Darryn is currently a Trade Policy Officer at the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa, where he is responsible for policy matters related to investment, energy, mining and digitalisation - a position he has held since 2018. His works contribute to the strategic partnership action plan between the EU and South Africa and the implementation of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement. Prior to this he spent more than 4 years with the Western Cape Government. His career began in the private sector, dealing with international trade, renewable energy and investment policy. Darryn’s professional interests include investor-state dispute settlement, international trade law and investment development for increased free and fair trade. He holds degrees in law and corporate affairs.

Tina Andersen holds a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management, specializing in energy systems and operations research. Before joining Hystar, Tina worked in SINTEF with industrial economics and operations research, predominately within the hydrogen field. This included leading the work on business modelling and policy implications for the REFHYNE project where a 10 MW PEM electrolyser was built in Germany. At Hystar, Tina is heading up the sales and applications engineering team, ensuring that Hystar’s customers will end up with the very best electrolysers for their needs.

Prof. Dmitri Bessarabov was recruited for his current position from Canada in 2010. He obtained his Master’s degree in Chemistry in Moscow, Russia and in 1996 his doctoral degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He worked in the industrial R&D sectors in Canada for Kvaerner Group, Ballard Power Systems and AFCC (Daimler and Ford JV). He is an internationally-recognised visionary with extensive industrial and academic decision-making experience. Current responsibilities include building effective teams with deep technical capabilities and managing these teams and providing leadership and management in the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Programme (HySA). He is also involved in contributing to the South African National Hydrogen Road Map. He holds SA NRF rating C1, has co-authored more than 150 publications and serves on boards of various scientific committees locally and internationally. He is an expert in the area of hydrogen and electro-catalytic membrane systems for energy applications such as electrolysers and fuel cells. He is passionate about LOHC technology for hydrogen storage, electrolysers, PEM fuel cells, membranes, MEAs and catalyst layers structures.

Jandre is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Core Business Operations with 10+ years working experience in the energy sector. Much of his work involves advising public and private sector clients across the energy value chain on energy strategy, operations and capital portfolio management. He is a registered professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

Emanuele Bianco is an Associate Programme Officer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), in the Policy and Renewable Energy Market Unit. His areas of interest cover the renewable energy policy issues across the whole spectrum of the energy system, in particular the system integration challenges. Therefore, after focusing on the immediate issues related to system integration of variable renewables, he focused on the fringes of the energy system, namely the hard-to-abate sectors. He is the author of the two recent IRENA’s Green Hydrogen Guides to policy making reports, which outline the main barriers that inhibit green hydrogen uptake and the policies needed to address these. During 2021, he is continuing the analysis of the policies needed to support the green hydrogen sector, focusing on the demand side. Emanuele’s contribution to IRENA’s work also includes analysis on the renewable energy market in Southeast Europe, auction design, heating and cooling policies and power market structures. Before joining IRENA, Emanuele worked in the International Energy Agency (IEA), where he actively contributed to IEA’s analysis on power system integration and renewable energy market evolution, and in the Italian state-owned agency GSE, where he supported national energy policy making. Overall, he has ten years of experience in renewable energy policy analysis. He received an M.Eng. in Nuclear and Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Turin.

Jonathan (Jon) Butler is Head of Business Development at Mitsubishi Corporation. Based in London, Jon specialises in the sales and marketing of platinum group metals, silver and gold as well as leading Mitsubishi’s precious metals research and strategy. Jon works closely with the refining industry and key end users in the automotive, pharmaceutical and fine chemical sectors and is closely involved with Mitsubishi’s new market development and investment in the hydrogen industry. Jon previously worked in various marketing and research roles at Johnson Matthey, and holds a PhD and Master’s degrees in earth sciences from the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. He is a Board and Executive Member of the IPMI and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Platinum Group Metals Refining Council as well as on the LBMA Public Affairs Committee.

