Speakers

Denis Pasero joined Ilika Technologies in 2008, as a scientist specializing in battery technology, to manage commercial lithium-ion projects.

He became part of the Ilika team to apply his strong academic knowledge to commercial applications and saw the potential to be part of the development and success story of an enterprising smaller company with exciting technology and novel product ideas.

Today, as Product Commercialization Manager, Denis interfaces between customers and technical teams.

Ian Atkinson is Business Development Director at Meech International and is a manufacturing technology and support systems specialist.  With a long career based on optimising material flows in manufacturing, Ian is passionate in exploring different technologies and how their processes can be enhanced.

About Meech: 

Meech is a leading designer and manufacturer of static control and contamination removal solutions.  Their products are supplied extensively across the globe into many converting, packaging, printing and other specialist industries.  Over recent years, Meech has consulted in a wide range of battery technology applications and have helped enhance production processes in both prototype and more recently fully scaled-up battery production lines.   This growing knowledge is helping battery designers, machine and battery manufacturers integrate essential quality measures into their designs to reduce the risk of contamination in the cell and thus reduce the risks of thermal runaway.

Mike Bassett graduated from Bristol University in 1993, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He then studied for a PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST,) focusing on the thermodynamic modelling of internal combustion engines.

Mike joined Lotus Engineering in 2000, where he worked in the Software Development Department, specializing in the modelling of internal combustion engine performance and drive-cycle simulation of conventional and hybrid vehicles. He moved to MAHLE Powertrain in 2007 to join the Performance Analysis Group.

Mike is currently Chief Engineer in the Research and Advanced Engineering Group, where he is responsible for leading MAHLE Powertrain’s research activities in the UK, where there is a strong focus on new technology and capabilities for electrified mobility.

Alex Tylee is an engineering and business consultant. His mission at Tylee Ltd is to enable companies working in the future mobility space (including electric vehicles) to access the help and support they need, whether that is business operations, technical support or they need investment. The aim is to have a one stop shop that can accelerate innovative engineering businesses. Alex has the knowledge and experience of what is needed to take an engineering start-up, finance it and grow it into a multi-national business.

Prior to founding Tylee Ltd, Alex founded the engineering consultancy Drive System Design (or DSD) in 2007. DSD initially focussed on transmission and driveline systems for automotive, later adding electric motors and power electronics expertise, allowing the design and development of full electric powertrains. Alex started in the business as Technical Director before moving over to the operational side of the business, running major projects and the finance department. During this time, Alex also launched a spin out company Evolute Drives, with the aim to market an innovative multiple speed electric vehicle powertrain.

Before DSD, Alex worked as an engineering consultant at Ricardo in the role of Principal Engineer in transmission system analysis. He also worked at Romax Technology as Engineering Service Manager and helped to grow the consultancy side of that business. He is considered a technical specialist in the design and analysis of geared systems for automotive and other industries.

Jeff Borrman has worked in the recycling industry for over 40 years, specialising in the sustainable recycling of electronics, precious metals and battery material. For the last 11 years Jeff has been at the forefront of battery recycling innovation in the UK. His experience spans across various sustainable solutions focusing on future-proofing business operations for a cleaner and greener future. From his experience in pioneering techniques for precious and base metal separation, Jeff has now joined UK-based battery recycler Cellcycle. Using his wealth of knowledge and expertise Jeff is helping develop the UK’s leading end-to-end battery recycling company.

Eylül earned her MBA from University of Passau, where she specialized in intercultural management of multinational technology companies. Her strong technical and managerial experiences in Mercedes-Benz, NCR Corporation and Bosch during the university years prepared her as a business development engineer working directly with the CEO, CTO and Vice President of Orhan Holding, through which she stepped into the battery world as an R&D (electrical and electronics) engineer as part of a Faraday Project.

As a 2005 International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) national champion she is highly interested in mathematics. She is a professional dancer and categorizes herself as a “bridge” person, considering her combined technical and business roles so far.

Bio:

• Robert Camm is a Senior Consultant in Frost & Sullivan’s European Mobility team
• In this role Robert supports industry clients with research and advisory projects, with a focus on electric vehicle, powertrain and ADAS domains
• This has included supporting clients with challenges including:
  • Developing future electrification strategy
  • Analysis of developing EV supply chains
  • Regulatory research
  • Component benchmarking
  • EV infrastructure modelling
• Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan Robert held positions at Ricardo in both Automotive and Strategic Consulting divisions, gained experience of powertrain development at Volvo Cars, and supplier quality management at Ford Motor Company

Mr Campbell is responsible for overseeing Electroflight’s overall technical strategy and new product development. His role ensures Electroflight remain at the forefront of the aviation electrification sector and continue to expand into new areas of innovation in new markets around the world.

