Some of the top speakers you'll hear from at this event...

Timothy Cornellius

CEO
Atlantis Resources Corp

Timothy acquired a unique combination of academic, practical and commercial experience before taking the role of CEO of ARC.  Tim has accumulated a wealth of engineering and concept development experience. His roles have included underwater research, sub-sea engineering in the oil and gas sector as well as business development and corporate accountability through director and executive roles. Tim has a BSc. in Marine Biology from Flinders University, an MBA from Bond University and he remains a fully-certified submersible engineer, ROV pilot and commercial diver. He currently lectures in emissions trading and exotic environmental derivatives at Singapore Management University.

Glen Darou

President and CEO
Clean Current

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Duncan Mackay

Wave and Tidal Development Manager
The Crown Estate

Gary Shanahan
Deputy Director Marine Energy and Operations
DECC

Gary Shanahan is currently Deputy Director of the Severn Tidal Power Unit within the Department of Energy and Climate Change.  Gary joined the Department of Trade and Industry in 1989 as a chemistry  graduate after studies at the University of Salford and the Ecole Superieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (France). His first position within DTI was as a research scientist, but following a secondment to the European Commission in 1992 he moved into research programme management and technology transfer. Within the Department, and its successors, he has covered a number of areas relating to  industry sponsorship and related policy.  Gary moved to the Energy Group in 1999 and has been extensively involved in  policy development and formulation in the renewables area since - particularly in the wave and tidal areas where in his previous post he was responsible for the development of the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund.

Trevor Raggatt
Deputy Director Marine Energy and Operations
DECC

Trevor Raggatt joined the Energy Innovation Unit in the, then, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) in January 2008.  He leads on policy relating to bioenergy and marine energy technology (including oversight of the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund). As part of this role he was the UK Executive Committee member for the IEA implementing agreements on Bioenergy and Ocean Energy Systems. With the creation of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in September that year his portfolio changed to comprise broader energy innovation policy responsibilities alongside his lead on marine energy.

He joined the Department of Trade and Industry in 1990 after gaining a BSc(Hons) in Chemistry at Royal Holloway College (University of London) and research work in conjunction with the College and BP - initially working on both policy and the development of ultra-pure reference materials at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist in Teddington.  He moved to DTI headquarters in London in 1992 and, in the course of his career, has worked on a diverse range of policy topics including National Measurement Standards, UK civil space policy, Rescue and Reconstruction of the Lloyds of London insurance market, UK & International Reporting and Accounting Standards, the UK’s major reviews of Company & Partnership Law and, latterly, State aid (leading, amongst other things, on aid for environmental protection).

John Westwood
Douglas Westwood

John has 32 years experience in the energy industries. He initially spent 12 years in oil & gas business, working in the North Sea, S E Asia, South America and the USA. He has since spent 20 years as a consultant to organisations including government agencies in five countries, the European Commission’s Energy Directorate and the Office of his Highness the President of The UAE. Work on strategies relating to the energy sectors includes renewable energy, oil & gas, conventional and nuclear power generation, and energy trading.

Thomas Royle
Gurit

Thomas Royle was born in Lancaster, England in 1953 and studied Engineering at Loughborough University of Technology.Thomas has been involved with the design and test of military vehicles, gas turbines, heavy process packaged plant and machinery and offshore engineering amongst many other things. He first became involved in the composites industry in 1990 when he was employed by British Gas Exploration and Production, having responsibility for protecting 13 offshore gas production platforms against fires and explosions.  His experience gained from extensive testing of composite materials for the offshore market led him to join SP Systems in 1993 and to form his own company SP Offshore Composites in 1996.

Since then, Thomas has been involved in the promotion of the application of composites into architecture and the construction industry, re-joining SP [soon afterwards to become Gurit] in 2002.  Amongst his many other roles, Tom looked after the Prototyping function at Gurit and provided support to architects, structural engineers and prime contractors on projects where composites were being considered. Tom is now Head of Gurit Strategic Business Development focusing on the Ocean Energy market.

