Hydrogen Conference 2025

Murray Douglas

VP, Head of Hydrogen Research

Wood Mackenzie

Murray is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s Global coverage across the hydrogen value chain. Murray brings more than 17 years of experience working in a variety of roles across the energy industry. Prior to his current role, Murray led Gas and LNG Research for the EMEA region at Wood Mackenzie. In this role he was regularly sought out to speak at industry-leading events for his expertise in European gas markets. Murray has also held positions leading Wood Mackenzie’s Global Supply and Modelling Research team and the Energy Markets Research team. These teams were responsible for developing the company’s long-term oil and gas supply outlooks, and global inter-fuel analysis. Prior to joining the Energy Markets team, Murray spent over five years covering the LNG industry where he relocated to Houston to establish Wood Mackenzie’s LNG practice in North America. Across his roles at Wood Mackenzie, Murray has provided expertise to a variety of consultancy projects advising on corporate strategy, resource monetisation, market fundamentals, project financing, asset valuations, opportunity screening and competitor intelligence.

Robert Nunmaker

General Manager, Low Carbon Hydrogen & Ammonia

Chevron New Energies

As the General Manager, Hydrogen, Rob is responsible for leading an organization accountable for executing the design and construction of low carbon hydrogen and ammonia facilities along the US Gulf Coast as well as the associated commercial, marketing, and product sales responsibilities, both domestic and abroad. Since joining Chevron in 2005, Rob has held a number of roles of increasing responsibility in Land, Business Development, Asset Commercialization, HR, and New Energies. Rob earned a Bachelor degree from Louisiana State University and an MBA from the University of Houston. In his free time, Rob enjoys spending time with his 4 children, playing golf, and rooting for the LSU Tigers and New Orleans Saints!

Sarah Potts

Head of Hydrogen

Storegga

Jonathan Sultoon

VP, Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Jonathan has over 20 years of experience leading analysis for global energy markets, including power, coal, gas, LNG, renewables, hydrogen and CCUS. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2006 and leads a team of analysts designing research for the energy transition. The team extends across all segments, all markets and all fuels and technologies.

Hector Arreola

Principal Analyst, Hydrogen & Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

Hector is a hydrogen-focused senior research analyst within Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Practice. Hector is responsible for building asset valuation models, interpreting policies, developing long-term demand and supply outlooks, and conducting price analyses to enable the adoption of low-carbon technologies across different sectors and markets. Before his current role, Hector participated in and led numerous consulting projects across the energy spectrum with an extensive focus on Energy Transition and decarbonization strategies and initiatives. His project experience includes commercial due diligence for hydrogen production and infrastructure, energy transition scenarios and risk analysis, market studies and competitiveness analysis under different energy transition scenarios, and facilitating corporate strategies related to carbon emissions. Hector holds an MS in Energy Finance and Economics from The University of Texas at Austin and obtained his BS as Chemical Engineer from Tec de Monterrey (ITESM). He is based in Wood Mackenzie's Houston office and is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Tommaso Pelligrinelli

Research Analyst

Wood Mackenzie

Tommaso is a research analyst at Wood Mackenzie, specializing in the ammonia market within the Power and Renewables segment. His responsibilities include providing long-term demand and supply outlooks, price forecasts, policy analysis, and market tracking for both low-carbon and conventional ammonia. He has expertise in traditional ammonia sectors such as fertilizers as well as new applications, including the shipping sector. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Tommaso worked as an R&D process engineer at Nuada in the UK. In this role, he focused on developing novel CCUS technologies for the biogas and cement sectors, from concept to pilot plants. Tommaso holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Queen’s University Belfast (UK), earned for his research on automotive emission control conducted in collaboration with Ford Motor Company.