Douglas has forged a reputation as one of the automotive and motorsport industries’ leading experts in the field of energy storage, having developed KERS for Formula 1 teams, battery systems for several high-profile automotive programs and for the FIA Formula E race series. His strong experience and expertise have transferred over to aviation and are ensuring Electroflight grow to the next level of commercial growth and technical innovation.

A chemical engineer by education, Richard Clark is the Global Lead for Energy Storage at Morgan Advanced Materials, (LSE: MGAM), a leading global carbon and ceramics manufacturer which has been directly involved in the lithium-ion battery industry since 2000.

Richard has worked on many of Morgan’s recent technological developments in carbon and ceramics, including anode materials, separators and thermal runaway propagation prevention and mitigation systems for lithium ion-batteries.

Morgan’s latest development in the lithium-ion space is in the area of solid state electrolytes for which several patent applications are in process, with Richard leading business development activities as well as being a named co-inventor. He has been based in England, Korea, China and currently U.S.A.

Ian Constance joined the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) as CEO in September 2015 during his leadership APC has guided funding into 150 low-carbon projects projected to save over 260 million tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of removing the lifetime emissions from 10.2 million cars and creating or safeguarding over 50,000 jobs in the UK.

Ian’s approach at the APC has been to provide focussed support to anchor and grow UK research and development and industry insight to transition the UK automotive supply chain to clean propulsion systems. He has been instrumental in the development and deployment of the Automotive Transformation Fund.

Ian has held positions globally in the automotive industry with over 25 years’ experience.  Prior to APC Ian worked with Ford Motor Company in Detroit where he was most recently Global Chief Engineer for Large Cars.  Ian has also spent six years at Ford’s Asia Pacific HQ, first in Bangkok and then in Shanghai.

Ian gained an engineering degree from Aston University, an MSc in Advanced Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University and is a chartered engineer and in 2019 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bath.

Mark Copley is an Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials at WMG.

His research spans active materials, additives, scale-up, processing and novel cell design. Areas of application are lithium ion, sodium ion and solid-state batteries.

Mark has recently joined WMG, previous to this he was a Senior Principal Scientist at Johnson Matthey, working on projects relating to developing new classes of active battery materials and demonstrating their viability at scale. He has also collaborated, extensively, on developing next generation battery technologies.

Shmuel is a leading international expert in the business of Power Sources, Energy storage and EV’s. Prior to founding the company, Shmuel held positions as a power sources, engineering and quality control team manager for over 20 years. Shmuel holds a BSc. in mechanical engineering from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA in quality control and reliability engineering from the Technion Institute in Haifa, as well as an Electronic Technician’s diploma.

Jacqueline grew up in South Africa and completed first a B.Sc. in Zoology and then a B.Sc. in Computer Science, both at the University of Cape Town. This led to a career as an internet developer and, after moving to London, developing banking intranet tools. Since banking is not known for its social welfare activities, she decided to go back to study clean energy at UCL, starting with an M.Sc. in Nanotechnology and finally a Ph.D. in Hydrogen Storage.

She ran the Energy Storage Research Network in the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London for four years, facilitating research collaborations in the growing area of energy storage.

Jacqueline is now a Faraday Institution Project Leader in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the College, managing a large research consortium on Multiscale Modelling of Li-ion Batteries.

Emmanuel Eweka is a recognised battery expert world-wide with over 30 years’ experience in developing novel electrochemical energy storage solutions for applications in the military, industry, and commercial sectors. Postdoctoral research fellow in the Southampton Electrochemistry Group. Emmanuel was one of the pioneers of the liquid crystal templating method for the deposition of nanoporous metal oxide cathodes for lithium batteries. Emmanuel Eweka joined DERA (now QinetiQ) in September 2000 and as Technical Lead / Chief Battery Scientist and Electrochemist, delivered several successful programmes on lithium batteries (Primary Li/CFx and lithium ion) and supercapacitors. Managed and built a multidisciplinary batteries team and state of the art R&D and cylindrical cell prototyping facility at Dyson. Whilst at Dyson, Emmanuel’s team delivered a highpower cell with competitive performance against commercial state of cells and Emmanuel established and built external battery research programmes with Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Emmanuel is currently CTO(Cell Technology) at AMTE Power Plc. where he also heads the cell development activities.

