Hydrogen webinar

Tim Buisseret is the Bulgaria Country Director for the Department for International Trade, based at the British Embassy in Sofia. He has lived and worked in Bulgaria for twenty years, primarily in the telecoms sector, including several years as General Manager of Mobikom, the first mobile phone company. He understands well the opportunities and challenges of doing business in Bulgaria.

Richlove Mensah is Department for International Trade’s Regional Director for Trade and Investment in Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Warsaw, he provides leadership and strategic direction to ten teams across the region: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Prior to joining DIT he worked as an Economic Adviser at the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) where he had the responsibility for setting the strategic direction of the department’s analytical work on international trade and investment.

Prior to this, he worked at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as Head of Global Economy and G7 Foreign Affair sous Sherpa, where he was directly involved in international G7 negotiations.
Before joining FCO, he worked as the Head of DfT’s Better Regulation Unit, where he had the overall responsibility for the quality of the Department’s Regulatory Impact Assessments.
He has also held two positions at the UK’s Business Department, including as Trade Economist. He represented the UK in this capacity at the WTO, OECD and the EU.
He studied Economics and Politics (BA) at Manchester University and International Economics (MSc) at Lunds Universitet in Sweden.

Helen Coleman has over 17 years' experience in the energy industry. In her current role she is responsible for setting the Genesis hydrogen strategy and overseeing the hydrogen services globally. Helen has experience in Green & Blue Hydrogen extending from business development and proposals to study management and projects sponsorship. Her project management track record includes scopes within two major UK hydrogen clusters, requiring engagement with vendors and licensors to support the hydrogen technology selection studies. Helen’s previous experience includes Decision Gate Management and Analysis; Pre-Feasibility to Pre-FEED studies; Offshore support, production optimisation and offshore process troubleshooting.
Helen has been extensively involved in chairing / facilitating numerous operator risk assessments, internal Option Identification and Select workshops and Consultancy Leadership Team business strategy reviews.
Helen has worked in a number of international locations including Rome, Norway, Australia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Ghana, India, Italy, US (Alaska and Houston) and UK (Aberdeen and London), both onshore and offshore. She has had exposure to international standards and many styles of working, adapting to her client requirements.

Senior management professional with wide international experience across engineering, automotive, electrical and medical sectors and a track record of delivering in interim roles.

Product Marketing Specialist for Luxfer Gas Cylinders with experience across social media, public relations and marketing communications within the alternative fuels and gas cylinder industry

Stephen is the Head of Carbon and Energy Consulting and has 20 years of experience in program and project management, and has worked on policy, investment development and strategic projects for UK Government, private sector, academia and commercial consulting. Stephen has extensive knowledge of energy, carbon and resource management. He manages the delivery of projects for alternative energy generation, energy and transport systems and low carbon strategy development to net zero, including the development of new technology opportunities. This includes business case development, implementation global award-winning green gas project delivery, programming and due diligence of proposed developments and operational change.

Juan is the Director of Hydrogen and Energy. Juan is a chartered chemical engineer with a strong technical background in process design, evaluation, optimisation and development of decarbonisation in the energy and industrial sectors. He has an outstanding track record in providing practical cost-effective solutions to the downstream industry with over 40 margin improvement programmes and projects for facilities worldwide. He has multiple energy transition projects ranging from feasibility of green hydrogen and green ammonia to delivering Singapore’s Hydrogen Economy in collaboration with Singapore’s Prime Minister Office (PMO) assessing front end generation and decarbonising industrial sectors include ammonia and steel production.

Denis’ professional experience covers 14+ years in energy sectors (including nuclear & new energy) and successful implementation of projects in the following sectors: metallurgy, OEMs, pulp and paper and general industry. Projects in energy sector cover qualification of equipment to local norms and standards, consultancy and project management of complex projects with multiple contractors and stakeholders. Denis’ experience also covers marketing, trend data analysis to support strategic presentations and involvement in feasibility and case studies, issuing reports including new energy and green H2 solutions concepts and products to customers. Denis’ experience also includes involvement of experts, forming teams, accomplishment of nontypical applications starting from scratch, technical qualifications and follow-up support after implementation of the project onsite in EMEA region.