Tyler Huckaby

Principal Consultant, Hydrogen Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Tyler Huckaby is Principal Consultant for Wood Mackenzie’s Global Hydrogen Consulting practice, joining the team in 2023, bringing over 13 years of energy experience. In his time with Wood Mackenzie, he has supported and advised clients in market entry and commercial strategies, due diligence efforts, and developer loan application reports for private lenders and the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Tyler was with private equity backed Humble Midstream leading Business Development efforts, and spearheading Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance efforts. During his tenure, he led BD efforts for Humble Midstream’s world-scale hydrogen/ammonia facility on the United States Gulf Coast. This facility was sited with access to marine transport for global export of ammonia to Europe and Asia, for a nascent but rapidly developing ammonia and hydrogen power market. Further experience at Humble included working with stakeholders, regulatory and policy makers, and commercial counterparties around the world. Before this, Tyler spent over 8 years with privately held Anschutz Exploration Corporation in Land, performing A&D, greenfield leasing programs, and business development efforts across North America. This involved work across Federal, State, and Local governments. Tyler carries a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Denver, in Colorado, U.S.A.

Christian Stuckmann

VP Business Development Hydrogen

Uniper

With 20 years’ experience in the German and international energy industry Christian is leading the hydrogen business development activities of Uniper in the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. His project portfolio includes several gigawatts of green and blue hydrogen projects as well as the imports of hydrogen and ammonia. Before he joined the new Hydrogen organisation in 2020 he served as VP Global LNG Origination at Uniper and E.ON for 15 years. Christian holds a Master of Energy Economics from Münster University, Germany. His primary office location is at Düsseldorf, Germany.

Carlo Procaccini

Chief Technical Officer

North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)

Carlo Procaccini has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry. He is currently the Chief Technical Officer of the UK North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), and his remit covers technology and innovation for offshore energy applications, including oil and gas, CCS and hydrogen. He started his career in projects and operations in oil and gas, first downstream and then E&P. His industry experience has included development projects in mature offshore basins, both in the UK and internationally. Since joining the UK government, Carlo has worked on projects to look at the full potential of the offshore basin to support the UK energy security and transition to net zero. Carlo holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT and is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer.

Ezra Emerson

Director, International Business Development

Refire Group

Emerson has a background in aeronautical engineering, zero emission automotive design, and corporate communications. He has served in many key management roles at REFIRE covering comunications, business development, and institutional and investor relations. He led the internationalization of the brand for the company’s Hong Kong IPO and is now responsible for international strategy and market development for hydrogen production and fuel cell mobility and power.

Sören Dresp

Director of the Advanced Technology Institute

Sungrow Hydrogen

Dr. Sören Dresp started to work for Sungrow Hydrogen in summer 2024. He works now as“Director of the Advanced Technology Insitute”. In the last 10 years, Sören has investigated electro-catalysts for electrolyzers, worked as project manager for a 30 MW electrolyzer project and did a referencing system for electrolyzer and e-fuels technologies worldwide as Senior Manager for Technology and R&D. He is now responsible to develop the next generation of advanced electrolyzer equipment of Sungrow Hydrogen with a focus on the market outside of China. Sören sees the hydrogen economy as an important enabler for the energy transition and likes to accelerate the transition process by providing optimized, adjusted and economical hydrogen equipment for current and future green hydrogen projects.

Jeremy Smith

Head of Hydrogen Business Development - UK

RWE Generation

Jeremy Smith is RWE Generation’s Head of Hydrogen Business Development where he leads on the origination of electrolytic hydrogen production projects focussing primarily on co-located industrial offtakers and pipeline connected projects. He has considerable knowledge of the UK’s hydrogen policy landscape and takes a special interest in hydrogen transport and storage infrastructure policy and developments. Previous roles have included leading onshore wind development in Wales and in developing local minerals and waste planning policy.