Cosmas holds a Doctorate in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand and has more than 15 years' experience in the field of materials fabrication and characterisation.  In his current post as Director: Power, at the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), Cosmas is responsible for the Hydrogen Infrastructure Centre of Competence, the CoalCO2 to X and Energy Storage Programmes.  His main role is to interact with public and private sectors in South Africa in order to develop and strengthen partnerships that are essential in promoting the uptake of emerging low carbon energy technologies, particularly those that beneficiate mineral resources found in South Africa and neighbouring countries. Cosmas’ current interests are in technology roadmap development, innovation management and technology commercialisation in collaboration with both national and international partners

Laurens Cloete leads Rebel’s work in science, technology and innovation in South Africa. He holds masters and bachelor’s degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria. Laurens joined the CSIR in 1991 as a design and research engineer. From 2000 he held various technology leadership positions in CSIR including as the CSIR Executive in Group Executive Operations from 2014 to 2017, in which capacity he provided strategic and operational oversight to the CSIR’s 10 research units and centres across various domains. Since joining Rebel in 2019 he has worked at the intersection of technology, policy and economics in the energy, digital and pharmaceutical domains on projects for UNESCO, the South African Department of Science and Innovation, CSIR, the SADC secretariat, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the African Association of Science, the Academy of Science of South Africa, GIZ, The Embassy of Netherlands in South Africa, Bushveld Energy and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). Laurens has extensive experience in science and technology management, including technology road mapping, technoeconomic modelling and technology transfer. Laurens has over 20 years’ prior experience in working with a variety of government, state-owned companies, private sector and international stakeholders. At Rebel he has led the HySA 2nd five-year review project and is one of the national experts on the GIZ-funded Promotion of Hydrogen in South Africa project.

Rilet is the Sasol Global Market Hydrogen Development, Head of Hydrogen Programme Management, and is leading the business development on the Boegoebaai Green Hydrogen Hub pre-feasibility study. Rilet has over 18 years’ experience in the petrochemical industry, leading operational improvement and business enablement teams and specialising in the development of end-to-end supply chains for small to mega-scale capital projects (incl. greenfield) in Africa and internationally. She is the holder of an MBA and an Honour’s degree in Operations Research.

Reg is a mining and resources executive with over twenty years of experience. Before his appointment at IDC, Reg was the Group CEO of Wescoal Holdings Limited, a coal mining company listed on the JSE. Reg has extensive investment banking experience from his 15-year tenure at Nedbank Limited that covered mergers and acquisitions, BEE structuring, capital raising, mining valuations and more. Before joining Nedbank in 2008, Reg was a commodity analyst at Renaissance BJM Securities, responsible for researching various minerals and metals commodities. He also held various roles including at the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (formerly Department of Minerals and Energy) as an inspector of mines and in academia at the University of Venda as well as at the University of Johannesburg (formerly Wits Technikon). Reg holds a BSc Mining Engineering (Wits) and an MSc in Mining Engineering (Exeter University, Camborne School of Mines).

Ian Gebbie has 27 years’ experience working in the mining and metals industry. He completed a M.Sc. in control in 1993, looking at applications of AI in the metals processing industry. He worked for Gold Fields in the gold mining industry (mostly underground) completing his GCC Mine and Works. Ian joined Mintek in 1995 and completed advanced control work for Mintek before moving on to build smelters with Titaco. Ian was the ECI manager for KBR in South Africa from 2002 – 2006, completing small project works in the petrochemical industry, and then returned to mining by joining DRA during 2006 where he has completed a number of projects, including the Karowe Diamond mine, a 330kV substation in Zimbabwe as well as several coal projects. He ran the DRA energy department for 2 years, during which time the technical solutions and economics of the alternative energy systems was a focus. Ian is currently the Vice President for Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering for DRA, including DRA’s energy group, focusing on energy and grid solutions for mining clients.

