2nd GREENTECH IN SHIPPING GLOBAL FORUM

Franco Porcellacchia

Vice President, Carnival Corporation & Plc

Franco Porcellacchia was born in Genova on 30th April 1953. After graduating from the University of Genoa with a degree in Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering in 1979, Franco commenced his career with RINA, the Italian Naval Classification Society, holding several roles in the field of ship classification and safety both in Italy and the US. In January 2002, after a 22-year career with RINA, Franco joined Costa Crociere S.p.A., where he was assigned responsibility for all the company’s technical activities as Vice President and Director of Technical Operations, managing Costa Crociere’s fleet of twelve cruise ships and overseeing the construction of a further 5 vessels. In July 2008 he took up a position with Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding to head the team providing technical support across all of the Carnival Corporation brands in a variety of priority projects. In August 2009 he was appointed to the role of Vice President of Carnival Corporate Ship Refit within Carnival Corporation & plc. In 2012 he was appointed to lead the Ship Owner’s team in the Costa Concordia Wreck Removal Project, with the task of coordinating all the project activities at Isola del Giglio on behalf of Carnival/Costa Crociere. He was responsible for overseeing the engineering design for the wreck removal completed in July 2014, as well as for the subsequent activities for the site seabed recovery currently ongoing, ensuring their compliance with health and safety, and acting as link between the parties involved: the Salvors, the Insurers and their Technical Consultants, the Italian Authorities. Currently Franco is involved, on behalf of Carnival Corporation, in its program of exhaust gas cleaning system installations on board of a large number of vessels for all of the group’s Operating Lines. He covers the position of Vice President and Director of Marine Department in Ecospray Technologies.

Antonis Trakakis

CTO, Arista Shipping

Antonis Trakakis has graduated from Mechanical Engineering dept of NTUA and carried out graduate studies at von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in the field of Turbomachinery. Currently he holds the position of Technical Manager at Arista Shipping where he joined in 2010. As Technical and Environmental Manager of Superfast Ferries he has successfully addressed all issues relevant to operation of ships in sensitive areas like the Baltic sea. Antonis has worked with all kinds of internal combustion engines, ranging from gas turbines, to all sizes of four stroke, and two stroke engines, and one of his special concerns has been the formation and control of emissions, engine efficiency and performance monitoring.

Alexander P. Panagopulos

Founder | CEO, Forward Ships

Mr. Panagopulos is Chairman and Founder of Project Forward, a Joint Development Project to combat global ship emissions by promoting the adoption of liquefied natural gas as a marine fuel which was conceived in 2013, and is funded by Arista Group. Project Forward has evolved into Forward Ships, a company founded by Mr. Panagopulos in 2016 with the mission to build, own, and operate the cleanest, and most efficient LNG-fueled fleet of cargo ships in the world (www.forwardships.com). Mr. Panagopulos (51) co-founded Superfast Ferries in 1993 under Attica Group, a Greek-listed entity which was controlled by the Panagopulos family. As CEO of Superfast Ferries and the Attica Group, he engaged and successfully completed the design and construction of 17 passenger ferry newbuildings in shipyards in Germany, Finland, Holland and Korea, an orderbook of over €1.5b, and led the successful expansion of Attica Group into a 25-vessel and 5-million-passenger-a-year company with routes in Greece, Italy, Finland, Germany, Scotland, and Belgium. In 2006 he closed the sale of Attica Group’s Baltic Sea operations and in 2007, following the sale of the family's participation in Attica Group, he founded Arista Group to focus on identifying attractive investment opportunities in various sectors with emphasis on shipping. Alexander Panagopulos is a member of the American Bureau of Shipping (“ABS”) Greek National Committee and the Lloyd’s Register Hellenic Advisory Committee and has also served on the Det Norske Veritas (“DNV”) Technical Ferry Committee. Mr. Panagopulos was honored to be elected and to have served for eight years in the position of Chairman of the High Level Ferry Group of ECSA (European Community Shipowners' Association based in Brussels), and on the Board and as a President of Interferry, the international association representing passenger ferry ship operators worldwide. During his presidency, Interferry advanced to Advisor Status in the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”). An avid skipper himself, Mr. Panagopulos developed his passion for ships and the sea with the Californiabased Royal Cruise Line, the cruise company founded by his father Pericles in 1972. Mr. Panagopulos has pursued innovation in the fields of shipbuilding and environmental technology and has sponsored a number of philanthropic events, including donations for natural disasters and conservation of wildlife.

