5th Annual Floating Wind Europe

Chas is Operations Director at Peritus International, a specialist subsea engineering consultancy. He has experience with a wide range of subsea cable projects covering both offshore wind and oil and gas. He is also experienced in subsea pipeline design, having been involved in the design of some of the world’s deepest pipelines at over 3000m.  He holds a Ph.D in Materials Science and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the institute of Marine Engineers.

Daniele is a Project Management professional and subsea cable specialist with 15 years of experience in the marine and offshore field ranging from marine operations, shipbuilding, and offshore installation of HV submarine cables.

In recent years he has specialised in subsea cable installation, being involved in several offshore installation campaigns on board Cable Lay vessels across Europe.

Among other projects, Daniele was involved in the method statement development and installation of the Cobra cable Interconnector, the North Sea Link cable project, the CWA project, and the Western link cable repair operations.

Daniele is currently a Subsea Cable Project Manager at OWC (an Aqualis Braemar Company) and he has been recently involved in feasibility studies and route engineering optimisation for several Round 4 offshore wind projects and Submarine Cable Package Management for floating offshore wind projects in the UK.

Daniele is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Member of RINA (AMRINA).

Jaime is the Project Manager of the Flagship Project, in charge of the day by day and responsible of the delivery of the Project.

Jaime is currently Floating Wind Package Manager at Iberdrola. He is a referent in the Iberdrola’s Offshore Wind Business having been involved in the Fabrication and Installation of East Anglia One, Saint Brieuc and Wikinger Offshore Substations, and in the contracting strategy for the grid of  East Anglia Three and Vineyard Offshore Substations.

In previous jobs Jaime has been involved in significant R+D projects for the offshore wind sector, such as OCEAN LEADER and FLOTTEK.

Jaime complements his exceptional professional background with the coordination and lectures of the Master Degree on Offshore Renewable Energies - MAERM - held at the “Universidad Politécnica” de Madrid (Spain).

Rick Campbell is Head of Offshore Markets at Natural Power.  He is responsible for developing Natural Power’s strategic direction and value proposition in the offshore wind market, as well as providing advice, support and project management services to clients on a range of activities.  Rick has been involved in renewable energy since 2006 and offshore wind since 2008.  He has an MBA and a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Statistics

With over nine years of experience within the offshore wind industry, Jan has been involved in all stages of the development, construction and decommissioning of offshore wind farms. Jan is part of the central engineering team at RWE, providing dedicated solutions to the whole offshore portfolio and for the whole project life cycle starting from originating to the final decommissioning of the structures. Jan is  currently leading the transport and installation package for one of RWE Renewables floating wind demonstrators. Jan holds a MSc. Degree in Industrial Engineering as well as holding a PMP® certificate of the Project Management Institute® .

Vasilis Marketselis

Associate

Vasilis Marketselis is an Associate in RCG’s London office. His experience covers market intelligence and technology analysis. He is experienced in providing clients with expert analysis, research, and forecasting to assist in their strategic decision making. Markatselis has a track record delivering independent, concise and robust insights to decision makers active in the offshore wind sector and especially analysis in the floating offshore wind market. He is experienced in delivering market intelligence reports covering various industrial sectors, supply chains, offshore O&M support vessels and forecasts. 

Website Bio:  https://thinkrcg.com/expert/vasilis-markatselis/

Email: [email protected]

Company Website: thinkrcg.com

Colin McKinnon is the Wood Technical Director for Specialist Engineering and Consultancy based in the UK.

He has over forty years’ experience in the planning, building and operation of Marine and Subsea Systems in hostile environments.

He has been involved in the development and application of many new technologies and is currently leading a series of multi discipline R&D projects addressing floating wind. 

He is a keen yachtsman and skier.

Ricardo is an Engineer Geologist with over sixteen years of technical management and consulting experience in the field of geosciences applied to engineering, both onshore and offshore. Particularly in the Offshore Wind Industry, Ricardo gained experience in the full life cycle, of both Fixed bottom and Floating projects, having been involved in the tender preparation, development, consenting, construction, and operation of approximately 6.5 GW of Offshore Wind projects, in 9 Countries, across Europe, North-America and Asia.”

