Lutz is the COO of CropEnergies in Germany, whose main aim is to deduce new energy sources from raw materials, bioethanol for the employment as automotive fuels. The greatest environmental advantage of bioethanol lies in the reduction of CO2 emissions. Bioethanol therefore helps the realisation of the environmental targets agreed to at the Kyoto climate summit. He evaluates the relationship between fuel quality and air quality and it’s implications on the industry, the technologies used and the specifications that have to be adhered to.

Dr. Hilkka Summa is a Head of Unit in the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission. The responsibilities of her unit cover bioenergy, biomass, forestry and climate change. Hilkka is in charge of coordination of the agricultural aspects of EU policies related to biofuels and bioenergy. Her responsibilities also include the implementation of the EU Forest Action plan and measures related to forestry and climate change in the EU Rural Development policy. Hilkka Summa has worked in the European Commission since 1997. Her previous assignments include promotion of agricultural products and evaluation of agricultural policies. Before joining the EU administration she was a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance of the Finnish government.

After a technical education Urs received a bachelor degree in economics from Minerva Zürich in 1985 followed by a masters degree in Marketing in 1992. After several years in a sales export and mangement in Switzerland he moved to Lisbon in 1993 and became Country Manager Portugal for Sprecher and Schuh. In 1995 Urs moved to Barcelona to become the Sales Director, Iberian Region for Rockwell Automation. After Rockwell’s acquisition of EJA ltd in the UK he was promoted to Managing Director EJA to lead the integration of this strategic move into the Safety market for Rockwell. Urs has been in charge of EMEA Marketing and Market Development at Rockwell’s European Headquarter in Brussels Since 2003.

Mr. Peara is the founder and Managing Director of Alternative Energy Finance Ltd. He brings to this role over 20 years experience in deal structuring, business development and the capital markets. He has worked extensively raising capital for and advising on the renewable, petroleum and power industries both in developed markets of North America and Western Europe as well as in the Former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. Tim started his career with securities firms (Prudential Securities Inc 1983-91, Lehman Brothers 1991-97) in financial futures, mortgage & asset backed securities and emerging markets fixed income. He then worked as a business developer for US private oil company Koch Industries (1997-98), an oil & gas pipeline joint-venture of GE-Capital and Bechtel (1998-2000) and a pipeline & power venture of United Technologies (2000-2001). Since 2002 Mr. Peara has arranged early stage finance for energy companies which led him to found Alternative Energy Finance in 2005.

Lutz is the COO of CropEnergies in Germany, whose main aim is to deduce new energy sources from raw materials, bioethanol for the employment as automotive fuels. The greatest environmental advantage of bioethanol lies in the reduction of CO2 emissions. Bioethanol therefore helps the realisation of the environmental targets agreed to at the Kyoto climate summit. He evaluates the relationship between fuel quality and air quality and it’s implications on the industry, the technologies used and the specifications that have to be adhered to.

Mr Ziesemer has been with Endress+Hauser since 1981 and started his career as ahead of department of product management for flow measurement. From 1983 - 1987 he was a Business unit manager „Product-Management“ of Endress+Hauser GmbH + Co., D-Maulburg. From 1990 - 1992 Mr Ziesemer was responsible for Marketing. From 1992 - 1996 Mr Ziesemer was a Managing Director of Endress+Hauser GmbH + Co. in D-Maulburgand from 1996 - 1998 he took a position of Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Messtechnik in D-Weil am Rhein. Since 1999 - 2001 Mr Ziesemer was a Corporate Director of the Endress+Hauser Consult AG, CH-Reinach, responsible for the 13 european Sales Centers of the Endress+Hauser Group. Since 2001 Mr Ziesemer is a Board member (Sales & Marketing) of the Endress+Hauser Group.

Head of Division Services, Agroindustry (incl. Biofuels) and SMEs Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank.

Carlos plays a dual role in the development of Latin America’s burgeoning renewable energies industry. He is Managing Director of Santiago & Sinclair, LLC, a biofuels consultancy that includes the region’s only Biofuels Advisory Board, comprised of a mix of public and private sector experts from the region. He is also the President of the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber, a non-profit organisation that promotes the industry’s development in that country.

