SLIDE 10 Flame Main Conference Speaker Biographies
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10 Mark Gyetvay, Chief Financial Offi cer, Deputy Chairman of The Management Board & Member of The Board Of Directors, OAO NOVATEK *tbc
Session timing: Wednesday 15:10
- Mr. Gyetvay’s main areas of responsibility include external fi
nancial reporting and control, treasury, corporate fi nance, investor relations and capital market activities, as well as corporate oversight of NOVATEK Overseas (Switzerland) and NOVATEK Representative Offi ce (London). Mr. Gyetvay serves on the Board of Director’s Strategy and Investment Committee (Chairman) and is a member of the Board’s sub-committee on the Company’s LNG Project. Prior to joining NOVATEK in June 2003, Mr. Gyetvay was an audit partner in the Global Energy, Mining and Utilities practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Søren Juel Hansen, Head Of Gas Infrastructure ENERGINET.DK.
Session timing: Thursday 14:25 Stream C Søren is responsibility for the overall preparedness of the company within the entire Danish electricity and gas systems. Søren was responsible for Energinet.dk’s Open Season 2009 and the EU-recovery programme funded investments towards Ellund. His current focus is on securing the German infrastructure investments needed by the Swedish-Danish gas market, new renewable gases, a new emergency supply set-up and international cooperation with European gas market players. Previous experience includes a 4 year position in Energinet.dk’s merger board and responsibility for the development of the netcode for liberalising the Danish gas market.
Dieter Helm, Economist & Fellow, New College OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Session timing: Tuesday 11:55 Dieter is an economist, specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment & concentrates on the energy, water and transport sectors in Britain and Europe. He founded OXERA is 1982 and currently holds a number of advisory board appointments, including member of the Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security, Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Dennis Hesseling, Head Of The Gas Department, ACER
Session timing: Wednesday 09:10 Dennis Hesseling joined ACER in December 2012 as Head of the Gas
- Department. From 2002 – 2012, he worked for the Netherlands
Competition Authority NMa as Deputy Head of Energy Regulation and as Head of Unit Network Sectors & Media in the Competition Department. Mr. Hesseling has trained energy regulators and competition authorities in Eastern Europe and Vietnam. From 2000 – 2002 he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Brussels. He is a guest lecturer at the Florence School of Regulation.
Dr Karsten Heuchert Chairman of the Executive Board, VNG
Session timing: Tuesday 15:45 Dr Heuchert has been in his current role since 2012. Previously Dr Heuchert has been a member of the board for both Wintershall Holding and BASF Antwerpen.
er, Professor of Economics UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE
Session timing: Thursday 15:15 Stream B Professor Höffl er also acts as Research Director and Member of the Management Board of the Institute of Energy Economics at the University
- f Cologne. Previously, he held the Deutsche Post Foundation Endowed
Chair of Regulatory Economics at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management at Koblenz / Vallendar. His research focuses on industrial economics, specifi cally with regulated network industries like energy, telecommunication, and transport.
Didier Holleaux, CEO, GDF SUEZ E&P INTERNATIONAL
Session timing: Tuesday 14:30 Didier has held different managing positions in the transmission, distribution, and LNG businesses of the company. He also founded and managed the North Sea Exploration and Production subsidiary of the Group, GDF Britain (now GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd) (1997-2000). He has been managing the Exploration and Production business for GDF SUEZ since March 2007 and has been CEO of GDF SUEZ E&P International SA since 2010. He is simultaneously Executive Vice President for Industrial Operations of the Global Gas & LNG Business Line since May 2010.
Ben Hollins, Head of European Gas & Power WOOD MACKENZIE
Session timing: Thursday 09:00 Ben leads Wood Mackenzie’s gas & power consulting practice in Europe, which advises clients on a range of market-related, project-specifi c and advisory engagements throughout the gas value chain.
- Dr. Anouk Honore, Senior Research Fellow,
Natural Gas Research Programme, OXFORD UNSTITUTE FOR ENERGY STUDIES
Session timing: Wednesday 16:40 Stream D Dr Anouk Honore focuses on natural gas market fundamentals (demand and supply), power generation in Europe and LNG. Her forthcoming publication is “European Gas Demand, Supply & Pricing: Cycles, Seasons and the Impact
- f LNG Price Arbitrage”, Oxford University Press (2010). Before joining the Institute in 2004,
Dr Honore worked at the International Energy Agency, focusing on natural gas issues.
Christina Hood, Climate Change Unit, IEA
Session timing: Tuesday 16:55 Stream D Dr Christina Hood is a member of the Environment and Climate Change Unit at the International Energy Agency, where she currently focuses
- n emissions trading and the interactions between carbon pricing,
electricity markets and supplementary policies. Before joining the IEA she worked in climate change and energy policy in New Zealand central and local government.
