Argus Biofuels & Feedstocks Asia Conference

Shutong studied and worked in the Netherlands for nine years. He graduated from VU University Amsterdam and has a Master’s degree in environment and energy management studies. He started his biofuel career in SkyNRG in 2012, then worked at Argos energis (now Varoenergy) as the Asian Business Development Manager. He was the first person to export Chinese UCO, and also brought ISCC to the Chinese market. In 2015, Shutong moved back to China and founded MotionECO, aiming to build a reliable, tradable and sustainable biofuel and feedstock supply chain. MotionECO has its own collection network, and track and trace applications. Shutong is awarded as Forbes China 30 under 30 and winner of UNEP sustainable challenge etc. Read less

Sami will start as Vice-President, APAC, for Neste’s Renewable Aviation business unit in January 2022, leading the commercial team responsible for sales and market development of sustainable aviation fuels in Asia-Pacific. Sami has been with Neste since 2013, and in his current role is responsible for business development in Renewable Aviation, supporting the definition and execution of Neste’s growth strategy for sustainable aviation fuels. He was previously responsible for Neste’s corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions department, and before joining the firm worked in investment banking in London, advising customers in the oil and gas and renewables sectors on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Sami is passionate about business opportunities that serve Neste’s purpose of ”creating a healthier planet for our children''. Read less

Experienced with hydrocarbons and now focused on Biofuels at Apeiron Bioenergy. Our principal aim is to boost our supply of biofuels in order to guarantee long-term dependability and stability. Our biggest triumph is having collection centres in most Southeast Asia countries, and we are now expanding our reach into the Middle East. Read less

Vinesh Sinha, the CEO of FatHopes Energy, has been at the forefront of the sustainable biofuel industry for in access of a decade, prioritising the most transparent, accountable and robust supply chain for sustainable biofuels implementation. Under his watch the organisation has developed some state of the art solution to provide real time traceability of waste and residues aggregated, providing peace of mind across the supply chain. In the recent year the system has caught the attention of global regulators with a potential of it becoming widely accepted as a true traceability solution - enabling subsidies and incentives to be accurate calculated and disbursed. His work has been throughout the world and he has managed to engage and push his ideology to the highest levels of the largest corporations in the world that produce vast amounts of waste and residue based vegetable oil that act as a feedstock that the organisation converts to biofuels and supply’s large global oil and gas companies predominantly in Europa and USA. He started the organisation at a tender age of 19 and now more than a decade later has become an iconic Entrepreneur in Asia, winning several awards including the Forbes 30 under 30 2018, EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 and has been identified as a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum. Read less

Han is leading TotalEnergies Biofuels and feedstocks trading activities in Asia. He has over 10 years of experience in biofuels market across Europe and Asia. Prior to TotalEnergies, he held trading and origination roles with various European oil majors in London and Shanghai. Read less

Mr Clarence Woo has been involved in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry for the past 32 years. He started his career with Mobil Oil Singapore where he handled various responsibilities including technical services, which provided technical expertise and training in the field of lubricants, fuels, and LPG. Mr Woo worked at Ethyl Corporation as Senior Area Manager managing petroleum additive sales to various countries in Asia Pacific. He also served as a Product Manager, Fuel Additives, where he helped managed fuel additive sales and fuel additive developments in Asia. Mr Woo is currently the Executive Director of the Asian Clean Fuels Association, which supports governments and encourages industries to pursue the use of cleaner fuels for a cleaner environment through the attributes of sound science, cost effectiveness and sustainability. Read less

Ammo Parmar has over eight years price reporting experience with Argus Media and previously ICIS, with more than seven of those covering biofuels across Europe and Asia. Read less

Luis Poch Rodrigo has worked in the biodiesel industry since 2009, and always been focused on waste-to-energy projects. His main expertise is in using waste feedstock to produce quality biofuel, mainly within double-counting regimes. He is experienced in ISCC EU certification and Italian regulation, and helps suppliers and customers meet all the quality parameters and regulations required to sell in European markets. In 2013, he started UCO Trading Spain, which trades sustainable feedstock for biodiesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Read less

Bala Mukundan qualified as a Chartered Accountant and set up accounting practice. As a practicing Chartered Accountant, his focus was on financial and management consultancy for small/medium businesses. In 1994, NSB turned an entrepreneur and co-founded an engineering marketing company pioneering and specialising in a low temperature material improvement technology namely cryogenic processing. This technology was originally developed in USA and the proprietary design plant is now manufactured in India and caters to a wide vista of industry ranging from engineering, aerospace, electrical to plastic industry. The Company has several installations across India. The group has also provided energy and related solutions to various companies early in their business. Inspired by the enormous potential for products based on biotechnology, in the pharmaceuticals and pesticide industry, he founded Proalgen Biotech Ltd. in 1997. He later established in 2008 one of the largest Biodiesel facilities in India as one of the pioneering units for operating with multi feedstocks for production of Biodiesel. His knowledge of sustainable feedstock, efficient process and sustainable biodiesel are un paralleled in India. He is a routine speaker at various Domestic and International Conferences on Biofuels. He is President of the Biodiesel Association of India and through it a member of Biofuel Cell of MOPNG, Government of India and do in the BIS Standards committee for Petro Products. Read less