Jochen Bard
Vice Chair
Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems 

As head of energy conversion in the Energy Conversion and Control Engineering division of the Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology (ISET), Kassel, Germany, he is responsible for the areas hydropower and ocean energy systems as well as hydrogen and fuel cell technologies since the year 2000. He is Vice Chairman and German alternate member in the Executive Committee of the IEA Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES) and member of the German mirror group of the technical committee TC 114, Marine Energy – Wave and Tidal Energy Converters of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). As R&D project leader for technology development he currently works in ocean energy technologies such as marine current turbines and wave energy devices for full scale pilot and demonstration projects mainly in Europe with a focus on modeling of waves and currents and of device performance, power take-off technologies and control engineering. More generic work includes new methods for resource assessments, standardization activities, contributions to research networks and development of scenarios for the development of ocean energy technologies e.g. for the European Commission.

He lectures in Bachelor and Master Courses in renewable energies at the university. From 2006 to 2007 he worked as research analyst for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).

Mark Henderson
Investec Bank

Investec is an international, specialist banking group listed in London and Johannesburg, that provides a diverse range of financial products and services in niche areas. In Project and Infrastructure Finance, Investec is one of the leading financial advisers and providers of subordinated and mezzanine finance, but also provides senior project finance debt to selected clients.

Mark Henderson is responsible for Investec’s power and renewable energy sector investments in Europe. The team provides funding to projects, project developers and acquisitions in the European renewables sector and are direct equity investors in certain renewable projects and companies.
Mark has over 22 years’ banking experience. Before joining Investec in 2004, Mark was at Société Générale and, before then, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

Martin Wright
Managing Director
Marine Current Turbines

Martin is one of the founders of Marine Current Turbines Limited and joined the company full-time in February 2002. He has an M.A. (Hons) in Economics form Edinburgh, and an M.Eng in Petroleum Engineering form Heriot-Watt. He started his career as a Seaman Officer in the Royal Navy where he completed a short service commission serving in a variety of ships culminating an appointment as Executive Officer of a Minehunter. Prior to joining MCT he worked for nine years as a Venture Capitalist with Murray Johnstone Limited, and then latterly with Northern Venture Managers Limited where he was responsible for starting and developing NVM’s business in the South of England.

Martin has corporate finance skills and commercial experience spanning a wide breath of industries developed whilst working as a venture capitalist, and as a director of investee companies. In particular he is very familiar with the issues involved in early stage technology companies. Renewable Energy had been a particular interest for a number of years prior to becoming involved with Marine Current Turbines. The technology, environment and stage of the company represented a natural fit for his background and experience.

Peter Fraenkel
Technical Director (and a founder)
Marine Current Turbines

Peter Fraenkel is Technical Director (and a founder) of Marine Current Turbines Ltd., a company pioneering the development of tidal stream technology. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Energy Institute. He started his career in aircraft manufacturing before moving to the mining and metallurgical industries. He worked on renewable energy technologies from the mid-1970s and was also involved in a number of R&D programmes covering small-hydro-power, wind-power and small Stirling cycle power plants and for the last fifteen years,  tidal stream technology.

Richard Parkinson
Mojo Martime Ltd

Richard Parkinson is a Master Mariner and progressed rapidly to command of HHP Anchor Handling/ Towing Vessels in the northern North Sea involved in rig moves, including the early deepwater drilling activity west of Shetland.Subsequently, he moved to offshore construction as Project Superintendent/ Project Manager progressing to Offshore Area Manager on sub sea and topside offshore construction including SBM/ FPSO installation, pipeline repairs, sub sea jacket repairs and heavy-lift/construction, operating a fleet of construction barges and support vessels in West Africa.

He later moved to the Middle East as a Marine Consultant with Noble Denton and subsequently as General Manager for the Lamnalco Group managing offshore oil terminals.In 2004, Richard acquired Mojo Maritime Ltd and has grown and developed the business to provide Marine Operations and Installation Expertise to the emerging offshore renewable energy sector. Richard has been at the forefront of several of the company's high profile wind, wave and tidal projects.

James Ives
CEO
Open Hydro

James Ives (CEO). James is a professional engineer and experienced senior executive with key sector knowledge. He was previously CEO of an energy supply business and a senior manager within Accenture. Early career was spent in automotive engineering specialising in fluid mechanics advising clients including Mercedes Benz and Ferrari. Holds a commercial DoT/MCA ocean skippers licence.

