European Energy Masters » Speakers
Johannes Penzkofer, Vice President, G.C.E. Energy Consulting GmbH / Germany
Chair
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Johannes started his career in the German tax office (from 1985 to 1992) and moved in 1993 into the B2B business and to Sequent Computer Systems GmbH where he was responsible as Sales Director Europe.
In 1999 Johannes left the company and started as the Sales and Marketing Director CER at Macro4 GmbH.
After a 2 year period, during which he worked as General Manager (DACH / Eastern Europe) at Hyperwave AG, he moved back to Macro 4 GmbH, where he was made General Manager Central Europe.
In 2008 Johannes changed his job to GCE Europe, where as Vice President Europe he is responsible for all business development activities of the group.
Russel Mills, Global Director of Energy & Climate Change Policy, Dow Chemical, Switzerland
Chair & Presentation
Efficiency imperatives in a carbon constrained world
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Russel Mills is the Global Director of Energy & Climate Change Policy for Dow Chemical. He is currently based at Dow’s European headquarters close to Zurich in Switzerland. Most of his career has been in market development, technology exploitation and global business management. He has also worked in consolidating acquisitions, setting up new businesses and managing Joint Venture operations. He is a physics graduate of Oxford University.
Mills has been working in the chemical and related industries for over 30 years. Regular job moves have taken him to the USA, UK, and the Netherlands and on several occasions to Belgium and Switzerland. Recent job assignments have included the Global Business Director role for the Cargill Dow bio-polymers joint venture, a secondment to European chemical industry associations, and leading the development of technology cooperation and government PPPs strategies for Dow in Europe.
Mills participated in the High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy & Environment set up by the EU Commission in 2005, has represented the company at numerous energy and climate fora and chairs a number of key initiatives in this area on behalf of the global chemical industry.
Russel Mills is a British citizen, is married to a Kenyan, has two children and currently lives in Kuesnacht, Switzerland.
Alexandra Langenheld, Scientific / Technical Project Officer, European Commission - Joint Research Center Institute for Energy - Renewable Energy Unit F.8 / Italy
Presentation
Recent developments and challenges for EU energy efficiency policy:
The policy context for businesses investments in energy efficiency pay off
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Alexandra Langenheld studied Environmental Science at the Technical University Berlin, and worked for two years, from 2002 to 2003, as Academic at the Faculty Architecture, Environment, Society, with the main focus on applied research, acquisition of research projects and teaching in the area of life sciences, notably renewable energies and sustainable transport.
Afterwards, from 2004 to 2006, she worked for the German Federal Environment Ministry, Department "Climate Protection, Renewable Energies", Berlin/ Germany. From 2006 to 2009, Alexandra was detached from the Federal Environment Ministry to the European Commission, Directorate-General Energy as a national expert in renewable energies and energy efficiency. Her responsibilities have been the preparation, implementation and/ or monitoring of polices and related activities for the deployment of renewable energies and energy efficiency.
Since September 2009 she is as a scientific officer responsible for energy efficiency at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Institute for Energy, Ispra/ Italy. The main focus of her work is on scientific analysis to support the implementation of EU's Integrated Climate and Energy Package, notably in respect to energy efficiency and the target to reduce primary energy consumption by 20% until 2020.
Lars Andersson, Environment Manager, Pilkington Floatglas/ NSG Group / Sweden
Presentation
Energy mapping: A systematic and profitable way to reduce the use of electric energy
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Lars Andersson has a Master of Engineering in Chemistry. He is employed by Pilkington for more than 30 years and is dealing with environmental issues all this time and energy issues for about 10 years.
Markus Weber, Manager Emission Trading, ThyssenKrupp, Germany
Presentation
EU emission trading system: current state and future perspectives
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Dipl.-Ing. Markus Weber M.A. has studied environmental engineering and political sciences in Berlin (Germany) and Bergen (Norway). His involvement in emissions trading began with positions at a subsidiary of the German Standard’s Institute (DIN), PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ecofys. He is now active as manager emissions trading for ThyssenKrupp. Notable achievements so far have been the developed a system for the verification of emission reductions, and the verification of app. 10% of the emissions of German companies during the allocation process for the first phase (2005-2007) of the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) in Germany as publicly certified expert on verification in GHG emissions trading, and the management of ThyssenKrupp’s emissions from 2005 onwards.
