Speakers

Jens Price Wolf, General Manager Europe and Vice President Commercial, Enviva Jens Price Wolf is General Manager for Enviva Europe, leading the company’s regulatory engagement, customer fulfillment and market development activities across Europe. Jens brings more than 20 years’ experience in the energy sector and the full value chain of biomass for power and heat. He started his career as a consultant with ICF Consulting and later McKinsey & Company, where he advised businesses on operations and strategy. As a Director of Asset Management and Development for DONG Energy (now Orsted) he was responsible for converting four Danish CHP plants. Prior to joining Enviva, he was Commercial Director at Drax, responsible for trading, biomass sourcing, development and logistics. Jens holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. He is a Danish national but lives in Yorkshire in the UK.

Ennio Prizzi: Policy Officer at Bioenergy Europe he is responsible for the Competitiveness working group dealing chiefly with corporate use of bioenergy, innovation and digitalisation and support measures. He also coordinates the WG Carbon Dioxide Removal, an interactive forum to explore policy options for the creation of negative emission certificates and incentives within EU energy and climate policies and to foster the dissemination of knowledge and research on negative emission technologies. He has a MA in Law and 3-year experience working on EU Public Affairs in Research and Innovation, entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprise, energy and climate policies.

László joined SBP in December 2021 as Standards Manager. Before joining the team at SBP, László worked for New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL) based in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Whilst there he managed the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Rainforest Alliance certification of all NBPOL sites in PNG and the Solomon Islands. László has extensive experience with various certification schemes, having participated in standards development, accreditation of Certification Bodies and the implementation of standards requirements. Prior to NBPOL, László worked for Accreditation Services International and WWF International in various positions. László holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Central European University. László is based in the UK.

Mark Sommerfeld has managed policy and regulation across both generation and retail renewable energy projects for over ten years. He is Head of Power and Flexibility at the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA), the UK’s largest trade body for the sector. This includes leading Biomass UK, the REA’s biomass power members forum, and the REA Wood Heat Forum. These groups advocate on behalf of developers and stakeholders involved in the UK market and include organisations of all scales, utilising a range of biomass feedstocks. In 2019, Mark led the development of the REA’s Bioenergy Strategy, an industry-focused analysis on the role bioenergy will need to play across power, heat, and transport for the UK to meet its net zero ambitions. Following this, Mark has been contributing to the development of the UK government's new Biomass Strategy, due to be published this summer. The REA has also been following bioenergy developments across Europe and feeding into multi-national discussions on biomass supply chains and sustainability. He is an alumnus of Cambridge University and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

As the CEO at Rare Earth Global, I have oversight of the strategic development of this pioneering hemp technology company, with a particular focus on business development, project planning and execution. Achieving Net Zero requires tackling some of the most complex problems from establishing new supply chains to creating impactful decarbonisation solutions. REG uses a nature based solution to help corporations meet their Net Zero targets. My career in the hemp sector started in 2019 and today covers all key segments of the hemp supply chain from cultivation and processing, through to sales and fulfilment across verticals such as the food, energy and construction sectors.

Richard is a consultant at ecoprog GmbH, a consultancy specialising in environmental and energy technology. At ecoprog, he is responsible for market reports with a focus on the bioenergy sector such as anaerobic digestion (biogas) or thermal treatment of solid biomass. As a consultant Richard supported, among others, infrastructure operators and industrial firms in strategic task such as going-on-market scenarios. Richard studied economics in Cologne, Bucharest and Milan. After graduating with a M.Sc., he joined ecoprog in 2020.

Gilles Gauthier, Research and Business Development Manager Gilles has been working in the bioenergy sector since 2009, firstly as project engineer before taking a leading role in biomass trade associations prior to joining Hawkins Wright in 2022. His previous role involved biomass price reporting and supply & demand analysis. Gilles is in charge of business development but also contributes to Hawkins Wright’s biomass market reports. He has a degree in industrial engineering with a specialism in the environment.

Jan has been an entrepreneur at heart since he was 18. His roots lie in agriculture and a cattle breeding, but very quickly he developed a keen eye for the value of nature and the environment. Jan feels a deep conviction that no matter what we do in our careers, we have a responsibility for a careful transfer of nature and the environment to future generations. Jan is Dutch but emigrated to Denmark in 1987 with his wife and children to continue his career in agriculture. There he realized a large organic dairy farming company with even national and international prestige, but Jan wanted to develop even further. He sold the company in 2006 because he wanted to focus on helping to find practical solutions with regard to global warming. This resulted in the creation of Jalo Biopellets, a company that aims at converting less good woody raw materials into a high-quality pellet. That was not an easy task, but as a self-made entrepreneur he developed a successful way and patented it in 2015. The business concept has been further developed in recent years, with the application of new technology, into a CO2 negative factory for pellet and heat production. More about that in his 'down to earth' presentation.

Tommy Sand, Sweden, Manager for product development of tubular products for high temperature applications at Alleima. Tommy has a MSc in material science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a PhD in High temperature corrosion from Chalmers University in Gothenburg. Furthermore, Tommy is chairman of the Swedish High Temperature Corrosion Center.