Rajend Govender is the Chief Executive Officer of thyssenkrupp Uhde Africa and serves on the board of directors. A chemical engineer by profession, he has been with thyssenkrupp in excess of 20 years. Before being named CEO, Rajend was tk Uhde’s Chief Operating Officer responsible for the company’s project and engineering functions delivering end-to-end solutions for clients in Africa. He has broad-base experience in the refinery / petrochemical space. Leveraging from this, he spearheads solutions for clients in the renewable / green sector. Prior to joining thyssenkrupp, Rajend worked for leading refineries and global engineering consultants in Africa. He also headed up the engineering portfolio for the leading research company in South Africa. This diverse portfolio has allowed him to provide customized solutions to the market considering all aspects of business. His vision is to position tk Uhde to become a trusted partner in pioneering sustainable and relevant solutions that enable and maintain viable plants supporting a greener future.

Steven is a technical advisor for private sector engagement in the project “Promoting a Green Hydrogen Economy in South Africa”, which is managed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Before moving to South Africa, he worked for GIZ in Germany, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and the DRC, where he managed a project on artisanal cobalt mining for four years. In his current position, Steven seeks to support companies involved in the green hydrogen value chain in South Africa.

Nadège Hopman is the Deputy Head of the regional representation for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean at the European Investment Bank. She worked in development finance at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Paris where she was on secondment and provided technical expertise in carbon capture and storage, oil & gas and geothermal energy during her first years at the EIB.

Before devoting her work to investment and development finance, she worked with Schlumberger for 12 years, mostly in Africa and the North Sea. She held various positions from field engineer to service manager and went on to lead technical teams on some first-of-a-kind CO2 storage projects in Europe. She has co-authored several papers both on technical and on psychology-related topics. Nadège holds a Masters in Civil Engineering, a Masters in Geophysics, an MBA from INSEAD, a BSc in Psychology and is PMP certified.

Siegfried Huegemann, commonly known as Siggi, is the initiator, co-founder and Secretary General of the AHP as well as Director of Hypowa. Hypowa is a UK-based company specializing in the development of hydrogen fuel cell powertrains for lightweight transportation vehicles and one of the two Founding Members of the AHP. Siggi holds a Master of Commerce (Finance and Quantitative Analysis) degree from University of Otago in New Zealand and is a Lieutenant Colonel of the German army reserve. He has more than 20 years of experience in banking technology and worked primarily on fixed income and derivatives-related projects for some of the largest asset management firms worldwide. 

Osamu has more than twenty years of experience in the energy industry as an engineer and consultant, and over the last 10 years+ he has focused on hydrogen technology and business development. Osamu planned and developed the world-first global hydrogen supply chain demonstration project between Brunei Darussalam and Japan in 2020 and is now in charge of hydrogen business development and the commercialization of Chiyoda’s SPERA hydrogen technology.

Catherine Irura is a persuasive and diversely skilled executive leader with almost 10 years’ experience managing a broad spectrum of legal and compliance affairs related to project development, environmental and social governance. Catherine is the Managing Director of SOWITEC Kenya Limited, focusing on delivering a GW scale of solar and wind projects in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In addition to the current development pipeline, Catherine also leads the development of green hydrogen projects to accelerate the green energy transition and decarbonize key sectors. These include an e-methanol project that is in early-stage feasibility and providing local development a green fertilizer plant. Catherine also serves as the Secretary of the Electricity Sector Association of Kenya, a business member organization that seeks to bring together private sector stakeholders in the electricity sector to encourage sustainable development of the electricity sector through collaboration, advocacy and data driven solutions. Catherine holds a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Governance (University of Freiburg, Germany), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Nairobi, and a Post-Graduate Diploma from the Kenya School of Law.

Salah leads Howden’s global hydrogen business segment. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has delivered high profile green and blue hydrogen and ammonia, including one of the world’s largest projects in this space in the Middle East. Prior to his current role with Howden, he held senior business and engineering positions in number of global companies such as Worley, Honeywell-UOP, AspenTech and ITM Power. Salah holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Suez University where he is also a visiting lecturer for energy transition studies, as well as a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Surrey in United Kingdom.