Dr. Michelle Lynch is a Ph.D. in Chemicals and Catalysis and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

Her 23 years of post-doctoral experience span catalyst R&D, precious metals market research, patent analysis and consulting.

Michelle is currently the Managing Director of Enabled Future Limited (EFL) – a consultancy she set up to help chemical, catalyst and materials manufacturers to maintain profitable and sustainable optimized technology portfolios.

Prior to setting up EFL, Michelle worked with IHS-Markit, Nexant and Johnson Matthey. She is passionate about sustainability, pollution abatement and helping to create high impact solutions to tackle climate change.

Robert (Bob) L. Galyen, age 65, is recognized as one of the top executives in the battery energy storage world and science/engineering-based communities. He is a highly sought-after public speaker as a subject matter expert. His positions as CTO of CATL (the world’s largest battery manufacturer), Chairman of SAE International Battery Standards Steering Committee, SAE Fellow, Chairman Emeritus and CTO of NAATbatt International, provides him a unique leadership perspective in the global battery industry. His degrees in chemistry and biology, along with decades of engineering experience and executive roles, provides him a unique view in a leadership or consulting role in cross functional technology areas. He has patents, publications and participates on multiple BOD’s and TAB’s. The 44 years’ international work experience has given him a visionary perspective on worldwide business, making him uniquely qualified as a global energy storage and scientific/engineering community thought leader. Bob is married with 3 children and 7 grandchildren.

Keri Goodwin is currently a Chief Technologist at CPI and has 15 years of materials chemistry research experience.  She received an MChem and PhD from the University of Edinburgh before beginning her career at CPI in 2009.  During this time she worked in the printable electronics division of CPI for 8 years and lead the electronic materials development team, publishing several papers and patents relating to this work.  This was primarily focused on organic semiconducting materials and formulation development for flexible display applications.  She now leads the battery materials and formulation development area as part of the National Formulation Centre, within CPI. Her expertise lies in materials development for electronic applications as well as optimisation of coatings and interfaces using a variety of depositon techniques, both solution and vacuum based.

Sajin Gopi is an Electrical Engineer having about 10 years of experience in the Simulation and Validation of Automotive Systems in MiL/HiL/TestTrack.
Since 2017, he is working as an Application Engineer for AVL CAMEOTM in Smart Calibration and Virtual Testing department at AVL List GmbH, Graz Austria.
In AVL, he is responsible for methodology development in Advanced Applications areas mainly on Simulation and validation using AVL Virtual Testing products.
He started his career in TATA ELXSI as a Research Engineer and then moved on to Mercedes Benz Research and Development India as a Hardware in Loop Engineer.
He completed his Master’s degree in Control Systems from the National Institute of Technology Calicut in 2013, focusing on Advanced Control strategies and their Applications.

Robert is the Global Commercial Director at EVESCO. He has over 25 years of experience in the energy and power electronics industry. Robert has been a Founder and Director of several energy and power electronics companies, including a $ 1.6 billion Nasdaq-listed company.

Over the past decade, other roles he has held include Deputy Mayor of Kempston, Kempston Town Councillor, Co-Founder, Trustee, and Director of Bedford Free School. Robert is also an alumnus of Harvard University (HETC), University of Cambridge (Dip), University of Oxford (Said Business School) (A.I.), London School of Economics (MBA-Ess.), Queen’s University (Mini-MBA), York St. John University (MBA), Open University (B.A.), Ph.D. and Honorary Professorship from Global European School, and is currently enrolled in DBA (Doctorate) with SBS. Robert also has qualifications in International and Commercial Law and holds an HNC and HND in Power Electronics.

Robert is passionate about people and charity; he holds various voluntary roles, including for Shelter U.K. in their campaign to end homelessness.

David started his automotive industry career in 1975 with Jaguar Cars in Coventry as a sponsored student-apprentice with the company while studying for mechanical Engineering degree at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University). He joined the Vehicle Research department of Product Engineering after graduation in 1979 and went on to develop the team that was responsible for the noise and vibration refinement of the all-new AJ6 engine and the XJ40 car – Jaguar’s first all-new vehicle in 30 years.

Subsequently David spent significant time working in Far East and USA in technical and managerial consulting roles before joining Tata Motors European Technical Centre in 2008, David spent 3 years based in Pune, India running the NVH team, later taking lead role as Programme Chief Engineer for several new vehicle projects delivered for Tata Motors based from the European Technical Centre at University of Warwick.

