SPEAKERS

Roman Angulanza is Head of Product Management Industrial and Private Clients at E.ON Vertrieb GmbH in Munich. Until 1998 he was responsible for rational energy use at OBAG Energiversorgung Ostbayern AG (a subsidiary of Bayernwerk now E.ON). Until the merger of Bayernwerk and Preussen Elektra to form E.ON he worked as Product Manager Industrial and Private Clients.

Oliver Biermann is CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, Dusseldorf. Boasting more than 25 years of experience in the advertising industry, since 1988 he has been with Ogilvy & Mather, a leading global advertising agency. His wide range of responsibilities includes the first green power branding campaign in Germany.

Julie D. Blunden works for Green Mountain Energy, which leads the green power market in the United States. In 1998 she became Vice-President of Strategic Planning, and in 1999 was appointed President of the Western Region, USA. Green Mountain Energys best-known shareholders include BP and NUON.

Dr Henning Borchers is CEO of best energy GmbH in Berlin, a joint venture between Berlin electricity utility Bewag and MobilCom AG. In 1996, after doing research on the liberalisation of the power market at the University of Mainz, he joined Bewag AG, where he ultimately became Head of Strategic Planning.

Cornelia Brandes is CEO of the Zurich-based Association for Environmentally Sound Electricity which is the supporting institution of the naturemade green power label. For 15 years she worked as a successful independent energy planning and industry consultant, specialising among other things in setting up and optimising certification services.

Dr Hans P. Danuser has been Director of the St. Moritz Tourist Board for 23 years. In 1987 his involvement in establishing St. Moritz as a leading brand in international tourism earned him the Swiss Marketing Prize, and in 1999 he was featured in the media as one of Switzerland's leading personalities of the century.

Wim van den Essenburg is Green Energy Marketing Manager at NUON in Arnheim, the Netherlands. After a career in marketing in the financial industry he joined a nature conservancy organisation, doubling its membership within a very short time by means of innovative marketing. Since June 2000 he has been responsible for the successful marketing activities of NUON, the Netherlands leading supplier of green power.

Adriana Farah is a Consultant at the OECD Environment Directorate in Paris. After an international career in research institutions and NGOs in Mexico, the US and the UK, she joined the OECD group on Sustainable Consumption.

Dr John Green is Manager of the Climate Change Strategy Unit at IT Power and Director of Green Electricity Marketplace, a UK green power marketing internet platform. He is presently managing a work programme on green electricity labelling under the ELGREEN project, which is assessing strategies for European-wide trade in green electricity.

Karl Heiz has been Director of Rätia Energie AG, Poschiavo (formerly Kraftwerke Brusio AG), since 1987. In 1999 his company launched Pure Power St. Moritz, the first power brand in Switzerland. Before joining Rätia Energie, Karl Heiz worked for Nestlé in Switzerland and abroad, ultimately as Head of Marketing in Korea.

Christian Kern is CEO of e-commerce specialist Verbund Stromvertriebsgesellschaft GmbH in Vienna and head of strategic marketing and sales management of the Verbund Group. Before joining Verbund in 1997, he worked as a business journalist and marketing consultant.

Dr Michael Laker is Senior Partner at manage-ment consultant Simon, Kucher & Partners, Strategy & Marketing Consultants, in Bonn, and CEO of the company in Vienna. One of his specialities is strategic planning for pricing and marketing in the energy industry.

Dr Atle Midtun is Professor at the Norwegian School of Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Energy and Environment, Sandvika, Norway. He is a leading authority on energy and environmental policy in liberalised markets and has published various international books on the regulation and organisation of the electricity market.

Ulrich Rethfeld has been Chairman of enyco AG, a multilevel internet marketplace for power trading based in Ottobrunn, Germany, since 1999. At the same time he is Managing Partner of top itcommunities GmbH. Previously he worked as Divisional Head and Director of Industrial Automation at Siemens Informationssysteme AG.

Dr Johannes Schimmel is Head of Marketing/Products at Zurich-based Swiss Citypower AG. In 1990 he became the City of St. Gallens energy officer, later heading the energy advisory unit of the St. Gallen municipal electricity utility. In 1994 he was appointed Head of Marketing and Sales on the companys executive board.

Dr Kai-Hendrik Schlusche is Founder and Chair-man of NaturEnergie AG, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, established in 1998. In addition, since 1996 he has been Head of Private and Corporate Customers at EnergieDienst GmbH. He has been involved in change management in the energy industry for 20 years.

Blair Swezey became Principal Policy Advisor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, the leading gov-ernment facility for research on renewable energy, in 1987. In this capacity he advises energy utilities and authorities such as the US Department of Energy on the development of green power programmes and strategies.

Sven Teske works for Greenpeace Germany, and is also founder and member of the supervisory board of Greenpeace energy eG in Hamburg. He has worked for Greenpeace since 1994, among other things heading campaigns for regenerative energy and the liberalisation of the electricity market. For 4 years he has been an advisor to Greenpeace International.

Christof Timpe is Energy and Climate Protection Coordinator at the Öko-Institut in Freiburg. In collaboration with WWF and the Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen, the institute has founded Verein EnergieVision e.V. and launched the ok-Power label.

Dr Roberto Vigotti is Head of Business Development and Marketing for Renewable Decentralised Energy Systems at CESI, a member of the Italian ENEL Group. He has many decades of experience in the energy industry, especially in the development of renewable energy systems. He is now also Chairman of the Renewables working group at EURELECTRIC.

Dale Vince is founder and Managing Director of NexGen Group Ltd., UK. The group combines Ecotricity, the UK green power market leader, with one of the UK's leading wind technology companies. Following the company's motto Green Power for the price of Brown, Ecotricity is aiming at the mass market and has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2000.

Meredith Wingate is head of the product certification and audit programme at the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) in San Francisco. CRS is the supporting institution of the American green-e certification programme. Meredith Wingate is a recognised authority on the California power market, and heads CRS consumer information programmes in various US states.

Dr Rolf Wüstenhagen is a lecturer at the Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen (IWOe-HSG), and Energy Analyst at SAM Sustainability Group, Zurich, a leading European provider of sustainability investments. His international research and consulting experience makes him one of the leading authorities on the green power markets in Europe and North America.