A qualified Mechanical Engineer, Ian Crummack has over 25 years’ experience in Energy from Waste and thermal power generation markets on a national and international basis, with worldwide technology experience. He has worked across Europe, managing projects to fruition from development, through the planning, consultation and tender stages, and then into construction and operation. Ian has significant experience with associated contractual matters and taking financial and management responsibility for energy business units. Ian is the founder and managing director of Cobalt Energy Limited, which is now over 10 years old, which offers Engineering Resources, Project Construction Services and Plant Operational Management.

Adrian Judge is a Director at Tolvik, an independent provider of commercial due diligence and market analysis services to the European waste and bioenergy sectors, which he created in 2009. Adrian has worked in the waste sector for the last 18 years.

Ralf Schopwinkel is Director and shareholder of resource company, Geminor. Since 2005 he has focused on developing the company on the various European markets for RDF, SRF, recycled waste wood and hazardous waste. Geminor handles approximately 1.5 million tonnes and have offices in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, France and the UK.

Stuart is currently responsible for delivering new solutions through to market intelligence, market modelling and forecasting & technologies. In addition to his SUEZ duties Stuart is a director for Recoup (plastics recycling charity), a director of Terracycle UK and a member of the Defra Advisory Committee on Packaging. Further he has provided expert advice to the EU on relevant elements of the circular economy and acted as a H2020 expert assessor. He is chair of the Environmental Services Association (ESA) Bioresources committee and member of the ESA renewable energy committee, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) Organic recycling steering group and gasification and Pyrolysis committee.

Angus Hamilton is the Managing Director of Levenseat, a resource management company in central Scotland offering wide range of Resource management services. Angus has over 15 years’ experience in the resource management industry, and has been a key player in the Levenseat Renewable Energy (LREL) team who in March 2015, secured financing for a 12.5MWe EfW plant (fluidised bed gasification) and fuel preparation and materials recycling facility with capacity to process 215,000 tonnes pa of residual MSW and C&I waste.

Mr. Thomas Obermeier, born in 1957, holds a Master of Engineering in Technical Environmental Protection and is Head of Business Development at EEW Energy from Waste GmbH, the leader in the German waste-to-energy business. He is also Honorary President of the German Waste Association DGAW, a publicly certified and sworn expert for waste management of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Berlin, and a committee member of the chamber of commerce in Berlin and the IFAT and terratec fairs. Mr. Obermeier's expertise draws on more than 30 years of work in the waste management and energy sector. Prior to EEW and his independent consultancy, he held posts as a managing director in different consulting and operating companies and worked in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and Africa.

Jeff is a Director in Ernst & Young’s Environmental Finance group and provides advisory services to clients in both the renewable energy and waste sectors. Jeff is a qualified Chartered Accountant and joined Ernst & Young in 2004 having spent a number of years working in industry.

James joined Greencoat in January 2019 to co-head the bioenergy division, having joined from Foresight, where he spent 9 leading their bioenergy investments with Minal Patel. Foresight became a significant bioenergy investor, raising and investing institutional capital in a large number of market-leading transactions such as Evermore, Levenseat, Ince Park and Energy Works Hull. Since joining Greencoat, the bioenergy team has acquired the Templeborough biomass plant and invested in ground-breaking greenhouse projects with renewable heat. James has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from London Business School.

A qualified Mechanical Engineer, Ian Crummack has over 25 years’ experience in Energy from Waste and thermal power generation markets on a national and international basis, with worldwide technology experience. He has worked across Europe, managing projects to fruition from development, through the planning, consultation and tender stages, and then into construction and operation. Ian has significant experience with associated contractual matters and taking financial and management responsibility for energy business units. Ian is the founder and managing director of Cobalt Energy Limited, which is now over 10 years old, which offers Engineering Resources, Project Construction Services and Plant Operational Management.

Edmund Fleck was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1952. He has a Diploma in Physics from the RWTH Aachen in Germany and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. From 1986 he carried out research on electrostatic precipitators for BBC Corporate Research in Dattwil, Switzerland. He has worked in the field of Waste-to-Energy since 1990, first for the ABB/ALSTOM Group in different roles (Technical Director, Sales Director) and locations (Zurich, Winterthur, Butzbach, Paris). In August 2002 he joined Martin GmbH in Munich. He is Managing Director of Martin GmbH fur Umwelt-und Energietechnik. He is also Director of Martin Biopower Pty Ltd in Perth (Australia) and Managing Director of Kuttner Martin Technology GmbH in Munich. Edmund Fleck is President of ESWET, the European Suppliers of Waste to Energy Technology and a member of the ISWA Working Group on Energy Recovery.

