Nico Rosberg

Sustainability Entrepreneur & 2016 F1 World Champion

Nico Rosberg was born in 1985 in Wiesbaden, Germany, the son of Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg. He raced in Formula One for eleven years claiming the title of World Champion in 2016. Since his retirement from Formula One, Nico Rosberg has embarked on a career as a sustainability entrepreneur and investor in green technologies and mobility start-ups. Based in Monaco, he currently employs a permanent workforce of seventeen people who manage a large number of projects with the support of a dedicated team of international experts in Monaco, Great Britain and Germany. Nico Rosberg's drive as an entrepreneur is fuelled by the will to drive positive change for society and mankind. In 2018, Rosberg was recognized for his commitment to sustainable innovation with the "GreenTec Entrepreneur of the Year" environmental award. A year later, he founded the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, a global platform for leading green technologies and a sustainable lifestyle.

Dario Traum

Head of EMEA Energy Transition, Bloomberg NEF

Dario coordinates research on several global energy transition issues and leads BloombergNEF’s EMEA Energy Transition team. His current work focuses on the scaling of climate finance and the development of net-zero strategies for businesses and government. Dario has a deep understanding of the energy transition in emerging markets having been the project manager of Climatescope over 2016-18. Prior to joining BNEF, Dario worked for the German government in their renewable energy cooperation mission with MENA states and for a law firm advising project developers in France and Germany. He holds a master in International Energy from Sciences Po Paris and a BSc in Environmental Economics & Environmental Management from the University of York.

Thierry Mortier

Global Digital & Innovation Lead for Energy, EY

Innovative and creative leader. Curious accelerator and visionary. Technology enthusiast interested in agile, blockchain, artificial intelligence, mixed reality, Internet of Things, market and trends.

Thierry is the EY Global Digital & Innovation Lead for Energy. He helps energy companies develop new business models, growth strategies and ecosystems, supporting them through the energy transition and beyond. Thierry champions emerging technologies, such as robotics, blockchain, AI, augmented and virtual reality, and IoT, as the digital foundations for innovation.

As energy innovation goes hand in hand with the electrification of transport, Thierry also leads the EY cross-sector, go-to-market solution for eMobility.

Thierry brings his extensive experience of the power and utilities sector to clients across a wide range of industries, including oil and gas. He applies his insights and know-how across innovation management, venturing, emerging technologies, digital strategy and transformation to position them at the forefront of the energy transition.

Thierry earned master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Management Consultancy from Ghent University and Erasmus University, respectively, as well as a postgraduate degree in Corporate Finance from KU Leuven.

Dario Traum

Head of EMEA Energy Transition, Bloomberg NEF

Dario coordinates research on several global energy transition issues and leads BloombergNEF’s EMEA Energy Transition team. His current work focuses on the scaling of climate finance and the development of net-zero strategies for businesses and government. Dario has a deep understanding of the energy transition in emerging markets having been the project manager of Climatescope over 2016-18. Prior to joining BNEF, Dario worked for the German government in their renewable energy cooperation mission with MENA states and for a law firm advising project developers in France and Germany. He holds a master in International Energy from Sciences Po Paris and a BSc in Environmental Economics & Environmental Management from the University of York.

Rob Fowler

CEO, Volta Trucks

Angela Hultberg

Head of Sustainable Mobility Ingka Group, IKEA

Mike Lightfoot

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, LeasePlan

Michael Lightfoot is LeasePlan’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. At LeasePlan, Michael is responsible for the company’s corporate positioning, international stakeholder relationships and overall reputation management. Prior to joining LeasePlan, Michael was Head of External Affairs at AkzoNobel, where he developed the company’s partnerships with the World Economic Forum, United Nations and The Rockefeller Foundation. Michael was educated at the University of Oxford and Princeton University. He is also a board member of the John Moran Educational Trust in the United Kingdom.

Sandra Roling

Head of The Climate Group’s EV100 initiative

Chris Peeters

CEO, Elia Group

Urška Skrt

Manager Mobility, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Urska Skrt is a Manager for Mobility at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). She contributes to the Transforming Urban Mobility agenda by leading the project of mobility decarbonization. 

She promotes cross industry collaboration, advocates, and provides recommendations for accelerated decarbonization of mobility with an ambitious objective to unlock the value of vehicle fleet electrification that resides at the intersection of mobility, real estate and energy.

Urska has extensive experience in the area of smart energy demand response, smart cities and vehicle electrification and was a member of several European private public partnerships. Among other, she was a member of the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPOSS) and an Industry board member of European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI).

Christopher Burghardt

ChargePoint EU Managing Director, President of ChargeUp Europe

Christopher Burghardt is ChargePoint's Managing Director for Europe, responsible for leading all aspects of the company's European business. Most recently the head of policy and communications, EMEA, for ride-sharing app Uber, Christopher previously led global and emerging market expansion at First Solar, a provider of solar panels and utility-scale PV power plants. Prior to joining First Solar, Christopher was Vice President for Corporate Affairs for Western Europe at Anheuser-Busch InBev and a Vice President for Business Development and Marketing EMEA at Hill & Knowlton. A dual German-Belgian national, he earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the College of Europe and a BA from the University of Sussex and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence.