Aoife O’Leary

Senior Legal Manager, International Shipping, Environmental Defense Fund Europe

Aoife (pronounced ee-fa) works to design solutions to the climate impact of international shipping and aviation through her economic, legal and policy expertise. She also works on the UK and EU agricultural support systems to make them as sustainable as possible. Specifically she is interested in solutions that draw on her legal and economic expertise such as using pricing strategies to provide incentives for environmentally friendly behavior. Areas of expertise: International transport focused on aviation and shipping and greening agriculture policies

Asbjørn Overgaard Christiansen

Head of Innovation and digitalization, Danish Shipping

Asbjorn Christiansen has since March 2018 been heading the innovation and digitalization efforts of Danish Shipping. For 12 years prior to this, he held various roles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark covering Invest in Denmark, the Trade Minister’s office, the Trade Council as well as Innovation Centre Denmark, including two postings in Hong Kong and Bangkok. Asbjorn holds a degree of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and has himself been a founder and co-founder in two start-up companies.

Katrien Van Itterbeeck

(Senior) Technical Manager Environment, Port of Antwerp

Katrien Van Itterbeeck is a technical manager environment at the port of Antwerp. Her main focus lies on how to address the environmental challenges shipping poses on the (local) environment and identify potential win-win concepts in the environmental services to shipping. Previously, she worked as an assistant operations for a bulk shipping company dealing with both the commercial and operation aspects involved in vessels’ exploitation. She holds a masters’ degree in Nautical sciences from the Antwerp Maritime Academy and a masters’ degree in Environmental sciences from the University of Antwerp.”

MANFRED LEBMEIER

Senior Environmental Advisor, Hamburg Port Authority

Manfred Lebmeier was born in 1967 in Munich. He grew up there and studied in his hometown environmental engineer. He worked for the Allianz Insurance Company from 2000 until 2013 for different departments. At the end he was responsible for the international environmental management system of Allianz worldwide as Group Environmental Officer. In 2013 he left to join the Hamburg Port Authority. Here he started as head of environmental and spatial strategy in the strategy department with tasks like the smartPort energy initiative. Nowadays he worked as senior environmental advisor in the new traffic and environment strategy department with focus on the onshore power project. Since April 2018 he works additionally for the IAPH as ESI administrator.

Marcel Flipse

Head of Marine Applications, Orcan Energy

Orcan Energy AG is a provider of turnkey solutions for optimizing energy efficiency in industrial processes and engine systems. The clean-tech company, based in Munich,was established in 2008, and originates from the Technical University Munich. With its efficiency PACK series, Orcan Energy offers cost-effective, reliable modules that are based on Organic Rankine Cycle technology, producing CO2-free electricity or mechanical power from waste heat.

Poul Woodall

Director Environment & Sustainability, DFDS

Poul Woodall has over 40 years of experience within the maritime and transport industry. The first 36 years were spent with A.P.Moller-Maersk in various positions, mainly within the container and Ro/Ro segments. His career includes 17 years overseas experience with postings in Asia, The Middle East and Europe. Since 2010, Poul has been with DFDS A/S in Copenhagen and in June 2013 he was appointed Director for Environment and Sustainability for the DFDS Group. Poul Woodall has a degree from Copenhagen Business School supplemented with management education at Insead and Stanford University. Poul is on the steering committees of the Trident Alliance and Green Ship of the Future. Marine environment policy work is conducted through his affiliation with Interferry and various ESSF working groups in Brussels.