Massimo Di Odoardo

Vice President, Head of Gas Analysis

Wood Mackenzie

Massimo brings extensive knowledge of the entire gas industry value chain to his current position as Vice President of Gas and LNG Research. Massimo joined Wood Mackenzie in 2007 as a consultant, where he advised NOCs, IOCs and European utilities on global gas and pricing dynamics. He later transitioned to the research division, where he soon became the content lead for European gas and then for global gas and LNG, responsible for articulating our view on market fundamentals, pricing dynamics and corporate developments. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Massimo worked in the strategy department at Eni SpA, where he was responsible for developing global gas scenario analyses to support strategic investments. Massimo speaks regularly at conferences and with media, and remains deeply engaged with the industry. Travelling to see and discuss market dynamics with customers is at the heart of his job, enabling him to constantly challenge and evolve his own view of the global gas and LNG market.

Raj Lal

Director, Sales – Europe

Wood Mackenzie

Carlos Barrasa

EVP Commercial & Clean Energies

Moeve

Carlos Barrasa joined Moeve, formerly Cepsa, in 2022 as Executive Vice President of Commercial & Clean Energies, becoming part of the Management Committee. Carlos has extensive experience in the energy sector and vast international experience, bringing tremendous value to the company. Previously, he held the position of Executive President of BP in Spain for many years and Vice President of Integrated Solutions at a global level (a business dedicated to promoting the decarbonization of cities and large companies). In addition, he has widespread experience in leading the transformation and growth of businesses in the downstream area and leading global teams.

Xizhou Zhou

EVP, Head of Power and Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Xizhou Zhou oversees Wood Mackenzie’s Power and Renewables’ function. He's responsible for the content development and commercial growth of the business line, ranging from new product development to regional expansion.  His expertise is in electric power and clean energy market analysis and forecasting, power market design and policy analysis, renewable energy business models, and company strategies. Prior to Xizhou joining Wood Mackenzie in 2024, he was vice president leading S&P Global Commodity Insight’s power and renewables practice globally. In his capacity as Head of the Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables division in the Asia Pacific region for IHS Markit before its merger with S&P Global, Xizhou played a pivotal role in the substantial expansion of the firm's reach by establishing new research and consulting teams in key locations including Beijing, Singapore, Penang, Delhi, Seoul, Tokyo, and Brisbane, fostering the growth of the company's energy business in the region. Before starting his career at S&P Global through one of its predecessor companies, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), he worked as a consultant on regulatory economics for Industrial Economics, Inc. in Boston and as a research analyst at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Xizhou holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Environmental Management, both from Yale University. He is based in Washington, D.C.

Mónica Trilho

Research Analyst - Hydrogen & Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

Mónica is a hydrogen-focused research analyst for Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables department. She works on the long-term supply and demand outlook, tracking project deployments, policy, and technology trends and analysing hydrogen midstream costs. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Mónica worked as a cost estimator for industrial projects at Galp, in Portugal, including green hydrogen and hydrotreated vegetable oil. Prior to this role, she held analyst positions at Air Liquide, handling CO2 European Trading Scheme and energy management topics in the Benelux markets before switching to pricing and business analysis in Iberia. Mónica holds a MSc. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the Nova University of Lisbon (FCT-NOVA).

Bridget van Dorsten

Principal Research Analyst, Hydrogen & Derivatives

Wood Mackenzie

As a hydrogen-focused senior research analyst within Wood Mackenzie's Energy Transition Practice, Bridget leads the production, transportation and storage cost modelling for hydrogen research and plays a key role in global supply and demand forecasting. They have expertise in complex, top-down Excel models specific to green hydrogen technologies as well as development of bottom-up market forecasts for emerging hydrogen technologies. Prior to this role, Bridget consulted at Power Advocate specializing in hydrogen asset modelling, strategic sourcing and category management for energy utilities in North America. Their additional client experience has involved market research to determine savings potential, along with RFP sourcing, negotiation and execution, all within the energy industry. Before PowerAdvocate, Bridget worked within the H2Europe division of AirLiquide in Grenoble, France, overseeing optimization of H2 refueling processes. Bridget graduated from Brown University with an A.B.E.T. accredited B.S. in Environmental Engineering, pursuing the Renewable Energy track. Throughout their college education, Bridget worked on several initiatives with FirstElement Fuel, the largest H2 refueling station retail business in the US.