Makgola Makololo is the Director for Business Development, Sales and Marketing for Alstom Southern Africa and Managing Director at Bombardier Transportation South Africa (BTSA). She has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and aMBA from GIBS, University of Pretoria. Makgola has a long career in the public and private sectors for entities including, the Department of Public Enterprises, Sasol and Eskom. She has served in various capacities in society, including being a non-executive director on the board of Zenzele Technology Centre, an incubator of SEDA which assists small scale miners develop mining technologies and build sustainable businesses. Makgola was co-opted onto the board of the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) and serves as chairperson of SAIEE’s Women in Engineering Chapter. In 2013, she was elected as one of the top 80 emerging leaders in science and technology in Africa and the Middle East and participated in TechWomen, an exchange programme for women in STEM fields.  In 2017, she was listed in the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans and was a Tutu Fellow in 2019. Makgola is passionate about people and leadership development and is committed to excellence and good service. She enjoys engaging in current affairs debates, motorsport, and golf.

Rivhatshinyi Mandavha is an investment manager for Norfund, the Norwegian investment fund for developing countries with a mission to create jobs and improve lives by investing in sustainable businesses, in their southern African regional offices overseeing investments into renewable energy. Her finance career spans private credit, private equity, project finance and investment banking, focused on emerging markets across infrastructure, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. She started her career as an electrical engineer with Anglo American in their Secunda colliery and thereafter moved to join the investment banking division of ABSA. Prior to Norfund, she worked across infrastructure, climate and blended finance at IDC and BII, the British development finance institution. Rivha holds a B.Sc Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town, an M.Sc in Investments from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Master’s in Finance from the University of Cambridge.

Zanele has over 27 years of work experience in the renewable energy industry, mining industry and financial markets. Currently CEO of Bambili Energy, a manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell systems and their sub-components. On behalf of Bambili, Zanele is: co-leading the development of the fuel cell industry; co-developing the first Hydrogen Corridorin South Africa with South African and international corporations for the roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell trucks and buses; co-developing the first Hydrogen Valleyin South Africa with the South African Government and local and international corporations for hydrogen economic hubs and; leading the creation of the first hydrogen fuel cell training programme in Africa that has graduated 35 engineers and technicians.

Zanele was previously Head of Financial Markets at the SA Reserve Bank, the unit which manages country’s foreign reserves and implements of South Africa's monetary policy. She is the former CEO of Incwala Resources, a platinum mining company in South Africa. Zanele was also a Co-founder and Director of Dema Group, a majority shareholder in Incwala Resources. She is a former Executive Director of Abt Associates Inc, where she co-established its regional office for southern Africa, where she was responsible for advising the South African government on the telecommunication and transportation sectors. Prior to Abt Associates, Zanele was an Investment Banker at Salomon Brothers and J.P. Morgan Inc., in New York City, USA. She is a graduate of Mills College, Oakland, California, USA.

Zanele has served as Non-Executive Director and Chairman on several Boards, including Lonplats, Hollard Insurance, Dema Group and Incwala Resources, She was nominated as a Global Leader of Tomorrowby the World Economic Forum in 2011 and as an African Leadership Fellowat the Aspen Global Leadership Network & African Leadership Initiative in 2020.

Elizabeth works within the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Climate Business department where she identifies investment opportunities, new technologies and private sector approaches to scaling renewable energy and decarbonization technologies in emerging markets. Her current portfolio focuses on decarbonizing with green hydrogen and renewable energy, scaling energy storage and exploring VC climatetech opportunities. Additional areas of work include offshore wind, distributed energy, biodiversity finance, smart cities & transport and marine plastics reduction/solid waste management. Previous consultancies with IFC, UNDP and CGIAR included supporting private sector actors to achieve Côte d'Ivoire’s renewable energy goals, developing climate information systems in Papua New Guinea and creating equitable agricultural supply chains in Colombia. She has a B.A. in International & Global Studies from The University of the South in Sewanee, TN, a Master’s in Microfinance from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master’s in Climate Policy & Development Economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston, MA. She currently resides in Washington, DC.

