solar Energy Society and the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International Society.

Felix von Schubert
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Partner
zouk Ventures
http://www.zouk.com
Felix von Schubert co-founded zouk in 1999 and is a Partner. He has over 15 years of private equity and investment banking experience. Felix has a strong track record in the sourcing, structuring, management and exit of investments in multiple regions and industries. He sits on the boards of Triton Water, Sulfurcell Solartechnik, Nanotron Technologies, The Carbon Neutral Company and is chairman of Zooplus, a publically listed company. Prior to founding zouk, Felix was at JPMorgan in the M&A and private equity teams, in the Oil & Gas and TMT sectors. He also worked with the French Ministry of Finance and the German Chamber of Commerce in Russia. Felix holds a M.S. in Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany and a CEP from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley and is a regular guest speaker at Insead’s MBA program.

Stephan Schütz
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Partner
gmp Architects
http://www.gmp-architekten.de
Stephan Schuetz, born in 1966, Dipl.-Ing. Architect, studied Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and joined von Gerkan Marg und Partner Architects (gmp) in 1994. In 2002 he established the first Chinese gmp branch office in Beijing, which now, together with the offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen, employs nearly 150 architects. He became Partner in 2004 and is responsible for projects in China and Europe. Together with Meinhard von Gerkan he developed the idea to turn the shut down Berlin-Tegel airport into a showcase for German Green Tech.

Tom Schulz
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COO
Entelios
http://www.entelios.com/
Tom is co-founder and COO of Entelios AG, Germany’s first nationwide Demand Response Aggregator. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur again, Tom already had over twenty years of technical and business experience. He worked on computer languages at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Western Research Lab in Palo Alto and artificial intelligence and multimedia projects at Apple Computer in Germany. Later, Tom was a strategic management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group at their Munich and San Francisco offices. Tom is a co-founder of the San Francisco–based Cleantech Circle, a group of serial entrepreneurs and investors with a passion for Cleantech. In 1995, Tom co-founded the first publicly traded, nationwide Internet service provider in Germany, Cybernet AG, where he served on the executive management board. After going public with Cybernet, he went on to become an angel investor with the Munich Business Angel Network. Tom earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University and studied Computer Science at the ETH Zurich and KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, formerly University of Karlsruhe), where he received the degree of Diplom-Informatiker—equivalent to an M.S. in Computer Science.

Tilman Schwencke
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Offshore Manager Germany
Mainstream Renewable Power
http://www.mainstreamrp.com
Tilman Schwencke is leading Mainstream Renewable Power’s offshore activities in Germany (Berlin). He is responsible for the development of wind farms in the German North Sea with a potential capacity of over 1GW. The qualified lawyer studied in Germany and Italy and practised in Cologne, New York and Brussels. After working for the United Nations in Vienna he was for many years energy adviser in the European Parliament in Brussels, responsible for legislation on renewable energy and energy efficiency. In 2007 he established the German office of the Irish wind farm developer Airtricity and was inter alia involved in the development of the 300MW Butendiek offshore wind farm project in German waters. After the sale of Airtricity in 2008 he joined the former founder and CEO of Airtricity Dr Eddie O’Connor and his new venture Mainstream Renewable Power. Tilman Schwencke is member of the board of the Offshore Forum Windenergie (OFW) and member of the Expert Group of the EU Offshore Wind Coordinator and has published various articles and brochures on European Energy policy.

Beres Seelbach
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Founder & CEO
Lautlos durch Deutschland
http://www.lautlos.com/
Beres is founder and CEO of Lautlos durch Deutschland GmbH. Started in 2009 the company was just ahead of the e-mobility boom in Germany. The company is one of the few e-mobility companies earning money. In the moment the company has 12 partners all over Germany and sold more than 200 EVs last year. Beres studied in Berlin, Istanbul and Chengdu, China. During studying Chinese he got in touch with electric vehicles for the first time. He is also CEO of the IT company KTS Informationssysteme GmbH.

