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Ian Crummack has worked in the energy and waste sectors since 1991 after leaving the Army,where he qualified as a mechanical engineer. He has been extensively involved in setting up EfW and IPP (Independent Power Project) businesses, concentrating on the commercial, contractual and financial aspects. He now runs an independent engineering and commercial services company which works on establishing and executing EPC and O&M contracts from concept to delivery, with particular emphasis on making projects financeable.

Chris joined the Civil Service after finishing his studies at Cardiff University. The early part of career was spent in the Benefits Agency. Since then he has held a variety of posts which have included inspection work, corporate services and various policy and delivery roles in marine and fisheries, animal health, water and climate change adaptation. In 2003 he also gained an MA in Public Services Management from York University. In January 2016 he took up post as Defra’s Deputy Director for Resource and Recycling.

Jacob Hayler is the Executive Director at the Environmental Services Association – the UK’s trade association for managers of waste and secondary resources. Jacob joined ESA from the City in 2005 as an Economist focused on helping to develop market-focused policies that combine environmental and economic sustainability. In January 2015 Jacob was appointed ESA’s Executive Director and he now retains responsibility for the day to day running of the Association. Jacob has represented the industry on multiple government advisory bodies and committees and is the UK’s representative on various pan-European waste and recycling industry bodies.

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. Most recently Adrian helped in the formation of the Green Investment Bank as Managing Director leading the Waste and Bioenergy team. He started his career in the industry as General Manager for a regional business at Cory Environmental before moving on to become Group Strategic Director.

Tom J. Koltis is Executive Director, Corporate Development for Covanta, a world leader in providing sustainable waste and energy solutions. Annually, Covanta’s modern Energy-from-Waste facilities safely process more than 20 million tonnes of waste from communities and businesses to generate electricity to power over one million homes. Tom is responsible for Covanta’s corporate development activities in Europe and is currently based out of London. He joined Covanta in 2006 as Associate General Counsel and was serving as Deputy General Counsel immediately prior to taking on the role of Executive Director, Corporate Development in September 2015. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Psychology from Williams College and a Juris Doctorate from Duke University. He is admitted to practice law in the state of New York, USA.

Matt is a Senior Vice President in the Green Investment Group, focusing on equity investments and project finance advisory across the renewables sector. Matt has been working in the infrastructure sector for 10 years, with experience covering renewable energy, power and utilities and PPP transactions, as both a principal investor and a financial advisor. Recent transaction highlights include leading the establishment of GIG’s partnership with Covanta Energy for the development of subsidy-free UK waste to energy projects, GIG’s acquisition of 50% of the Dublin Waste to Energy project, and the project financing of a number of greenfield merchant UK waste to energy projects.

Ian Crummack has worked in the energy and waste sectors since 1991 after leaving the Army,where he qualified as a mechanical engineer. He has been extensively involved in setting up EfW and IPP (Independent Power Project) businesses, concentrating on the commercial, contractual and financial aspects. He now runs an independent engineering and commercial services company which works on establishing and executing EPC and O&M contracts from concept to delivery, with particular emphasis on making projects financeable.

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.

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.

Jon is responsible for ADBA’s stakeholder relations and lobbying activities. Working closely with the in-house policy team, he campaigns for policy changes and programmes that support the anaerobic digestion industry and its related products and processes. Current priorities include introduction of separate food waste collections, financial incentives and recognition of AD in the new post-Brexit farming system. Jon has ten years of external affairs experience, working in parliament, consultancy and the City.

Lars Fritz has thirty-five (35) years of experience as a consulting engineer in various energy conversion projects for process industries such as Pulp & Paper, Energy from Waste (EfW), Power Generation incl. Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Biofuels, Biorefining, Multifuel utilisation. The projects have involved development of new plants or re-development and troubleshooting at existing units. The projects have involved business development and development of new technologies or processes for energy conversion and for reduced CO2 footprint.

Maxine is an environmental journalist and commentator working in the field of corporate sustainability, waste and resources, and circular economy. Her work has appeared on numerous media platforms including The Guardian, Sustainable Brands, Sustainable Business, edie, 2degrees and CNN.

Matt is a Senior Vice President in the Green Investment Group, focusing on equity investments and project finance advisory across the renewables sector. Matt has been working in the infrastructure sector for 10 years, with experience covering renewable energy, power and utilities and PPP transactions, as both a principal investor and a financial advisor. Recent transaction highlights include leading the establishment of GIG’s partnership with Covanta Energy for the development of subsidy-free UK waste to energy projects, GIG’s acquisition of 50% of the Dublin Waste to Energy project, and the project financing of a number of greenfield merchant UK waste to energy projects.