Christian Braatz, Coordinator Energy Efficiency Europe, TRILUX GmbH & Co.KG
Working Group
Energy efficient light: Reducing costs and CO2 emissions
Dr.-Ing. Michael Müller-Pfeiffer, Director Cement Technology, Germany, CEMEX Deutschland AG
Presentation
Cogeneration and improved use of waste heat in production to increase energy
efficiency
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From September 1986 to February 1991 Dr. Müller-Pfeiffer studied building material process engineering at University of Architecture and Building, Weimar.
From March 1991 to September 1992 followed postgraduate studies in glass technology at the University of Architecture and Building, Weimar.
From October 1992 to June 2000 Dr. Müller-Pfeiffer worked as Scientific Assistant, at the Research Institute of German Cement Industry, Düsseldorf
June 2000 PhD in Mechanical Processing, Technical University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
From July 2000 to September 2007 Senior Engineer, Environment and Plant Technology Department, Research Institute of German Cement Industry, Düsseldorf.
From October 2007 to July 2009 Manager Process Engineering, Cemex WestZement GmbH.
Since August 2009 Director Cement Technology, Cemex Deutschland AG.
Fields of relevance: Capex projects, Increase of alternative fuel use, Emission reduction, Optimisation of cement kiln performance, Optimisation of cement mills, Waste heat recovery.
Antonina Realmuto, EMEA & INDIA Environmental Manger, Nokia Italia SpA
Presentation
Intelligent energy management at Nokia Cluj Factory
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Antonina is currently covering the regional role for NOKIA as a Regional Environmental Manager for EMEA & INDIA managing more then 20 countries.
In the latest years she was involved in many NOKIA LEED regional projects, all successfully USCBG Gold certified, Cluj factory in Romania is one of them. Antonina was involved in the Energy and Co2 reduction strategy at regional level. She holds a degree in Political Science (international private law specialization) , Environmental Management System internal auditor.
Her professional career started in the Telco business in 1990 joining SIEMENS ITALY SpA taking care of the African market followed by being responsible for the event organisations in ITALTEL SpA. In 1998 Antonina joined the Italian branch of NOKIA. After different positions in Education and Legal, in 2004 she focused on Sustainability matters taking wider sustainability responsibility within the Region.
Jonathan Pugsley, Energy Manager, Masonite Europe Ltd / Ireland
Working Group
Lean Six Sigma: A systematic and sustainable approach to energy efficiency in manufacturing
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Jonathan Pugsley Graduated from Brunel University in 1988 with an Honours degree in ‘Engineering Metallurgy’.
He worked for his university sponsoring company Stanton PLC, Part of the global St Gobain Group as plant technical engineer, for two years before moving to a Steel Plant refractory design company.
Working in the UK and Europe designing, selling and installing state of the art precast refractory segments for all the major steel producers.
Then due to his fathers untimely death took over a family motor business expanding and growing that prior to selling to a major national chain of motor dealers.
In 1999 Jonathan moved to Ireland where he joined Masonite International as a mechanical engineer and then later Energy Manager and more recently process optimisation engineer.
Jonathan advocated the introduction of many energy saving initiatives over the past 9 years including, monitoring and targeting (M&T), variable speed drives, energy awareness campaigns energy monitoring software, lighting efficiency projects to name a few.
In recent years from 2006 Jonathan has been actively involved with Lean Six Sigma development at Masonite Ireland that has led to an increased focus on manufacturing efficiencies leading to enhanced energy efficiencies.
In 2004 and 2005 Masonite Ireland was awarded national energy efficiency awards by Sustainable Energy Ireland for best electrical efficiency projects and best coordinated energy management programmes.
In 2009 Jonathan Pugsley was awarded Irish Energy Manager of the Year by Sustainable Ireland.