Keshni Sritharan

Senior Originator, Low Carbon Commodities

EnBW

Keshni Sritharan is a Senior Originator in the Low Carbon Commodities team at EnBW, one of Germany’s largest utilities. She is instrumental in developing and executing EnBW’s low-carbon ammonia strategy to support the decarbonisation of power generation and hard-to-abate industries. Prior to EnBW, Keshni spent five years at OCI, where she worked across ammonia and hydrogen investments, corporate strategy, and commercial development. She began her career at CRU as a Senior Analyst, covering global nitrogen and natural gas markets.

Timo Bollerhey

CEO

Hintco

Timo Bollerhey is the creator of the H2Global mechanism and co-founder of the H2Global Foundation. Within the H2Global framework, he serves as CEO of HINT.CO GmbH and Lead Strategist for H2Global. With nearly 25 years of experience in investment and financial markets, particularly in emerging markets, Timo is a recognized expert in his field. Before launching H2Global, he was a director at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Brazil, where he focused on blended finance strategies and mobilizing institutional investors towards alternative assets. Prior to that, he served as Division Manager at the African Development Bank (AfDB), fostering collaboration and co-financing with strategic private and public-sector partners. Between 2011 and 2016, Timo was Director of Business Development at Allianz Global Investors, leading client coverage and advisory for African institutional investors. Earlier in his career, he headed financial institutions and sovereigns for Africa and the Middle East at Raiffeisen Bank International in Vienna and served as Chief Representative Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa at UniCredit Group in Johannesburg. Since January 2024, Timo has also been nominated as Deputy Chair of the CertifHy Steering Committee.

Dorian de Kermadec

Managing Director Low Carbon Advisory

BBVA

Dorian joined the Sustainability & Low Carbon Advisory team at BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking in 2023, where he is leading the bank’s advisory efforts for the Oil & Gas sector and on Cleantechs. His current focus is on green molecules—such as hydrogen, biomethane, and sustainable transport fuels—supporting BBVA clients in structuring and financing bankable projects. Prior to BBVA, Dorian spent eight years at AFRY Management Consulting in Madrid, advising corporations and investors on M\&A transactions in the energy sector and on the development of decarbonization strategies.

John Gunn

Global Manager of Operations, Energy Transition

Bechtel

John Gunn is Global Manager of Operations for Bechtel’s Energy Transition business, based in Houston. He leads the hydrogen and advanced fuels businesses, which deliver customers’ projects from feasibility / concept through engineering, to EPC. John has 25 years of international energy & petrochemical experience in engineering, commercial, operations, project, and global executive leadership roles. His experience spans hydrogen / ammonia, methanol, sustainable aviation fuels, clean power & renewables, carbon capture & storage, natural gas / LNG, & petrochemicals. Prior to Bechtel, he spent >20 years with a global integrated energy company. John previously served on the Coordinating Steering Committees of the multiorganizational US NPC Hydrogen Study for the US Secretary of Energy, and the US NPC Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Study. John holds a Master of Chemical Engineering degree from Imperial College, UK, and he is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Ajay Singh

Senior Executive Advisor

Mitsui OSK

Ajay Singh is an industry executive and international business advisor based in Tokyo. He works as senior executive advisor at Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), a leading international shipping firm. Earlier, as senior managing executive officer of MOL, he led the growth of its businesses in South Asia & the Middle East, and served as chairman of MOL India. Between 1995-2014 he worked at Shell – initially in India and then at global headquarters in London and the Hague - where he created and managed several oil and gas businesses in partnership with host governments and other companies in the Middle East, Russia, West Africa, Europe, North America and India. In 2013, he was invited to work as special advisor to the chairman and president of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (JAPEX), an international energy company owned mainly by the Government of Japan; he helped JAPEX revamp and execute its strategy, overcoming the distress caused by low oil prices between 2015-18. While still at JAPEX, Ajay launched an India-focused green hydrogen development firm which developed a set of prospects, and later divested them to a Japanese multinational company. Ajay holds a B.Eng. from Walchand College of Engineering, an MBA from Manchester Business School and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Prakash Sharma

