Argus Road Fuels Europe Conference

Sigurd Jørgensen

Director, Public Affairs, External Communications & Marketing , Yara Industrial Solutions

Sigurd Jørgensen is Director, Public Affairs, External Communications & Marketing in Yara Industrial Solutions. Firmly focused on its mission to “Responsibly feed the world and protect the planet” Yara is the world’s largest producer of AdBlue. Previously Sigurd worked in various sales and marketing roles for Shell in Oslo and London – from where he was one of four Directors who started automotive chemicals company Carix Group Ltd in a Management Buyout backed by 3i in 2000. Following the divestment of Carix to consumer and industrial chemicals group Kemetyl in 2005, Sigurd served in Group Director, Vice President and Managing Director roles there from 2006 to 2013, before joining Yara in 2014. Born in Norway, Sigurd has a BA with 1st Class Honours in Marketing from Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow, Scotland.

Caroline de Jonge

Business Manager AdBlue/DEF, OCI Global

Caroline is the Business Manager of AdBlue®/DEF for OCI Nitrogen in Europe. She has nearly 18 years of experience in the Automotive sector in various functions ranging from Sales & Export to Business Development management. Currently she is leading the Business of the AdBlue® development within OCI Europe focusing on developing markets and sustainable/decarbonized DEF/AdBlue® related products.

Nico de Wijk

Manager Procurement, Kemetyl Nederland BV

Nico started his career in seafaring and logistics. Since the early 1990s he has held various procurement positions at Nike, Interface, DSM Niaga, BMI and eventually Kemetyl. He has extensive experience in the outsourcing of manufacturing and the procurement of raw materials for industrial purposes. Kemetyl specialises in chemicals for car care, industrial cleaning and leisure use, operates in more than 10 countries, and produces 88mn litres of fluids from its own production facilities, contract fillers and storage facilities around the world. Products are sold in packages ranging from bulk down to small consumer packages. Nico manages the procurement department for Kemetyl in the Netherlands.

Felipe Rodriguez

Deputy Managing Director, ICCT Europe

Felipe Rodríguez is the Deputy Managing Director of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Europe, and a global director of ICCT’s Heavy-Duty Vehicle Programme. His work focuses on reducing the climate and air quality impacts of transport through improvements in conventional and zero emission technologies. Prior to joining ICCT, Felipe worked in the automotive industry and in academia investigating the formation of pollutants in combustion processes. Felipe has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MSc in Automotive Engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

Jens Assmann

Business Management Ammonia Value Chain & Operations Amino Resins, BASF SE

Jens Aßmann heads as Vice President the Business Management of BASF’s ammonia value chain in Europe as well as BASF’s amino resins production. He held positions across the areas of innovation, strategy & business management at BASF. For three years, he worked as Staff to BASF’s CTO. Jens studied chemistry at the university of Göttingen where he received his doctoral degree in the field of Physical Chemistry. He founded a start-up in 2002 and joined BASF as a research scientist in 2003.

Robin Futcher

Managing Director, Commercial Fuels Solutions

Robin has over 27 years of experience designing and engineering fuel distribution systems. He is a member of several technical committees for gaseous and liquid fuel systems, including standards bodies BSI and ISO, and has consulted on regulatory and safety topics across petroleum, fuel oil, hydrogen, ammonia and AdBlue. He is responsible for the Energy Institute’s guidance on the correct and safe handling of NOx reduction agent, and is an advocate for minimising the environmental impact of refuelling. Robin is dedicated to advancing hydrogen technology within the commercial sector and ensuring its safe integration. He serves as the technical author for BSI Flex 2073 — a guide for hydrogen fuelling under the Department of Transport-funded Zero-Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator initiative — further demonstrating his role in shaping industry standards and safety for renewable and low-carbon fuels.

Zack Zhang

Director, Lightning Speed

Zack is founder and director of Lightning Speed. Before this, Zack was involved in producing fuel additives and environmental protection equipment, independently operating several full-process projects. He has developed his own fuel additives and devices, and established a production factory for these products. Zach’s aim is to make the world better through his products.

Tim Cheyne

SVP - Global Head of Agriculture, Fertilizers, Ammonia, DEF, Argus

Tim is Senior Vice President for the fertilizer sector at Argus. Tim worked a process manager at an ammonia/urea plant in South Africa before moving to the UK to join KBR (then M.W. Kellogg) as a process engineer in the ammonia technology team. More recently Tim has covered fertilizer and industrial nitrogen as a market analyst.

Bryn James

Analyst - Consulting, Argus Media