Anthony Brenninkmeijer - Operations Manager - Fuel Cell Europe

Anthony is a 39-years old Dutchman, MBA graduate from Solvay Business School in Brussels. Before joining FuelCellEurope he spent the last 10 years focusing his career on innovation management, process and organisation optimisation with global retailer C&A, later Business Inventions, a start-up he created, and later as a principal advisor with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anthony is bringing leading consulting skills, a lot of experience at serving large organizations and managing complex processes in decision making and in particular in the innovation chain.

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Benny Daniel - Senior Automotive Consultant - Frost & Sullivan

MBA (Marketing & HR) and B.Engineering (Mechanical)

Benny joined Frost & Sullivan in 2005 and is now a Consultant in the European Growth Consulting team, working across a electric vehicle market solutions for various automotive clients. His expertise and prior consulting experience spreads across a range of automotive sectors including suspension technologies, cabin air filters, diagnostic equipments, gear technology etc.

Benny has acted as lead analyst & consultant on various consultancy projects and now heads the Electric Vehicle research initiative at Frost & Sullivan.

Some of Benny’s most recent consulting projects include:

• Supplier selection and benchmarking suspension engineering capabilities for a leading Japanese OEM
• Facilitate and improve OEM’s technology communication strategy across Europe
• German OEM R&D benchmarking evaluation exercise
• Competitive Due Diligence exercise for an investment banking company with regard to diagnostic equipments
• Global Market entry Strategy for heavy duty engines – CV, Marine & off road app.

Benny has also authored several studies covering Diagnostic Equipments, mechanical handling and testing equipments, door modules apart from several white papers focussing on cabin air filters, Google’s entry into the automotive world, Fork Lifts, Comfort and Enhancement Systems etc.

Further to his profound interest in research, Benny’s strengths also involve a strong background in the engineering industry and marketing. Prior to his Masters degree, Benny worked as a Graduate engineer Trainee for Mahindra and Mahindra Pvt Ltd, a Vehicle manufacturing organisation in India for a period of 4 months, He was also extensively involved in advertising, project management and business development for Rediffusion DY&R - an advertising giant. His strong communication skills have enabled Frost & Sullivan to hold several key preliminary discussions with key players from the automotive world.

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Nick Ford, Senior Automotive Consultant - Frost & Sullivan

Nick has worked closely with business planning functions, providing strategy guidance and market development support throughout his career.

In his previous role he was Product Planning Director at TRW with global responsibility for their £3 billion automotive steering business providing strategy guidance for their electric steering products. Prior to this Nick was responsible for leading Lucas/TRW’s developments in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems technologies including ACC and Lane Departure Warning and was instrumental in setting up a JV company with Thales for 77 GHz radar sensor development and production.

Nick has 13 years of automotive experience preceded by 23 years in Aerospace and Defence at British Aerospace and Lucas. As well as holding senior management positions in these corporations, Nick has been MD of EMM Computers, a technology start up company which exceeded $ 1 million turnover in its first year of operation.

Since joining Frost & Sullivan in 2004 Nick has been working closely with senior executives in the automotive domain developing their business and product strategy.

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Dr. Bruno Pollet (BSc(Hons) MSc PhD) - Head of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, University of Birmingham

Bruno G. Pollet recently joined the Fuel Cells Group (FCG) from Industry. He is an expert in the area of PEMFC and Electrochemical Engineering. He is currently responsible for the £1.3 Million DECC HFCCAT Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle project and PEMFC & MEA activities within the FCG. He is also the coordinator of the £5.5Million EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications.

He has successfully implemented a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Supply Chain (EPSRC project) within the West Midlands with currently 50 SMEs involved in the development and manufacturing of hydrogen and fuel cell components (www.hydrogen-wm-scratch.info). He has worked for Samuel Banner Ltd (Banner Chemicals Group) and Albion Chemicals Ltd (now Brenntag (UK) Ltd) in Sales and Marketing, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Ltd (Johnson Matthey Plc) as Test Facility Scientist, Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) Design Scientist and Programme Leader, SmartWater Europe Ltd as Research Manager and Coventry University as Head of Sonoelectrochemistry, Project Development Manager and Lecturer in Environmental & Physical Sciences. Bruno has been recently appointed member of the £6.5 Million Advantage West Midlands (AWM) Science City Hydrogen Energy Project Management Board.

He has also worked as an EPSRC and EU Research Fellow in the field of Fuel Cells and Electrochemiluminescence at the Liverpool Electrochemistry Group headed by Professor David J. Schiffrin. Bruno was awarded a Diploma in Chemistry and Material Sciences from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), a BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry from Coventry University and an MSc in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Aberdeen. He also gained his PhD in Physical Chemistry in the field of Electrochemistry (Sonochemistry & Sonoelectrochemistry) under the supervision of Professor J. Phil Lorimer at Coventry University.

Bruno has published several publications and chapters in the field of Fuel Cells, Sonoelectochemistry and Sonochemistry. He is a Member of: the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Society of Sonochemistry, the Electrochemical Society and the International Society of Electrochemistry.

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Charles Purkess - Fuel Cell Technology, ITM Power UK

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Nick Owen - Roads2HyCom Project Coordinator, Ricardo UK

Nick Owen is responsible for RTD planning and Technology Roadmaps at Ricardo. He is an author of the UK "Carbon to Hydrogen" roadmap, has been a WP leader of the FP5 FURORE roadmap project for road transport, and a contributor to the UK “Foresight Vehicle” roadmaps. Over the past 3.5 years, Nick has been the Co-ordinator for the FP6 Roads2HyCom project, supporting the European Commission, HFP/JTI, HyRaMP and other stakeholders planning future fuel cell and hydrogen activities.

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Dr. Jon Moore - Co-Founder and Director of Communications, Intelligent Energy

Dr Jon Moore is Director of Communications at Intelligent Energy. One of the co-founders of the company, he has been active in the clean technology and fuel cell sectors for twenty years. Jon was part of the team that constructed the UK’s first PEM fuel cell stack in the mid nineties, while a Research Fellow at Loughborough University. He was a Director of Advanced Power Sources (APS) Ltd, a University spin-out company formed in 1995, the first company in the UK specifically set up to commercialise PEM fuel cell technology. Jon moved into a business development role on the formation of Intelligent Energy, which acquired APS in 2001, before taking up his present position in 2006.

Jon has a degree in chemistry and a PhD in battery chemistry, both from Loughborough University.

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