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Joschka Fischer
Former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor |
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 Joschka Fischer served as Germany’s Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1998 to 2005. Throughout his seven-year tenure as Foreign Minister and the leading figure of the German Green Party, Joschka
Fischer was arguably the most popular politician in his nation. From 2006 to 2007 Joschka Fischer held a professorship at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Since 2008, he has been employed with the Albright Group, a Washington, DC, consulting firm led by Madeleine Albright.
Joseph (Joschka) Martin Fischer was closely engaged in the 1968 student movement. Although he never enrolled as a student he attended lectures of Adorno, Habermas and Negt, and pursued a number of social political studies.
He eventually joined the German Green party and became next to Otto Schily one of the party’s spokesman. In 1983 he was elected Member of Parliament for the first time, and became Minister for Environmental Affairs in the Parliament of Hessen in 1985. After the Green Party was re-elected into the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in 1994 he became their official spokesman.
In 1998 the Social Democratic Party (SPD) formed a coalition with the Green Party and Fischer became German Secretary of State. He very quickly learnt the rules of international diplomacy, and swiftly became a respected statesman worldwide. Being an experienced tactician he immediately had to deal with the most delicate problems, i.e. war in Kosovo, conflict in the Middle East and the German-American
relationship. He resolved those issues within the government as well within his party. Even though members of the opposition were trying to discredit his reputation because of his past as a ‚street fighter’, Joschka Fischer was the most popular politician in Germany for several consecutive years. It was much to his engagement during the campaign that the coalition was re-elected in 2002 and could continue working until 2005. He then resigned as Foreign Minister and party leader.
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David Hobbs
Business Development Director, ElectraLink
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 David Hobbs, IHS CERA Head of Research, is an expert in energy industry structure and strategies. He previously led IHS CERA’s research activities in oil markets and strategies, liquefied natural gas, technology, and environmental strategies. Mr. Hobbs is an author of the major IHS CERA studies In Search of Reasonable Certainty: Oil and Gas Reserves Disclosures, a comprehensive analysis of the problem of assessing reserves, and Modernizing Oil and Gas Disclosures. He is also a principal author of a major IHS CERA assessment of the world economic crisis, “Recession Shock”: The Impact of the Economic and Financial Crisis on the Oil Market, and of the IHS CERA Multiclient Study Harnessing the Storm—Investment Challenges and the Future of the Oil Value Chain, the author of the IHS CERA Private Report Daring to Be Disciplined: Continuous Portfolio Improvement, and a project advisor to the IHS CERA Multiclient Study Crossing the Divide: The Future of Clean Energy. Prior to joining IHS CERA Mr. Hobbs had two decades of experience in the international exploration and production business. He has directed projects in Asia, South America, North America, and the North Sea. He has led major international investment and asset commercialization operations Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mr. Hobbs holds a degree from Imperial College. |
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Sonja Chirico Indrebø
Vice president, IT Services, Global Business Services, StatoilHydro.
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 StatoilHydro is a Norwegian integrated technology-based international energy company primarily focused on upstream oil and gas operations. The company has more than 30 years of experience from the Norwegian continental shelf, pioneering complex offshore projects under the toughest conditions. Now StatoilHydro has business activities both offshore and onshore in 40 countries around the world. About 30.000 employees are working within the company.
Sonja Chirico Indrebø was appointed to her present position in 2008. She is responsible for IT corporate wide applications and infrastructure in all 40 countries where StatoilHydro has business activities. Her main focus is to increase positive business impact, reduce costs, improve service quality and manage risk. Sonja joined StatoilHydro in 1998 as a senior engineer in offshore telecommunications. In 2000 she was appointed network engineer in StatoilHydro’s IT business. Over the next eight years she held multiple technical and leadership roles within the company’s IT business.
Sonja has 17 years of experience in IT and telecommunication in the oil & gas industry. After graduation she worked for six years as an instrument and telecommunication engineer in Aker Engineering (now Aker Solutions).
Sonja Chirico Indrebø is 39 years old and is both a Norwegian and Italian citizen, brought up in Norway. She moved to the UK in the late 1980s for university education and graduated as B.Eng in Electronics from University of Surrey, United Kingdom in 1992.
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Dario Pagani
Governance ICT, ENI SpA
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 Dario Pagani was born in Milan, in 1959. He graduated in Economic Sciences from University of Milan. He is married and has two sons.
