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Speakers 
 Mr Olivier Abadie,
Director of Downstream Oil,
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Olivier Abadie, CERA Director for Downstream Europe, has over 20 years of international experience in refining, trading, and business development. Based in Paris, Mr. Abadie focuses on short- and long-term analysis of crude oil and refined products markets, transportation, and refinery investment. His expertise covers analysis of economic conditions, global oil demand and supply trends, their influence on oil and product prices, and the implied strategic challenges. He works closely with CERA clients to assess how market, economic, and political risks could modify their competitive environment. He contributes to the CERA Refined Products Watch and CERA World Oil Watch through his analysis of Western European markets.
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Mr Keith Alexander,
Investment Principal,
Actis Capital
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 Mr Greg Archer,
Director,
Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
Greg Archer is the Director of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) a multi-stakeholder partnership of 220 organisations established to accelerate the shift to low carbon vehicles and fuels and deliver greenhouse gas reductions from the road transport sector. Greg has been Director since 2004. He is also a Director of Cenex (Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technology); and a member of the Board overseeing the introduction of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (with specific responsibility for sustainability issues).
Greg is a Chartered Chemist with wide ranging experience in environmental: policy, research, business and programme management. His previous roles include managing: a Carbon Trust programme advising businesses on energy efficiency opportunities; the Government’s air pollution research programme and WS Atkins sustainability consultancy.
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 Dr Leonardo Bichara Rocha,
Economist,
International Sugar Organisation
Dr Leonardo Bichara Rocha has been working as an Economist for the International Sugar Organization since January 2003. During this time, he has represented the ISO at major sugar events worldwide and has been a speaker at several Conferences and Workshops organized by the FAO and the International Sugar Council as well as in other leading sugar seminars in Brazil, Europe and the Middle East. Dr Bichara Rocha's publications are on ethanol feedstock costs, sugar consumption, sugar modelling, currency movements and on Brazil's role in the world market.
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 Mr Tom Blades,
CEO,
CHOREN Industries GmbH
After 25 years in upstream Oil & Gas, Tom is today the CEO of CHOREN Industries, a German advanced gasification technology company with a focus on the process and production of biomass to liquid (BTL) transport fuel.
His career has taken him from rig time in the North Sea, to the Middle and Far East as well as Africa, Texas and Alaska. He lived in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war and later in Saudi Arabia during the time of the Kuwait invasion. He has spent time on the North-Slope, in the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa, and in the jungles of Borneo and Nigeria.
More recently Tom has turned his interests towards the challenge of sustainable alternate energy opportunities, which in turn took him to CHOREN.
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 Mr David Bown,
Technology Manager,
AMEC
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 Prof Tony Bridgwater,
Aston University
Tony Bridgwater has worked at Aston University for most of his professional career and is now Professor of Chemical Engineering with special interest in bio-energy. He graduated from UMIST in 1963 with a BP University Scholarship and after several years at the BP Research Centre at Sunbury on Thames joined Aston University. He now leads an internationally renowned research group in bio-energy with a world wide research portfolio, including management of the UK Supergen Biomass and Bio-energy Consortium, core membership of the EC Network of Excellence in Bioenergy, co-ordination of the EC ThermalNet Network and leadership of the EC and IEA Bioenergy sponsored networks on biomass pyrolysis – PyNe.
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Mr. Scott Brittenham,
Chief Executive Officer,
Ethanol Capital Management LLC, USA
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 Mr Christopher Brodie,
Partner,
Krom River
Christopher Brodie started his trading career in 1987 at Memaco Services managing physical copper contracts, before moving to the LME broker DLT Limited. Christopher later moved to Winchester Commodities Ltd as options trader in copper and as one of the largest coffee traders in London. In 1996 he set up a trading company, Claymore Ltd trading with his own capital. Christopher advised Scottish Power PLC in setting up option trading before becoming a founding partner at the Armajaro Commodity Fund at Armajaro Asset Management. Christopher left Armajaro to set up the Krom River Commodity Fund which launched in July 2006.
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Mr Rory Clarke,
Director,
Rix Biodiesel
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Mr Max de Grussa,
Director,
Envirotas
Max de Grussa Managing Director of Envirotas Ltd (UK) a Non Executive Director of Vireol plc and a founding partner and past Executive Director of Biofuels Corporation plc is dedicated to developing further projects in the EU and Asia.
