Argus Clean Ammonia North America Conference

Seonghoon is the founding CEO of Amogy. Seonghoon received his PhD from MIT in 2015 where his dissertation focused on semiconductor physics and spintronics, with a minor in Finance. He then built an academic and industrial career, including his recent work at IBM TJ Watson Research Center as a Staff Scientist prior to Amogy. He was selected as a Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in 2018, and was also the recipient of a Presidential Young Scientist Award in South Korea in 2018. Read less

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Adolfo Rivera is Avangrid’s Senior Director for Green Hydrogen. He earned an aerospace engineer degree by Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri and a double MBA degree by IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He is been working for the Iberdrola Group for the last 14 years, managing international energy projects across four continents. For the last two and a half years, he has been developing the new Green Hydrogen Business in Spain, the UK, the US and Australia, and now is leading the Green Hydrogen Business at Avangrid. Read less

Hady Abdulhady is the Director of Business Development and Sales of thyssenkrupp Uhde USA for Ammonia and Fertilizers technologies, and responsible for North American region. With 15 years of experience in different technologies of Hydrogen/Syngas and Ammonia in Middle East and USA, Hady held different roles from project management, application engineering and business development throughout his career. Prior to joining thyssenkrupp Uhde, Hady worked with KBR in USA, and with Linde in Saudi Arabia and USA, focusing on Technology Licensing & Commercialization as well as EPC. Read less

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Chris is a principal at bp ventures, based in Houston, Texas. He focuses on production & operations and gas & low carbon investments. Chris is responsible for sourcing and executing investments, as well as supporting bp ventures’ portfolio companies through his board positions at Belmont Technologies and Satelytics. With a background in engineering and policy, Chris worked on Capitol Hill – exploring new ways to bring energy to market – before joining bp’s upstream organisation. Inspired by the belief that innovation will be vital to solving the climate crisis, and that viable business models exist outside of facilitating targeted advertisements, Chris decided to pursue a career at bp ventures. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. in management science & engineering from Stanford University. Read less

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Dr Kubota joined IHI Corporation in 1990, and had numerous general management roles in various departments. In 2019 he became Associate Director and General Manager of the Business Development Department of Resources, Energy and Environment Business Area. He has been in his current post since April this year. Dr Kubota obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering at Yokohama National University in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and completed his doctorate in Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1997. Read less

Keshni Sritharan is a Senior Associate in OCI’s Corporate Business Development and Investments Team, primarily responsible for executing on OCI’s Hydrogen and decarbonization initiatives globally. Keshni has been with the company for 3 years and previously held positions in investor relations and nitrogen commercial. Prior to joining OCI, Keshni was with CRU for several years as a senior analyst covering nitrogen and natural gas analysis. Read less

Eric Rubenstein is Managing Partner at New Climate Ventures (“NCV”). Launched to tackle climate change with a holistic approach, NCV invests in innovative early-stage startups broadly across the carbon reduction and avoidance ecosystems. NCV officially launched in 2021, and has invested in companies that span the areas of climate tech, recycling, alternative materials, and food tech, among other emissions avoiding technologies. Prior to founding New Climate Ventures, Eric held investment, fundamental strategy, and trading roles at Citigroup and Louis Dreyfus in their commodities and energy trading divisions respectively. A psychology major with a focus on behavioral neuroscience, Eric graduated Yale University with a Bachelor’s degree. After graduating Yale, Eric received his MBA from Temple University with a focus on global business and entrepreneurship. Read less

Brad brings over thirty years of practical commercial and physical project experience to JERA’s business plans. Brad’s role at JERA Americas, based in Houston, leads commercial business development activities focused on low carbon projects. These plans support the reduced carbon goals of JERA Americas and JERA Co. based in Japan. Brad has also led a wide variety of ventures including hydrogen/ammonia project development, power generation assets, large and small LNG projects, wind & solar farms, alternative energies, energy trading teams, organizing long term natural gas supplies, and effectively integrating EPC contracts into project structures. Brad’s 30+ years of extensive commercial experience with large and small projects and other energy infrastructure ventures supports JERA’s efforts to provide value to the marketplace and specific customers including joint venture partners. Brad has had a diverse career including working overseas for 11 years delivering projects in Venezuela, India, China, Russia, Uzbekistan, the UK and across Europe. Read less

Trevor Best is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syzygy Plasmonics. Syzygy is pioneering a new type of chemical reactor designed to produce industrial chemicals at lower cost and with fewer carbon emissions. Their novel technology is driven by light rather than combustion, enabling a substantially more efficient process. Critically, Syzygy’s technology supports energy security and expansion through resource efficiency. Recent publications show Syzygy’s core components can be made without using rare earth materials, adding to the company’s value as a sustainable technology provider. Before starting Syzygy, Trevor worked for the oilfield services company Baker Hughes. There he held a variety of management positions and gained expertise in technology development, project and personnel management, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. He is originally from Midland Texas and is a graduate of Texas Tech University. Read less

Emile joined Yara in 2018 and has been working on different aspects of Yara’s transition to clean ammonia, most recently as product manager on certification and customer value propositions. Before joining Yara, he held various roles in manufacturing, engineering and project management. Emile has a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology. Read less

Stergios Stamopoulos is an experienced professional in the maritime industry focusing on maritime decarbonization, energy efficiency of ships, regulatory compliance, ESG reporting, GHG accounting and human factors. He joined ABS in 2007 as an engineer, and has worked in Greece, South Korea, and the USA on a variety of different roles and positions. He is currently the Manager of the ABS Houston Sustainability Center assisting ship owners, operators, and other stakeholders in the Americas region with achieving their sustainability goals. Prior to joining ABS, he was worked for another Classification Society as well as a Ship Design firm. Stergios graduated from the University of Glasgow in the UK with a BEng degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. He also holds an MSc in Marine Engineering and an MPhil in Marine Technology degrees from the University of Newcastle in the UK. Read less