James Mnyupe, Presidential Economic Advisor, Government of The Republic of Namibia James Mnyupe is a multidisciplinary financial professional with a background in accounting, asset management and wealth management. A graduate of UNAM and Rhodes University, James applied his trade in the auditing field for 3 years before committing a decade to asset and wealth management. He led one of Namibia’s prominent asset management firms for five years and was the founding Chair of the Namibia Savings and Investment Association. James holds the CA, CFA and CFP designations. His involvement in various industry and national bodies has offered him a unique perspective from which to contribute to various dialogues and initiatives that look to deploy capital more effectively across various opportunity sets, both locally and regionally. In September 2020, James was appointed as Namibian President Hage Geingob’s Economic Advisor.

Seten is an executive at Implats, leading the formulation of strategy in new commodities and hydrogen. Prior to joining Implats, Seten was a Fund Manager at Visio Fund Managers focusing on commodity market research and commodity equity investments globally. Prior to entering the asset management industry, Seten spent 7 years at Standard Bank achieving top ratings as a mining and commodities analyst focusing on the PGM sector. 

Gillian is a counsel in the Global PENRI group and based in our Johannesburg office. She is a regulatory lawyer specializing in environmental law and has a wide-ranging environmental regulatory experience in investigating, assessing and advising clients predominantly in the energy, mining, oil and gas petroleum, nuclear and industrial sectors. She has advised extensively on environmental compliance-related matters and has also fulfilled the role of legal counsel at a JSE-listed gas company, where she was responsible for overseeing all legal-related matters, including engaging with regulators reviewing, negotiating and drafting all commercial documents required for the business. Gillian has also provided regulatory advice in relation to climate change-related matters, including carbon capture and storage, carbon tax and climate change risk and mitigation policies. She has experience in public law and regulatory as well as sustainability law.

Paul is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He began his career at PwC in 1986 and served as an audit partner for 6 years. Since 2001, he has worked as both CFO and CEO in the listed company environment as well as public sector and in family-owned businesses. He has worked in South Africa across Africa as well as in the Middle East and the USA. From a South African perspective, Paul has served as the CFO of Group Five Limited as well as Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd and was CEO of ArcelorMittal (South Africa) Limited. Paul has diversified industry experience including mining, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, trading, steel manufacturing and financial services. Paul also has experience as a non-executive director for listed companies in South Africa. Paul has in depth experience within corporates in public offerings and debt raising locally and internationally. He has been involved in turnarounds, restructurings, M&A, programme and project management including recently the overall responsibility for the $1bn separation of ABSA Bank Limited from Barclays PLC. Paul also has regulatory experience in Africa in the energy and financial services industries.

Marco Raffinetti has had a successful career spanning 20 years and his track record includes the execution of over US$ 1 billion in transactions. He has detailed knowledge of developments in the port, rail and energy sectors, all of which will be invaluable to Hyphen. In South Africa, Marco led the development of a 320MW thermal power plant in Richards Bay, to be operated in a system together with 350MW of renewable generation (250MW solar and 100MW of wind), in partnership with two international developers, and with a capex value of US$ 1.1 billion, and was instrumental in the phased development and expansion of the Port of Maputo.

Dr. Sunita Satyapal is the Director for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office and coordinates activities across offices for the U.S. DOE Hydrogen Programme. She is responsible for more than $1.6 billion in hydrogen and fuel cell research, development, demonstration and deployment activities within the office, and for coordinating more than $9.5 billion in hydrogen activities across the DOE. She has more than two and a half decades of experience across industry, academia and government, including at United Technologies managing research and business development and as a visiting professor. She also coordinates international hydrogen activities as Vice-Chair of the International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy, a partnership among over 20 countries to accelerate progress in hydrogen, and is the U.S. co-lead for hydrogen efforts within the Clean Energy Ministerial and Mission Innovation.  She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and did postdoctoral work in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University.  She has numerous publications, including in Scientific American, 10 patents and a number of recognitions including a Presidential Rank Award.

Fahmida is a Chemical Engineer by profession and has been in the PGM mining industry for 25 years. The last 14 years of her career has been focused on market development, particularly on the hydrogen and fuel cell sector. Fahmida leads Anglo American’s market development work on hydrogen in South Africa, where she works closely with the South African Government as well as local and international industry players. Her current focus is on the development of a South African Hydrogen Valley and a heavy duty hydrogen freight corridor.