Now responsible for leading strategy and engineering development of low-carbon powertrain technologies (ICE/xEV) and early-stage vehicle attribute delivery for Tata Motors future passenger car product portfolio.

Ayush Lal is a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Aptiv in Michigan, USA. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, USA in 2017. His main skills and expertise cover the areas of power electronics, computational fluid dynamics and vehicle electrification. Mr. Lal has worked with automotive giants such as Delphi Technologies (now Borg Warner) and Eaton Corporation in e-mobility in the US. His work has been published in books such as Innovate Toronto.

Dr. Stephen Lambert received his Doctorate from the University of Warwick by looking at the applicability of hybrid and electric drivetrains in motorsport.

Following this he worked at Lotus Engineering, developing hybrid and electric demonstrator vehicles for a number of OEMs. Through this role, he found himself working closely with battery manufacturers as a key partner for these projects.

He has since worked in various roles around developing battery technology in areas such as Formula 1 and high performance road cars.

Steve is now responsible for the electrification strategy for McLaren Applied, where he is helping deliver advantage by empowering customer to introduce and protect new vehicle concepts and technologies and to drive differentiation in the market.

Nusrat Ghani was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in September 2022.

She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport from January 2018 to February 2020.

Nusrat was a Government Whip between July 2019 and December 2019, and an Assistant Government Whip from January 2018 to July 2019.

Education

Nusrat was the first woman in her family to be formally educated. She attended state comprehensive school before studying at Birmingham City University (BA Government and Politics) and Leeds University (MA International Relations).

Political career

Nusrat was elected Conservative MP for Wealden in 2015.

In parliament Nusrat has been a member of a number of Select Committees, including:

·       Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee (2020 to 2022)

·       Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission (2017 to 2018)

·       Foreign Affairs Committee (2017 to 2018)

·       Armed Forces Bill Committee (2015)

·       Home Affairs Committee (2015 to 2017)

Most recently, in her role as a member of the BEIS Select Committee, she has led on a number of enquires, including a probe into the use of Uyghur slave labour in UK supply chains.

Nusrat was part of the UK delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2020 to 2022 and the Rapporteur of the Science and Technology Committee.

For her work in raising awareness of the plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Nusrat was nominated for the NATO Women of Peace and Security Prize, finishing runner-up to the Honourable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Career outside politics

Before beginning her career in politics, Nusrat was employed by the charities Age UK and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, and later for the BBC World Service.

Dr Peter Miller joined Millbrook as Chief Engineer, Battery in June 2018.

Previously he worked for Johnson Matthey Battery Systems for 6 years as Chief Electronics Technologist and prior to this he was Director – Electrical/Electronic Engineering at Ricardo a large automotive consultancy where he specialised in batteries.

Before that Peter was European Director of Technology at Motorola AIEG a major automotive Tier 1.

He has worked with a large number of battery chemistries including all the main lithium-ion chemistries. Peter has extensive knowledge of testing, modelling and control of batteries, for function, life and safety.

Roger is Powertrain Product Engineering Manager at Rimac Technology where he leads a small team exploring the very latest innovations in EV Powertrain Technology.

After completing his Master’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Bristol, Roger joined Jaguar Land Rover, initially working on an electric supercharger. However, after a brief stint working on hybrids, Roger became increasingly convinced that the future was all-electric and transitioned across to work on the IPACE powertrain. Following JLR, he made the move across to Williams Advanced Engineering where he was Powertrain Lead for the 2000PS Lotus Evija hypercar, the Aston Martin RapidE and other projects.

In June 2021 Roger relocated to Croatia to join Rimac Technology and continue pushing the limit of EV Powertrain performance.

Dr Manlio V. Morganti obtained is BEng from Milan Polytechnic, his MSc from Northumbria University, both in Mechanical Engineering. He gained his PhD from Cranfield University, with a thesis on multi-domain battery modelling and experimental validation. He worked on battery and thermal management modelling first at Delta (Cosworth Group) and then joined Jaguar Land Rover. His current responsibilities involve 1D battery pack modelling with a focus on cooling integration.

Jacqui is a specialist in materials engineering, regulation and transformational change. Spending the early part of her career as a mechanical property and galvanising specialist in the Steel industry. Following her C.Eng, M.Eng. and MBA, she moved into industrial environmental regulation policy for the Environment Agency and Welsh Government. She was the lead official for Pembroke Power Station environmental permit and led the contentious merger of three Internal Drainage Boards (flood authorities) into the newly formed Natural Resources Wales (NRW) public body in 2015. Jacqui credits these experiences as teaching her how to untangle problems, policies and legislation that inhibit successful outcomes in business, Government and Regulators.