He started his career in 1982 at Agip S.p.A., San Donato Milanese, working in upstream
operations. He first managed several projects related to computerized control system in the
Production Department, then became the head of application development in the Information &
Communication Technology Department.
In 1998, he joined EniData, an Eni Group Company, as Program Manager for the SAP
implementation in Eni’s Foreign Branch Companies. On the beginning of 2000, he was named
Business Unit Manager of Upstream, Engineering & Construction business areas.
On the 1st January 2005 he was appointed ICT Strategic Planning Manager of Eni Group.
Since July 2008 he is in charge of Eni ICT Governance.
The ICT Governance reports to CIO and manages the following areas:
• Strategy & Resources Planning
• Compliance & Risk Management
• Planning & Control
• Sourcing
• Contract Management.
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Shari Bourgeois
Well Information Manager, Marathon Oil Corp.
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 About Marathon Oil Corporation
Marathon is an integrated international energy company engaged in exploration and production; oil sands mining; integrated gas; and refining, marketing and transportation operations. Marathon, which is based in Houston, has principal operations in the United States, Angola, Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Indonesia, Libya, Norway and the United Kingdom. Marathon is the fourth largest United States-based integrated oil company and the nation's fifth largest refiner. For more information about Marathon, please visit the Company’s Web site at www.marathon.com 
Shari Bourgeois is the Well Information Manager in Upstream Technology Information Management and Seismic Interpretation Support with responsibilities around Upstream Master Data Management, Well Data Repository Management, integration and exchange standards, and information quality management. She began her career with Marathon Oil Company in 1991. Prior to working at Marathon Oil Company, she worked in the manufacturing, banking, and insurance industries for seven years. Her entire career has been focused on the management of data and information delivery. She has a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science Engineering with a minor in Business from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is an Oracle Certified Professional in Database Administration, a member of PPDM and SPE, a board member of the Houston DAMA chapter, and a co-leader of a Houston based user group focused on integration.
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Ian Rose
Business Development Director, ElectraLink
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 Ian has worked in the UK energy utilities sector for 12 years. As Business Development Director at ElectraLink, he leads activities to evolve the Data Transfer Service to support smart metering for both short-term deployments and the longer-term market model. Ian recently launched ElectraLink’s consultancy business, aimed at helping organisations to understand and respond to the changing market interoperability environment.
Prior to ElectraLink, Ian worked in Logica’s utility business in a variety of roles. He was involved in the design and build of supplier systems for 1998 UK market entry and their subsequent evolution, as well as managing the delivery of services into transmission and distribution businesses. |
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Hidemichi Kondo
General Manager, E-Solutions, Inc. |
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 Hidemichi Kondo leads projects in area of the environment within e-solutions’ Marketing
Communication & CSR division. He joined “A Smart Grid Project to Design Future” as one of
original members from the grand design phase. Also, he leads an Electric Vehicle project making
new business models and strategies. He received BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at
Kanazawa University, as well as MBA at University of San Francisco.
(E-Solutions, Inc.)
Keishin Sasaki founded e-solutions in 1999 based on a vision incorporating 3 key concepts;
Socially-important issues, Business, and Future Design. The mission of e-solutions is to develop and
implement business solutions for the urgent problems facing modern society in areas such as the
environment, health, education, and public welfare. The company works closely with leaders in
government, academia and industry to devise new models for both business and society, making
use of new and emerging technologies to provide viable business models that also make a
significant contribution to society. This approach combines socially-responsible action with positive
contributions to the bottom line, which dr ives wider adoption leading to greater social impact. |
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Frans Campfens
Senior Consultant SmartGrids (ICT) and AMR, Alliander (former Nuon), Netherlands |
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 Mr Campfens has a master degree in Business Telecommunication and a solid background in microelectronics and ICT. In the last 24 years he was primarily involved in the utility industry as an project manager with a wide range of subjects a.o telecommunication, ICT and AMR, and he has gained considerable experience with issues in this industry.
During the last 14 years he was involved in smart metering projects; the last 7 years very intensively. Mr. Campfens was one of the leading forces in the Dutch NTA standardization and is an international recognized specialist in this knowledge area.
Currently he is developing from the area of AMR towards the structures and communication requirements for SmartGrids.
He is a member of the DLMS UA, Convener of IEC TC57-61850 and Chairman of the Dutch IEE 61850 platform, member of the Dutch Domotica platform (home automation) and initiator and former Chairman of the Energy Service Network Association ESNA; the Echelon NES user association.
Mr. Campfens has a large international network of AMR colleagues.