Victor is a founder of Nexus, a company offering brokerage services in the biofuels, petroleum and chemical sectors worldwide. He has nine years of market experience as a physical biodiesel broker focusing on the Mediterranean Region and South America. Victor is a regular speaker at conferences in Europe and overseas, covering the biofuels market and regulations in Europe. His working languages are French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Victor holds a double degree — a Master’s in Management and an MSc in Financial Markets from EDHEC Business School. Read less

Sammy has worked in energy for more than a decade, first as a market analyst with non-profit think tanks in the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia, then in the corporate sector as a pricing analyst in Singapore. Currently he is based in Dubai with Argus Media, reporting prices and developments in the marine fuel industry across Asia. Read less

Ms Han Jing Xieng is a strategic thinker across oil, LNG, biofuels and energy sectors with a proven track record in corporate development and planning, and execution of business growth activities in the form of asset investments, M&A and the setting up plus implementation of new business strategies and functions. As General Manager of GoodFuels Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, she is accountable for setting the Singapore operations including incorporation, introducing GoodFuels to key market players in the biofuels bunkering sector in Singapore, contracting offtake and sales, establishing supply and logistics, day to day operations, hiring and recruitment. The goal of GoodFuels is to create a better world by accelerating the energy transition in these transport segments for which biofuels are one of the best or only viable alternatives in the foreseeable future and Jing Xieng is very proud to play her part in creating a better world for her three children and our future generations. Read less

Prapisala obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering (Environmental Technology) from the University of Manchester. She brings with her 15 years of experience, which include appointments as Research Engineer with the Keppel Offshore and Marine Technology Centre, as well as Research Lead with the Maritime Energy and Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence at the Nanyang Technological University. Her research areas include environmental technology (especially air pollution and GHG from the maritime industry), alternative fuels and energy sources for ports and ships, as well as biofuel quality and standards. In the past 10 years she has taken on lead roles in several projects involving exhaust gas emissions for the maritime industry. She is also familiar with analytical techniques and data for R&D in fuels, ship exhaust gas emissions and resultant by-products such as water and sludge. Read less

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Max is RSB’s Digital Solutions Manager, leading the development and implementation of new respectively refined digital services and platform initiatives. Based in Montreal, Canada, he also supports RSB’s engagement with stakeholders in North America. Prior to joining RSB, Max worked as an aviation stress engineer sizing lightweight composite airplane structures in Germany and France. After, he joined a master's program to learn more about the energy sector, and in particular sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). He then started his own online platform in Canada promoting sustainable flight and working as an expert in SAF consultancy projects. Having worked for a venture capital fund, an aerospace accelerator consultancy and a sustainable transportation incubator to follow his passion for innovative technologies, he has a strong understanding of digital service and product developments. Max holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering and a postgraduate Master of Science in Energy Management. Read less

Graduating from Chuo University with BA in Economics, Hiroaki Sugimori started off his career working for an investment management company. He joined ANA in 1998 and has 25 years of experience in the airline industry. Over the past 4 years, he has been engaged in various projects pertaining to the control and reduction of GHG emissions within the ANA group with a particularly strong focus on introducing sustainable aviation fuels into the Japanese market. He and his team have worked very closely with SAF producers in the US to inspect fuel quality at each step of the manufacturing process and other areas critical to usage, including transportation logistics and fuel blending for loading onto aircraft. This successful flight was a major step toward full-scale sustainable aviation fuel use for ANA. With this experience, his team was able to establish a procurement supply chain from Europe to Japan together with a leading European SAF producer. He also played a key role in launching the “SAF Flight Initiative Program” for ANA’s corporate customers. Read less

Member of the Board of ISCC since its inauguration in 2010 and currently advisor/consultant to some German, Singaporean & Malaysian Companies. Previous positions include 24 years in various senior management positions in Unilever; Managing Director of the German subsidiary of a Malaysian conglomerate and 6 years as Sales & Marketing Director at Mission New Energy. Read less

In her current capacity, Ming Zhen shares regional and global trends and insights with senior Leaders to inform policy plans and advocacy strategy. Before this role, she led Commercial teams to develop and capture opportunities to progress customers’ lower emission ambitions in key Asian markets as the Asia Pacific Low Emission Fuels Manager. She has more than a decade of experience with ExxonMobil in Commercial, Logistics and Strategic Relationship Management roles. Read less

Rahul is currently Wilmar’s Biofuels Business Unit manager, coordinating and managing its global Biofuels portfolio. He has over a decade of Agri-business experience spanning roles across Supply Chain management, Business Development, Sustainability, Advocacy and Policy, and Corporate Venturing functions. Read less

