Energy2B

First place:

Ricardo Leandro
(Portugal)

Business focus:
solar energy

Second place:

Jorge Valencia (UK)

Business focus:
biofuels

Third place:

Ana Rita Guerra Silva Rodrigues (Portugal)

Business focus:
energy buildings

First place:

Edvarts Dzelzitis

Business focus:
biomass

Shared third place:

Ivo Peperko

Business focus:
heat pumps

Second place:

Joseph Teasdale

Business focus:
wind energy

Shared third place:

Neil Cooke

Business focus:
energy management

Ms Elena Rodriguez is Director of Enterprise Education at the University of Sheffield, as well as senior University lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty director of Women in Engineering. Elena has previously worked in industry for seven years in project management, product development, quality control and business planning. Elena, in addition to being a mechanical engineer, has MBAs in Industrial Relations and Industrial Management, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education. In the last nine years Elena has developed three degrees, which aim at embedding enterprise and management in engineering. She is also the founder of the Ibberson Centre for Enterprise, better known as the E-lab and now the University of Sheffield Enterprise (USE).

Gaetano Squadrito is a researcher of the CNR-ITAE with experience in graduate, post graduate and PhD student training (Italian and foreign). Currently, he is working on development, production and characterisation of polymer electrolyte fuel cells and on hydrogen storage. In the PEFC field, he is author/co-author of 13 scientific papers on international scientific journals, 37 congress communications, and 35 scientific reports for EU and National project and for industrial contractors. He is evaluator for the European Commission DG Research in the field of energy.

Giovanni Di Fiore took part in an individual training course in General Management at HEC in Paris. In Innova BIC he is general manager. He has significant experience in selecting business ideas and companies. He is in charge of developing and planning strategies on behalf of local administrations. He has been involved as a speaker in many university-training courses in technology transfer.

Peter Ring works at A.P. Moller Mærsk as technology innovator and strategist, managing innovative projects focused on reductions of energy consumption of the Mærsk fleet. He holds a M.Sc.eng, specialized in Thermal Energy converting systems and machines. He has broad industrial experiences from 19 years of developing solutions for mass-production and handling of the spectrum from counselling of international OEM costumers, making innovative concepts, building prototypes to industrializing the finished product for mass production. Further Peter Ring is board member at the Danish School of Innovation.