Sarah joined Pennon Group in 2015 as Head of Investor Relations and was appointed to the Executive Committee as Director of Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations in 2016. A senior counsellor to the CEO and CFO, Sarah was recognised in Management Today’s Top ’35 Women Under 35’ in 2017 for her work at Pennon and as an ambitious champion of regional growth. Prior to joining Pennon, Sarah was an Associate Partner at Finsbury, a global communications and investor relations consultancy and started her career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Sarah holds a First Class Honours degree from University College London.

Beth is a Director in Foresight’s Infrastructure team and leads investments in waste and biomass transactions. Foresight invests in construction stage and operational waste processing and bioenergy infrastructure assets in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America. Prior to joining Foresight Beth focused on the development of new straw fired and wood fired biomass plants and a wide range of PPP projects. Beth trained as a solicitor with Pinsent Masons.

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.

Having worked on several renewable energy support schemes since 2012, Joe has an excellent understanding of how these schemes work and the impact they have on industry. At present, Joe is the policy lead for waste derived fuels within the Low Carbon Fuels team at the Department for Transport and was heavily involved in the 2018 amendments to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations Order and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Regulations. Prior to joining the Department for Transport in 2016, Joe worked in the Renewables Obligation team at Ofgem for four years with a specific focus on biomass fuels (including waste).

Mark is an experienced technical advisor and Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience; for the last 11 years he has specialised in waste to energy infrastructure development. Mark is an experienced Independent Certifier and Owner's Engineer for waste to energy projects. He has acquired a very broad range of knowledge in the procurement, assessment and delivery of waste infrastructure and treatment technology in the UK. Mark is Ricardo's waste to energy Knowledge Leader.

Maxine is an environmental journalist and commentator working in the field of corporate sustainability, waste and resources, and circular economy. Her work has appeared on numerous media platforms including The Guardian, Sustainable Brands, Sustainable Business, edie, 2degrees and CNN.

Harriet is a Senior Consultant at Eunomia, the largest strategic waste consultancy in the UK working across Europe and beyond. Harriet has 10 years’ experience working across the resource, waste and energy sectors. Harriet focuses mainly on private sector clients seeking commercial and market diligence but also providing strategic and procurement advice to public sector clients. Harriet's view of the markets is technically and commercially grounded. She is lead author of the Residual Waste Infrastructure Review, and manages Eunomia’s work on infrastructure and RDF exports, including Eunomia's Secretariat role of the UK RDF Industry Group.

Jarno Stet has worked for Westminster City Council since 2003, currently as Waste Services Manager looking after the City Council’s Waste and Recycling Collection, Street Cleansing and Ancillary Services and Waste Treatment Contracts which provide environmental services to a resident population of 250,000, 34,000 businesses as well as 1 million daily visitors, commuters and tourists. In 2016 Jarno worked on re-procuring the City Council’s waste treatment and recycling contracts. These high performing contracts manage in excess of 195,000 tonnes of waste and recyclable materials per annum through recycling, Anaerobic Digestion and Energy from Waste treatment. Jarno holds a double degree in facilities management in both the UK and the Netherlands.

Robert Corijn is Marketing Manager at Attero, the largest EfW company in the Netherlands and also the largest processor of British RDF in Europe. In his role, he supports Attero’s mission to retrieve the maximum amount of resources and energy from waste. He is also Chair of the RDF Industry Group, representing the interests of 31 European companies across the RDF value chain. Robert holds Master degrees in Business Administration and Knowledge Management.

Ian Crummack has worked in the energy and waste sectors since 1991 after leaving the Army,where he qualified as a mechanical engineer. He has been extensively involved in setting up EfW and IPP (Independent Power Project) businesses, concentrating on the commercial, contractual and financial aspects. He now runs an independent engineering and commercial services company which works on establishing and executing EPC and O&M contracts from concept to delivery, with particular emphasis on making projects financeable.

Mike Brown is Managing Director of Eunomia, the largest strategic waste consultancy in the UK working across Europe and beyond. Mike has nearly 30 years’ experience as an operator in the minerals, energy and waste sectors. For the past decade Mike has worked as owner-Director of Eunomia, focussing mainly on private sector clients seeking commercial and market diligence, but also for public sector clients looking to engage on level terms with their private counter-parts. Mike oversees Eunomia’s work on residual waste infrastructure and RDF exports, including Eunomia Secretariat role of the UK RDF Industry Group.