For the past few years, she has been the Deputy Challenge Director for the £274 million Faraday Battery Challenge Programme, kicking off the programme to transform the UK world-leading in automotive battery technology by 2027. Jacqui is now employed as Chief Operating Officer at National Manufacturing Institute Scotland.

Outside of work, she is Formula 1 fan, a mum of two, Member of the Welsh Government’s WISTEM Board, Chair of the Industry Subgroup and an active STEM Ambassador. This year she worked with RMA Sandhurst and delivered a WISE STEM event to 2000 teenagers and HRH Princess Anne.

Jacqui is a Chartered Engineer and Environmentalist, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and Freeman of the City of London.

A Chartered Engineer with a wealth of experience gain from motorsport, defence, aerospace and policy development. Philippa thrives on working with a wide range of stakeholders from government, industry and academia to create visionary solutions, with the ability to challenge existing silos across the sectors. Her experience allows her to offer oversight into the challenges faced both locally and internationally within the manufacturing and transport realms.

Joining the Advanced Propulsion Centre in January 2018 she uses her experience and knowledge of the UK’s transport modes and infrastructure to support the development of strategies that incubate collaborations. This joining of the dots will help ensure that the UK can develop solutions, and attract the right investment to create, develop and sustain UK supply chains that drive both job creation and exportable products and services to enable the UK to fulfill its net-zero ambition.

Juyeon received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from Seoul National University, South Korea, where her research focused on characterising electronic structure, morphology and charge transfer dynamics of organic/(semi)metal interfaces using pioneering optical techniques applicable for multi-layered device systems such as photovoltaic cells, OLEDs, photo-catalytic systems and batteries. Following this she undertook academic research at KRISS (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science), the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and in collaboration with RIKEN and Osaka University (Japan) focusing on fundamental understanding of material properties and their dynamics in practical systems; she then moved to Samsung SDI (Korea), which is a Tier 1 lithium-ion battery manufacturer.

At Samsung, Juyeon led the electrochemical contribution to establishing a database for battery modelling,

developing a holistic approach to cell degradation mechanism based on post mortem analysis correlated to electrochemical tests. As a principal engineer she led automotive projects for Jaguar Land Rover, BMW and advised on energy storage system (ESS) projects, considering cell validation, safety and the quality control of mass production. She also published internal papers on ToF-SIMS analysis of battery electrode material and on electrochemical characterisation of mechanisms of functional additives. Juyeon moved to NPL in August 2018.

Juyeon is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM), a member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), and a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Jeff Pratt was appointed Managing Director of the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) in June 2018.

Jeff was previously General Manager at Nissan’s lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant based in Sunderland (UK). He joined Nissan in 1987 and held various management positions within the vehicle manufacturing plant in Sunderland, which included responsibility for the construction, commissioning and operation of Nissan’s UK battery plant. Prior to this, he held management positions within Nissan’s Trim and Chassis and Paint Shop.

Jeff has extensive experience in production engineering, as well as more than 20 years’ senior management experience.

UKBIC is a £130 million pioneering battery manufacturing development facility, which was opened by the British Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson in 2021.  The unique facility provides the missing link between battery technology, which has proved promising at laboratory or prototype scale, and successful mass production.

Simon Price is CEO of Exawatt, a provider of strategic consulting, technology analysis and cost forecasting to manufacturers in the power electronics, EV, lithium-ion battery and solar PV industries.

Prior to founding Exawatt in 2015, Simon 2010 co-founded PV Tech Group, which provided factory design and integration services to solar PV companies. In 2008, he was part of the founding team of a startup technology company dedicated to improving the efficiency of crystalline solar cells.

Previously, as a consultant in the interactive entertainment industry, Simon provided services to software publishers and hardware manufacturers, including Microsoft, Sony, Intel and Nokia. An electrical engineer by first degree, Simon began his career as a business and technology journalist, focusing on disruptive technologies.

Simon has an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

After his studies in international business administration, Stefan specialised in the areas of marketing and sales. He gained his first professional experience at the Anschutz Entertainment Group, where he was involved in the restructuring of the sales department. Subsequently, Stefan worked for Johnson & Johnson Medical for seven years in various areas and functions. Since the beginning of 2022, Stefan has been responsible for sales and project planning at CUSTOMCELLS®.