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 Ms Nancy DeVore,
Senior Analyst,
Bunge
Nancy works with Bunge’s Economic Research group, based in White Plains, NY, providing analysis and forecasts for the company’s risk management and investment decisions, with focus on global biofuels and agricultural production economics.
She has 17 years experience in the industry as an analyst and trader, with Louis Dreyfus Corp, Bellingham Commodity Trade Analysis, DeVore Associates, and Bunge.
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 Ms Sue Finlay,
Head of Energy Crops,
DEFRA
After working in Local Government, Sue joined the Civil Service in 1988. She worked in several areas of MAFF HQ, and spent three years at the Intervention Board Executive Agency.
In 2000 she joined Agri- Industrial Materials Branch to set up and promote the Energy Crops Scheme, part of the England Rural Development Programme. She worked closely with DTI and the New Opportunities Fund to develop the bio-energy funding package.
Sue now heads up the Crops for Energy Branch at Defra, which deals with policy on crops for all types of energy.
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 Mr Robert Gmyrek,
Deputy Director Polish Technological Platform,
PKN Orlen
Graduate of Agricultural University of Lublin. Robert Gmyrek has completed a study of Company Management from Lódz University of Technology, Project Management from Gdansk Foundation for Management Development, CPS Oxford training program in Gasoline Technology and Automotive Diesel Fuels and number of other training courses and seminars in the areas of economy and management in oil industry.
In 2000 he was appointed as a Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. He was responsible for realizing tasks in the fields of shaping and evaluating of agricultural policy. He was also a Member of Governmental Committee for Polish negotiations with European Union.
In 2002 he started his career with PKN ORLEN SA at a position of Biofuels Office Director, responsible for adaptation of PKN ORLEN SA to requirements of Polish and European biofuels law. In 2005 he was appointed to the position of Head of Alternative Sources of Energy Department in PKN ORLEN SA.
Robert Gmyrek is also a Vice-President of Polish Technological Platform of Biofuels and Bio-Components and Member of Scientific Council of Polish Central Laboratory of Petroleum.
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 Mr Paul Hodson,
Energy and Transport Directorate General,
European Commission
Paul Hodson has worked for what is now the Energy and Transport Directorate-General of the European Commission since 1995.
He is responsible for the implementation of the European Union’s biofuels directive; for the biomass action plan; and for assessing the impact of targets for renewable energy in 2020.
Before joining the Commission, he was head of transport policy at Manchester City Council.
He began his career in the Inner Cities Unit of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (London) and has a degree in history and social and political sciences from Cambridge University. He is preparing a doctoral thesis on urban transport.
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 mr roland jansen,
ceo,
Mother Earth Investments AG
Mr. Jansen has been a 4 year Board Member of EMFA (European Managed Futures Association - former AIMA). and a founding Member of the Liechtenstein Fund Association. He served as a consultant to the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. He has been a featured speaker at asset management and alternative energy conferences in the USA, Europe and Asia. He has also lectured at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2004 Mr. Jansen organised the “First Conference on Natural Resources” in Liechtenstein, attended by 150 people from 10 countries and 3 continents. He has appeared on Swiss Television and CNBC Europe. He is the author of “Profits from Natural Resources“, John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1998) where he forecasted the end of the bear markets and a new upswing in commodities.
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 Mr Neil Johnson,
Policy Advisor,
Department for Transport
Neil Johnson works on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation project team in the Department for Transport. He is the Bill manager and Policy lead for the RTFO Bill and will be taking the Bill through Parliament. He is also closely involved with the drafting of the 2ry legislation which will set out the detailed scheme design.
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 Mr Guus Keder,
Partner,
Axiom Venture Capital
Guus has worked in Private Equity since 1987. In 2002, he co-founded Axiom Venture Capital. He joined Alta Berkeley Venture Partners in 1997 where he successfully invested in ICT and Internet related businesses. Prior to that he was a Founding Partner in a European M&A firm. Before becoming an entrepreneur, he worked in international management positions for Bristol Meyers, a US pharmaceutical company, and Hagemeyer, an international trading company. He has always been involved with high growth companies or business entities and has worked with entrepreneurs throughout his career. Guus holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from INSEAD. He has worked in many countries and speaks 4 languages. In addition to being a Partner at Axiom Venture Capital he currently serves on the Board of a number of high-growth companies and he is involved with the Venture classes at INSEAD. He is a member of Insead's Sustainability Roundtable.