Eric Plaquet

President & CEO, Gireve

Eric Plaquet spent most of his career developing high value-added services for companies all around the world, notably in the automotive and EV industries. He joined GIREVE as President in 2020.

Jamie Heywood

Regional General Manager, Uber, Northern and Eastern Europe

Jamie joined Uber in June 2018 as Regional General Manager for Northern and Eastern Europe. The role covers Uber’s rides business in more than 70 cities and 12 countries including the UK. Across Northern and Eastern Europe, Uber serves more than 110,000 drivers and around 8 million active riders.

Petar Georgiev

E-mobility Lead, Eurelectric

Petar Georgiev is the Lead Advisor for Electromobility at Eurelectric, the sector association representing the European electricity industry. With members in over 30 European countries, Eurelectric speaks for more than 3,500 companies in power generation, distribution and supply. 

In his daily tasks, Petar coordinates Eurelectric’s expert group on electric mobility. In doing so, Petar prepares industry positions on policies regarding the promotion of electric solutions for road transport and a broad spectrum of charging infrastructure and grid-related aspects. His current focus falls on creating a robust policy environment for fleet electrification and sufficient deployment of EV charging infrastructure. In addition, he is the main liaison with external stakeholders on matters pertaining to electric mobility. Petar also is guiding the work in Eurelectric’s working group Innovation and Digital. 

Before joining the association in 2018, Petar worked on transport and energy policies at the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Council General Secretariat during the Bulgarian Council Presidency. Petar holds a double-major bachelor degree in European Studies and Political Science from the American University in Bulgaria and a master in EU International Relations and Diplomacy from the College of Europe in Bruges.

Andrew Daga

President & CEO, Momentum Dynamics

Andy’s fascinating story takes him from his birthplace of Brooklyn, NY, through Ithaca NY where his family developed the best Italian Restaurant in town through Hawaii, degrees in structural and civil engineering, architecture and space science and technology, ground-breaking work at NASA and his current role at Momentum Dynamics. Prior to founding Momentum Dynamics, Andy was a leading consultant to the aerospace industry and contributed to the design of the International Space Station solar power array system, the Mars Pathfinder program, and future mission planning studies with NASA and the US Department of Defense.

Andy will admit that this layered journey wasn’t fully planned, but nor did it happen by accident: as a child, Andy would travel with his family from his home in Brooklyn to visit their extended family in Philadelphia, PA (hence our home today in Malvern PA). This route took him through New Jersey and past the bleak refineries of Route 95. As a lover of architectural beauty, the outdoors and being obsessive about ‘all things efficiency’, the New Jersey oil refineries were the antithesis of everything Andy wanted the world to be.

Fast forward to Andy’s time at NASA. He came upon the idea of inductive charging while mulling on ways to save cable weight on the International Space Station and future Mars missions. Why employ heavy cabling to carry electrons when it could be done efficiently through a vacuum or even the air itself? Out of this thought was born Momentum Dynamics.

Through his varied experiences Andy has developed a strong capacity to identify engineering talent and manage multidisciplinary engineering and business teams. Andy is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) where he serves on a number of standards committees. He believes that every precious piece of our finite resources should be fully valued and carefully spent. He envisions a world of zero emissions, zero cables and zero wasted miles doing anything but making our lives better.

He is a devoted husband, family man, polymath and entrepreneur. He is passionate about his dogs and his team at MD – perhaps in that order.
He is still working to make the world a better place, one electron at a time.

Oren Ezer

Co-Founder & CEO, Electreon

Along with vast experience in leading several startups, Oren had acquired knowledge in managing large-scale multidisciplinary projects for major international companies. Oren had held a senior position as a chief electronic engineer and head of the R&D department at Elop (a division of Elbit Systems) while managing dozens of projects such as missile tracking systems, thermal imaging systems and laser systems. Oren holds an M.Sc Magna Cum Lauda in Electrical Engineering, specializing in signal and video processing

Francisco Carranza

Managing Director, Nissan Energy

Francisco is currently Managing Director of Nissan Energy, he is in charge of products and services related to the electric vehicle grid integration (vehicle to grid, smart charging) and also the portfolio of products in the renewable energy generation and storage leveraging Nissan know how and expertise in lithium batteries and customer focus. He has been in Nissan since 2008 where he had responsibilities in the External Affairs, Corporate Planning and Program Management teams. Francisco has two engineering degrees (Sevilla Engineering School and IFP School) and two MBA degrees (EM Lyon and Cranfield School of Management).

Eric Mevellec

CEO at Dreev

DREEV is a joint venture set up between EDF and Californian start-up NUVVE. The core business of EDF’s subsidiary DREEV is the development of solutions based on “Vehicle-to-Grid” (V2G) technology, which is the most innovative as well as the most promising aspect of “smart charging”. The technology currently proposed by DREEV has been developed by the start-up NUVVE and has already been trialled around the world. DREEV is currently aimed at fleets of businesses and communities.