Tim joined Viridor in 2019 to drive innovative circular economy projects taking end of life wastes and finding new ways to turn them into usable products. Tim also works with the national and devolved governments and regulators to help ensure the regulatory environment drives increased local investment into the circular economy. Prior to joining Viridor Tim was the CEO of the Association for Decentralised Energy, where he worked with Government, regulators, devolved administrations and EU institutions to enable more energy users to directly benefit from in the transition to a low carbon economy). As part of this role, Tim oversaw two mergers with other trade associations and repositioned the organisation away from a technology focus to an outcome based approach to energy. Tim has a BSc and PhD in Ecology, and his study of fungi decomposing wood as a central part of the global carbon cycle spiked his interest and career in climate change and the environment. In his free time Tim enjoys cycling and generally getting in the great outdoors!

Gillian has over 15 years of waste industry experience. She has worked for FCC since 2011 starting as a Bid Director leading local authority bids. Gillian successfully closed the Mercia (Herefordshire and Worcestershire Councils) 200,000 tpa EfW contract variation, in partnership with Urbaser, in 2015. She subsequently became the Project Director for the construction phase of the 300,000tpa Greatmoor EfW followed by taking on the General Manager role for 3 years. Today Gillian is responsible for the delivery of FCC’s merchant EfWs. The first of which, Lostock Sustianable Energy Plant, was closed in partnership with CIP in March 2019.

Jeff is a Director in Ernst & Young’s Environmental Finance group and provides advisory services to clients in both the renewable energy and waste sectors. Jeff is a qualified Chartered Accountant and joined Ernst & Young in 2004 having spent a number of years working in industry.

Ralf Schopwinkel is Director and shareholder of resource company, Geminor. Since 2005 he has focused on developing the company on the various European markets for RDF, SRF, recycled waste wood and hazardous waste. Geminor handles approximately 1.5 million tonnes and have offices in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, France and the UK.

Reto Strobel received his diploma in Chemistry from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2002 and finished his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Process Engineering (ETH Zurich) in 2006. He joined Hitachi Zosen Inova 2011 as an R&D project manager focusing on the development of energy efficient waste combustion processes as well as highly automated combustion control systems. Today, he is a Senior Process Engineer at HZI being responsible for the combustion and boiler design in energy from waste plants.

Morten is the Business Development Manager at DBDH (Danish Board of District Heating) in charge of all activities in Western Europe. DBDH is a Danish member organization with members from the entire Danish district heating sector. Our mission is “Promoting District Energy for a Sustainable City Transformation”. In this capacity Morten works with governments, cities and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen the development of district energy across Europe. Inspired by the long and successful development and implementation of district heating in Denmark, Morten’s job is to provide value and insights that can further develop both the understanding of what district heating is and the value it can bring to the European society, communities and end users. “District Heating is the long term and green solution for the future! Modern, well planned and well-structured district heating will play an important part in the future heat profile of any European city with a long term green profile. At the same time district heating functions as an important integrator to the electricity markets” Morten was Head of Secretariat at District Energy Partnership (DEP) a Danish district energy lobby organization. DEP worked to improve framework conditions for district heating and thereby enhance the roll out in Europe. At DEP, his focus was on both Scotland and England and he therefore understands the district heating developments in both countries in details. His career began in the district heating industry in Eastern Europe and Russia more than 20 years ago with knowledge building and knowledge transfer. This was followed by 13 years as business development director in a large inward investment organization.

Charlie is a Director in Foresight’s Infrastructure team and leads investments in the waste and biomass sectors. His previous experience includes developing, and investing in, Bioenergy Infrastructure Group, and delivery of a pipeline of project-financed greenfield waste wood CHP facilities. Foresight invests in construction stage and operational waste processing and bioenergy infrastructure assets in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.