As CEO, Keith is accountable for establishing Pin Oak’s strategic direction, delivering strong financial and operational performance, and building a culture that safely, responsibly, and sustainably creates value for customers and stakeholders. He serves on the company’s board of managers, bringing a 30-year track record of successfully developing and executing strategies that transform businesses to deliver value-driven growth. Keith has been actively involved in the community including service as board president for the United Way’s Galveston County Mainland chapter. He received the prestigious Boy Scouts of America Golden Eagle Award for the Bay Area Council and in 2010 was inducted into the Texas Labor-Management Hall of Fame. Keith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in metallurgical and materials engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Read less

Erika Taugher has worked in the energy industry for 15 years, focusing on business development, trading, structuring, and origination. Her experience includes work at top-tier investment banks in London, New York and Houston, where she currently resides. Her trading experience includes natural gas financial derivatives and options, power, renewables, and physical crude oil. Erika is currently focused on developing Pattern Energy’s green fuels business. She is working on several projects in North America that will produce both green hydrogen and liquefied green ammonia for domestic and international use. Awarded a full Division 1 athletic scholarship, Erika earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, and MS in Business from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Erika grew up in Canada, however due to her ancestry she was chosen to play for the Portuguese national soccer team in 2006 and 2007. She was inducted into her Alma Mater’s Hall of Fame in October 2021. In 2022, Kayo named Erika to its “Top 22 in ’22 Women in Renewable Energy Finance and Development” list. Read less

Oleksiy Tatarenko is a Principal in the Climate-Aligned Industries Program at RMI. He leads the Green Hydrogen Catapult, a joint initiative between RMI and the UN’s High-Level Champions for Global Climate Action, promoting the aggressive global adoption of green hydrogen at the scale needed to achieve a 1.5°C future. Oleksiy has focused on systems-level transformation of the energy sector and pioneering business models in the context of radical uncertainty. At Shell, he led the company’s Energy Transition Program, spearheading new initiatives in hydrogen and developing decarbonization strategies, as well as providing thought leadership as part of Shell’s Scenarios leadership team. Oleksiy previously served as the Deputy Country Chair for Shell in Ukraine. Read less

Sebastian Kihle has a background as an engineer and physicist holding a Master of Science within Renewable Energy and Environmental Physics from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where he specialized in energy physics, object-oriented programming and machine learning. He has previously worked with optimizing energy efficiency in buildings and done work for Nel Hydrogen where he developed a short-term shadow forecasting sensor to optimize off-grid operations of electrolyzers powered by PV. Sebastian has been working in H2Carrier for the past 1.5 years where he has full-stack engineered independent production modelling software and contributes to technology evaluations to make sure H2Carrier utilizes the best available technology. Read less

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Tomoyuki oversees US business development for ammonia technology company Tsubame BHB., building partnerships with renewable energy and hydrogen developers, and companies in the agriculture sector interested in small-scale green ammonia production, with a view to achieving de-carbonization and stable ammonia supply. Before joining Tsubame BHB, Tomoyuki was a Process Engineer at the Haber-Bosch ammonia plant, where he built up a strong knowledge base about production. He also worked at a global oil and gas company in sales, marketing and supply-chain roles. Tomoyuki has master’s in chemical engineering from Waseda University. Read less

Trevor Brown, CFA is the Executive Director of the Ammonia Energy Association, a global industry group that promotes the responsible use of ammonia in a sustainable energy economy. He is also an independent ammonia industry analyst; in 2013, he founded AmmoniaIndustry.com, a website that provides data on capital investments in new ammonia plants, as well as on research and development in new ammonia production technology. Since 2012, he has been an agitator for the commercialization of sustainable ammonia synthesis technologies. Read less

Jakob Krummenacher, VP of Clean Energy at LSB Industries, leads the clean energy strategy, which includes driving initiatives to lower the company carbon footprint, improving environmental sustainability, and developing markets for future low carbon products, like using ammonia as a fuel in marine applications and power generation. Mr. Krummenacher has over 17 years of experience in the energy and chemical industry, most recently with CF Industries where he was an integral part of the Clean Energy Solutions team. He began his career with BP, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility in the chemicals, oil trading, and energy trading businesses. Mr. Krummenacher has ample knowledge of commodity markets, energy trading, corporate development, technology, and strategy. Mr. Krummenacher holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Read less

Ruth has been editor of the Argus Ammonia report since 2017, most recently overseeing the report’s expansion into the green ammonia space. She joined Argus in 2009 and covered the coal, biomass and freight markets in the UK and US, before moving into fertilizers in 2016. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Brunel University London. Read less

Oliver Hatfield, is VP Business Development for Argus Media in London. Oliver joined Argus in October 2018 following its acquisition of Integer Research, where he spent 15 years as head of the fertilizer market research team. Oliver has more than 20 years of experience in business analysis and consulting, and he was also one of the founders of Integer. Oliver has worked extensively on multi-client and bespoke fertilizer market analysis studies, covering market forecasts, strategy, due diligence, market entry and project feasibility. He has worked as an analyst on all the key fertilizer and related chemical markets: nitrogen, phosphates, potash, sulphur and sulphuric acid. Oliver is a graduate of economics and development economics from the University of Manchester in the UK. Read less

Stefan leads Argus‘ Hydrogen and Future Fuels service which provides news, analysis, production cost indicators and datasets on hydrogen, e-methanol and ammonia. He has been with Argus for more than six years and covered European natural gas markets before shifting his focus to hydrogen and its derivatives. Prior to this, he worked for an investment research company in London and studied in Maastricht, Leeds and London. Read less