Anne Katrine Bjerregaard

Head of Green Ship of the Future

As head of Green Ship of the Future, ms Bjerregaard explores the road towards a more sustainable, innovative and tech-savvy maritime industry. A key part of her function is to facilitate cross industry collaboration, innovation processes and explore how technology and megatrends will drive or enable change in the maritime industry. Before Green Ship of the Future, ms Bjerregaard have conducted a number of projects all within the convergence of sustainability, innovation and disruptive technologies in the maritime industry. Ms. Bjerregaard has a master in international business communication from Copenhagen Business School, have completed the Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership at UC Berkeley and is currently doing an executive MBA in Management of Technology at Technical University of Denmark. She is experienced in building and managing communities and networks around innovation and technology including innovation leadership and -management; Sustainability and sustainable development (incl. the UN SDGs); Strategic development; Change management and Business Development

Mike Rembelski

Sr. Director, Global Service and Support, Hach

Mike Rembelski joined Hach in 2010 and serves as Sr. Director of Global Service and Support. Through this role, he provides direct leadership and direction to the Global Hach Service department (depot, field, tech support, and connected device and software services) with direct P&L financial responsibility of $133M in 2018. Mike leads policy deployment and strategic planning to drive continuous improvements in all aspects of the service business including financial performance, service delivery optimization, and service commercialization through the Danaher Business System. In 2014, he led Hach’s entrance into the maritime market. Mike graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2001 and immediately accepted his commission as a Surface Warfare officer in the US Navy. Mike served on active duty for 7 years on two different ships, deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and working to support operational war planning related to ballistic missile defense. He then managed all aspects of an agricultural services company for four years in Rhode Island as he transitioned out of active duty and later joined Hach.

Wolfgang Hintzsche

Marine Director, VDR - German Shipowners' Association

58 years old, more than 40 years of experience in worldwide shipping and shipbuilding business:

• 6 years education and service as Naval Officer on Minehunters & Minesweepers
• Studies in Hamburg for Master Mariner
• 9 years service on Bulk Carriers, RoRo-, Heavy-Lift- and Semi-Container-Vessels with Owners Frigga, C.F.Ahrenkiel and Sloman Neptun
• Sales & Project Engineer for Marine Electronics (ELNA)
• Area Sales Manager Cargo Handling Systems (MacGREGOR)
• Managing Director Manoeuvring & Propulsion Systems (JASTRAM)
• Technical Director Shipyard (SET)
• General Manager Crewing Agencies (PETER DÖHLE)
• Since 03-2006 Marine Director at German Shipowners’ Association (VDR)

Capt. Stefan Bülow

Executive Board Director, BIMCO

Capt. Stefan Bülow has 35 years’ experience in the maritime industry. In the last 15 years he served as Shipping Executive with investor groups and in leading positions with German ship owners, as Managing Director and member of the Executive Board at HBC Hamburg Bulk Carriers, *ER-Group (Ernst Russ) and DAL Deutsche Afrika-Linien/John T. Essberger Group as well as Techn. Director at Reederei Leonhardt & Blumberg, Hamburg. Prior to this he served about 20 years at sea in all ranks from apprentice to Master (incl. deep-sea offshore/research). He grew up at a German shipyard and holds also a MSc/Economic Engineer for Shipping & Transport and an Engineering License. Besides he is active in several committees and boards concerning shipping (e.g. Chairman of the Marine Committee, member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of BIMCO, member of the Technical Advisory Board of DNV GL, Chairman of the 'DNV GL Ship Operation'-Committee, the SMM Advisory Board, the German Shipowners’ Association (Naut.-Techn. Committee, GHG Work Group), in various class societies, e.g. American Bureau of Shipping (Member of ABS), Bureau Veritas (BV).

Marnix Vermaas

Business Architect, EBPI

Marnix has been analyzing and designing information value chains for over ten years, mostly in complex multi-system and multi-stakeholder environments, especially where government and private sectors overlap. Not satisfied with easy wins, Marnix wants to understand the customers’ needs and motivations to come up with a compliant, secure and successful solution that truly adds value. After pursuing various and diverse career paths, Marnix has found his current role designing large-scale IT solutions as a Business Architect for EBPI and subject matter expert/thought leader in chain information systems.