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Kevin O’Donovan
Strategic Marketing Director EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa),
Intel Corporation
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 Kevin leads the Strategic Marketing function within Intel’s New Business Group in Europe, Middle East & Africa. This function is responsible for assessing Intel’s medium to longer term competitiveness in new and evolving usage segments and identifying new and emerging usage models & trends. As part of his remit, for the past 3+ years, Kevin has been working on defining and driving Intel’s Environmental & Energy strategy and execution for Intel Sales & Marketing across EMEA. Kevin joined Intel in June 2004. Prior to joining Intel, Kevin headed up the Partner Technical Pre-sales group for HP across EMEA. Kevin came to HP via Compaq due to the merger of both companies in 2002, where he was the Director of Pre-sales for Compaq EMEA. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
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Dr. Jens-Stefan Breuker
IBU Oil & Gas, SAP AG |
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 Jens is working for 15 years with SAP in Germany and in the USA. Currently he is Program Director in the Industry Business Unit Oil&Gas and responsible for the portfolio and product strategy of SAP’s Oil&Gas solutions. Furthermore, he is driving a large development project which will cover Upstream Oil&Gas operations. The goal is to integrate real time Upstream production data to establish a comprehensive collaboration platform. A variety of data are in this way available for many purposes like an elaborated maintenance strategy, production allocation and production optimization.
Prior to this, Jens has set-up and run a development center for SAP in Dallas, Texas. Here he was responsible for the development of an Upstream Production & Revenue Accounting solution. Prior to his time at SAP, Jens was a research scientist at the Bavarian Research Center For Artificial Intelligence. Jens has a diploma in computer science and a doctorate in economics both from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
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Slawomir Klimowicz
Industry Principal Utilities, SAP EMEA
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 Slawomir has been working in the IT industry for more than 15 years, including leading international companies like SAP and HP. Since April 2008 he is part of the SAP EMEA Utilities Industry Team with focus on the Central Eastern Europe. He’s been working on the Utilities Market for the last 5 years with HP Consulting in CEE, Middle East and Africa and SAP. Slawomir has been actively involved in numerous initiatives and projects in the area of Smart Metering, e.g. Smart Metereing Europe Conference Committee Member. He leads or support several business and IT projects in leading utilities of Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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Karel Crombach
EMEA Director, Manufacturing & Resources, Microsoft |
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 As the Industry Market Development Director EMEA, Karel is a key member of the WW
Manufacturing & Resources leadership team. In this role, he works closely with our selected
Industry Partners, our Sales Community and Time Zone and Sector Marketing teams to align and
implement our sector strategy in EMEA. He champions the sector strategy and drives the EMEA
revenue and business metric goals, together with the EMEA and WW Manufacturing & Resources
sales leadership.
Karel has more than 25 years experience of which more than 20 years as consultant, manager and
sales director for transportation, logistics and manufacturing industries. Before joining Microsoft,
Karel was 10 years with Logica and finally in the role of group director for manufacturing. In that
role, he was responsible for Logica’s manufacturing vision and strategy and supported sales and
account teams in various countries on identifying opportunities, shaping deals and influencing
customers.
Before joining Logica, Karel worked for an ICT consultancy firm called Intercai (1986 - 1997) in
several functions, varying from consultancy to project management, interim management and
business development, mainly in the airport and airline industry throughout Europe. During this
period he also fulfilled several interim management roles with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Karel’s
professional career started in the ear ly eighties at DSM (chemical industries).
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Bassem Bouzid
Vice President, Energy CPG & Retail Industries, TSG Europe, Middle East & Africa, HP |
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Bassem Bouzid is sales vice president at HP. He is responsible for the company’s sales in corporate
accounts in Energy, CPG & Retail industries in EMEA. He previously ran HP’s Outsourcing business
development organization in EMEA.
Prior to joining HP in 2003, Bassem spent 8 years at IBM where he drove the services business
in Oil & Gas in the Middle East, drove the transformation of the industry solutions into consulting
practices. He drove the setup of Outsourcing as a Business Unit in IBM Global Services where he
ran the e-business hosting business line and joined the mega deals team in EMEA.
Bassem Started his Career with Alcatel, during his 6 years he established and ran a consulting
practice specialized in helping customers migrate from legacy environments into new technology.
A native of Lebanon, Bassem is a French national, is married and has 4 children.