Claire leads on EPSRC’s research domain on the decarbonisation of transport, looking at issues as diverse as sustainable aviation fuels, EV battery developments, novel materials for low carbon infrastructure and new transport modalities.

Taking an interdisciplinary, whole systems approach to deliver the necessary technological innovations and behavioural change required Claire undertakes scoping, developing, commissioning and investment management and evaluation activities.

Claire has broad experience including working as a project manager for Network Rail managing new signalling and telecoms installations as well as working for the Economic and Social Research Council on the climate change priority and transportation activities.

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Milan recently joined Green Lithium as Market and Strategy Analyst where he is responsible for developing a view on the battery value chain to steer key strategic and commercial decisions.

Milan transitioned from a similar role at Johnson Matthey, working in the Battery Materials division as Principal Business Analyst. He gained key insight into the cathode active material market and OEM requirements.

Prior to this, Milan spent six years at Wood Mackenzie, initially working in both the metals and the energy markets teams. He later joined the consulting team to develop a deep-dive study into lithium demand, before moving into his final role as a senior research analyst in the Battery Raw Materials team.

Milan has a BEng in Materials Science and Engineering and an MSc in Metals and Energy Finance.

Selin Aria Tur is a MSc. degree electrical engineer working for CNH Industrial as their Vice President of Advanced Technologies and Innovations. She has spent over 20 years of her professional career in developing electric/electrified vehicle powertrains, components and systems for passenger and motorsport racing cars including Formula 1 and Formula E working for Williams Advanced Engineering, Mercedes HPP and AVL. Moving into commercial vehicle segment in 2018, her focus has been electrification of on-highway and off-highway vehicles for the first few years. In her current role, she leads overall technology development teams working on agricultural and construction vehicles.

David Voxlin is the global expert on sustainability and consumer decision behaviour at SKIM, a leading insights agency.  He advises Fortune 500 clients on their sustainability strategies through better understanding their customers and decision-making processes. David started his career at the World Wildlife Fund working on sustainability policy before entering research consultancy at LRW (now Material). He founded Craved, a foodtech startup selling locally produced craft food and drink in London before joining SKIM. David holds a MA in Political Theory from UCL, and an MSc in Demography from LSHTM.

Dr John Warner is a sought after and recognized battery industry expert, speaker, author and an experienced sales, business development, strategic marketing, and product management executive with over 30 years in the automotive and battery industries.

Currently, Dr Warner serves as Chief Customer Officer for American Battery Solutions and as Founder and President at Warner Energy Consulting LLC.

Previously Dr Warner served in executive sales and marketing leadership positions with EnerDel, XALT Energy, Magna Steyr Battery Systems and Boston-Power as well as spending more than 13 years with General Motors.

In addition, he serves as Chairman of the industry trade group NAATBatt International and sits on several SAE battery committees.

Dr Warner published his first book “The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design” in 2015 and his second book, “Lithium-Ion Chemistries: A Primer” in published in May 2019.

Martin Wood has had a 25+ years career in industry primarily in the automotive sector. He started his career at Ford Motor Company in the UK taking positions in both the Engineering & Manufacturing functions, working in new model development, test and launch. His experience was widened within the commercial departments of Ford, operating in Eastern Europe & Africa, he subsequently joined the Ford Components Division which became Visteon in 1997.

Martin joined a major 1st Tier automotive supplier, Kostal GmbH & CO KG, in 1998 operating primarily in Technical Sales until becoming Sales & Marketing Director in 2001, and later taking responsibility for Quality Assurance. Martin became Managing Director / CEO of the Kostal UK operation in 2006 with responsibility for all UK Engineering & Operational activities for UK and Scandinavian customers.

Martin has also operated as Managing Director for other general engineering businesses, gaining experience in many different territories and markets and operating withing the Oil & Gas, Chemical and Energy sectors.

In 2016 Martin joined UK Trade & Investment’s Automotive Investment Organisation (AIO) as Business Development Director with specific responsibility for the current and future supply chain. AIO is now the Auto Sector Team, part of the Department of International Trade’s Technology & Advanced Manufacturing Cluster.

• Principal Battery Engineer at Rimac Technology
• Was Principal Engineer Batteries – Ricardo UK
• Was Battery Chief Engineer in Cummins Electrified Power UK and VinES, Vietnam previously
• BSc Electrical Engineering
• 11 years battery product development experience in automotive industry
• Worked in Ford Otosan in Turkey, Ford Germany and FEV Germany previously