Dr. Udo-Peter Banck, Head of Real Estate Services, Director, Merck, Germany
Presentation
Requirements putting to the test of energy reduction without investments
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After studying chemical engineering at the university of Dortmund Dr. Banck completed his studies with a doctorate at the chair of technical building equipment. After joining Merck in 1997 he hold several management positions inside the engineering organisation with national and international tasks. One of his current responsibilities as head of Real Estate Services is the energy management inside the facility management organisation.
Lieven Stalmans, Group Manager Energy & Environment, Borealis, Belgium
Presentation
Implementing an integrated approach for energy and carbon management
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Lieven Stalmans graduated with a Master Degree and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Leuven University in Belgium. He joined Borealis in 2000 and became responsible for the energy efficiency program at the Borealis plants in Belgium in 2003. This responsibility further extended with the areas of CO2 emission trading and energy procurement. Since 2009 he is Group Manager Energy and Environment for Borealis. Lieven is active in a number of associations on national and European level, like the European Chemical Industry Council CEFIC, in the field of energy and environment. He is Chairman of the Working Party on Energy within the Flemish Chemical Industry Association.
Harald Steinke, Environmental Manager, Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG / Germany
Presentation
Global roll-out of an energy management system
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Harald Steinke studied engineering and food technologies at the TFH Berlin. After his studies he completed a postgraduate degree in "Master of Environmental Management".
Since 1997 Harald has worked for Coca Cola AG and in 2003 he was made responsible as a National Environmental Coordinator for CCHBC Austria. Between 2004 and 2006 he worked as an Environment, Health and Safety Manager at Coca Cola Austria (CCHBC Austria) and since 2008 he is Environmental Manager at Coca-Cola Deutschland AG.
Pieter M.J. Verberne, General Manager Energy, AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals, The Netherlands
Presentation
Making cogeneration work in volatile energy markets
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Pieter Verberne graduated as MSc in Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology. He has worked as a consultant and manager for various consultancies. In 2000 he joined Dutch energy exchange APX as COO. Pieter Verberne led the international expansion into the UK and Belgium and started the first continental exchange for gas. Since 3 ½ years, Pieter works as General Manager Energy for AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals.
Pieter is involved in a range of industry bodies. Positions include the chairmanship of Cogen Europe and the chair of the CEFIC (EU chemical industry association) Special Interest Group on Energy. Pieter is lecturer on gas trading at the Energy Delta Institute in Groningen, the Netherland.
Carsten Schmidt, Marketing Management, Siemens AG / Germany
Presentation
Intelligent energy management in production: continuous, integrated strategies and systems for a holistically optimised and economical energy management
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1996 Master of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences, Würzburg, Germany.
From 1996 to 1998 Industrial Automation - System engineer, development of project automation solutions in various industries.
From 1998 to 2004 Project lead R&D, DCS and options.
From 2005 to 2008 Product Management DCS.
Since 2008 Marketing Management HMI, Energy Management, Partner Manager.
Patrick Clough, Business Development Director France, Solar Integrated Technologies GmbH
Presentation
How PV plants on your roof improves your energy balance and your public image ("turn industrial roofs into PV plants")
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Patrick Clough joined Solar Integrated as Business Development Director in June 2010. He is responsible for developing fully financed turnkey solar power plants in France. Patrick Clough brings over 19 years of experience in developing innovative technologies and funding them, ranging from energy, infrastructure, to mobile telecommunications.
Prior to joining Solar Integrated Patrick Clough was Managing Director for iBand, an alternative 4th generation mobile solutions operator targeting corporates and based in Scandinavia and The Netherlands. Prior to founding iBand in 2004, he started a hotspot operator, Bizzgo, in 2000 which he led as CEO until it was sold to Meteor Networks in January 2004.