Mr. Francisco Boshell leads the  work on Innovation for Renewable Energy Technologies at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He focuses primarily on providing policy advice and guidance to countries regarding technology innovation, quality control and standardisation programmes for a successful deployment of renewables. Mr Boshell analyse technology development strategies for a wider deployment of renewables in energy systems and has co-authored several reports on energy transition and energy technologies. During his 18 years professional career, Mr. Boshell has also: developed technical standards for quantifying GHG emission reductions from CDM projects and supported the climate change negotiations under UNFCCC; provided consultancy services for the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects at DNV GL, formerly KEMA Consulting; and designed and implemented infrastructure and energy related projects in the automotive manufacturing sector at General Motors. His background is in Mechanical Engineering and he holds a MSc. in Sustainable Energy Technology from the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands.

David Carrascosa has a Master in Civil Engineering from the University of Cantabria, Spain. He started his professional career as a structural engineer with a strong focus on structural dynamics. In 2014, he joined Saitec as Offshore Engineer becoming later the Head of the Offshore Wind Department. In 2016, David was appointed Chief Technology Officer at Saitec Offshore Technologies, the Floating Offshore Wind dedicated spin-off from Saitec’s Group. From June 2021, David holds the position of Director of Operations being part of the Board of Directors of the company.

Charles Haworth is the Global Head of Commercial Operations for GE Offshore Wind. The focus of his role is leading the commercial organization which is responsible for bidding, negotiating, and signing equipment and long-term service contracts for offshore wind projects. Charles is committed to grow the installed capacity of clean energy sources across the globe through long term customer partnerships and the introduction of new technologies to drive the competitiveness and integration of renewables. Charles joined GE in 2006 and has held multiple roles across GE’s energy businesses (gas power, distributed power and nuclear energy) with the last 12 years in the renewable sector holding commercial, risk and operations roles. Charles is also a graduate of GE’s accelerated leadership program where leadership and functional domain capabilities are developed through a multi-year rotational program which includes high-impact projects, along with coaching and mentoring from GE’s most senior executives. Charles has a PhD in Laser Physics and a MSci in Physics from Imperial College London, UK.

Clément is a founder of Green Giraffe and heads the London office, which he created in 2011 and returned to after heading the Paris office in 2017-2019 He coordinates Green Giraffe’s efforts in floating offshore wind and has led multiple transactions in offshore and onshore wind, both on the equity and debt side. He led the Walney offshore wind debt financing (367 MW, UK, 2012) and managed the Walkyrie onshore wind portfolio sale (50 MW, France, 2015), the Rentel offshore wind senior and mezzanine debt raising (309 MW, Belgium, 2016), and the Alizé onshore wind portfolio sale (71 MW, France, 2017). Most recently, Clément closed four development funding transactions in floating offshore wind in California (700 MW, 2018), Hawaii (500 MW, 2018), South Korea (>500 MW, 2019) and Blue Gem (380 MW, UK, 2020) He developed Green Giraffe’s offtake advisory expertise and supervised the sourcing of all its European RE electricity for a large international corporation Before founding Green Giraffe, Clément worked at Dexia in Paris in 2008-10 within the project finance team. He also spent a year in Beijing at AFD in 2006-07 He graduated from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and holds an MSc in project finance from Université Paris X

Alain Morry has been working for nearly 20 years in the energy sector. He joined Eolink on October, 1st 2021 and he is responsible for strategy, development and communication. Alain previously occupied different positions within ENGIE group covering the entire project life cycle from origination to operation. He has extensive experience in development of large international projects in competitive environment. He notably actively contributed to 1GW award of offshore wind projects to ENGIE (previously GDF SUEZ) at the French Round 2.”

Adrian is a civil engineer with extensive economics, finance and commercial experience having worked in academia, project development and consultancy sectors. Adrian has been involved in offshore renewables since 2010 and has worked across wave, tidal and floating and fixed wind both in technology development and project development capacities.  Adrian holds a PhD in techno-economic assessment of wave energy converters and has assessed and advised more than 10 wave and tidal technologies. More recently he has been working in the development of floating and fixed wind projects across Scotland, England, Ireland and Japan. He has lately been leading the Salamander floating wind project in Scotland and he is now in charge of pipeline of floating opportunities at Simply Blue. Adrian was recognized in 2016 with the Young Professionals Green Energy Award for his contribution to the Scottish renewables industry.

