Mike Maudsley is the Chief Executive Officer at enfinium Limited. Prior to enfinium, Mike was the Group Operations Executive Director at Drax plc, responsible for leading all Drax’s operating assets which include the Drax Power Station, Cruachan Pumped Storage Power Station, Daldowie Fuel Plant, two run-of-river hydro facilities, the CCGT fleet and the US and Canada Biomass pelleting plants. Mike has over 30 years of experience in the power and utility sectors, where quite recently he spent six years in the Middle East with Engie.

Mr. Thomas Obermeier, born in 1957, holds a Master of Engineering in Technical Environmental Protection and is Head of Business Development at EEW Energy from Waste GmbH, the leader in the German waste-to-energy business. He is also Honorary President of the German Waste Association DGAW, a publicly certified and sworn expert for waste management of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Berlin, and a committee member of the chamber of commerce in Berlin and the IFAT and terratec fairs. Mr. Obermeier's expertise draws on more than 30 years of work in the waste management and energy sector. Prior to EEW and his independent consultancy, he held posts as a managing director in different consulting and operating companies and worked in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and Africa.

Jacob Simonsen has been the CEO of ARC since August 2018, with overall responsibility for waste to energy, waste collection, recycling stations, hazardous waste and landfill.  Between Jan 2013 and Aug 2018 he was CEO of the Danish Waste Association, and before that, CEO of RemoSam, an association of 38 municipal and joint municipal waste companies and HZW-receiving stations in Denmark and in the Faroe Islands.

Earlier in his career Jacob was Senior academic manager / deputy head, COWI  and a lawyer and economist at Dong.

Currently Jacob is Vice President of Municipal Waste Europe; Vice President of CEWEP; Deputy Chairman of NAF, the Nordic Waste Association; and Observer on the Board, DRH, Danish Residual Handling.

Jacob has an Executive Master of Corporate Communication (EMCC), Business School/Aarhus University, 2009-2011; a Cand. Merc. Jur., Copenhagen Business School, 1991-94, including one semester at University College Dublin.  He was chosen as one of three Danish nationals to attend the International Graduate Diploma at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, and at the age of 16 he was an exchange student in Japan, living with a Japanese family and studying at the local Japanese school.

Jacob speaks Danish, English, Japanese and German, and his hobbies include his family, road cycling / running, reading, cooking, golf and he is a member of a local school board.

Dr Volker Wiesendorf is a  German and Swiss citizen, living in Zurich.  He has a Diploma and PhD in mechanical and thermal process engineering.  He has worked at HZI since 2000 in different functions ranging from project execution, tendering, sales and business development.

Today Volker is Director Sales, Energy-from-Waste, leading all HZI sales activities for EfW plants worldwide, except for south-east Asia (covered by Hitachi Zosen Corporation)

He is technically versatile, supporting and driving the development of HZI in one of the most advanced companies in the field of EfW technology and as an EPC contractor with a global footprint.

Volker believes strongly in the value of energy from waste technology as a key pillar of sustainable, clean and environmentally sound waste management.