Dr. Gerry Riley has over 36 years’ experience in the power sector, focusing on engineering, design, construction and commissioning of fossil-fuel and biomass-fired large industrial and utility boilers, burners and ancillaries. He is currently leading on RJM’s work in delivering RJM’s unique emissions reduction solutions and combustion efficiency improvements to the biomass and Energy from Waste sector. Gerry is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and Executive Member and Division chair for the combustion division of the Fuel and Energy Research Forum.

Deborah Sacks is the Waste and Resources Specialist for the UK’s Department of International Trade. She has over fifteen years’ experience in waste management and the processes of developing new waste facilities. Deborah has specialised in advising on foreign direct investment in the waste and resource management sectors, carrying out an analysis of the UK market in waste and materials management and identified opportunities for new and increased investment in the sector. She has also developed an assessment of the UK capability in this sector and identified the priority markets for those companies to take forward for export.

Tim is based at the British Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria and runs the Dept. for International Trade’s CEE energy campaign, which aims to engage UK companies with the wealth of opportunities across the region, including in waste management/EfW. He has lived and worked in Bulgaria for twenty years, is well aware of the challenges and opportunities of doing business here and ready to help UK companies to succeed in market.

John has worked across energy, climate change and sustainability for the last 12 years with a recent focus on accelerating the growth of the heat networks market in the UK as Investment Director within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. In this role, John is responsible for all market development activities, mobilising key influencers across developer, supply chain and investor organisations, lead the development of a pipeline of over 200 projects, ensure the success of the Government’s Heat Networks Investment Project and set the conditions for continued growth in the 2020s to secure this market transformation.

Rachel Solomon Williams is Head of Low Carbon Fuels at the UK Department for Transport, a role she has held since the beginning of 2018. Rachel’s career to date has focussed on energy and environment policy development. Most of her work has been within the UK civil service, but it has also included a posting in the corporate affairs team at Tesco and a year as interim Managing Director at Sandbag, a UK climate thinktank. Highlights of Rachel’s career have included piloting the UK Climate Change Bill (now Act) through Parliament and overseeing a major review of the Feed-in Tariffs Scheme.

Alex Miles has been developing projects in the renewable energy from waste sector for the past 14 years across a range of disciplines. He is currently focused on the delivery of Enerkem's first EU project in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as part of a leading consortium of companies including Air Liquide, Nouryon, the Port of Rotterdam and Shell. He has worked alongside Enerkem in various capacities since 2006 and has followed closely the development of the company's proprietary waste to liquid biofuels technology from pilot stage through to full scale, commercial development.

With a Bachelor degree in Business Intelligence, Lars has been working for the N+P Group since 2010. As one of the family owners and board member of N+P, Lars has been responsible for the development of Subcoal for almost a decade. Large scale industrial applications have been successfully realized, including cement kilns, steel blast furnaces, waste to chemicals, co-firing at coal fired power stations and usage in vertical lime kilns. Most recently Lars and his team developed a new pellet for the Uskmouth power plant, which will be the first ever coal fired power plant which is converted to use 100% Subcoal pellets. Lars is also proud to head up the production development team within N+P, which is setting up new production facilities with a joint capacity of over 1.5 million tons in the coming 3 years.

A qualified Mechanical Engineer, Ian Crummack has over 25 years’ experience in Energy from Waste and thermal power generation markets on a national and international basis, with worldwide technology experience. He has worked across Europe, managing projects to fruition from development, through the planning, consultation and tender stages, and then into construction and operation. Ian has significant experience with associated contractual matters and taking financial and management responsibility for energy business units. Ian is the founder and managing director of Cobalt Energy Limited, which is now over 10 years old, which offers Engineering Resources, Project Construction Services and Plant Operational Management.

Dr Adam Read has been with SUEZ for 18 months where he is their External Affairs Director. He works with the CIWM, ESA and other UK trade bodies on topical issues and government engagement and represents the UK on ISWA’s Communications Working. He is actively supporting the ESA in developing a resource sector deal with BEIS and has been part of a SUEZ team assisting DEFRA as they prepared their Resources & Waste Plan. He sits on numerous working groups, is a regular speaker and author, and a frequent blogger and social media enthusiast. He has been in the sector for almost 25 years specialising in municipal strategy, services, contracts and consultation.