Ignacio, as Iberdrola’s Floating Wind Department Manager, is responsible for engaging the Floating Offshore Wind sector in order to develop and provide the best floating solution for the Offshore Floating Projects of Iberdrola.

During almost 25 years of professional experience Ignacio has participated in more than 50 projects of industrial and power generation facilities (mainly wind farms and combine cycle power plants). He has been involved in most of Iberdrola Offshore Wind Projects, being his previous role Principal Engineering Manager of the Offshore Business and  Engineering Manager of the East Anglia One Offshore Wind Farm in United Kingdom

Andrew is a Vice President in KfW IPEX-Bank Power & Environment division. The division primarily finances power generation and transmission projects on a global basis, but with a European link. Andrew has been involved in financing offshore wind transactions since 2010 and has been leading offshore wind transactions in Europe, Asia and North America.

Philipp Thomas (Male) – Philipp Thomas completed his studies of mechanical engineering at the University of Magdeburg in 2011. Shortly after graduation, he began to work at the Fraunhofer IWES. The tasks in the first 2 years included the holistic modelling and load analysis of wind turbines. The result is the simulation model MoWiT, which is still used today at IWES. Since the end of 2015, he heads the group global turbine dynamics, where 4 scientists conduct research on the topics of (floating) wind turbine system dynamics, multi-objective optimization, fatigue and ultimate load effects, real-time modelling and model validation.

Kevin Schalk is working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems at its site in Bremerhaven since the start of 2020. He is the manager of the team responsible for the construction of the Hydrogen Lab Bremerhaven which is being built as part of the EFRE-project "Hydrogen - Green Gas for Bremerhaven". Additionally he is responsible for the future research activities in the testing facility. The main focus hereby lies on the research question how to integrate hydrogen into existing and new systems in the course of the energy transition.

Aside from the activities at Fraunhofer IWES, Kevin Schalk is deputy chairman of the Bremerhaven local hydrogen network "H2BX - Wasserstoff für die Region Bremerhaven e.V.". The main emphasis here lies on networking activities especially regaring the technological and scientific players of the region as well as communication and transfer of knowledge for the general public. He has been active in the network since 2017

Gustav has worked as a Naval Architect / Project Engineer since 2018. He has worked on many projects supporting the installation of subsea cables for various offshore windfarms locations such as the UK, Asia Pacific, and Europe. During his time in the industry as a consultant, he has developed as deep knowledge and understanding of the critical parameter for a successful cable laying campaign. Gustav’s key experience includes a diverse range of offshore operations that stretches from diffraction studies and plough launches to motion assessments and full cable installation scopes.

Christoph Knop

• Title:  Head of Commercial Floating Offshore Wind at EnBW AG, Hamburg & Chief Development Officer at Castle Wind LLC, California

• Education:

• Master of Science (MASc) Industrial Engineering, University of applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute

• Professional career:

• 2014 to 2017 - working as Project Development Manager for early stage large-scale natural gas processing facility projects
• 2017 to 2019 - Project Manager Portfolio Development Offshore Wind at EnBW AG
• Since 2020 - Head of Commercial Floating Offshore Wind at EnBW AG
• Since 2021 - Chief Development Officer at Castle Wind LLC

Leo joined the UK civil service in 2014, arriving at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in 2017, where he has held several roles including a period working for the minister for energy and climate change. He has been with the renewable power team since 2019, where he has been responsible for delivery of investments in the UK’s offshore wind supply chain via the Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme. He now heads the Floating Wind Programme, aiming to grow the project pipeline and foster the wider development of the sector in the UK.

Aengus Connolly is a Consultant Engineer with Wood’s Specialist Engineering and Consultancy division. He is a chartered engineer with over 20 years’ experience. With a background in offshore engineering and specialising in finite element analysis, he has had extensive involvement in a wide variety of engineering design projects with Wood. Since 2017 Aengus has become more keenly focused on renewable energy, in particular floating offshore wind. Aengus also acts as product manager for Wood’s engineering simulation software Flexcom.