Experienced and accomplished management executive in the maritime, shipping, and offshore service industry, with 30 years of experience in both shore-based and sailing roles. After stepping ashore, have completed a Graduate Diploma in Maritime law and Arbitration from NUS, Singapore, a Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Maritime Management from WMU, Malmo, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Maritime Energy from WMU, Malmo. I have also established myself as an expert in sustainability and corporate social responsibility, having developed and executed conglomerate-wide sustainability ambitions, policies, and goals, as well as led sustainability reporting and disclosures in accordance with international frameworks. As Head of Risk Management for Quality Assurance at OSM Maritime, I have led the transformation teams for the unification and consolidation of business units' management, merger, and acquisition management, with a focus on safety, operational excellence, and improvement in service delivery. Additionally, have established sustainability performance and management systems, attained UNGC membership for the group, and developed a system for meeting the requisite SDGs. Read less

Ramon is Chief Commercial Officer at international trading company UCO Trading Spain. UCO trades commodities, by-products and end products in the biofuels industry. Ramon has extensive experience in business strategy, business development, supply chain management and sales, for both domestic and international markets in the US, Latin America and Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has an executive MBA from IE Business School in Madrid, as well as a master’s degree in international trade. Read less

Dietmar Posselt is a PhD chemist specializing in fuels and additives. Dr. Posselt is the founder and president of Aviation Fuel Projects Consulting based in Germany, offering technical and market-related consulting for fuel and additive projects since 2016, and specializing in the field of aviation fuels. Prior to founding his company, he worked 26 years in the chemical industry at BASF SE, from R&D of refinery catalysts to fuel additive development and marketing. Since 2002 he is focussing on activities in the field of aviation fuels. Dr. Posselt is active in numerous international working groups supporting certification, approval and implementation of synthetic aviation fuel components, including ASTM International Fuels Group (ASTM), Coordinating Research Council (CRC), UK Aviation Fuel Committee (AFC) and IATA. He is also Chair Emeritus of prestigious International Association for Stability, Handling and Use of Liquid Fuels (IASH). More than 20 fuel additive patents underpin his innovative power. Read less

Henri-J Bardon is currently developing an electronic market platform for biofuels for Aircarbon exchange (ACX) in Abu Dhabi. Henri has more than 15 years in various capacities in the biofuels industry with particular emphasis on Biodiesel and its feedstocks like Used Cooking Oil, Vegetable oils and other advanced products that yield high GHG savings for fuels in the transportation sector. Previously Henri has been involved with organising various Biodiesel desks in Asia and Europe with prestigious companies such as Raizen, Trafigura, EDF Trading, and Idemitsu as well as managing Biodiesel production facilities in both Europe and USA. Henri is a Continental Grain Merchandiser alumni with a solid understanding of Agribusiness. Henri received a Bsc degree in economics from Arizona State University and an International Finance - MBA - from Thunderbird School of International Management in Glendale Arizona. Read less

Loic Brachet’s extensive experience in the biofuels industry spans over 15 years and three continents. He has covered all the aspects of the industry, from operations to middle-office and risk management to trading. Constantly looking for new pockets of growth, and exploring routes less travelled, Loic has developed many new outlets in Europe and set up two businesses from scratch in Asia. He has successfully structured, negotiated, and closed business opportunities both on feedstock supply and finished product trading. Read less

As the Director of Innovation and Market Development at Marquis, Dr. Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim leads innovation initiatives and manages the technical and market development of investments in decarbonizing the economy. She joined Marquis in 2019 and appreciates the organization's vision to change the world through industrial decarbonization. Jennifer also serves on two scientific advisory boards. With nearly 20 years of industry experience, some of Jennifer's past positions include working at Valicor (later called Trucent) as a Research and Development Program Manager, then as the Director of Technical Services. She also served as an Associate Professor at Kettering University for a number of years. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Bowling Green State University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Read less

Shu San is the Regional Technology Sales Manager for Sulzer GTC based in Singapore. She has about 20 years of experience and previously worked for ExxonMobil Singapore and various consultancy companies such as Jacobs Consultancy/Advisian, ICIS and Nexant in both technical and commercial roles. Shu San’s experience includes business development, market analysis and profitability study, feasibility study, benchmarking and financial modelling relating to refinery, bio-refinery and petrochemical plants in Asia. Shu San also has manufacturing experience with exposure in multiple roles covering the areas of supply chain, refinery economics and operation, project planning and management as well as process engineering. Read less

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Jonty studied economics at the University of Cambridge. He spent his first four years with the Argus Consulting Services team in London, covering the European market. During his time in London, he worked predominantly on both short and long term crude and refined products forecasting. In 2018, Jonty joined the Singapore consulting, focusing on the delivery of single client projects related to downstream petroleum, biofuels and marine fuels. This has involved the delivery of a number of bespoke projects requiring in depth analysis of the outlook for alternative marine fuels. Read less