VP, Head of Scenarios and Technologies

Wood Mackenzie

Prakash has over 20 years’ experience in energy, metals and mining, cleantech and climate change policy developments. He leads a team of analysts designing research for the energy transition. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2009 and is currently based in London. He is responsible for global net zero scenario modeling, and leads discussions on hydrogen, ammonia, CCUS, next-gen nuclear and geothermal technologies. Previously, Prakash spent two years in Beijing as head of Wood Mackenzie’s China research, guiding a team of analysts on China’s energy and economic trends, including supply-side reforms, inter-fuel competition and commodity prices. He has also led global coal markets analysis for five years, delivering research on decarbonisation policies, the impact of renewables, alternative scenarios and evolving patterns of supply, demand and prices.

Akshay Bhardwaj

Head of Origination & Market Development, Ammonia

Woodside Energy

Akshay Bhardwaj leads the origination and market development portfolio for ammonia business at Woodside Energy as Head of Origination & Market Development, Ammonia and is based out of London. Woodside Energy is developing a 1.1 million tonne per annum lower carbon ammonia project in Beaumont, Texas, USA with scope for development of another 1.1 million tonne per annum lower carbon ammonia project at the same site. Previously, Akshay was Heading the Commercial Business Development function for Global Ammonia at OCI Global. His responsibility included commercialization of ~ 2.3 million tonne per annum sustainable ammonia portfolio globally. Before that, Akshay led the Green Hydrogen, Green Ammonia BU for ACME Group (one of India’s largest Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers) and led commercialization of their green ammonia portfolio including ~ 1.2 million tonne per annum green ammonia project at Port of Duqm, Oman. Akshay has also worked as Director at FTI Consulting, where he successfully led & delivered multiple hydrogen & clean energy consulting projects across APAC, EU & North Africa market, and was previously part of the Strategy Consulting Insights (SCI) team at Shell.

Melany Vargas

VP, Head of Hydrogen Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Melany leads the Global Hydrogen Consulting Practice at Wood Mackenzie. She has supported a number of established energy companies and new developers as they grow their footprint in or enter low-carbon H2 markets, including developing market entry strategies, screening for regions and opportunities, developing analysis and reports for policy and regulatory advocacy, and performing commercial due diligence and capital raise efforts across the hydrogen value chain. She has also supported the development of Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary hydrogen modelling capabilities across low-carbon hydrogen supply, demand and technoeconomic analysis. Melany has extensive experience solving strategic problems for clients across the energy value chain, including oilfield service companies, E&Ps, IOCs, gas and NGL infrastructure and logistics, chemicals, utilities and mining. Since 2015, she has focused her career on applying her deep expertise in fossil fuel value chains to solving Energy Transition issues, and supporting clients as they evaluate the technologies needed to achieve decarbonization targets. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie Melany worked in Accenture’s Energy Strategy practice in Houston. In 2016, she was selected to serve as the project manager and lead author for the World Energy Council’s World Energy Scenarios 2060 (published in 2016), a process that involved engagement with senior executives and policy stakeholders across all regions and parts of the energy value chain and evaluated a broad spectrum of potentially disruptive technologies. She is also currently working on a hydrogen study for the DOE on behalf of the National Petroleum Council, leading the Task Group on Integrative Economics and partnering with MIT on the modeling efforts required for all chapters of the study. Melany holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a specialty in Energy Management and Policy. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Maryland.