Jean-Mathieu Kolb – Project Director: Jean-Mathieu KOLB was graduated from a French engineering school ("Ecole des Mines") and then started his career working in the development of offshore and onshore wind projects. In particular, he was involved in the successful bid of ENGIE to the French Government call for tenders for two bottom/fixed offshore wind farms (500 MW each). From 2013 to 2015, he became Technical Manager and finally Director of a team dedicated to Marine renewable energy within ENGIE, focusing on tidal and floating offshore wind. With 18 years’ experience in development and management of complex and innovative projects, Jean-Mathieu is since acting as Project Director of EFGL, floating offshore pre-commercial project owned by Oceanwinds and CDC, located in French Mediterranean Sea, having recently reached Final Investment Decision. ​

Sybille has over 19 year experience in the energy sector. In her current position in the Power and Renewables Industry Group, she works with M&A, ECM, infrastructure finance and IB teams. She is focusing on emerging technologies in the energy sector such as storage,  hydrogen and is leading Natixis IB activities in the  floating offshore wind and bioenergy sectors.

Sybille graduated from HEC Paris

Finlay is a Research Associate in Wood Mackenzie’s Offshore Wind team, where he analyses key aspects of the global offshore industry. He is involved in the analysis of the supply chain, with a particular focus on the balance of plant segments and works on modelling the cost of offshore wind energy. Finlay holds a master’s in mechanical engineering with renewable energy and has multiple years of experience in modelling renewable energy assets. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2020 and is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Richard Simon-Lewis | Director & Head of Business Development, Client Coverage, Marketing & Communications, UK Export Finance

Richard has been in his current role for just over 4 years. Previously, Richard he was Head of the Civil, Infrastructure and Energy & International Business Development ('IBD') divisions, UK Export Finance. Richard reports into Louis Taylor, CEO, UKEF, and is a member of UKEF's Executive Committee.

Richard is a structured financier and international business developer with over 30 years’ experience in providing leadership, strategic direction and international stakeholder engagement to specialised public and private sector institutions (typically global top 5 in their fields) active internationally. He has a particular specialism derived from over 20 years working in renewable energy and clean growth sectors; for example, responsible for establishing Lloyds Banking Group as no. 1 ranked Lead Arranger of renewable energy projects in the UK in 2010 - 2012 (source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance). UKEF currently ranks 2rd in the TXF global sustainable finance league tables for 2020 amongst its ECA peers.

He has extensive knowledge and experience of the financial, political and regulatory aspects of international, structured/project financing and influencing/engagement from 3 different perspectives; namely, as a highly experienced, structured financier in an international bank context, as Head of Finance for the White Rose CCS consortium from his time in industry during a HMG CCS bid process, and, finally, as an executive committee member at an award winning, globally active and progressive ECA.

Richard has a BSC (Hons) in Financial Services (First Class) from UMIST and is ACIB and SFA Corporate Finance (CF30) qualified.

Joop Roodenburg is President of Huisman. A Delft University of Technology graduate; he developed the world’s first heavy lift mast crane for offshore lifts in 1983. In 2018, Huisman delivered two 10,000-tonne Tub Cranes, the world’s largest to date. Today the company is known for its advanced and pioneering solutions for the offshore wind, renewables, oil & gas, civil engineering and leisure markets. In 2015, Joop Roodenburg founded ‘Buccaneer Delft’, a centre for energy and offshore and accelerator for young technology companies. With the accelerator he envisions to pass on his drive for technology, innovation and entrepreneurship to the new generation of young and ambitious entrepreneurs.

Matt is Celtic Sea Power’s Chief Operations Officer. He is playing a leading role alongside key partners in positioning, formulating, and delivering the strategy for the future of Floating Offshore Wind and the marine sector in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. He is an experienced commercial and operational leader with over 30 years’ experience across a range of sectors, but predominately in the Marine industry. Following an early career as a Merchant Navy Deck Officer his roles have covered Public Sector economic growth, Marine Operations/Marine Technology/ Marine Renewable Energy, Port Management, Marine Leisure, Shipping and Commercial Services.