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James Best
Vice President, Sales Europe, Middle East & Africa, HP |
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 James Best assumed the role of vice president of EMEA Sales for EDS, an HP company,
in January 2007. In this role, he has overall responsibility for all strategic decisions
relating to sales and growth for markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Best’s main focus is to increase the win rates on profitable deals to help toward the
goal of confirming HP as the leader in IT services.
Before this assignment, Best was regional sales leader for EDS’ U.S. Western Region,
where he led the development of EDS’ global sales framework. He joined EDS in 1989
as a sales executive before moving to Japan in 1995 to complete the acquisition and
integration of LINC computer into EDS Japan.
Over the next six years, Best held multiple leadership roles in sales, operations and
general management in EDS Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea.
He has completed several post-graduate executive level programs at INSEAD in France,
MIT in Boston, and the University of Michigan Business School in Hong Kong.
He enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf in his spare time. |
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Klaus Hieronymi
Chairman of the Environmental Board, Europe, Middle East&Africa, HP
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 Klaus Hieronymi is chairing the ‘Environmental Board’, the decision body for HP’s environmental strategy for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In addition, he is leading the department of 'Environmental Business Management' at HP for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) since 1998. In this role he is focusing on how better environmental outcomes lead to better business results, especially in the area of energy and resource conservation, climate change and recycling.
In collaboration with his team Hieronymi ensures HP’s compliance with environmental legislation and market trends, responds to customer inquiries, supports the sales organisation with environmental issues, and mandatory and voluntary Take Back programmes.
He is also responsible for the implementation of Take Back legislation within HP EMEA, focusing particularly on organizational structures to enable competitive markets and processes. His main focus is to ensure that environmental legislation is aligned with internal processes and reward structures as to encourage better environmental practices and product design.
Hieronymi represents HP on the Board of the European Recycling Platform (ERP). Co-founded by HP, Electrolux, Braun-Gillette and Sony, the ERP aims to ensure a cost-effective implementation of the European Union Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, for the benefit of participating companies, their customers, the consumers and ultimately for the environment and the society.
He has published various scientific papers, particularly on the subject of take-back, and has given presentations on environmental topics at several European and international conferences.
After completing studies in natural science and business management in Germany, Austria and South Africa, Hieronymi joined HP in 1983. He has held various sales and marketing positions in Europe and Asia before joining HP’s worldwide environmental team.
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Paul Helm
Global E&P Director, HP
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 Paul has a rich background in industry starting in the oil industry, initially as a graduate Geophysicist in exploration and later in offshore production in North Sea and South China Sea. He worked for five years for a shipbuilding and heavy engineering company in systems, business process re-engineering and information technology. On joining HP Paul ran the UK consulting group for corporate accounts and has spent time in various roles from HP Labs through Global consulting lead, to corporate strategist for HP’s e-services organization.
With 15 years in working with the Manufacturing sector, most recently, his focus has been on leveraging the HP products, solutions and services portfolio to address the changing needs of the Oil and Gas industry, and as Global Director of the HP E&P business, he continues to work closely with HP Customers and Partners to realize the benefits of information technology applied to targeted business outcomes.
Paul is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. He lives in north west England with his wife and two sons.
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Ian Mitton
WW Utilities Director, HP |
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 Ian’s role is to develop HP’s global strategy for the utilities industry and build out industry specific solutions from the breadth of HP’s services, software and infrastructure, also including the wide array of HP alliances and partnerships.
Ian joined HP in 1981. He has been involved with the Energy industry since 1999 and his responsibilities over that time have included 7 years as Global Client Business Manager for Shell, building relationships at the most senior level and assisting Shell to align IT with their business strategy. Latterly he has been the business development manager for HP’s Energy and Distribution Industries vertical in EMEA. During his time with HP Ian has held a number of sales and marketing management roles in a variety of HP’s business units.
Ian received his BSc in Physics and Electronics at Brunel University, England and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
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Blair Eldridge
Account Executive, Energy, UK&Ireland, HP |
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 Blair joined EDS in 1998. Before taking up his current role, he held various leadership roles, with responsibility for several of EDS’ consulting practices (Oracle, SAP, e-business, BPO) in EMEA.
Before joining EDS, Blair worked for the Haden Group (now part of Balfour Beatty), KPMG and Ernst & Young.
With over 30 years’ finance, consulting and outsourcing experience, Blair has delivered significant economic benefits to numerous businesses in the Energy, Engineering & Construction and Government sectors.
