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Core Team
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Chairman Peter Williamson,
a renowned academic and business strategist, is Professor of International
Management at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. Peter is
the author of several well-known books and numerous articles on international
strategy. He advises large companies and serves as a non-executive director of
several companies, including Green Gas International BV. He is a recognised
expert on doing business in China and Asia where he has been working since the
early 1980s.
Peter
is one of the leading global experts in the development of successful
strategies for international growth, M&A and strategic alliances.
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Managing and Climate Practice Director Karl
Schultz has been in the environmental protection field for his
entire career and since 1994 has worked with energy businesses on approaches to
address climate change. He was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
Climate Protection Division for ten years, managing its domestic and
international coal and climate initiatives and coordinating the agencies carbon
capture and storage activities.
Karl is a leader in the field of climate change and emissions markets.
More recently, he has developed a practice in corporate and government planning
for climate adaptation. Working with an array of industry leaders, his
knowledge of the market drivers, future plans and the potential impact on the
energy sector is unrivalled.
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Martin
Bloemendal has over 30 years experience in energy, coal
and logistics markets and is well-known for developing market concepts
(e.g. "Battle Coal", "Gigajoule deals", etc.) which improve competitive
edge. He is a member of EURACOAL's market committee and is experienced in coal blends and using
biomass together with coal. Moreover, he is a member of the investment
committee of a greenhouse gas credits aggregation pool. He was the
Managing Director of GKE in Holland, responsible for buying all the
coal for the Dutch utilities. He was also an advisor to the European Commission Directorate General
for Transport and Energy.
In late 2002 Martin formed Bloemendal Consults BV,
dealing with energy and strategy; this was followed in 2004 by his role
in helping to start the Energy Edge initiative
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Nigel Yaxley (Cantab) is a leading figure in the European coal industry with experience spanning
all key industry milestones of the past thirty years. He was President
of Euracoal (European Association for Coal and Lignite) from 2005 to
2007, which brings together producers from across the EU27 and
candidate countries, as well as coal importers and those with other
coal interests.
Nigel
joined the coal industry in 1977 after graduating in Physics from
Cambridge University. He moved to UK Coal in 1995 on privatisation of
the industry and, as Marketing Director, was responsible for all coal
sales, marketing strategy and related policy issues for the company.
Since 2006 he has developed his consultancy business in the coal and
energy field, and is founder and Managing Director of CoalImp, the
Association of UK Coal Importers.
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Business Development Lead Michael Price
was based in Hong Kong from 1978 until 2002. During this period he
worked for China Light & Power Co. Ltd in a variety of line and
corporate positions which culminated in his appointment in 1998 as
Managing Director of CLP Power and subsequently as a main Board
Director of CLP Holdings.
From the early 1990's Michael was instrumental in transforming the
processes and culture of the Company to meet the changing business,
technical, political and social environments that were emerging.
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Linus
Adler has worked with Energy Edge since 2006 as
an Energy Analyst and is also responsible for Energy Edge's databases
and modeling development. His background is in economics, and prior to
joining Energy Edge he worked for the US Government as a database and
support program manager.
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