Argus Biomass Asia Conference

Anita Puspita Sari

VP Pengembangan Bisnis, Pemasaran & Perencanaan Biomassa, PLN Energi Primer Indonesia

Anita Puspita Sari is the Vice President of Business Development Biomass at PLN Energi Primer Indonesia, a role she has held since January 2023. She previously served as Vice President of Bio Energy at PT PLN (Persero) from 2021 to 2022, following four years as Manager and six years as Engineer within the same organization. Beginning her career as a SCADA Engineer from 2003 to 2010. She brings over 20 years of experience in the energy sector, with a strong focus on bioenergy, biomass commercialization, and sustainable energy planning. Throughout her tenure at PLN, she has driven initiatives to integrate renewable biomass solutions into Indonesia’s energy portfolio, combining technical expertise with strategic planning to support scalable and sustainable energy projects.

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Marketing & Resource Trading Manager, Kobelco Trading Australia

Kazuyuki is the Marketing & Resource Trading Manager at Kobelco Trading Australia, based in Sydney. He has over 10 years of experience in international logistics and energy markets and currently leads Kobelco Trading’s biomass energy initiatives across Australia and New Zealand. He trades and develops projects for sustainable fuels, such as white and black wood pellets and other renewable resources, to support the region’s transition to low-carbon energy. Kazuyuki handles sourcing, logistics, and strategic partnerships to enhance biomass supply chains and market access. He specializes in procurement, contract and supplier management, performance forecasting, and international marketing. Kazuyuki focuses on the Japanese market and cross-cultural communication to drive innovation and growth in the renewable energy and resource trading sectors.

Wee Khoon Oh

Founder/Managing Director, Sobono

Jayendu Krishna

Director - Head Maritime Advisors, Drewry

David Hiel

Chief Commercial Officer, Wilhelmina

Cai Rong Lim

Senior Manager Biomass Balance Solutions Asia Pacific, BASF

As Senior Manager - Biomass Balance Solutions for Asia-Pacific at BASF, she leads the region’s sustainable transformation by sourcing renewable feedstocks for chemical processing and overseeing audit and certification of Asian sites manufacturing biomass-balanced products, enabling customers to transit toward lower carbon emissions while ensuring traceability, compliance and robust sustainability claims.
Before joining BASF, she was the Head of Functional Materials at tesa in Germany, where she led R&D in Adhesive Technology across applications including electronics, automotive and paper manufacturing.
Throughout her career, she has consistently advanced material sustainability and innovation, combining technical leadership, regulatory and certification expertise, and a pragmatic focus on scalable implementation across global supply chains.

Ir. Ts. Dr. Gideon Tan

Head - Group Transformation Division, FGV Holdings Berhad

Ir. Ts. Dr. Gideon Tan, an MEng graduate from Imperial College London and a Doctorate in Business Administration, began his career as a Technical Executive in FGV's Downstream Division, mastering technical operations at oil and fats refineries and manufacturing plants. He later transitioned to a strategic role in FGV Holdings Berhad's Group CEO office, where he spearheaded group-level technical initiatives and executed improvement projects across the supply chain, including research and development, estate management, and production processes. In 2020, he was appointed Head of the Transformation Management Office at FGVHB, where he leads business efficiency enhancements and drives Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives integral to FGV’s Net Zero Agenda. A prominent advocate for sustainability, he has championed the integration of solar, biomass, and energy efficiency measures, representing FGV at international platforms.

Simon Yim

Chief Executive Officer, Sky Renewables

Simon has 30 years of experience in banking (legal), power project development, corporate M&A and private equity. Simon is an Industry Advisor of Solaris Fund, a Japanese hedge fund. Simon is also a Senior Consultant of Lockton Companies, a global top 10 insurance broker. Prior to joining LDC, Simon was a Partner of The Longreach Group from 2007 to 2011. Simon sat on the Executive Board of EnTie Commercial Bank in Taiwan for the turnaround of the bank. Between LDC and Longreach, Simon spent 16 months in Dalian, China to set up a government- sponsored Renminbi private equity fund. Before joining Longreach, Simon was General Manager of Asia-Pacific Business Development (M&A) for GE’s industrial businesses (Energy, Oil & Gas, Aviation, Healthcare, Transportation, Water Technologies and general industrial). Simon was based in Beijing from 2000 to April 2012. Prior to joining GE in 2001, Simon specialized in power project investment in Greater China and held positions as Business Development Director and China Regional Director for Southern Company in the US (Fortune #153); and Project Counsel for China Light & Power in Hong Kong. Simon sat on the Boards of Huadian Power International (a big 5 genco in China with 56,000MW installed capacity) and the 1,980MW Shajiao C Power Plant JV in Guangdong, China.

Karan Khinchi

Director, Energy Transition, Standard Chartered Bank

Jens Price Wolf

Founder, Voksigrene

Jens Price Wolf is an independent advisor and founder of Voksigrene, where he works across the biomass supply chain with agricultural products, wood chips and wood pellets. He previously held roles with Enviva, Drax, Orsted and McKinsey. His latest role was general manager for Enviva Europe, where he led the company's European operations, regulatory engagement and market development. As commercial director at Drax Power, Wolf managed biomass and other fuel procurement, logistics and power trading. As director of asset management and development at Dong Energy Thermal Power, now Orsted, Wolf managed the development of biomass conversions for the company's coal-fired power fleet.