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 Mr Werner Koerbitz,
Chairman,
Austrian Biofuels Institute
After a career with multinational companies like Eli Lilly / USA and Sandoz / Switzerland as director of R & D, of marketing and of strategic planning in various countries (Austria, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia) Mr. Körbitz made his first experience with Biodiesel as manager of the first industrial Biodiesel production plant in 1990 in Austria, then already the leading country in Biodiesel development.
He founded the Austrian Biofuels Institute in 1995 as a world-wide active centre of competence, which is involved world-wide in various Biodiesel projects such as standardisation, feasibility studies for financial institutions and investors, implementation of commercial production plants, process technology comparison studies, several Biodiesel-projects in R&D-programmes of the European Commission and the International Energy Agency-Bioenergy.
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 Mr Mahesh Kolli,
Founder and Managing Director,
Greenko Group
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from Warwick Business School, Executive Director of an IT Company based in London and an Environmental Solutions and Energy Company based in London and Hyderabad. Non-Exec Chairman of Carbon Asset Services AB Sweden (Subsidiary of Tricorona AB listed Swedish Metals and Carbon Trading company).
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 Mr Arthur Llewellyn,
Finance Director,
Green Spirit Fuels
Arthur started working as a consultant with Wessex Grain in January 2005 to help develop their bioethanol business, and devised and led the spin out of Green Spirit Fuels, financed by Credit Suisse and Tudor Capital, in September 2005, at which point he joined the company as Finance Director. During 2006 he has led the financing of Green Spirit Fuels’ first bioethanol plant, in Somerset, and of its future development as the UK’s leading bioethanol development company.
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Mr Jens Christian Mathieson,
BankInvest-Group
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Mr Stephen McCaffrey,
Finance Director,
Greenergy
Greenergy is the UK’s largest independent oil company. It has over 50% of the UK biofuels market and sells over 3 billion litres per year in the UK, all containing biofuel.
The company’s first biodiesel production plant in the UK is due to come on stream in Immingham in December with a second plant due to be completed in August 2007. Further plants are already planned.
Stephen has been with Greenergy Biofuels as Finance Director since November 2005. Since joining Greenergy from Amerada Hess - Upstream Oil and Gas, he has welcomed Cargill as investor, arranged the financing of both biodiesel plants at Immingham and reviewed the commercial feasibility of further plants.
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 Mr Graham Meeks,
Head of Fuels and Heat,
Renewable Energy Association
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 Tim Peara,
Managing Director,
Alternative Energy Finance
Mr. Peara is the founder and Managing Director of Alternative Energy Finance Ltd. He brings to this role over 20 years experience in deal structuring, business development and the capital markets. He has worked extensively raising capital for and advising on the renewable, petroleum and power industries both in developed markets of North America and Western Europe as well as in the Former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. Tim started his career with securities firms (Prudential Securities Inc 1983-91, Lehman Brothers 1991-97) in financial futures, mortgage & asset backed securities and emerging markets fixed income. He then worked as a business developer for US private oil company Koch Industries (1997-98), an oil & gas pipeline joint-venture of GE-Capital and Bechtel (1998-2000) and a pipeline & power venture of United Technologies (2000-2001). Since 2002 Mr. Peara has arranged early stage finance for energy companies which led him to found Alternative Energy Finance in 2005.
Tim holds an MBA from the University of Chicago (Finance / International Business) and a BA (Latin American Studies) from Wesleyan University, Connecticut
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Mr Guy Saxton,
CEO,
AngelBourse
Guy is currently MD of a number of public and private organisations and over the past 17 years has gained considerable experience in the financial sector. He has been involved in numerous financings, both privately and on the AIM market. Formerly he was Sales Director of Fidelity Brokerage and started his career with AXA.
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 Mr Malcolm Shepherd,
Managing Director,
Green Spirit Fuels
Malcolm Shepherd is MD of Green Spirit Fuels Ltd. The company was launched in June 2005 as a subsidiary of Wessex Grain to develop bioethanol production plants across the UK using wheat as the primary feedstock. His work experience covers the management of large scale animal feed plants, feed ingredient processing, grain storage and grain trading operations. For the past 16 years he was the MD of Wessex Grain, now one of the UK's top ten farm grain buyers. Since 2000, as part of his job of developing new markets for cereals, Malcolm has been working to establish a UK bioethanol industry. This has involved working with US, EU and UK partners on political lobbying, research projects, initiating novel grain contracts and developing new grain markets to existing European bioethanol producers in Spain and Sweden. He is one of the founding directors of eBIO - the European Bioethanol Fuels Association that was established in 2005 to support the bioethanol industry in Europe.
