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22-24 September 2020
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The Global CleanTech Summit  is the largest cleantech event in the world, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology alongside today’s most influential visionaries. Everything you need to know about the industry, today & beyond, can be found here.

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Amy Hood
Chief Financial Officer
Microsoft
Avinash Rugoobur
Chief Strategy Officer
Arrival
Michael Froman
Vice Chairman and President
Strategic Growth for Mastercard
Kate Brandt
Google Sustainability Officer at Google
Baroness Worthington
House of Lords
Nigel Topping
UK Gov, High Level Climate Action
COP26
Patrick O Brown
Founder
Impossible
Valdis Dombrovskis
Executive Vice President
European Commission, Green New Deal
Marc Benioff
Co-Founder
Salesforce
William Li
Co-Founder & CEO
NIO
Ted Cannis
Global Director, Electrification
Ford Motor Company
Imogen Pierce
CMO
Arrival
Daniel Johns
Global Future Council
World Economic Forum
Ross Kingsland
Founder & Chairman
PACE
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Amy Hood
Chief Financial Officer
Microsoft

Amy Hood currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft Corporation. Having joined Microsoft in 2002 holding positions in the investor relations group. She also served as chief of staff in the Server and Tools Business as well as running the strategy and business development team in the Business division. Previously, she worked at Goldman Sachs in various roles including investment banking and capital markets groups. Hood holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University in 1994 and an MBA from Harvard University. She currently sits at the #28 spot in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list

Avinash Rugoobur
Chief Strategy Officer
Arrival

Avinash Rugoobur, an experienced executive, joined Arrival as Chief of Strategy following an impressive 16 years in the mobility industry. Rugoobur started his career at General Motors where he eventually led innovation activities at GM’s Silicon Valley Office. During
this time he led the $1 Bn acquisition of Cruise Automation. This was a pivotal moment for the autonomous vehicle industry, as well as the formation of startups – OEMs relationships . After identifying and developing business engagement with a further 500 startups, Rugoobur left GM to start his own venture – Curve Tomorrow, an innovation and technology consulting company.. 

 In 2017 Rugoobur returned full time to Silicon valley as Head of Strategy for GM Cruise Automation. Following Softbank VC investment and GM Cruise’s investment in Honda, Rugoobur ensured GM Cruises’ valuation increase from $1Bn to $14Bn.

Avinash brings to Arrival a wealth of experience in the startup and OEM world as well as a unique ability to identify societal shifting technology trends. He is well poised to steer Arrival’s mission in making electric vehicles mainstream.

Michael Froman
Vice Chairman & President Strategic Growth
Mastercard

Mike Froman serves as vice chairman and president, Strategic Growth for Mastercard. In that role he is responsible for growing strategic partnerships, scaling new business opportunities, and advancing the company’s efforts to partner with governments and other institutions to address major societal and economic issues. He and his team drive financial inclusion and inclusive growth efforts and work to develop new businesses key to the company’s strategic growth.

Mike oversees the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and is a member of the company’s management committee.  Prior to joining Mastercard, Mike was affiliated with the Council on Foreign Relations and continues to serve as a distinguished fellow. From 2013 to 2017, Mike served as the U.S. Trade Representative, President Barack Obama’s principal advisor and negotiator on international trade and investment issues. During his tenure, Mike worked to open foreign markets for U.S. goods and services, reach landmark trade agreements and enforce the rights of American workers, farmers and firms.

Kate Brandt
Google Sustainability Officer at Google

Kate Brandt leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, products, and supply chain. In this role, Kate partners with various Google teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to strategically advance sustainability.

Baroness Worthington
House of Lords

Lady Worthington was the lead author in the team which drafted the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act.[9] This landmark piece of legislation requires the UK to reduce its carbon emissions to a level 80% lower than its emissions in 1990. At the time Worthington was working with Friends of the Earth working on their Big Ask campaign, but was seconded to government to help design the legislation.

The Electric Vehicle (EV) Trading Scheme and Road Usage Duty (Consultation) Bill received its first reading on Thursday 23 January. Introduced by Baroness Worthington, it is a Bill to provide for a public consultation on the introduction of a trading obligation on vehicle manufacturers to increase the proportion of EVs sold and on the introduction of a road usage duty to reduce transport carbon emissions; and to provide for graduated rates of duty to apply to modified vehicles.

Nigel Topping
High Level Industry & Climate
COP 26

In 2019 Nigel was appointed by the UK Government as the COP26 high level champion for industry and policy to meet the climate change challenge.

Nigel is the former CEO of We Mean Business, which harnesses business leadership to drive the innovations and policies that accelerate action on climate change. It was instrumental in achieving the ambitious Paris Agreement in 2015. Previously, he was executive director of CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project).

Nigel has 18 years’ experience in the manufacturing sector, most recently as a member of the MBO team who took TMD Friction private and built it into the number one global brake pad manufacturer. Nigel is a commissioner on the Energy Transitions Commission and a member of the Daimler Integrity and Responsibility Board. He’s also a Director of the London Pension Fund Authority – appointed by Mayor Sadiq Khan to ensure implementation of his commitment to decarbonize the portfolio.