Carlos Botana Lagaron

Head of Sustainability, Puerto de Vigo

Head of Sustainability and development Policies in the port of Vigo, PHD program in climate Change, M. Sc. Sciences of the Seas, over 15 years of experience in management in commercial, fishing and port environment in the port of Vigo. He has worked in more than sixteen European projects about environment and development in several programs (FP7-THEME 7, life, life +, Feder,…). Expert in environmental implementation, quality and security systems. Member of the Sustainability and Development Committee of ESPO “European Sea Ports Organisation” since 2013 He has worked in SOLUZIONA CALIDAD Y MEDIO AMBIENTE, Head of Projects Public Administration and Ports. Developing projects such as Port of Las Palmas, Port of Coruña, Port of Ferrol, Port of Vilagarcía, Port of Vigo, Others... Coordinator of the Blue Growth Vigo (feb. 2016 – Present) Turn the Port of Vigo into a European Blue Growth benchmark in the 2020 horizon, promoting competitiveness, efficiency, and sustainability in all the port's activities, facilities And services, and pushing fordward the Blue Economy in the region, in Line with the economic development strategies from the EU and Galicia. The Blue Growth analysis is the product of the collective effort of the Port of Vigo users , more than 300 participants in the working groups.

Erik van Ballegooijen

R&D Director, VAF Instruments

Van Ballegooijen has graduated from 2 Technical University studies on Mechanical Engineering and Process & Product Design. After graduation he worked for 18 years at Wärtsilä Propulsion where he started in 1997 as a ship propeller designer (hydrodynamicist). Since 2001 he headed for Wärtsilä various operational engineering and project management departments. From 2009 onwards he shifted towards R&D and headed various Research and Development departments all related to ship propulsion product development and design. Since 2015 Van Ballegooijen is the VAF Instruments Director R&D, responsible for sensor development, application development, and for providing customer consultancy on hydrodynamic data analysis. One of the main development projects he is responsible for relates to the application of propeller efficiency measurement instruments and the IVY ship propulsion performance measurement solution, which was in 2016 awarded the FATHOM Ship Efficiency Award.

Tarvi-Carlos Tuulik

Head of Shipmanagement at AS Tallink Grupp

Master mariner, newbuilding’s project manager of the ro-ro pax ferries Has been with the Group since 2000 and since 2004 as a Captain onboard passenger ferries Holds a Master's degree in Naval Science and Operational Studies from St. Petersburg Maritime Academy, 1994

Olga Liebkind

Director, Key Accounts, Norsepower

Olga Liebkind has graduated from two Electrical Engineering departments of LETI and LUT universities. Currently she holds the position of Director, Key Accounts at Norsepower where she joined in Aug 2018. For 12 years prior to this, she held various roles in ABB Marine, responsible for the sales of services and modernization in the cruise and ferry business segment. Leading the sales launch of new energy and emission efficiency solutions, hybrid electric and fully battery-operated marine propulsion systems. Continuing with fuel savings and emission reduction solutions, at Norsepower she works with shipowners providing auxiliary wind propulsion systems for various vessel types to save the fuel bill and reduce emissions in shipping.

Nick Lambert

Rear-admiral, Ecospeed Marine

A master mariner and a committed proponent of the maritime users’ perspective, Rear Admiral Nick Lambert concluded a long naval operational career as the UK National Hydrographer in December 2012. He advises on a wide range of maritime issues including the growing potential of the blue economy concept, the importance of spatial data infrastructures and hydrography for maritime economies, the evolution of eNavigation and GNSS vulnerability, near or real time situational awareness (especially that derived from space based assets and applications), maritime connectivity and cyber security, human factors, and training and education in the maritime sector. He has a particular interest in the Polar Regions and is also engaged in a variety of situational awareness, fisheries and aquaculture management, marine autonomous systems and vessel efficiency projects.

Dr Jerry Ng KL

CEO, BOS Global

Dr Jerry Ng KL is the founder and CEO of BOS Global. He graduated from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK in 1979 with 1st class (Hon) and in 1983 with PhD in Marine Technology. Prior BOS Global, he has taught engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he was a member of the NTU Council and Academic Board. He headed the Technology Development at Singapore Institution of Standards & Industrial Research (SISIR). Among his achievements were the National Young Scientist and Engineer award from the Science Council (now called A*STAR) and the Edwin Walker prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK.