Dr. Graham Salvidge
Queens University Belfast

Dr Savidge graduated in Physical Oceanography and Marine Biology from the University of Wales. His earlier research focussed on biological oceanography for which he participated in or led several oceanographic cruises. More recently he has been involved in both applied macroalgal research and investigating the effects of physical forces on kelp plants in addition to developing programmes to consider the environmental consequences of tidal and wave energy extraction systems. He is an active partner in the UK SuperGen 2 Project and has been closely involved in the development of the environmental monitoring programme for the SeaGen Tidal Turbine recently deployed in the Strangford Narrows, Northern Ireland.

Billy Langley
RWE Npower

RWE npower renewables is one of the leading UK renewable energy owner-opertators.   Since joining RWE npower renewables in 2000 Billy Langley has managed the development and construction of hydro projects and been actively involved in the marine energy sector.

For the last three years he has lead the marine energy team in their involvement in tidal stream projects off Wales and in the Pentland Firth; the Siadar Wave Energy Project on the Isle of Lewis and various tidal range studies.  Billy has a mechanical engineering degree and over 20 years experience in the renewable energy sector.

Ron Loveland
Director: Sustainable Energy and Industry Wales
The Welsh Assembly Government

"Against the Wales Government's almost unique legal duty to promote sustainable development and its determination to be in the vanguard of tackling climate change, Ron Loveland’s energy and industrial pollution-prevention policy teams are engaged in championing a rapid transition in Wales to a low carbon, clean and sustainable economy.

That is an economy, which as well as being based on high levels of energy efficiency, micro-generation and minimal pollution(including noise), is also focused on maximising the use of Wales tremendous natural renewable energy resources and building on Wales traditional fossil-fuel energy and industry strengths through encouraging them to evolve rapidly onto new, clean low-carbon pathways.

Ron, after an initial solid-state physics research and consultancy career, followed by 10 years in UK Government- in the Health and Safety Executive  and Department of Trade and Industry- has been deeply involved in facilitating innovation, enterprise and clean energy developments in Wales for the past 20 years: first, in the Welsh Development Agency as the director of Wales Innovation and Technology(WINtech),then in the old Welsh Office and more recently as Chief Technology Officer and now as head of "Sustainable Energy and Industry Wales" in the Welsh Assembly Government."

Trey Taylor
Co-founder & President
Verdant Power, Inc.

Trey has more than 35 years of corporate marketing experience with firms such as ITT Corporation, British Telecom, Procter & Gamble, and Ogilvy & Mather; and with major trade associations such as the Edison Electric Institute and the US Committee on Energy Awareness. He also helped produce several nationally known public affairs TV shows, including "The McLaughlin Group" and "Make Peace with Nature". Trey co-founded Verdant Power in March 2000 and Verdant Power Canada in April 2006, both marine renewable energy companies. He served on Boards of the Hydro Research Foundation and National Hydropower Association, and was a co-chairman of the CEO Council of the American Council on Renewable Energy. He is a charter board member of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition. Prior to that, Trey was the founder and president of the Interactive Marketing Institute and consulted with BGE and Price Waterhouse World Utilities Group. He is acknowledged in Esquire magazine as being one of America's Best and Brightest.

Peter Roberts
VerdErg

Peter Roberts has over forty years’ experience in the Offshore Industry, initially in Engineering, subsequently in Corporate and Project Management. Senior Group Management positions have been held in the UK and in the USA. Mr. Roberts has taken executive responsibility for deepwater Project Development from the Client and Contractor side, and has executed corporate re-engineering assignments.  Mr. Roberts established VerdErg Ltd. in 2005 following a management buy-out.

Jochen Weilepp
Voith Hydro

Dr. Jochen Weilepp, previously employed by the The Boston Consulting Group, Munich, Germany for 5 years as a consultant and project leader mainly for industrial goods industry. Joined Voith, Heidenheim, Germany in 2004 in Strategic Planning to later move to Voith Siemens Hydro, Heidenheim, Germany in 2005. As the Head of Oceans Energies department, Dr. Weilepp heads up the hydropower devision of the Voith Group. The Ocean Energies Group is responsible for the development and marketing of wave and tidal current power technologies at Voith Siemens Hydro and Voith Siemens Hydro's Scottish daughter company Wavegen. Dr Weilepp has a PhD degree in physics (hydrodynamics of complex fluids) and MBA (insead).