He is a member of the Grantham Institute on Climate and Environment advisory board at LSE and Imperial College, and sits on the boards of the Science Based Targets initiative and Schumacher College.

Patrick O. Brown
Founder
Impossible

Patrick O. Brown is CEO and founder of Impossible Foods, a company at the forefront of making nutritious, delicious meat and dairy products from plants to satisfy meat lovers and address the environmental impact of animal farming.

The idea for Impossible Foods came to Pat while he was on sabbatical from his position as an HHMI investigator and professor of biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In reflecting on how he could use his training and experience to make the largest positive impact on the world, he realized there was a way to make delicious, affordable meat and dairy products, directly from plants – that would be better for the environment and for consumers. In 2011, Pat chose to devote himself full time to Impossible Foods.

Valdis Dombrovskis
Executive Vice President
European Commission
Green New Deal

Ex-Prime Minister of Latvia, Valdis is assigned as executive vice president status within the European Commission to support and develop the European Green Deal.

Dombrovskis engenders “an economy that works for people”. 

Dombrovskis advocated for green finance standards to mobilise investments in the clean economy.

Marc Benioff
Chairman & Co-CEO
Salesforce

Marc Benioff is Chairman, co-Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing.

Under Benioff’s leadership, Salesforce is the fastest-growing top-five enterprise software company and the #1 provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software globally.

Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999, and it is now a Fortune 500 company with more than 30,000 employees, guided by four core values — trust, customer success, innovation and equality. The company has been recognized as the Most Innovative Company by Forbes, the #1 Best Place to Work by Fortune, and the 15th Most Admired Company in the World by Fortune.

Building a different kind of company, Benioff created Salesforce to not only develop great products, but also to have a positive impact on the world. On day 1, Benioff created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, which leverages the resources of Salesforce to improve communities around the world. Today, more than 5,000 companies have adopted the 1-1-1 model through the Pledge 1% movement.

William Li
Co-Founder and CEO
NIO

NIO was founded in November 2014 by William Li, the Chairman of Bitauto and NextEV.

In October 2016, NIO announced that it had been given an “Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit” by the California DMVand it would begin testing on public roads under the “Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program” guidelines as part of its autonomous vehicle program. According to the company, it planned to launch vehicles with level-three and level-four autonomy.

In May 2018, NIO opened its first battery swap station in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, dubbed the “Power Swap Station”. Only batteries for ES8 cars would be available from this station.

In September 2018, the company filed for a US$1.8 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

William Li currently also serves as the vice chairman of CADA (China Automotive Dealers Association) and was recognized by CADA in 2008 as one of the top 10 most influential and distinguished people in China’s automobile dealer industry over the last twenty years. William Li received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Peking University where he minored in law.

Ted Cannis
Global Director, Electrification
Ford Motor Company

Ted was appointed Global Director, BEV in Oct, 2017. He is responsible for leading strategy & business execution for Team Edison (TE).

In 2011 Ted was CEO of FordSollers, a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Sollers. Previously he was Deputy GM, Ford Otosan, a joint venture with Koc Group in Turkey. He was responsible for overseeing the manufacturing of Transit commercial vans and Cargo heavy trucks for export globally, as well as the marketing, sales & service of Ford products in Turkey.

For the four years prior, Ted held various executive positions in Marketing. His responsibilities included U.S. revenue management, U.S. advertising and marketing and strategy for export markets (e.g. Middle East, Africa, Korea, etc.). Ted began his career at Ford in 1989 as a Profit Analyst in Dearborn. He worked 11 years in finance, including assignments in Brazil and the United States. For two years, he was Ford Andina Finance Director in Venezuela, until he became President, Ford Argentina.

Ted graduated from Indiana University, with an MBA in Business-Finance, following undergrad at the University of Michigan, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.

Imogen Pierce
Chief Marketing Officer
Arrival

Pierce joined Jaguar Land Rover’s aerodynamics department in 2014 as a graduate engineer, following her degree at Oxford University.

Quickly promoted to Global Technology and Innovation Press Officer Imogen worked to position Jaguar Land Rover as a Global UK success story. 

Identified as a rising star, Arrival headhunted Imogen to head up their communications strategy recognising her proven track record and results based methodology. 

Daniel Johns
World Economic Forum
Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production

Corporate Executive with 20 years Aerospace experience in Engineering and Technology leadership, strategy and program execution to industrialize technologies. Industrial expertise in Engineering, Materials and Process. 2016: Voted Top 100 figures in Manufacturing, by “The Manufacturer industry journal” 2015: Appointed Professor of Additive Manufacturing, Sheffield University 2014: Received Gold Medal from the IMechE for Engineering & Manufacturing 2012: Voted Top 20 most influential people in AM industry

Ross Kingsland
Founder & Chairman
PACE

Launched the world’s first climate change consultancy through the UK Hadley Center and managing the global communications of multiple IPCC reports Ross moved into tech spent the last 10 years working with companies such as Uber, Lamborghini, TechStars, European Innovation Academy, Virgin and hundreds of start-ups, VCs and government departments to accelerate growth globally. 

In 2019, Ross wrote the global policy initiative – PACE to support public listed companies to transition to carbon net zero.