Raphaël HENRI

Key Account Manager, Marine & Shore Power, Schneider Electric

Involved in the Marine business of Schneider Electric for 5 years, having a special focus to the ship-owners. Led many positions in the group, since 1989: 10 years within the industrial operations, continued by 15 years within International contract management, Offer Marketing and business development for the various business units, dealing with the Energy management and automation. 1987 MSC in Mechatronics, Robotics, Automation Engineering 2001 MBA Strategic management ICG,IFG

Jack Armstrong

EVP of International Business Development , Magnegas

Mr. Armstrong has worked for MagneGas in many capacities. He was Head of Operations, where he oversaw R&D and ESSI Welding Stores. He has also sourced our current acquisitions. Mr. Armstrong is currently EVP of International Business Development. Mr. Armstrong has over 20 years of experience in the capital markets. He was a Managing Director at Piper Jaffray, Head of Trading at Think Equity Partners and recently the Senior Vice President of the Corporate Client Group at Northland Capital Markets assisting companies in strategy and capital raises. Over his career, Mr. Armstrong has worked with senior level management at several of the largest investment companies through the process of raising an estimated $5 billion of funds over his career. Mr. Armstrong received a Bachelors of Administration in Economics from Arizona State University.

Tom Strang

Senior Vice President, Maritime Affairs Carnival Corporation & plc

Tom Strang is Senior Vice President Maritime Affairs for Carnival Corporation and plc, responsible for developing a group wide strategy for the supply of LNG for the next generation of cruise ships under order. He also provides representation for the Carnival group at various maritime authorities in Europe and other regions relating to marine and technical regulatory activities. Tom began his career as a Naval Architect with Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd and then moved to Lloyds Register where he rose to the level of senior passenger ship specialist before joining Carnival’s Corporate Shipbuilding team in 2000. Since then Tom has been involved in various areas of the business including Maritime Development and Compliance, HESS and Corporate Maritime Policy. Prior to taking up his current role, Tom was SVP Marine Operations at Costa with responsibility for marine and technical operations, manning and newbuilding for the Costa fleet. Tom is currently chair of the ICS Passenger Ship Panel, the UK Chamber of Shipping Safety & Environment Committee, the CLIA EU Environmental, Safety and Security Sub-Committee and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Environmental Committee. Married with 3 children his hobbies outside of work include sailing and walking.

Monika Griefahn

Senior Advisor, Sustainability, Costa Cruises

Former Minister, Germany
Dr. Monika Griefahn is a founding member of Greenpeace Germany and was Co-CEO (1980-1983). She organized campaigns against chemical pollution of rivers and the North Sea. From 1984-1990 she was the first female board member of Greenpeace International and responsible for trainings and founding new offices all around the world.
From 1990-1998 she was Minister of the Environment in the German state of Lower Saxony. She put her main emphasis on working for renewable energy and the phasing out of nuclear power.
From 1998-2009 she worked as Member of Parliament in the German Bundestag. Her main responsibilities were in the sectors culture and media, especially new media and foreign cultural policy.
In 2012 she founded the Institute Media, Environment, Culture (IMUK) – a company with advisory services and educational occupation in the sustainability sector. Griefahn is CEO of the Institute.
From 2012 -2018 she was Director for Environment and Community at cruise company AIDA Cruises, too. In that position she accompanied the company’s new alignment towards the use of LNG as sustainable fuel. Since 2018 she is doing business as Senior Sustainablity Advisor at Costa Group (AIDA, Costa and Costa Asia) within the context of her IMUK work focusing on strategic advisory services.
Monika Griefahn is engaged in numerous voluntary commitments – among others as board and jury member of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) and chair of Cradle to Cradle e.V.

Jörg Erdmann

Senior Director Sustainability Management, Hapag-Lloyd

Jörg has more than 36 years of experience in container shipping and gained deep knowledge holding various management positions in broadly diversified functions and in several locations around the world. He is a business administration graduate (Dipl. Kfm.) from the University of Hamburg. Since 2017 Jörg leads the Sustainability Management, being responsible eg for quality (ISO) standards, the annual sustainability report and a project developing the future marine fuel strategy. Jörg joined Hapag-Lloyd in 1982. His previous positions included management responsibilities as Senior Director in Singapore (Regional BA Asia), in Barcelona (Area Iberia and Sub-Saharan Africa), in Chile (Integration of a Chilean Shipping company), in Dubai (Integration of an Arabic Shipping company), as well as in his hometown Hamburg (Group Controlling).