Before this he was Finance Director with Dolphin Telecom France, a European mobile Push-To-Talk operator, where he raised EUR 95 million for the French operation and managed the EUR 230 million annual budget. Between 1989 and 1998, Patrick arranged or participated in over EUR 2.5 billion of investments in the Energy, Telecom and Media sectors for BNP-Paribas (Vice President and Head of Telemedia Finance), Natexis (Assistant General Manager) and Fuji Bank. Prior to entering the finance sector, Patrick Clough was a field engineer for Schlumberger Oil Services in People’s Republic of China.
Patrick holds a First Class Honours Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering, and a Master of Business Administration with highest distinction, both from the University of Western Australia. Patrick is a member of the UK Institute of Directors and is bilingual in French and English.
Oliver Prietze, Senior Director Global Sales & Marketing, Energy Audits, OSRAM Lighting
Working Group
Energy efficient light: Reducing costs and CO2 emissions
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In 1996 Oliver began his career and was a Marketing Analyst in Product Development, Marketing at Siemens Power Generation (KWU) in Erlangen.
In 1999 he switched to OSRAM GmbH, where he worked as a project manager in strategic business planning.
A four-year stay abroad, from 2001 to 2005, followed where Oliver was Managing Director of OSRAM del Ecuador SA, Guayaquil.
In 2005, Oliver returned to Germany as Senior Sales Director Overseas Retail / Latin America and was therefore responsible for the development of the international retail business of Osram.
In 2007 he served as Senior Director of Strategic Marketing in the General Lighting division (GL).
Since 2008, Oliver has held the position of Senior Director of Global Sales & Marketing, Energy Audits at Osram GmbH where he focuses on the renovation of energy-inefficient lighting systems.
Johannes Eickmans, Director Global Efficiency Programs, Bayer Business Services
Interactive Evening Session
From quick checks and energy efficiency to a systematic and fully integrated energy management system for maximum ROI & business value
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After studying physics at the Universities of Münster and Düsseldorf, Germany, Dr. J. Eickmans worked as a post-doc for 2 years at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA before joining the Central Research Department at Bayer, AG, in 1987. From 2001 to mid 2010 Dr. Eickmans held a principal position at Bayer Business Consulting, Bayer's in-house consulting department. His main areas of consulting have been performance improvement projects in production, e. g. maintenance strategy, continuous improvement process, cost cutting, personnel efficiency and benchmarking studies. Since August 2010 he is responsible at Bayer MaterialScience AG for the Global Efficiency Programs in Production, currently focusing on energy management systems to sustainably reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the process industry.
Dr. Jan Busch, Project Manager Competence Center Process Analysis, Bayer Technology Services GmbH
Interactive Evening Session
From quick checks and energy efficiency to a systematic and fully integrated energy management system for maximum ROI & business value
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From 1998-2003 Master of Chemical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. From 2003-2008 PhD of Process Technology at RWTH Aachen University. Since June 2008 Jan Busch is Project Manager Process Analysis, BTS, with focus on product quality, process optimization, energy efficiency. Since January 2010 he is Program Manager Energy Efficiency Management at BTS.
Graham Cooper, Site Manager, Agfa Graphics Ltd / United Kingdom
Presentation
Continuous quality improvement processes applied to energy reduction @ Agfa Graphics
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Graham Cooper has worked his whole career in the Lithographic plate manufacturing business. As a Senior Research Scientist for Vickers Howson-Algraphy he worked on the development of new products and production processes. For DuPont he worked in a production technical support role introducing best practice techniques in quality improvement before moving into production management to develop T.P.M. and High Performance Work Teams. For Agfa he was Production Operations Manager before becoming the Agfa Graphics Leeds Plant Manager in 2005. The Agfa Graphics Leeds plant has won UK National Awards for sustainable manufacturing in 2007 and 2008. In 2010 the Leeds plant was chosen by the RSA to be one of the 11 companies representing the UK in the biennial EBAE competition (European Business Awards for the Environment).
Kentaro Niwano, European Environment Project Manager, Environment and Product Safety, Canon Europe / United Kingdom
Presentation
Creating & manufacturing energy efficient products to meet compliance and achieve carbon management objectives
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Kentaro holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a long experience in molding technique of macromolecular materials and electro photographic process. He worked for Canon Inc. in R&D, Products Operations and Global Environment HQ. In 2006 Mr. Niwano joined Canon Europe. He cooperated in JBCE, Digital Europe activities and is an expert on ErP for Imaging Equipments.