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.

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.

Mark Terrell is the Director at Andusia. With a long history of experience in the waste industry, Mark has worked at many sectors of the industry including RDF/SRF production, through to composting, AD, IVC, food waste, wood waste, and even sewage sludge. He is a materials Engineer (BEng), and began his career as a chemist in the chemical, cement and waste industry. He has a unique mix of technical expertise and commercial market knowledge of exporting RDF to both UK and European customers. He has excellent connections across the whole of Europe (Holland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Norway) and has had first hand experience in securing RDF & SRF supply contracts.

Robert Corijn is Marketing Manager at Attero, the largest EfW company in the Netherlands and also the largest processor of British RDF in Europe. In his role, he supports Attero’s mission to retrieve the maximum amount of resources and energy from waste. He is also Chair of the RDF Industry Group, representing the interests of 31 European companies across the RDF value chain. Robert holds Master degrees in Business Administration and Knowledge 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.

Originally trained as an environmental engineer, Paul has more than 25 years’ experience in public relations, consultations and community engagement. A specialist in environment communications, especially in wastes management and energy, both conventional and renewables, he has delivered communications consultancy across Europe, Africa, North and South America, Middle East and Asia. Paul is Managing Director of Proteus in the UK – which focuses on business in Europe and North America, and is also Managing Director of Proteus Environmental Communications in Hong Kong, which focuses on the Asia markets.

Jane Ford has been the Community Liaison Manager for MVV Environment Devonport Ltd. since February 2012. She is responsible for stakeholder communications and delivery of waste minimisation education on behalf of the South West Devon Waste Partnership. Jane was previously a primary school teacher in Plymouth and has a wealth of community volunteering experience; more recently, she gained her MSc in Learning for Sustainability from Plymouth University.

Founder of Levenseat Ltd, an independent waste management company in central Scotland - engaged in composting (incl invessel), container MRF, aggregates recycling, landfill. Also of Levenseat Renewable Energy Ltd, an SPV currently commissioning its first EFW plant and RDF preparation facility.

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.

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.

Julien is Head of Smart Cities for Veolia UK & Ireland where he leads the company's district heating programme, as well as microgrid and flexibility initiatives. With over eight years experience covering a range of environmental roles in consulting, technical design, business development and financial structuring in the USA and Europe, Julien has been responsible for delivering more than 120MW of renewable energy initiatives, ranging from wind, biomass, co-generation of heat and power to battery storage and heat from waste.

Michael Mück, born 1965, studied Process Engineering at the Technical University Cologne after his apprenticeship as fitter. He started working in industrial boiler business as an engineer for thermal calculation. In 30 years business experience he worked among others as head of boiler process engineering and head of technology in service business for several Energy from Waste boiler suppliers in the industry. At Steinmüller Babcock Environment GmbH he is in charge of the complete boiler design. Within this function he is at the same time responsible for the engineering part of revamping projects and new built plants.

Ian Crummack has worked in the energy and waste sectors since 1991 after leaving the Army,where he qualified as a mechanical engineer. He has been extensively involved in setting up EfW and IPP (Independent Power Project) businesses, concentrating on the commercial, contractual and financial aspects. He now runs an independent engineering and commercial services company which works on establishing and executing EPC and O&M contracts from concept to delivery, with particular emphasis on making projects financeable.

Active in waste management business since 1994 Started his career in Austria then Hungary with a company specialized in waste collection and landfilling. Working since 2001 for French organization TIRU, today Dalkia Wastenergy, part of EDF Group. Developing waste management program such as MBT, AD, composting and ERC plants such as Chagny (France) or Gdansk (Poland). From 2014, Head of International Development at Dalkia Wastenergy.

Mr Clerens studied law at the University of Saarbrücken and the University of Mainz. Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for a private company specialising in European Affairs in Brussels. In his capacity as Brussels Representative of different European associations, he has been involved in the energy and climate field since 2003. He is Secretary General of ESWET - the association of the European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy since February 2008.

Chris Jones has worked in the waste industry for the last 30 years advising on and managing health, safety, welfare, quality, environmental and transport issues. Chris Jones is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Waste Management, has been involved with WISH from the concept stage in 2001, and was honoured to become its first elected chairman in 2008.

Having worked in the Fire Industry for over a decade, Russell’s roles have seen him work in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Specialising in fire suppression systems for industrial risks, Russell has been involved in the design and manufacture of solutions across many sectors from domestic and residential applications, renewables, data and telecommunications, to the food industry and manufacturing. For the past four years he has focused on waste & recycling and its associated power generation applications.