Maurizio d'Amico

Business & Technology Development Director, d'Amico

Maurizio d’Amico studied at Univerisita` di Ingegneria Navale di Genova and graduated in 1984 as Naval Architect and Mechanical Engineer , up to 1986 after some experience in London at a leading P&I club , and at Richard Butler law firm , in 1986 joined the studio Navale Martinoli in Genova where he was actively involved in various aspects of consultancy , insurance claims and design coordination for a major passenger ship conversation . In 1992 joined the d’Amico Societa` di Navigazione , from 1992 to 2000 served at various level as coordinator of the development of the technical department , from 2003 to 2006 has been responsible for the project of a MR tanker 40.000 Dwt built in China , more recently he has acted an active role on the BDelta project for a 37.000 Dwt handy size bulk eco design . In the present position as the responsible for business and technology development he do actively participate on various International bodies like ICS, Confederazione del Mare ,ConsAr , Royal Institution of Naval Architects , cooperating also with DINAEL the department of Naval Architecture of the Genoa University , in order to follow the evolution of the present regulations .

Christophe Seguinot

Technical Director, LA MERIDIONALE

• 1999-2009 : Deck/Engine Officer on ROPAX
• 2009-2012 : Inspector on Newbuilding of vessel PIANA in Croatia (Split)
• 2012-2016 : Chief Engineer at « La Méridionale »
• From 2016 : Technical Director at « La méridionale »

Camille Bourgeon

Technical Officer in the Air Pollution and Energy Efficiency team of the Marine Environment Division, IMO

Mr Camille Bourgeon is a Technical Officer in the Marine Environment Division of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). He supports IMO’s work and policies on matters related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships. Before joining IMO he worked for the French Maritime Affairs Directorate (Ministry of Transport).

Laurance Langdon

General Manager, Hullwiper

With nearly 30 years working in the marine industry, Laurance Langdon has gained hands-on experience in total logistics and shipping management & development, as well as in-house and on-site support for supply chains, projects and oil & gas organisations. Throughout his career, he has played a key role in office start-ups and management, large scale project development, planning and task management in Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, Africa and South Africa. Laurance has a keen eye for spotting market opportunities ripe for capitalisation and has a proven track record of using budget management and key account sales & development to drive revenue growth and deepen market penetration. Since 2017, he has been responsible for the strategic direction and development of the pioneering underwater hull cleaning system, HullWiper.

Zvonko Ikic

Head of Sales Maritime – Shipping, Climeon

Zvonko Ikic is the Head of Sales Maritime – Shipping and the Regional Manager for DACH & CEE at Climeon. He has extensive experience with high-tech systems and development, ranging from electronics to maritime. Zvonko has worked with global enterprises like Samsung as well as government agencies in several countries. He is passionate about leading the transformation of the maritime industry into a sustainable future.

Carl Berglund

Head of Sales Maritime – Cruise & Ferry, Climeon

Carl Berglund is leading the global business development of the Maritime segment at Climeon. After 12 years of several sales management roles in Marketing Technology, Construction and Steel, Carl is now pursuing an exciting journey to help the Maritime industry to become more sustainable and to meet future demands.