Vinay Somera is the founder and CEO of Isondo Precious Metals. He has 30 years of experience within the platinum and associated industries and spent 25 years within the Impala Platinum group of companies working across many functional areas, and finally serving as the Implats Group Executive: Market Development and Strategy. While at Implats, he helped create and build Impala Refining Services (IRS), a subsidiary of Implats, from a zero base into a 1-million-ounce platinum refiner with a multi-billion-rand turnover. A strong proponent of beneficiation of metals in South Africa, he left Implats in 2013 and founded Isondo Precious Metals to help create a precious metals beneficiation industry. Vinay has a BSc degree in Mathematics and Chemistry, as well as a BCom (Hons) degree. He also holds an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

Ebrahim is the Founder and CEO of Green Hydrogen Solutions, a company focused on applying technology to the implementation and deployment of green hydrogen globally. Ebrahim has significant hydrogen and gas project development experience focused on the value chains, including with liquefaction and regasification systems, technologies applicable to hydrogen and gas logistics as well as pipeline systems. He has led project and deal financing business development, government and regulatory agency relationships, and deal execution teams covering legal, financial and technical considerations. Ebrahim’s current focus is on the application of this knowledge to assist companies, organizations and countries to meet net zero targets.

Sietse has a Master's degree in radiation physics. As a manager at the National Nuclear Regulator, he was responsible for the establishment of a regulatory framework for radiation protection in mining. He did his MBA with a focus on integrating sustainability issues into the strategy of businesses. He then joined Xstrata as a manager responsible for safety, health, environment and quality. In 2004 he was appointed as the Head of Safety and Sustainable Development at the Minerals Council South Africa (formerly the Chamber of Mines) where he enjoyed being part of the mining industry's safety and health enhancement initiatives. Since 2015 he has served as the Senior Executive: Modernisation and Safety and his purpose remains to help facilitate a people-centric modernisation of the mining industry.

Mardé van Wyk has extensive investment experience in private equity covering the entire deal value chain and sector exposure spanning across a myriad of investment (direct and fund) positions facilitated from generalist to theme-based strategies.  She is regarded as specialist in investment, organisational and process structuring, including investment restructuring – a skillset obtained whilst working with distressed investments at South Africa’s largest asset manager. Her appreciation for innovation and solution engineering has led to her continued involvement in impactful theme-based venture capital project development initiatives with scale and global reach.  This experience also comes with a long history of serving on the board, advisory board and various sub-committees of a number of underlying companies and funds. In her role as Venture Partner with AP Ventures, she is closely involved with its strategy to invest in companies that use or enable the consumption of PGMs with a principal focus on hydrogen related technologies.

Natascha has served as Anglo American Platinum’s CEO since April 2020, also sitting on the Anglo American Platinum Board and the Group Management Committee of Anglo American plc. Prior to that, she spent five years as Group Head of Processing for Anglo American. Natascha is a seasoned senior executive, bringing 28 years of operational experience from across the mining industry, spanning many different countries, metals and minerals including, of course, PGMs. Viljoen's operational executive experience also includes six years at Lonmin, where her last post was Executive Vice President of Processing. Viljoen holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from North-West University, in South Africa, and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Cape Town.

Alan Zhao started his career working for Cummins more than 20 years ago in Engine Product Development, Controls and Cummins China JV business operation, and then left to work for Motorola, where he led the first development and deployment of their 4G solution. He returned to Cummins in 2011 to lead the telecom power start-up business for power generation. He then joined Cummins Digital Organization, where he was engaged in product planning, product development, system-level engineering and IoT technology. Alan has a computer science degree, a mechanical engineering degree and a program management certificate. During his time leading the global telecom power business, Alan led the development, release and deployment of Cummins first battery-genset hybrid product into telecom cell sites in Myanmar. Since 2011, Alan has been a proponent of renewable energy within Cummins and with Cummins customers and partners where he has done strategic project work in fuel cell and hydrogen generation. He is now leading Cummins new power business for Africa & Middle East Region.