John comes from a minerals background, having spent a combined 26 years in manufacturing, technical and commercial roles in industrial mineral related industries. This includes ceramics, refractories, thermal insulation, precision castings and fire protection. He has been with the Lhoist Group now for just over two years and is part of the Environmental team, focusing mainly on lime-based industrial flue gas treatment (FGT) technologies including Energy from Waste, Biomass and Industrial sectors. Johns role includes the development of new Sorbacal® products, designed to meet today’s and tomorrow’s FGT challenges, as well as growing Sorbacal® awareness, predominantly in the UK but also supporting the wider Lhoist interests in this global field.

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.

Lars Fritz has thirty-five (35) years of experience as a consulting engineer in various energy conversion projects for process industries such as Pulp & Paper, Energy from Waste (EfW), Power Generation incl. Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Biofuels, Biorefining, Multifuel utilisation. The projects have involved development of new plants or re-development and troubleshooting at existing units. The projects have involved business development and development of new technologies or processes for energy conversion and for reduced CO2 footprint.

Margaret Bates is Professor of Sustainable Wastes Management at the University of Northampton. She has been involved in wastes management for 30 years and undertook her PhD on landfill microbiology. She is a Chartered Waste Manager, an International Wastes Manager and a Chartered Environmentalist. Margaret is chair of the CIWM Scientific and Technical Committee of CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management). She is on the advisory board of the All Party Sustainable Resource Management Group and has been appointed to the Scottish Expert Panel on Environmental Charging and Other Measures. Margaret has traveled the world looking at waste issues and has advised governments, businesses and NGO on sustainable resource and waste management.

Originally trained as an environmental engineer, Paul has more than 25 years’ experience in public relations, consultations and community engagement. A specialist in environment communications, especially in wastes management and energy, both conventional and renewables, he has delivered communications consultancy across Europe, Africa, North and South America, Middle East and Asia. Paul is Managing Director of Proteus in the UK – which focuses on business in Europe and North America, and is also Managing Director of Proteus Environmental Communications in Hong Kong, which focuses on the Asia markets.

Stephen has spent 20 plus years at a senior level in the waste resources and renewable energy sectors with experience covering operations, business development, engineering, technical design and delivery. Stephen has an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) and a 1st class honours degree from Cranfield University. Stephen has led the design, delivery and operation on over £500m of infrastructure including anaerobic digestion, gasification and pyrolysis, mechanical and biological treatment, composting, materials recovery facilities and waste fuel plants. Stephen takes an active role within the sector and is a Trustee for CIWM, a Director for the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) and an active member of both ADBA and IrBEA.

Iain Martin, has held various senior technical and commercial management roles at Johnson Matthey PLC. He has over 30 years experience in the design and commercialisation of novel process technology into the chemical industry. He has been focusing on the technical and commercial challenges of introduction of first to world new technologies on a global basis. He currently has particular emphasis on the field of renewable chemical and fuel technologies leading Johnson Matthey’s activities in association with BP in licensing advanced technology for Fischer Tropsch technology well suited to the renewable fuels market place.

Mark Sommerfeld has worked in renewable energy policy and regulation for over six years. He has managed policy regulation across both generation and retail renewable energy projects. Mark joined the Renewable Energy Association in 2015 and is the Bioenergy Policy Manager, which includes administering the REA's Waste to Energy Sector group. The group advocates for a thriving energy from waste industry within a circular economy, along with realising the potential of Advanced Conversion Technologies. He also leads on the REA’s Brexit work stream and is an Alumni of Cambridge University.

Dr Hargreaves is VP of Velocys' waste-to-jet-fuel project. Neville has over 30 years' experience in the oil, renewable energy and consulting industries, including 12 years with Exxon and 4 years with Bain and Company, the strategy consulting firm. He has led teams to deliver projects including many stakeholders across global public companies and government, brought over 70 new products to market, led two small businesses and launched successful innovation programme for the UK government. He holds an MA in Chemistry from Cambridge University, a PHD from University College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Ian Crummack has worked in the energy and waste sectors since 1991 after leaving the Army,where he qualified as a mechanical engineer. He has been extensively involved in setting up EfW and IPP (Independent Power Project) businesses, concentrating on the commercial, contractual and financial aspects. He now runs an independent engineering and commercial services company which works on establishing and executing EPC and O&M contracts from concept to delivery, with particular emphasis on making projects financeable.