Charlotte Berg, Energy coordinator, Sun Chemical A/S
Presentation
How to save 1.400.000 kWh and 700 tons C02 in one year – and still having many more energy saving projects in the pipeline
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Charlotte Berg is Responsible for environmental and energy conditions at Sun Chemical, Køge and is managing the environmental and energy management system. In addition to her responsibilities she ensures compliance with legislation and approvals including IPPC and Kyoto. One of her main interest is to strengthen local environmental and energy work. Before Sun Chemicals she was working as a environmental coordinator in the public sector as well as in a trade association.
Hans-Christian Schwartzbach, Energy project manager, Sun Chemical A/S
Presentation
How to save 1.400.000 kWh and 700 tons C02 in one year – and still having many more energy saving projects in the pipeline
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Hans-Christian Schwartzbach is Manager of Business Improvement at Sun Chemical, Køge and therefore responsible for implementing lean projects in production areas and the supply chain. In this function he is although responsible for mapping and survey energy consumption and coordinating energy saving projects. Previous to his employment at sun chemicals he worked in several positions and areas such as SAP implementation, finance and cost controlling.
Dominique Hamerlinck, Divisional Energy and Utility Manager, Alpro Comm VA / Belgium
Presentation
European energy management model for saving 30% energy in the past 2 years
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Dominique Hamerlinck graduated as Master in electromechanical engineering at Gent University in Belgium. He worked for more then 20 years as recognised energy expert, leading an engineering department specialized in energy driven- and utility projects for mainly the pharmaceutical sector .He joined Alpro in 2008 and became the first divisional Energy and utility manager .He developed and implemented the “Four Pillar Model” with great success in Alpro.
Johnnie Rask Jensen, President, Danfoss Solutions A/S
Presentation
The bottom line (impact) of energy efficiency: A hardcore look at the
conomics of energy efficiency
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Johnnie Rask Jensen graduated with a Bsc. E.E. in 1987, followed by an MBA in 1993, both from the University of Southern Denmark. Johnnie Rask Jensen started his career with Danfoss in 1987, and has held various positions at Danfoss Drives Division, including Manager of HVAC Business Area located in Denmark.
In 1998 he moved to the US and became Director of Marketing for Danfoss Drives Water & Wastewater Business Area. From 2000 to 2004 he was Vice President of Danfoss Water & Wastewater, N.A. Division, located in Milwaukee, US acting across several product lines.
Today, Johnnie Rask Jensen’s base is Kolding, Denmark, where he has been President of Danfoss Solutions A/S since 2004. Danfoss Solutions concentrates its efforts in the Industrial Sector, delivering Bottom-Line Impact through savings in utilities with a return on investment exceeding 30% p.a. The concept is backed by an ESCO performance guarantee. Johnnie Rask Jensen is a committee member of the ESCO Europe association.
Dr. Clemens Faller, Business Development Manager, Energy Management Solutions, Schneider Electric / Germany
Presentation
EcoStruXure – A holistic approach for a sustainable Energy Management System
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Clemens started his career in 2003 as an assistant professor at the Chair of Production Systems, Ruhr-University Bochum under Professor Dr. Horst Meier. He made his PhD after four years in the field of Production Automation, Production Management and Service Engineering.
After finishing the PhD in 2007 he changed to Schneider Electric as a Offer Manager for Process Automation Solutions. Since 2010 he is responsible as a Business Development Manager for Energy Management Solutions & Services.
Bernhard Hünermund, Offer Manager, Energy Management Solutions, Schneider Electric / Germany
Presentation
EcoStruXure – A holistic approach for a sustainable Energy Management System
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After starting his career in 1998 as Application Engineer for Load Management Systems Bernhard moved to Product Management for Energy Management Systems in 2000.
In 2007 he joined Schneider Electric and has since been working as Product Manager for Energy Management Solutions.