Robert Seiter
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Head of Cleantech EMEIA
Ernst & Young
http://www.de.ey.com
Robert is an executive director at Ernst & Young’s Berlin office and head of cleantech in EMEIA. After studies in economics in Berlin and Paris and a commercial traineeship at Schering in Berlin, Robert first worked with the Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaft (DIW) in 1991 and with Price Waterhouse from 1993 to 1998. After this, he joined Arthur Andersen, which merged with Ernst & Young in Germany in 2002. Robert has more than 15 years of experience in the energy industry, recently with a particular focus on renewable energies, and in public transport, especially in the field of privatisations and M&A. In this context, he worked on various privatisation mandates for the Treuhand-Anstalt following the German unification and the liberalisations of the German energy and public transport markets.

Andre Shortell
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Partner
GP Bullhound
http://www.gpbullhound.com
Andre joined GP Bullhound as a Partner in 2010. Prior to joining, Andre was an independent adviser to companies and investment funds in the clean tech sector. Andre also spent 26 years in a number of senior roles in Citigroup including MNC Corporate Banking Head for CEEMEA, India Corporate Head, Global Autos Specialist and New Issues Head in London. He also ran Merchant Acquiring for Citibank and led the sale of that business in 2005. Andre brings to the team 10 years of involvement in renewable energy as well as experience in and Corporate Finance, M&A and Emerging Markets. He also brings a broad international experience having spent much of his career in Europe and Asia as well as close personal ties to Brazil. Andre has a MA degree in International History from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Frank Siebke
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Director
Good Energies
http://www.goodenergies.com
Frank Siebke is a member of the Good Energies Venture Capital team based in Switzerland. He focuses on investments in photovoltaics, lighting, smart grid, energy storage and energy efficiency sectors. Before joining Good Energies in 2005, Frank had various positions in the PV industry in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan with RWE Schott Solar, Schott Glas, Shell Solar Deutschland and Sanyo Electrics. He is a physicist by training and worked on material science in the field of amorphous semiconductors. Frank received his PhD from the RWTH Aachen and also studied economics and total quality management.

Joerg Sperling
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Partner
WHEB Partners
http://www.whebventures.com/
Joerg or “George” joined WHEB in 2008 as its 5th partner when he opened the new WHEB office in Munich. Before that he has been active in the clean technology investment area for almost two years as a Venture Partner with Munich based VC firm Target Partners. Prior to that he was one of four partners at the US-based power and energy fund Ridgewood Capital. George has also been active in operational roles for semiconductor companies in Europe and the US, his most recent role being Global VP Sales for Dresden-based ZMD. ZMD provides silicon components for sensor systems in automotive, industrial and medical markets.George’s VC track record includes 22 investments with 15 board positions and successful exits via NASDAQ IPOs and LSE listings plus numerous trade sales. He is an electrical engineer with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany. George has also conducted research on epitaxial growth (wafers to be used for laser and solar applications for example) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Peter Stein (Pitch)
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Founder & Head of Sales & Finance
GreenTEG
http://www.greenteg.com/
Peter is one of the co-founders of greenTEG, a spin-off company of ETH Zurich developing the future generation of thermoelectric generators. At greenTEG he is responsible for Finance and Sales, bringing in his experience in renewable energies and entrepreneurship. Before founding greenTEG, Peter joined the start-up team of the spin-off company sol-E Suisse AG, a project developer and investor in renewable energies. There he served first as consultant, then as executive board member. Peter holds a Diploma from ETH Zurich, his background is business engineering with a focus on renewable energies and business administration.

Silke Thomas
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Senior Expert Corporate Responsibility
Deutsche Telekom
http://www.telekom.de/
Since 2008, Silke Thomas is Senior Expert Corporate Responsibility at Deutsche Telekom and deals with improving effectiveness and efficiency of data and rating processes in the CR Department. From 2003-2008, she was working in different roles in the controlling department with a focus on marketing and sales controlling at DTAG. In 2001, Silke entered Deutsche Telekom as a participant of the International Trainee Programme. From 1995 to 2001, Silke Thomas studied Economics at the Universities of Tübingen, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Doshisha (Kyoto, Japan) and Bonn.