Bud Darr

Executive Vice President, Maritime Policy and Government Affairs, MSC Group

An experienced global maritime leader in the areas of policy, government, and related law, Bud Darr is Executive Vice President, Maritime Policy and Government Affairs of MSC Group. Having served in the US Navy, US Merchant Marine, and US Coast Guard, as well as being an accomplished ocean yacht racer, Bud’s longstanding connection with the sea and ships that sail upon it is both personal and professional. Bud began his education with the US Navy in Submarine Nuclear Engineering and later furthered his formal education at the US Merchant Marine Academy, where he was trained as a Deck Officer and received his undergraduate degree. Later, during his service with the US Coast Guard, he studied law at the George Washington University Law School. In 2010, he retired from his government career to join the Cruise Lines International Association, where as its Global Senior Vice President of Technical and Regulatory Affairs, he led the cruise industry’s efforts in a broad range of maritime subject areas, including countless international treaty negotiations, sector-wide policy development, and engagement with government bodies around the world. He has conducted work in more than fifty countries throughout his career and consistently served in leadership roles for more than three decades. Today, Bud is engaged across MSC’s Cargo and Passenger divisions, including MSC Cruises, in applying his skills toward developing the company’s central Government Affairs function, based at the Group’s headquarters in Geneva. He is closely involved in MSC’s response to developments in environmental public policy and regulation and other industry-wide issues such as carbon reduction, maritime security, safety at sea, illegal wildlife trafficking and international shipping policy.

Geoffroy Beutter

Business Development for the Containership LNG Fuel Market, GTT

Geoffroy BEUTTER is in charge of the Business Development for the Containership LNG Fuel Market. Previously he was developing business for GTT in Africa and Middle-East since November 2014. He joined GTT in October 2013 for the development of Small Scale projects and LNG as fuel applications. Graduated in Mechanical Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille in 2007, he worked two years as Naval Architect at ALLAIS Shipyard. He joined Bureau VERITAS as Machinery Surveyor in 2009. Between France and Korea, the experience made him dealing with a large scope of retrofit and newbuilding projects (VLCV, LNGC, FPSO, jack-up). In the mean time, he graduated in MBA from IAE-La Sorbonne.

Dirk Kronemeijer

CEO, GoodFuels

GoodFuels is a fast growing sustainable fuel company which is active under various labels & various companies in the production, sales & marketing, trading and development of advanced biofuels across 3 continents, with headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company is focussed on serving these transport segments for which advanced biofuels is (one of) the best option(s) for the foreseeable future to reduce carbon: aviation, shipping and heavy ground transport. With the founders having made a name for themselves in making the market of sustainable jet fuel, GoodFuels Marine is recognized as the global pioneer and market leader in sustainable marine bio fuels serving renowned global marine clients across various marine segments such as offshore & dredging, navy & coast guard, ferries and cruise, yachting, bulk and container – latter with the awardwinning Goodshipping program (www.goodshipping.com) in conjunction with major cargo owners. Sustainability is paramount for GoodFuels and therefore it has set up its own independent sustainability board consisting out of leading NGO' and academics actively overseeing and monitoring the Group's sustainability practice. As runner up to GoodFuels Dirk founded SkyNRG, the Amsterdam based global market leader in sustainable jet fuel- serving more than 25 aviation customers on more than 5 continents. Before his time at GoodFuels and SkyNRG , Dirk worked for 12 years in the airline industry in London and Amsterdam for both low cost as flag carriers, his last position being a Vice President at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Dirk Kronemeijer (1974) achieved his MSc in Business Economics from the University of Groningen and he completed executive programs at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and INSEAD.

Mary Baird

Global Vertical Marketing Manager , Hach

Mary Baird holds 11 years of business strategy and strategic marketing experience and is the Global Industrial Markets, Vertical Marketing Manager at Hach. Through this role, she leads strategic direction for the commercialization of water analytical solutions. A key focus in her work, is advancing strategy to deliver complete solutions and worldwide support for the maritime industry in response to changing market drivers and regulations.

Jeremy Lowe

Global Marine Program Manager, Hach

Jeremy is an experienced project management professional with proven experience in guiding teams towards delivering complex projects. He serves as the Global Marine Program Manager at Hach, working across the marine portfolio to develop effective strategies in the sector. Jeremy previously held several management positions in the UK water industry and offers a depth of experience in a wide range of organisational structures. Jeremy earned his MBA from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and his M.Sc from Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK. He is a Member of The Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Managers and a Member of The Institute of Asset Managers. He currently resides in the United Kingdom.