Doug Frater is the president and CEO of Global Green Solutions Inc. (USA), Managing Director of Global Green Solutions Ltd. (UK) and was recently appointed CEO for Vertigro Algae Technologies LLC (USA). He has 30+ years of experience in the energy industry, primarily in industrial process automation and control technologies. Prior to joining GGRN, he was with Honeywell International's Industrial Automation and Controls Division for 8 years as Global Vice President - Oil and Gas and previously Sales Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Global Director, Oil and Gas Business and International Projects. Doug’s work with Honeywell included senior management assignments in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and previous experience also includes establishing and managing a joint venture in China. Doug's other oil and gas industry business experience was with ICS plc in Scotland and the Middle East where he was a Director and General Manager for 15 years. He started his career with BP Oil where he worked for 6 years.

Mr. Peara is the founder and Managing Director of Alternative Energy Finance Ltd. He brings to this role over 20 years experience in deal structuring, business development and the capital markets. He has worked extensively raising capital for and advising on the renewable, petroleum and power industries both in developed markets of North America and Western Europe as well as in the Former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. Tim started his career with securities firms (Prudential Securities Inc 1983-91, Lehman Brothers 1991-97) in financial futures, mortgage & asset backed securities and emerging markets fixed income. He then worked as a business developer for US private oil company Koch Industries (1997-98), an oil & gas pipeline joint-venture of GE-Capital and Bechtel (1998-2000) and a pipeline & power venture of United Technologies (2000-2001). Since 2002 Mr. Peara has arranged early stage finance for energy companies which led him to found Alternative Energy Finance in 2005.

After a technical education Urs received a bachelor degree in economics from Minerva Zürich in 1985 followed by a masters degree in Marketing in 1992. After several years in a sales export and mangement in Switzerland he moved to Lisbon in 1993 and became Country Manager Portugal for Sprecher and Schuh. In 1995 Urs moved to Barcelona to become the Sales Director, Iberian Region for Rockwell Automation. After Rockwell’s acquisition of EJA ltd in the UK he was promoted to Managing Director EJA to lead the integration of this strategic move into the Safety market for Rockwell. Urs has been in charge of EMEA Marketing and Market Development at Rockwell’s European Headquarter in Brussels Since 2003.

Mr Habluetzel has a wide range of experience. From 1987-89 he worked for Nanolab AG in sales for hospital laboratory analyzer; from 1989-93 he was responsible for sales and marketing for chemical technical equipment at Schott Schleifer AG; from 1993-05 Mr Habluetzel held a position of product manager for online analytics at Endress+Hauser AG, Product Manager. From 2006-present Mr Habluetzel is a global industry manager responsible for renewable energy.

Mr Lastikka is Stakeholder Relations Manager in the Renewable fuels division within Neste Oil Corporation. He joined Neste Oil in 2004 and was named to the current position in 2006, in which his main focus is on policy development and regulatory analysis. He is an expert on sustainability and environmental issues regarding biofuels. Mr Lastikka has been involved in several international sustainability projects related to biofuels and different food crops.

1981 - 1991 Commercial Engineer; 1992 - 1995 Studies Manager at Mangin Egly; 1996 - 2000 Department/Division Manager at Mangin Egly; 2001 - 2003 Regional Manager for VINCI Energies North and East; since 2003 - Deputy General Manager

2002 - 2005 Commercial Engineer; 2005 - 2006 Commercial Engineer at Mangin Egly responsible for the cement industry; 2006 - 2007 Project Manager at the Industrial Direction of TEREOS (sugar industry); since January 2008: Department Manager of the Sugar and Alcohol division

Dr. Ing. Knut Schroeder has in excess of 20 years experience in the field of material science and applications in various technical fields and management levels of chemical engineering and Project Development worldwide . He is responsible for services of all engineering services worldwide, spare parts and projects within the sales organisation to all kind of plants build by Lurgi with a team of Project Management, Process, Project Engineering and procurement services.

