MOVE 2021 SPEAKERS

Matt is the CEO of Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, and is responsible for setting and executing the company’s strategy to deploy utility scale battery storage and power infrastructure for rapid EV charging. Throughout his career, Matt has been involved in various parts of the energy value...

Patrick Ayad leads the global sector group Mobility and Transportation at Hogan Lovells and is also head of the firm’s global Strategic Operations, Agreements and Regulation (SOAR) practice area. He is a leading global practitioner in the areas of international commercial contracts, global...

Richard Barlow serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Wejo, responsible for strategic direction and managing all aspects of the business. Richard founded Wejo in 2014, having founded, scaled and exited a highly profitable fintech data platform out of the UK.Realizing that the connected data...

Claudia Becker has been working for the BMW Group since 2012 in operational and strategic purchasing functions. In 2016 she joined BMW?s responsible sourcing team with a focus on due diligence in mineral supply chains. Claudia works closely with supply chain partners and represents BMW in various...

Thomas Bitter is leading Volvo Construction Equipment?s (Volvo CE) global research and development organization, which has made major recent breakthrough advances in innovation ? including the first fully electric compact machines, and the introduction of autonomous transport solutions. Leveraging...

Grayson Brulte is an Innovation Strategist and Co-Founder of Brulte & Company, an autonomous mobility advisory and consulting company. In addition, he is the Host of the SAE International Tomorrow Today Podcast. Previously, Grayson served as the Co-Chair of the City of Beverly Hills Mayor's ...

Lance Bultena is our Director of Thought Leadership Mobility and Transportation and is located in our Washington, D.C. office. He has been deeply involved in every major regulatory and legislative issue in the U.S. automotive sector since 1995 and routinely discusses issues in this area with...

Sonya Byers is Chief Executive of Women in Transport, a non-profit which supports the professional development of women working in transport through networking, professional development and volunteering. In 2021, the network launched a bespoke leadership development programme called Lead with the...

Aurelien started his career as an entrepreneur just after graduating with his second Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, earned at Georgia Tech (USA).Since then, he has worked for the past 20 years as an International Business Developer and Strategist in diverse fields: semi...

After various positions in business and industry, Thomas Duscha joined GreenPack in 2016 as Business Development Manager. Together with Tobias Breyer he has taken over the operational management of the Berlin-based startup and its brand Swobbee. During his studies in business administration in...

Shamala Evans is an experienced Senior Civil Engineer and Project Manager, possessing a breadth and depth of technical knowledge underpinned by strong academic learning and a demonstrable track record of success in the design and implementation of challenging, complex and wide-ranging...

Andrew has spent his career to date in the field of telematics, fleet management and intelligent vehicles. He has a keen interest in the future of transport, mobility and unmanned autonomy. Andrew has spent 15 years as the CEO of Transpoco, the leading telematics provider in the Irish market, with...

Agnès Grisoglio, graduated from Sciences Po Paris, began her career as Chief of Staff for a Member of the Parliament and mayor. She held several communications positions in both industry and service sectors. She joined the SNCF Group in 2006 as Communications Director of SNCF Voyages...

Steve Hellman founded Mobility Impact Partners as a collaborative strategic investment platform for the emerging mobility ecosystem after building Energy Impact Partners into the leading private equity firm for the new energy economy. He also serves on the Boards of several businesses: Eos Energy...

Lex Hoefsloot is head of strategy and funding, co-founder and chief executive officer at Lightyear.Early ageLex grew up in Zimbabwe, Africa, where there was lots of space and a climate ideal for spending time outdoors. Having spent so much of his childhood connected to nature, he felt the need to...

Jean-Louis Kindler is CEO of Ways2H, a leading commercial provider of Waste-to-Hydrogen solutions for mobility and grid applications. JeanLouis and his team are developing projects that transform the world’s worst waste - MSW, plastics, medical refuse - into clean energy and fuel.A 30-year veteran...

Charlotte Le Roux is a senior associate in our Hogan Lovells Paris office and focuses her practice on commercial contracts and regulatory matters relating to information technologies, data and cybersecurity, mobility, transportation and telecommunications.Charlotte works on innovative subjects such ...

Joe is an urban planner with over 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors gained in the UK, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and other Asian countries. Currently a Deputy General Manager for the Shenzhen Bus Group (SZBG), Joe takes charge of all procurements, international...

Oliver Mackprang (33) is a native Canadian who has lived in Berlin for 15 years.In 2012, he founded a carsharing aggregator company - CarJump, which bundled carsharing providers in one app. CarJump was sold to PSA in 2016, where the app was subsequently renamed in free2move. He has previously...

Edwin Olson is co-founder and CEO of May Mobility, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan based startup that is transforming cities using self-driving shuttles. May Mobility uses its industry-leading technology to create transportation systems that have launched in four cities, helping to create a...

Before co-founding Caburn Telecom in 2011, Matthew led Marketing for BT Global Services developing the company’s understanding of customer focus and market orientation across a wide range of industry sectors including Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, Logistics, Energy and Automotive. Prior to...

Sebastian Polly is a partner in our Hogan Lovells Munich office and co-heads our Automotive industry sector. Sebastian’s key focus is on product liability, product safety and product compliance law. He is particularly experienced in the automotive, mobility as well as the technology and electronics ...

Director of Research and Development Institute for Urban Transportation “MosTransProekt” and Chairman of the Eurasian UITP Division, UITP Vice-President.Alexander supervised the development of the transport model of the Moscow agglomeration, transport planning, and related issues of improving the...

Making the world a better place to live is Paul?s motto to get out of bed. He sees public transport as the back bone to keep cities flowing. That?s why he started Tranzer. Tranzer aggregates tickets from Public Transport operators worldwide into 1 platform and makes all tickets digital. Whether it...

Bob Sanguinetti was born and raised in Gibraltar.  After graduating from Oxford University, he served in the Royal Navy for almost three decades, rising to the rank of Commodore. The former mariner served at sea and commanded several Royal Navy warships and a multinational coalition Task Group...

In his role as Chief Sales Officer, Tobias Scharfen is responsible for all sales activities of has·to·be gmbh. The company is the creator of be.ENERGISED, a leading EV charging software platform, as well as a full-service solution provider for charge point operators (CPOs) and eMobility service...

Dr. Anita Sengupta is an aerospace engineer, instrument rated pilot, rocket scientist and veteran of the space program. She has developed technologies that have enabled the exploration of Mars, asteroids and deep space for 20 years.  Her career began with launch vehicles and communication...

Johannes Springer is responsible for the 5G Automotive Program at Deutsche Telekom.In 1998 he joined Deutsche Telekom Group in various management positions. From 2004 to 2010 he worked as CTO/COO for Toll Collect, the GNSS based electronic tolling operator for trucks in Germany. From 2011 to 2016...

Sebastian Tanzer is the Chief Executive Officer at triply, responsible for the strategic direction, fundraising and general business management. Sebastian co-founded triply in 2017 to reshape mobility across the board by creating algorithms to analyse and plan mobility solutions...