Vladimir Bonamin

VP Global Business Development Manager, Environmental Health Safety, SGS

Dr. Bonamin was appointed VP Global Business Development Manager of Environmental Health & Safety Division of SGS Group Management Ltd., Geneva on oct. 1th, 2007. In is role he works for acquisitions on testing and non testing sector, development of non testing services in existing SGS affiliates and innovation and development of new services. Previously, Dr. Bonamin served as Business Manager for SGS Italy, which he joined in 1983. At SGS Italy he starts to works in environmental laboratory in Padova, than in field services (stack emissions and air quality monitoring), for some years he served also as sales director. Prior to this, Dr. Bonamin worked for Italian Environmental Regional Agency in Venice region in Italy in environmental laboratory starting in 1980. Dr. Bonamin has a Doctor degree in chemistry from the University of Padova, Italy

Gleb Ivanov

CEO, Silicon Fuel

Gleb received his PhD degree in Physics and was later trained in Intellectual Property and Innovation management. He is a founding shareholder for Oxford based battery company OXIS Energy Ltd and was overseeing the company growth as CEO from early lab prototypes to first licenses and the start of cell manufacturing. Gleb is a founder of a battery energy storage start-up Sigma Lithium Ltd and serves as CEO to Silicon Fuel Ltd, a spin-out from the University of Oxford.

Rasmus Folsø

CEO, DESMI

Rasmus Folsø took up the position as CEO of DESMI Ocean Guard A/S 1’st of December 2011. Prior to this Rasmus was a member of the Board of DESMI Ocean Guard A/S, from 2009 to December 2011. DESMI Ocean Guard A/S markets type approved UV-based ballast water treatment systems that are optimized to meet the strict IMO and USCG requirements everywhere in the world, while at the same time matching the shipowner requirements. Since the formation of BEMA (Ballastwater Equipment Manufacturers Association) in April 2018 Rasmus has been on the Board of Directors, and has also chaired the BEMA Planning Committee. Before joining DESMI Ocean Guard Rasmus worked with innovation in Maersk Maritime Technology where he was Head of Strategic R&D. It was in this position Rasmus first started working with ballast water treatment issues seen from the point of view of a shipowner, and in 2009 a joint research project resulted in the establishment of DESMI Ocean Guard A/S. Prior to joining Maersk, Rasmus held various positions at the Italian classification society RINA, where he over a period of 9 years worked with advanced sea-keeping analyses, fatigue damage assessments and rule development in IACS (International Association of Classification Societies). Rasmus holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in naval architecture from the Technical University of Denmark.

Laura Langh-Lagerlöf

Commercial Director, Lang Tech

Mrs Laura Langh-Lagerlöf is the Managing Director and co-owner of the Finnish company Langh Group Oy Ab and its daughter company, shipping company Langh Ship Oy Ab. Laura has a master’s degree in Economics & Business Administration from Åbo Akademi University and she has since an early age been involved in the family business. Thanks to the excellent knowledge in the maritime industry and the good business sense, Laura has led the shipping company successfully. She has from the start been a very important actor in the scrubber development and she is the Commercial Director of the scrubber manufacturer Langh Tech Oy Ab. Langh Tech’s SOx scrubbers and water treatment systems have currently been sold to over one hundred reference vessels.

CEO, eConowind

Commercial Director, Lang Tech

Guus van der Bles, Director Development of Conoship International BV, graduated in 1986 as a Master of Science at ‘Delft University of Technology’, as a Naval Architect. He gained more than 30 years of experience in the maritime industry, managing an engineering and maritime consulting office and a steel prefabrication plant in the Netherlands. In 2005 he joined Conoship International BV, the Innovative Design Office for Short Sea Shipping; first as leading Naval Architect and since 2007 as Director. The drive to ‘Improve Ship design by customized innovation’, is reflected in his important role in R&D projects and innovative designs, focussing on ‘eCONOlogy’: the combined improvement of eCONOmy (fuel reduction) and eCOlogy (emission reduction), focussing wind and LNG for propulsion. He worked as Ass. Professor at Delft University of Technology for 1 day/week from 2003 to 2015, were he investigated several methods of Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion. Based on technology developed by Jacques Cousteau he developed the VentiFoil and eConowind-unit. In 2016 eConowind BV was founded by Conoship and HCP to focus on developing and realizing the eConowind-unit: a powerful modular unit as ease to fit on a vessel as a 40 feet container, using the wind to reduce fuel and emissions for ships at sea.