Thomas Marty joined Principle Power in 2018. He has been the Project Manager of the Kincardine Project (world's largest floating offshore wind farm). After successfully completing this project, he is now serving as Tender Manager.

Over the past 20 years, Thomas has built experience in large construction projects in the energy industry with focus on project management and operations. From Work Package Manager with the largest offshore oil & gas contractors to Chief Operating Officer of a vertical axis wind turbine start-up company, Thomas has developed a wide range of competences and experiences.

Thomas has a background of Mechanical Engineering.

Oscar Díaz has 15 years’ experience in renewables and more than 10 in development and delivery of offshore wind. Through his career, he has achieved a deep knowledge on the full offshore wind value chain, including contracting and partnerships with supply chain, project management, and project optimization. As Chief EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation), he is involved in bottom-fixed and floating projects in all 7 countries, in which OW is present (Belgium, France, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, UK, USA). Oscar is an Aeronautical Engineer and holds and Executive MBA from IE Business School.

Thomas is the Contract Manager for Moreld Ocean Wind, a company that specializes in executing EPC projects exclusively in the Floating Offshore Wind Sector.  Tom has more than 20 years experience in executing complex projects across several sectors in the energy industry, and working with many of the major companies driving the energy transition including Shell, Repsol, Iberdrola, and now Moreld Ocean Wind.  Tom comes from a Project Controls background as well as Contracts and Procurement, and is a lifetime member of the Guild of Project Controls, PMI and AACE.

Vincent Berrutto is the Head of Unit responsible for research, innovation, digitalisation, and competitiveness at the European Commission Directorate General for Energy (DG ENERGY). His Unit aims to support R&I in clean energy, foster digital energy services, and improve EU’s competitiveness, with the long-term goal to decarbonise Europe by 2050. Prior to this, he was heading the Unit in charge of energy efficiency at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-size Enterprises (EASME). He also dealt earlier with clean energy issues in other services of the European Commission, as well as in the French government. He is a civil engineer with a MSc and a PhD in building science.

Ihsan is Co-Founder and CEO of ISA Energy, a cleantech project developer with offices in London, UK and in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Established in 2018, ISA Energy specialises in sustainable project development for clients in the Eastern Mediterranean (power generation, transport and mobility, maritime and shipping, industrial, waste and water sectors).

 Ihsan has over 22 years' multinational  experience across UK, Europe, Middle East and China (including SHELL and working with several Middle East NOCs). He has led project teams utilising offshore infrastructure for gas and renewables in the UK North Sea and the Middle East/North Africa/ East Med (including Qatar, UAE, Egypt, Syria, and Oman).

Lane Johnston works to bridge the emerging offshore development sector with U.S. commercial fishing operations, in the context of scientific efforts and existing marine policy. As the Programs Manager at the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA) since 2019, she continues to work with fishing industry members to collect input to inform RODA's focal areas, help improve communication of the ongoing status of offshore development projects, and develop solutions to priority issues identified by the U.S. commercial fishing sector. 

RODA is a broad membership-based coalition of fishing industry associations and companies committed to improving the compatibility of new offshore development with their businesses.

Elspeth joined the Scottish Fishermen's Federation as Chief Executive in August 2019, following a career in the public sector. Before joining SFF, Elspeth spent four years as deputy Chief Executive at Food Standards Scotland, where she led its work on Scotland’s strategy and policy for food safety and standards, having spent the preceding 14 years in a range of roles with the UK’s Food Standards Agency in Scotland and London. Elspeth is a science graduate of Stirling and Aberdeen universities and started her working life at what is now the Marine Scotland Science laboratory in Aberdeen.

Sara Xoubanova is a Principal Consultant at Brown and May Marine Ltd. She has over 15 years’ experience in the provision of technical advice in relation to offshore wind developments and their potential interactions with commercial fishing and marine ecology. Throughout her career she has been involved in over 30 offshore wind farm projects including both, fixed bottom and floating technologies.