Erik Johnsen Deputy Director General NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND ENERGY
Session timing: Tuesday 17:55 Stream A Erik is currently responsible for the Gas and Infrastructure Section. Prior to this, he held various positions in the Ministry.
Stefan Judisch, Chief Executive Offi cer RWE SUPPLY & TRADING
Session timing: Tuesday 09:35 Stefan Judisch is responsible for all typical CEO activities as well as for all commercial activities which are not related to the commercial
- ptimisation of RWE’s own assets. Therefore his scope spans all forms
- f traded energy as well as human resources, regulatory affairs, business change, business
development and strategy. Prior to joining RWE as one of the founders of RWE Trading and as the Chief Executive of the RWE Gas Midstream, Mr Judisch worked for UBS and Metallgesellschaft AG where he became Managing Director of its subsidiary, the MG Commodity Corporation in the early 1980s. He has 30 years experience in the commodity business.
Stephan Kamphues, President, ENTSOG
Session timing: Thursday 12:30 Stephan has been in his current role since 2008. Prior to this, he held a variety of positions at E.ON Rurhgas including the Head Of Business Law, the Head Of The Legal Department & a Member Of The Board Of Management.
- Dr. Sohbet Karbuz, Director Of Hydrocarbons Division
MEDITERRANEAN OBSERVATORY FOR ENERGY (OME)
Session timing: Wednesday 17:55 Stream A The OME is an energy industry association in Paris. Before joining the OME, Sohbet was with the International Energy Agency in Paris. Previously, he worked as a research associate and manager at several institutions in Austria, Germany, Italy and Turkey. His main areas of interests are oil and natural gas markets, geopolitics of energy, modeling and scenario building.
Dr Usama F.A. Karim, Senior Advisor to the Deputy PM of Iraq
- n Energy Relations, ENERGY & THE MINISTRY OF OIL,
IRAQ, Coordinator of IRQ-EC ENERGY AGREEMENTS
Session timing: Wednesday 17:30 Stream A Karim works closely with several NL and IQ universities and industrial partners on studies relating to water, soil and Energy issues supervising PhD projects on produced water, soil remediation, renewable energy, Iraq Energy outlook, and HR capacity building for water and energy sectors of Iraq. He pieer reviewed and chair-paneled in the preparatory, fi nal and the launch of the IEA report on the Energy Outlook of Iraq. Karim has more than 25 years of international experience in engineering consulting, research and lecturing in NL, Iraq, US, UK in offshore and onshore geo- engineering including multi-disciplinary research and engineering for the oil & construction industry, in EU, ME, Asia, and the American continents. At the same time, he worked at the Water Engineering Management Dept. of the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
David Kerr, Senior Vice President GIC SPECIAL INVESTMENTS
Session timing: Wednesday 10:25 Mr Kerr is a Senior Vice President of GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd (“GIC SI”). He currently serves as a director on the boards of Associated British Ports, Sintonia SA, Duquesne Light, Budapest Airport, and as a board observer on Madrilena Red de Gas. David joined GIC from Deutsche Bank RREEF, where he held the position of Managing Director. Prior to that, he worked in a number of capacities for Bechtel Enterprises, the infrastructure investment and fi nancing arm of Bechtel Group.
Jesco von Kistowski, Managing Director, ECONGAS
Session timing: Thursday 12:30 Jesco was appointed to the EconGas Executive Board in August 2006. He joined Ruhrgas 1992 and was subsequently posted to Houston. In 1996 he moved across to Enron. In 1999 he joined the RWE Group, with which he held senior positions at subsidiaries in Essen, the USA and the UK.
Sergei Komlev, Head Of Contract Structuring & Price Formation Directorate, GAZPROM EXPORT
Session timing: Thursday 10:05 Gazprom Export is the trade arm of the Russia’s major gas company
- Gazprom. In his previous experience in the consulting and equity research
business, Sergei worked on a variety of energy assignments encompassing natural gas, electricity, oil, and fi nancing matters both in the Russian market and internationally. Prior to joining Gazprom Export he worked as director of the Moscow
ce of international energy consultant Pace Global Energy Services.
Member Of The Board Of Directors WINTERSHALL & Chairman, WINGAS
Session timing: Tuesday 15:45 Dr König joined Wingas in 2002 as the Managing Director for Sales in
- Europe. In October 2009 Dr König moved into his current role.