Moritz Spilker, born in 1959, began his professional career with Telesis Strategy Consultants in Paris, and the Boston Consulting Group, in Munich. From 1990 until 2000 he was a founding and managing partner of MSR Consulting Group in Cologne. Dr. E. Moritz Spilker has been investing in medium-sized companies as active investor and alongside institutional investors for more than 15 years. His assignments have focused on enhancing the companies’ operating performance. Most recently, Robert Frowein and Moritz Spilker acquired SAM Electronics, jointly with a private equity fund. They successfully repositioned the company and in 2006 sold it to a strategic investor. Through this transaction they achieved a return on equity far above the average private equity return.

Raffaello is the Secretary General of the European Biodiesel Board (EBB). It’s aim is to represent its members to the institutions of the European Union and other international organizations. It studies problems confronted by the biodiesel industry and suggests solutions at economic, political, legal, institutional and technical levels. Raffaello will discuss the the key issues in international trade of biofuels and in achieving sustainability.

Paul Dillon is a chemical engineer with Proscon Ltd. (a subsidiary of Rockwell Automation), based in Ireland. He has 15 years experience in chemical process design, for pharmaceutical, fine-chemical and biofuels industries. His current focus is on the design of distillation systems for ethanol & bio-fuel purification, with emphasis on "modular" equipment design, incorporating energy-efficient concepts.

Alexandre Rojey is Director for Sustainable Development at IFP. Alexandre is coordinating activities in Sustainable Development, which include the production and use of biofuels and other issues related to global climate change, long term energy supply and environment protection. Previously he was in charge of natural gas activities and has initiated new developments in the area of gas treatment, liquefaction and chemical conversion. Alexandre Rojey is also chairman of CEDIGAZ, an international association in the area of natural gas with more than 190 company members and chairman of the ECRIN Energy association acting for the promotion of links between research and industry. He has contributed to various publications (over 70) and holds worldwide patents (over 100).

Karel Hendrych has 3 years experience in AGROFERT´s biofuels business and is Marketing and Business Development Manager of PREOL, a.s., responsible for biofuels retail and a high percentage of biofuels projects in the Czech Republic.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Giersberg is CFO of EOP Biodiesel AG since 2005 and has played an instrumental role in the IPO of EOP. On the 14 September 2005 he became the first German publicly listed biodiesel producer. Prof. Giersberg is also Managing Director of the ifb GmbH consultancy and is Chair of finance and Professor at the FH Zweibrücken in Germany.

Mr Ziesemer has been with Endress+Hauser since 1981 and started his career as ahead of department of product management for flow measurement. From 1983 - 1987 he was a Business unit manager „Product-Management“ of Endress+Hauser GmbH + Co., D-Maulburg. From 1990 - 1992 Mr Ziesemer was responsible for Marketing. From 1992 - 1996 Mr Ziesemer was a Managing Director of Endress+Hauser GmbH + Co. in D-Maulburgand from 1996 - 1998 he took a position of Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Messtechnik in D-Weil am Rhein. Since 1999 - 2001 Mr Ziesemer was a Corporate Director of the Endress+Hauser Consult AG, CH-Reinach, responsible for the 13 european Sales Centers of the Endress+Hauser Group. Since 2001 Mr Ziesemer is a Board member (Sales & Marketing) of the Endress+Hauser Group.