Blair’s Energy clients have included the CEGB, National Grid, the predecessor companies of e.ON UK, EDF Energy, RWE nPower and British Energy, ElectraLink, Interconnector UK, Nexen, Petro-Canada and ADNOC. His experience includes business transformation and applications development (in process domains such as billing, energy management and trading, settlement and funds transfer, finance and procurement), outsourcing and advisory services. During the privatisation of the UK electricity market, Blair played a major advisory role, supporting the design and negotiation of the pooling & settlement and billing & treasury agreements.
Blair has an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
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Reinier van Hoeijen
Director EMEA Data Center Transformation Consulting
Practice, HP |
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As the Director for the EMEA Data Center Transformation Practice, Reinier van Hoeijen is responsible for driving profitable growth for the EMEA Data Center Consulting practice and improving its sales and delivery efficiency. In his role, Reinier advises large corporations on their IT Infrastructure Strategy, Next Generation Data Centers and HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure vision. He also consults on HP’s products and services and is involved in the delivery of large infrastructure programs.
Reinier frequently speaks at both HP and external customer events, on topics such as Next Generation Data Center, Virtualization and IT Shared Services.
Prior to joining HP, Reinier worked with Accenture Infrastructure Consulting Benelux, where he was responsible for leading and growing the Benelux Data Centre Technology and Operations practices, selling and delivering Infrastructure Technology programs in Europe.
Reinier has a degree in Business Economics from the University of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands and is a Dutch Public Certified Accountant (RA).
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M. Douglas Hanson
Director, Global Energy and Resource Industries, HP
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 Doug Hanson has joined Hewlett-Packard in June 2007 to lead the Global Energy and Resources Industries which includes Oil & Gas, Utilities, Chemicals and Mining. He brings the experience of over 25 years in IT; fourteen in the Energy sector; and prior to joining HP, worked with both IBM, BMC Software. Throughout his career, Doug has been focused on helping customers drive better business outcomes through applying best practices in IT.
Doug has worked extensively with Oil & Gas and Utilities customers in the Americas (USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil), in Europe (UK, Netherlands, Norway, France) and in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Dubai). He established and led a Process and Petroleum Industry group in the Middle East and Africa, based in Dubai, and went on to lead Upstream Solutions for EMEA, based in London.
Energy industry customers are truly global businesses, which demand the utmost from an organization like HP, often in some of the most difficult regions in the world. To help customers tackle industry challenges we have assembled a team with top notch industry knowledge in the Upstream, Downstream and Utilities businesses, combined with Alliance partners to deliver solutions in key Energy markets.
Doug’s organization is responsible for the definition and execution of the Global Energy strategy and for establishing a portfolio of solutions that combine HP technology, services, knowledge and innovation to deliver better business outcomes in the quest to satisfy the growing demand for energy around the globe.
Doug earned a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
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Roy Pratt
WW CTO Global Utilities, HP |
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 Roy Pratt is the chief technology officer for the U.S. Energy Industry organization. He provides technical direction and leadership to support regional delivery & business growth, champions technology and innovation for the industry and ensures adherence to key quality management standards.
He supports the Client-to-Contract process in Technical Solution Reviews for significant growth opportunities and leads regional technical assessment of mergers and acquisitions. As CTO Roy supports account transformation and innovation to approved industry products & services. He is the escalation point for technical development, programs governance & service failures for accounts.
As a member of the U.S. Energy Industry Leadership Team Roy provides regional strategic direction for industry specific technical skill needs and capabilities, develops the industry technical talents of architects and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
As Regional Energy CTO he develops & implements region specific industry strategy aligned with global industry strategy, provides regional industry input to Portfolio Management (Apps, ITO etc.) and Global Alliances on industry specific products and services. He is responsible for implementing end to end architecture of industry based client solutions and represents EDS as a recognized industry expert - speaks at major conferences, publishes in industry leading journals, participate on industry panels and boards.
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Elliott McClements
BIS Energy Solutions Director, HP
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Elliott has over 25 years experience in working with leading companies across Europe to fully leverage their data assets. He started his consulting career with Codd and Date at the advent of relational database technologies advising organizations how to transition towards relational technologies and what became known as Business Intelligence. He then spent over 10 years with Teradata helping to define and mature the science behind Data Warehousing. There followed seven years with Ab Initio, addressing the challenges of enterprise data integration, data quality, metadata and service orientation of data assets. Having gathered extensive expertise in Telecommunication, Finance and Retail he is now a key part of the HP BIS team helping to leverage data and Business Intelligence in the Energy industry.
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