David Mummery
Scottish Power Renewables

As Marine Engineer for ScottishPower Renewables Marine Team, David has played a leading role in the technical development of a number of wave and tidal projects including the groundbreaking Islay tidal demonstration array.  As a Senior Engineer with Frazer-Nash Consultancy David has a background working with conventional power generation plant and in the development of various marine power technologies, and he brings a systems engineering approach to the development of marine projects.  David has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and has been involved in the power industry for 5 years.

Frank Fortune
Royal Haskoning

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Anne McIvor
Cleantech Investor Ltd

Anne McIvor is the founder of Cleantech Investor Ltd and editor of Cleantech magazine. She is an experienced investment analyst with a career of over 15 years at firms including ABN Amro Hoare Govett. As an investment analyst she focused on the Benelux markets for over ten years and separately covered the IT sector. She was a director of online publishing business, Equity Investigator and was involved with Irish newsletter Techinvest and independent research companies Equity Growth and Equity Development. She has also lived in Portugal, where she was a partner in a corporate advisory firm.

Anne has a BSSc from Queens University Belfast and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Uwe Hawer
Blohm + Voss Industries GmbH

Uwe Hawer started his career at BVI in 1987 and has been working as Senior Sales Manager for BVI since 1997 and has today more than 22 years practical hands-on experience in the maritime seal industry. Today, he is responsible for various markets in Europe and is, due to his technical knowledge, often involved in special seal projects. His technical knowledge and his hands-on experience in combination with his commercial skills are a great benefit for BVI as he needs to fulfil the interface function between commercial and technical aspects.

Prior to his employment with Blohm + Voss Industries, Uwe Hawer worked for six years at DASA/Airbus in Hamburg specialising in tool design and construction for the Airbus production. Adding to the above Uwe gained another four years experience as head of the department for tool design and construction as well as maintenance and repair for machine tools in a company specialising in the development and production of industrial gear boxes for world-wide distribution.

John Griffiths
EMEC

John is a chemical engineer, with forty-two years experience as a General Manager; Consultant, Project Manager & Engineering Manager as well as in a range of Operational and Technical roles in: Marine Renewable energy, Oil & Gas Design, Operations & Project Management, Contracting (Engineering and Construction on and offshore) and Consultancy & Studies.

John is a non-Executive Director of EMEC and has executed various contracts for them. He has been an independent consultant (JWG Consulting Ltd)  in wave and tidal energy for the past ten years.

As MD of CleanTechCom Ltd – a wholly owned subsidiary of Woodshed Technologies Ltd of Melbourne Australia, John is participating in the Severn Tidal Fence Consortium as Engineering Manager.

Adrian Rimmer
RBS

Adrian is part of the New Energy Technologies team at RBS, a group of finance specialists with deep understanding of the environmental sector. The team works with the bank’s clients to support their renewable energy, clean tech and energy efficiency activities.

Covering areas such as M&A, corporate finance, debt and equity capital, research, emissions trading, structured finance and investment products, the bank has the broadest environmental finance capability in its peer group.

In addition Adrian manages the bank’s relationship with the Clinton Climate Initiative and sits on the RBS Group Environment Board.

David Lyons

Capital Partners Worldwide Inc.

Over the last 35 years, Mr. Lyons has successfully secured financing for alternative energy and sustainable infrastructure projects throughout Europe and 48 countries worldwide. With an emphasis on a long-term equity investment perspective to finance the complete development, construction and operations cycle, he has achieved sustainable and break through share holder value for large generating companies seeking to diversify toward renewable generation capacity, and those completing timely and wise acquisitions.

He has secured the infrastructure funding required to support game-changing technologies for clean alternative energy solutions.  By establishing public-private partnerships under clean development and energy-climate change public funding initiatives, Mr. Lyons has mobilized additional private financing to support wind, wave and tidal  power projects that contribute to the energy mix.

Mr. Lyons has successfully setup and sold six technology-intensive energy companies, co-founded the venture capital company, Scotia Capital Corporation, served as Chairman of the Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce, and Co-Founder & 1st Chairman of the Enterprise Forum.

He is a member of the United Nations European Economic Commission. Mr. Lyons was selected as an honored member of “Who’s Who Among Top Executives” and “Continental Who’s Who”. Mr. Lyons is a Founding Partner of Capital Partners Worldwide Inc., an international capital solutions and financial advisory company.