Ingo Walterscheid
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Partner
Design City Kolding
http://www.designcitykolding.dk
Ingo Walterscheid is member of the Management Team of EcoFITT A/S. Founded in 2010, EcoFITT (Ecological Forum for Industry Transformation and Transaction) is a transformer between business, education and society, creating new models for business and society by incorporating new technology combined with best practice sustainability. Prior to EcoFITT, he has founded and co-founded more than 20 companies in the past 20 years, mostly in the IT, telecommunication and healthcare industries. Ingo is closely involved with the Design City Kolding project in Denmark.

Dirk Walterspacher
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Marketing & Sales Director
ForestFinance
http://www.forestfinance.de/
Dirk Walterspacher is managing director of CO2OL, a brand of ForestFinance Group in Bonn, Germany. A graduate in electrical engineering, he spent time abroad in Venezuela and the United States amongst others. Following employments at Roche Diagnostics and SAP, Walterspacher went on to work for WEB.DE as Business Development Manager and a subsidiary’s Executive Director. Being especially interested in alternative energy sources and protecting the rain forest, he is also operating as a long-standing advocate of environmental protection. Since his childhood, Walterspacher actively supports the German environmental organisation NABU e.V. and several other activities in social and ethical marketing. “During the discussions about global warming and the Kyoto Protocol, I became aware of everyone’s ability to contribute significantly to carbon reduction. In this context, CO2OL proves to be an useful plattform for individuals as well as corporations.”

Robert Werner
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Managing Director
Greenpeace Energy
http://www.greenpeace-energy.de
Before studying geography and business administration at the University of Mannheim, Robert Werner worked for Greenpeace Germany as a junior campaigner on nuclear power issues. After his studies he joined the management consultancy “amontis consulting AG” in Heidelberg. From 1997 to 1999, he was a researcher at the Universities of Mannheim and Oulu (Finland) for research work about knowledge-intensive business companies and innovation policy. In the year 2000, he took care of Greenpeace’s programmes on eco tax and energy policy in Bonn and Berlin. Since 2001, he is managing director of the green energy supplier Greenpeace Energy eG. In that position, he has also been executive director of several daughter companies created for the construction of wind, hydro and solar power stations. With more than 95.000 customers the cooperative Greenpeace Energy eG is one of the biggest independent suppliers for green electricity in Germany. The company was founded in 1999 after the inspiring idea of Greenpeace and is owned by around 20.000 members.

Michael Winter
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Managing Partner
Stakeholder Reporting
http://www.stakeholder-reporting.com/
After receiving his Diploma in Political Science, Michael Winter headed Corporate Communications and Corporate Development for an internationally respected medical technology company. He then moved on to become Senior Consultant at a leading communications consultancy in the field of CR and sustainability. In this capacity he lead numerous reporting projects from conception to delivery, whilst specialising in CR Strategy and Management consultancy. In 2002 he founded Stakeholder Reporting GmbH, undertaking large-scale reporting projects right from the outset for major German and international corporate groups. Clients value his professional advice in building a reporting organisation as well as in implementing stakeholder dialogues and CR structures. Michael Winter’s considerable expertise in these areas continues to provide the cornerstone for the extensive consultancy portfolio of today’s Stakeholder Reporting Group.

Shimpei Yamashita
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Investment Manager
Sumitomo
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/english/
Shimpei Yamashita is a Manager in the Strategic Business Investment Department at Sumitomo Corporation, a diversified global trading and investing company based in Tokyo. Since joining Sumitomo in 2006, he has made cleantech venture investments worldwide as a part of Sumitomo’s strategic effort to create new businesses in the cleantech industries. His current focus areas include photovoltaics, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, alternative fuels, and alternative lighting. He is currently a board observer for ACAL Energy, a British fuel cell startup, and was a board observer for Enax, a Japanese lithium-ion battery startup. Prior to joining Sumitomo, he worked at the Tokyo offices of Bain & Company and Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting.

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