Sean Korney, Partner, BAKER BOTTS
Session timing: Wednesday 17:05 Stream A Sean Korney’s practice focuses on the energy industry, where he has worked a wide-variety of industry participants on all aspects of the energy chain from exploration and production to consumption. His transactional experience includes work on many fi rst-of-their-kind acquisitions, transactions, joint ventures and projects all over the world; having lived in North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East. Currently, the majority of his practice is in the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Korney is widely recognized by independent guidebooks for his experience in oil and gas matters, including by Chambers Global, 2012 for Middle East Projects & Energy, UAE Corporate and Commercial and Iraq General Busi- ness Law and The Legal 500 EMEA 2012 for Projects and Energy.
Marcel Kramer, Chief Executive Offi cer SOUTH STREAM TRANSPORT AG
Session timing: Wednesday 14:40 Marcel Kramer’s long career in the energy business began in the mid-70s. Most recently he was the CEO of Gasunie. In 2010, Marcel Kramer was awarded the title of Offi cer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, in recognition of corporate and social achievements for the benefi t of the country. At the same time, he was invited by the CEO of Gazprom to lead the South Stream pipeline project. Marcel Kramer is the current President of the Royal Dutch Gas Association, and is also professionally involved in several international energy-related organisations, such as the International Gas Union.
Annie Krist, CEO, GTS
Session timing: Thursday 14:25 Stream D Annie Krist was appointed CEO of Gasunie Transport Services (GTS) on 1 July 2011. Prior to taking up this position, from 2008 to 2011, she was the Director of Strategy and Participations within Gasunie. In the nineties she was part of the Gasunie team which was responsible for the commercial, technical and IT changes involved with the liberalisation of the gas market. In 2005 she was appointed as a member of Gas Transport Services’ Management Team. Annie Krist joined Gasunie in 1987.
Madjid Kuebler, Managing Director TEAM CONSULT
Session timing: Thursday 15:15 Stream B Currently TEAM CONSULT is supporting national & international companies to deal with the new opportunities (such as investments into new storage facilities) in the German gas market. TEAM CONSULT is also continuously involved in price revisions and arbitration cases with focus
- n the North-West-European gas markets.
Helmut Kusterer, Divisional Head of Business Development GASVERSORGUNG SUEDDEUTSCHLAND
Session timing: Thursday 15:15 Stream B
- Mr. Kusterer is responsible for the business development of purchase and
sales side, for sales support and -strategy, sales planning and the coordination of association and political activities at GVS, both within Germany and abroad, i.e. in Baden Wuerttemberg, northern Switzerland, Vorarlberg and
- Lichtenstein. He was also responsible for the introduction of an ETRM System.
Gertjan Lankhorst, CEO, GASTERRA
Session timing: Tuesday 15:45 Gertjan has been CEO since Sept 2006. Before this, he worked in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Netherlands, holding various posts including Director of Competition & Director-General of Energy (2003- 2005).
Douglas Lawrence Managing Director Head of EMEA Gas Trading MERRILL LYNCH COMMODITIES (EUROPE) LIMITED
Session timing: Thursday 11:20 Douglas joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2012 and is responsible for European gas
- trading. Prior to this he was Head of Gas Trading at EDF Trading for 11 years. Douglas has
- ver 20 years of experience trading gas and other energy products.
Dan Lewis, Chief Executive & Founder FUTURE ENERGY STRATEGIES & Energy Policy Adviser INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS
Session timing: Thursday 16:05 Dan has been working in and around the energy policy and energy technology world for 10 years. From 2003-2009 he was Research Director
- f the Economic Research Council and also contributed research to Guinness Atkinson
Funds from 2006-2009, as well as running a website on alternative energy stocks on their
- behalf. He is a frequent contributor to broadcast, national media and trade press on energy
- matters. His latest co-authored paper published in September 2012 “Britain’s Shale Gas
Potential” put the case for the exploitation of the UK’s shale gas reserves on economic and environmental grounds.
Chris Logue, European Policy Manager (Gas) NATIONAL GRID
Session timing: Wednesday 16:40 Stream B Chris has over 20 years experience working in the UK and European energy industry. In his current role he leads the team responsible for National Grid’s involvement with ENTSOG as well as monitoring and infl uencing other developments in the European gas markets and ensuring that National Grid fulfi ls its obligations under the 3rd Package and other EU legislation. Previously he has held a number of key engineering and commercial positions within National Grid, being responsible for developing a number of key market enhancements including market transparency. Chris has also held managerial positions with National Grid Metering and BG Energy Services businesses.