Following agricultural college, Tim Evans trained as an accountant before joining Bidwells in Cambridge as an agribusiness consultant. He later joined the Lloyds Bank Group, based in South West England as an agricultural finance specialist before moving with his family to former East Germany in 1989 following the fall of the Berlin Wall. During almost 15 years in Germany he developed a 3,000ha arable farming and contracting business along with two 250 cow dairy units and a grain storage business and began to take an interest in the principals of Renewable Energy production and sustainable farming techniques. Tim was particularly impressed by the general level of public awareness and interest for environmental issues in Germany and with the growing demand for alternative energy sources, he became involved in the management team of the first Biodiesel plant to be built in East Germany. The plant was commissioned in 1998 and Tim moved on to work on one of the first East European Biogas plants to be run on cattle manure and energy crops. Since returning to the UK, Tim has become a leading protagonist of Renewable Energy in the UK and is a regular contributor at conferences and in the press. He has become a strong advocate of decentralised Renewable Energy production and represents the Austrian based, European Centre for Renewable Energy at events in the UK. In 2006, working with 6 fellow farmers and entrepreneurs, Tim formed the UK based specialist Renewable Energy Company “Renewable Zukunft”. In 2007, Renewable Zukunft joined forces with Őkoenergie Utzenaich GmbH forming “Bio-G Biogastechnik GmbH” to develop and market the award winning “Energy Ring” biogas system which Tim and his colleagues now operate in the UK.

Graeme was appointed Director General of EFOA in October of 2004 having for the previous 3 years provided their secretariat support. He was educated in his native Scotland where he received his doctorate and bachelor degrees in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh. Graeme started his working life with Mobil Oil before moving to Ethyl Corporation where he progressed through a range of fuel and lubricant research, product development and management positions. He joined CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council in 2001 where his fuels experience led to him becoming involved with EFOA.

Morgen holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the Technical Universty of Denmark. In his professional career he has worked more than 10 years in the waste-to-energy industry as a project manager. From 2002 to 2006 he was the project manager of a European research project aimed at demonstrating a new technology for producing celulosic ethanol. The R&D results of the project are being conmmercialised in Inbicon - a provider of cellulosic ethanol technology. Since 2006 Christian Morgen has worked with business development and marketing in Inbicon.

Markus Meyr has been Head of Marketing and Investor Relations at Schmack Biogas AG since the beginning of 2006. Markus represented the political interests of Schmack Biogas in Berlin, Strasbourg and Brussels and was a member of the strategy team which made preparations for Chancellor Merkel's Energy Summit. Before coming to Schmack Biogas, he worked for a management consultancy firm in Munich whose main focus lay in providing consultancy services for both large and local energy utilities.

Head of Division Services, Agroindustry (incl. Biofuels) and SMEs Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank.

Dr.-Ing. Hans Friedmann was a Freelance consulting engineer and management consultant from 1992-1998. From 2001, he was CEO of Friedmann & Scholz (civil law association), Operation of the biogas plant in Fürstenwalde / Spree. In 2001, Dr.-Ing. Hans Friedmann was on the Managing Board (Engineering) of Farmatic Biotech Energy AG, Nortorf and Managing Partner of BKW Biokraftwerke Fürstenwalde GmbH, Fürstenwalde / Spree. He has been CEO of Agraferm Technologies AG, Pfaffenhofen since 2004. Dr. Friedmann is also a decisive member of professional associations, for example of the "Fachverband Biogas e.V." and the "Biogasunion e.V.

Employed by Heinrich Frings in Bonn in 1977 as Head of their Scientific Laboratory. he was promoted in 1981 to Head of Frings Process Technology and in 1983 he was promoted to Sales and Administration Manager of the Fringes Vinegar Department. In 1988 Dr. Heinrich Follmann was promoted to Managaing Director of the Fringes Marketing, Engineering, Research and Development departments and then went on to become Junior Partner. From 2000–2004 he was Managing Director and Majority Shareholder of Messo. In 2004 Dr. Heinrich Follmann became Majority Shareholder and Managing Director of Frings Biotec. Since December 2007 Dr. Follmann has been sole proprietor and Managing Director of Frings Biotec.

David was educated in Argentina, where he obtained a Law degree (JD) from Universidad de Buenos Aires. During his career he has specialised in negotiation and business law. David’s work experience started in the environment of events and conference organisation, whilst acquiring additional skills in communications strategy and working for an advertisement company in Argentina. For the last eight years he has worked for Netafim Argentina in different areas of expertise. He is responsible for the legal affairs of the company as well as later taking on the responsibility of the marketing management. In year 2008, David was transferred to the Corporate HQ in Israel, where he was appointed as Marketing Manager to the Biofuel Energy Division of Netafim.