Tamio Ida

Director/Professor/Doctor, Kindai University, Bio-coke Research  Institute

Dato Leong Kin Mun

President, Malaysia Biomass Industries Confederation

Michael Wild

President, International Biomass Torrefaction and Carbonization Council IBTC

Michael Wild, economist, and engineer by education, is active in biomass and renewable energies for practically his entire 35 years professional career and a frontrunner in the bioenergy sector. Michael's expertise includes advising on biomass mobilization, processing, and upgrading, the handling of contractual and regulatory matters as well as the financial engineering on biomass processing or consuming facilities. He developed biomass fired district heating systems, worked with and for IFIs and EC in renewable programs, established the first ever online trading platform for biomass, initiated the acceptance of Palm Kernel Shell as power plant fuel and organized the first ever shipment and following continuous supply of PKS from Indonesia to Europe in 2003 in parallel to other ag biomass, wood chips and pellets. He led the development of one of the first continuous torrefaction processes and holds for 12 years the presidency of the International Biomass Torrefaction and Carbonization Council IBTC.

Liu Hongrong

Executive Deputy Secretary-General, Biomass Energy Industry Promotion Association (BEIPA)

Senior Engineer Liu Hongrong is the Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Biomass Energy Industry Promotion Association (BEIPA) under the CHINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (CAPID) and President of the Beijing Songshan Low-Carbon Technology Research Institute. He is also a Senior Expert of the Green and Low-Carbon Technology Professional Committee of the China Energy Research Society and a Distinguished Expert of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). He has long researched biomass energy industry policies, development planning, standards and specifications, low-carbon technologies, and dual-carbon strategies. As an expert on the energy utilization of organic solid waste, he advises government authorities on policy formulation, industry development planning, and enterprise investment decision-making. He has helped formulate multiple national, industrial, and group standards and is a founder of China's "Zero Carbon Energy Certificates."

Chester Tan

General Manager, Sobono

Hector Ingram

Co-Founder and Group Strategy Director at RAW Energy, RAW Energy Ventures Pte Ltd.

A 23-year career with BP Chemicals until 2007, including a period as the company's Synthetic Ethanol Product Manager in the mid-1990s, provided an initial exposure to biofuels and sparked an interest in sustainable development. Family ties to farming kick-started an interest in how farming can change the world. Work with partners on high-yielding energy grasses in Asia and southern America since 2010 led to the founding of RAW Energy and its subsidiary companies in February 2021. The company's initial project, RAW Solid Fuels, comprises a Napier Grass farm (termed 'HTG' or Hybrid Tropical Grass) and associated pelletization facilities in Sarawak. The facilities produce high-calorie, carbon-negative pellets for sustainable power generation, with additional operations to open in Suriname in 2026. The company later established RAW Biofuels to assess sustainable biofuels from HTG and recently developed RAW Power, its self-build power generation entity that uses its carbon-negative HTG feedstock.

Mohit Verma

Founder, Biomass Energeons India

Mohit Verma brings over 17 years of experience, including 6 years in the biomass industry as the founder of Biomass Energeons India. His work focuses on sustainable energy solutions such as CBG, torrefaction, MSW, biochar, and biomass pellets, with an aim to drive rural development and global carbon reduction. Mohit has held roles in Trade Marketing at Sony India Pvt Ltd., as Marketing Manager at Samsung India Electronics Pvt Ltd., and as Trade Promotion Manager at CERA Sanitaryware Ltd., establishing a strong track record in strategic, profitability-focused marketing. Biomass Energeons India aims to unify the biomass sector in India, streamlining procurement and enhancing accessibility to support a sustainable future through training, development programs, and consultancy services.

Carsten Huljus

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP)

Carsten Huljus is Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP), a not-for-profit multi-stakeholder organisation that has developed an independent third-party certification system to provide assurance that biomass is sourced from legal and sustainable sources. Initially trained as a forester he has been working in the voluntary sustainability certification sector with schemes like FSC, PEFC and SBP in global forest industries for more than 22 years, in various management positions.

Rajesh Chaudhary

Director, Cogo Eco-tech Solutions Private Limited 

Mr. Rajesh Chaudhary is a veteran industry leader with over 24 years of rich experience in waste management, biomass thermal conversion, and renewable energy innovation. A passionate technologist and patent holder in Integrating
Thermolyzing & Calcination Technology, he has pioneered sustainable solutions that transform agricultural residues and municipal solid waste into high-energy biofuels. As Director at Cogo Ecotech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Lead Technologist at RS Waste Care Technology Pvt. Ltd., he drives the development and commercialization of cutting-edge waste-to-energy systems designed for circular economy impact and carbon reduction.

Steve Tan

Vice President - Business Development, Argus Media

Takeshi Maeda

Senior Reporter – Japan Biomass Markets, Argus

Takeshi Maeda is a senior reporter in charge of Japan biomass markets, at global price-reporting agency Argus Media. He currently contributes to the Argus Biomass Markets (ABM) report, a weekly that publishes global spot price assessments for industrial wood pellets, residential pellets, chips and palm kernel shells (PKS) and provides in-depth market commentaries, analysis, stories and related data. Before joining Argus in April 2024, Takeshi had fifteen years of experience in Journalism as a newspaper reporter in Japan. He received the Sakata Memorial Journalism Award in the international category as a member of the reporting team in 2016.

Jeff Kuntz

Editor - Biomass, Argus

Andrew Jones

Editor, Solid Fuels, Asia-Pacific, Argus

Andrew Jones is the Deputy Editor for Argus Asia Coal. He joined Argus in 2009, based in the company’s Singapore office. His initial focus was on the Asia-Pacific dry bulk and tanker markets before switching to the coal desk, where he now focuses on price discovery, news and analysis of regional thermal coal and petroleum coke markets. Having previously worked at sea, Andrew started his journalism career in the UK before moving to Asia in 2006 as a correspondent with Dow Jones Newswires/The Wall Street Journal, where he covered various regional commodities markets.