Margot Loudon, Deputy Secretary General, EUROGAS
Margot Loudon began her career with the gas industry in 1984 in the capacity of Financial Analyst with British Gas plc. Seconded by British Gas to Brussels in 1986, she worked in the Secretariat of Comité d’Etudes Economiques Gaz, and was appointed Deputy Secretary General in 1990
- f EUROGAS, then the organization representing integrated gas sector
- interests. Therefore Ms. Loudon has participated in the debate on the
internal gas market since its inception in late 1980s, working with the gas companies in Europe, in close contact with policy makers of the Commission and European Parliament. In more recent years, Ms. Loudon’s work has embraced not just strategic considerations argued by the gas sector (today from the wholesale and retail supply perspective), but the highly technical regulatory issues discussed, notably by the Madrid Forum, and in dialogue with CEER and ERGEG, giving her understanding of policy makers’ objectives as well as a detailed working knowledge of companies’ interests and concerns.
Philip Lowe, Director General, Energy DG EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Session timing: Tuesday 11:30 Following a period in the manufacturing industry, Philip Lowe joined the European Commission in 1973, and held a range of senior posts as Chef de Cabinet and Director in the fi elds of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration, before becoming Director-General of the Development DG in
- 1997. From September 2002 he was Director-General of the Competition DG until he took
up his current appointment as Director-General of the Energy DG in February 2010.
Colin Lyle, Chairman Of The Gas Committee, EFET
Session timing: Thursday 11:20 Colin was elected to the Board of the European Federation of Energy Traders and appointed as Chairman of the EFET Gas Committee in August
- 2002. He also serves on the Board of Verband Deutscher Gas-und
Strömhandler eV. EFET promotes the development of energy trading in
- pen, transparent and liquid wholesale markets, unhindered by national
borders or other undue obstacles. He is MD of Gas Market Insights Ltd, an international energy consultancy. Previously, he was Director, European Policy for Centrica plc. Colin is also IGU Strategy Committee Chairman. IGU membership covers more than 95% of the global gas market.
Didier Magne, Head of Continental Gas Trading RWE SUPPLY & TRADING
Session timing: Wednesday 17:55 Stream B Didier started trading natural gas in 1998 at Enron Europe and was one of the pioneer traders to develop the Continental gas market. He has been an active player in the development of the European gas market, involved in both Origination and Trading. His team is currently managing a very diversifi ed portfolio
- f trading assets, involving storage, capacities and swing contracts. In addition, the team
provides market access to RWE’s portfolio management activities.
Alex McDonald, CEO LONDON ENERGY BROKERS ASSOCIATION - WMBA
Session timing: Tuesday 17:55 Stream C Prior to joining WMBA, Alex has spent his career in Banking and Fund
- Management. He has over twenty years of experience as a macro trader
and portfolio manager, most recently he was a senior portfolio manager at BSAM Global Alpha Fund and prior to that, a portfolio manager in global macro at OLEA Capital Partners and at BlueCrest Capital, focusing on commodities, fi xed- income and currencies worldwide.
Tatiana Mitrova, Head of Global Energy SKOLOKOVO ENERGY CENTRE
Session timing: Wednesday 15:35
- Dr. Tatiana Mitrova is responsible for analyses of the global energy
markets development and the Russian Federation’s energy export and import policy. Between 2006-2011 Tatiana was Head of the Center for International Energy Markets Studies in Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ERI RAS). Dr. Mitrova has sixteen years of experience in dealing with the development of Russian and global energy markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing, taxation and market restructuring. Dr. Mitrova is also a member of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.
- Dr. Ludwig Möhring, Managing Director, WINGAS
Session timing: Thursday 15:15 Stream B Dr Möhring started his current role in April 2010. Dr Möhring was previously General Manager at Shell Energy Europe, where he held various portfolios from December 2004 including sales to wholesale and I&C customers in Western Europe. Dr. Ludwig Möhring has been working in the energy sector since 1992, he started with BEB Erdgas and Erdöl GmbH in Hannover and moved to Shell Gas and Power in London at the beginning of 2000.
Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive THE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION AND BIOGAS ASSOCIATION (ADBA)
Session timing: Thursday 16:05 Stream C Charlotte is an entrepreneur with a passion for the environment. Founder
- f WhizzGo, the innovative pay-by-the-hour car hire business which soon
became the UK’s largest national car club, she is keen to promote businesses that help combat climate change. With the experience, skill-set, drive and capability to identify areas where AD can have the greatest impact whilst keeping the Association on track to achieve the bigger picture, Charlotte is determined to ensure that ADBA maximises the potential of the anaerobic digestion and biogas industry, and that a supportive regulatory environment with appropriate standards, training and fi nance is created to secure the industry’s future.
‘I thought 2012 was the best Flame I have been to. The presentations were spot on in terms of relevance, quality and
- interest. In addition, the mix of presentations, interviews, panels and debates was refreshing. People in the gas industry
enjoy meeting old friends and colleagues and making new connections - and there was certainly a lot of that at Flame!’ Howard Rogers, Director, Natural Gas Research Programme, OIES 12th - 14th March 2013