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 Mr Louis Strydom,
Chairman,
BioEnergy International of Switzerland
Louis Strydom, Chairman of the BioEnergy International of Switzerland is an expert in new venture creation and project finance with wide experience on projects in the developing world, having worked on projects in South America, Africa, Middle-East, Central Asia, and China. Louis holds a Masters Degree in Economics and an MBA. Over the past two years Louis has spent a significant amount of resources analysing biofuel business models, with particular focus on developing nations. One of his main projects for the last year has been conducting a pre-feasibility study and promotion of a 230,000 acre site for a Jatropha plantation with biodiesel refinery and electrification plant in Kenya.
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 Dr Vivek Tandon,
Founder and General Partner,
Aloe Private Equity
Dr. Vivek Tandon is an experienced international executive and proven entrepreneur with in-depth background in building technology start-up companies. He is currently Founder and General Partner of Aloe Private Equity; a Venture Capital Fund with offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing and Hyderabad that develops and provides capital injection into Companies with Environmentally Sustainable Technology or Service Offerings, whose market growth and share-holder value would benefit from establishing strategic relationships with Chinese and Indian Partners.
Vivek is currently Vice-Chairman of Allied Technology Group, a 140 person environmental engineering company focussed on waste water treatment, air pollution treatment for power plants and coal gasification. Vivek also sits on the Board of Maxsys, Longmen, and Greenko Group. Vivek has held Non-Executive Board (NED) positions in several companies including Chairman of Wireless Live (messaging provider for SME), Board Member of Silecs Oy (a developer of low-k dielectric material), Board Advisor to LeT Systems (developer of outage management software for Electricity Distribution Companies and Board Advisor to Airweb (Mobile Internet Solutions Provider).
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 Mr Ian Temperton,
Head of Advisory,
Climate Change Capital
Ian Temperton is a Director in the Advisory team at Climate Change Capital with responsibility for M&A, project financing, equity financing and corporate policy advisory work. This has included transactions in power, wind energy, biofuels, clean technology, and carbon financing. Ian holds a M.A. and M.Eng. from Cambridge University and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School.
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 Mr Hans van den Berg,
Senior Partner,
Venture Partners
Mr. van den Berg is a co-founder and Partner of Venture Partners AG, Venture Partners AG is a Zurich based boutique firm, providing, since 1997, solutions for private equity financing to corporations and institutions. Prior to Venture Partners, Mr. van den Berg was a director of Unotec AG, an asset management company owned by Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny. In Unotec he was responsible for the management of the private equity investments portfolio with engagements in Europe as well as in the USA.
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 Mr Karl Weinfurtner,
First Vice President,
DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
Karl Weinfurtner is the First Vice President and Head of Structured Finance for Agribusiness, Forestry and Food with DEG Invest in Germany. He has over fifteen years experience with Deutsche Investitions and Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, Köln. Karl started his career as an expert for agricultural policy matters at the Bavarian Farmers Association in Munich. After which he was a representative for a German foundation in Tanzania; planning and supervising training and educational programmes.
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 Mr John Paul Whyatt,
CFO,
InfEnergy
Formerly a Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Bear Stearns, John Paul’s background is in strategy consulting and investment banking, with extensive experience in emerging markets, oil & gas and telecommunications. John Paul has a Masters degree in public administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and began his career as an intern in the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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 Mr Adrian Wilkes,
Chairman,
Environmental Industries Commission
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Mr Richard Wright,
Director,
Tabor Ltd
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 Mr Fabrizio Zichichi,
Executive VP Clean Oil Products,
Noble Americas Corporation
Fabrizio Zichichi is the Executive Vice President, Clean Fuels Department for Noble Americas, a subsidiary of Noble Group. Fabrizio’s experience spans over twenty years in the petrochemicals and commodities industries. Organisations that he has worked with include the Eni Group and Phibro, a subsidiary of Salomon’s. In addition to his role on the Board of Directors for Noble America’s, Fabrizio is also a member of the senior management committee for Noble Group.
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