Lauma joined SUEZ Trading Europe in 2018 and heads market analysis activities for all trading streams, including alternative fuels and wood waste. She has been working with biomass energy and EfW sectors for over 15 years, with previous professional experiences in due diligence work, market assessments and competitive analysis.

Nicholas B. Dottino Bio Graanul Invest Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Management Board Nick joined Graanul Invest in November 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of Directors. He is an accomplished C-Suite executive within the fiber based industrial manufacturing and consumer products industries. Nick has more than a three-decade-long career as an executive in the consumer products, paper, pulp, packaging, and point of purchase sectors in North America, Asia, and Europe and as and a Board Director for numerous multinational companies, industry associations and charitable organizations. Most Recently, Mr. Dottino was the CEO of Cosmo Specialty Fibers Inc, a portfolio company of The Gores Group, is a leading dissolving wood pulp (DWP) business and portfolio company of The Gores Group. A demonstrated track record of delivering industry leading results at the executive and BOD level is a common theme of Nick’s professional experiences. Success and value creation have occurred in both in publicly traded (15yrs. +), and family offices, privately held, and private equity (18 yrs.+) organizations. His professional style and value set revolve around strategy development / execution, “culture”, and “team”. A clear bias towards action is common. Organic and M&A growth, both domestically and internationally, is a comfort zone for Nick. In addition, many would say a strong believer and zealot in the areas of safety, lean six sigma, ISO, change management, and ultimately strong shareholder returns. Nick graduated from Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, an MBA from Farleigh Dickenson University, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from William Paterson University. He and his wife of 27 years, Monica, have four grown children, and reside in Charleston, SC & Long Beach Island, NJ. Nick enjoys traveling, swimming, biking, running, cooking and gardening.

Bharadwaj Kummamuru is the Executive Director of World Bioenergy Association (WBA). WBA is the leading global association promoting the sustainable development of bioenergy. WBA covers all sectors including liquid biofuels, solid biomass and biogas, while representing a member base of companies, associations, researchers from more than 65 countries. Bharadwaj has been leading the association for the past 4 years in executing activities including publications (factsheets, statistics and market reports), events (conferences, study trips), projects and collaboration with international partners. He initially joined WBA in 2014 to lead the project on bioenergy statistics after graduating with a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Energy Systems. Bharadwaj has a background in Chemical Engineering and interests include Life cycle assessment, data analysis and sustainability.

Amparo Arellano has a background in Environmental Sciences from the University of Alcala (Madrid, Spain) and University of Applied Sciences of Hamburg (Germany). She joined Sustainable Resources Verification Scheme (SURE) as Senior Expert Sustainability Certification in October 2022. At SURE Amparo is managing the development of the technical guidelines for forest biomass production, as well as is involved in certification body and stakeholder engagement. Before joining SURE, Amparo worked for eight years in the forestry sector at Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), where her role was focused on the areas of quality assurance and stakeholder engagement. Amparo is passionate about forests and about promoting bioenergy as part of a global strategy for phasing out fossil fuels.

Forestry Engineer with a Masters Degree in Forest Management by the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), He’s been responsible for Generandi’s Technical Office since 2012, there he has specialized in the international market of pulpwood, panel and biomass, as well as in the Iberian market of industrial wood. He has been an auditor in the control of biomass volumes and stock in biomass power plants, and in international litigations. He is a former member (spokesperson) of the normalization committee 164 of solid biofuels of AENOR (Spanish normalization committees). Since 2021 he is also in charge of part of the trading business along with the GM.

Anna-Mari Satosalmi is Master of Science in Environmental technology. She has worked at Gasum Oy five and half years in different positions at biogas production unit. Before carrier at Gasum she has worked at Ramboll as a consultant to the biogas investment studies and environmental permits. Currently Anna-Mari is leading the team whose main responsibility is to source and organize feedstocks to Gasum’s all 17 biogas plants in Nordics. Team takes care also of digestates in co-operation with subcontractors. In 2022 total of sourced masses were in total 1,000,000 tonnes like wastewater sludge, industrial and agricultural side streams, manure and biowaste.

Anup Mishra is a consultant at Indufor, a renowned forest consulting group. Indufor Group is among the world’s leading forest sector consulting groups with more than 43 years of experience providing high-quality information, analysis, and extensive knowledge and services throughout the forest industry value chains. Indufor offers global services from its offices in Australia, China, New Zealand, the US, and Finland. Anup joined Indufor in 2020 after graduating from the University of Helsinki and is an expert in feasibility and market analysis of solid wood and panel products and waste wood market trends. Anup has a strong background in data analysis with keen interests in the circular economy, bio-economy, sustainability, and forest resource management.

Victor Smith leads the alternative biomass portfolio in CM Biomass, where he has made significant contributions to the growth of the alternative biomass portfolio. As Head of Alternative Biomass, he oversees the sourcing and commercialization of alternative biomass feedstock, as well as promoting the feedstock to new and existing clients. In addition to managing the alternative biomass portfolio, Victor has established a significant presence within the energy-intensive processing industries and biogas producers.