As commercial and technical manager for bp’s Bioenergy New Businesses team, Tom is responsible for originating and developing new business opportunities for bp in advanced biofuels production and supply. 

Tom joined bp as a research chemist in 2008, working on the development and scale-up of technologies including bp’s Fischer-Tropsch process. 

He has since held business development and strategy roles in technology licensing, bp’s Fuels businesses and in Downstream commercial development. He led bp’s Advanced Bio Products team at its inception before joining Air bp in 2017 where he led the development and implementation of low carbon strategy and established Air bp as one of the leading suppliers of sustainable aviation fuel globally. Tom moved into his current role in Bioenergy New Businesses in January 2021. 

Tom holds a Master’s degree and D.Phil in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.

 

Jim Woodger is the Managing Director of LanzaTech UK, a subsidiary of LanzaTech Inc headquartered in Chicago, USA. In this role, Jim is leading a growing UK team focused on driving forward numerous internal and customer projects based on LanzaTech’s Gas Fermentation and LanzaJet’s Alcohol-To-Jet technologies. Jim is also engaging on government policy to support these decarbonization technologies, and is a member of various Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry bodies such as the Jet Zero Council, Sustainable Aviation, and the Road Transport Fuels Association.

In terms of his wider career, Jim is an environmental chemical engineer, who started his working life with Honeywell-UOP, with roles in R&D, Manufacturing, Engineering and 5 years commissioning oil refineries around the world. In 2007, he was a founding member of UOP’s Renewable Energy & Chemicals business unit that commercialized the UOP HEFA Green Jet & Green Diesel technology.

In 2012, Jim joined Solazyme (later acquired by Corbion) in California to undertake business development activities for sustainable products made from algae. Ultimately, Jim was responsible for the global growth of Corbion Algae Ingredients into animal feed, oil & gas, and personal care.

Dr Ausilio Bauen is a founder and Partner at E4tech, a leading strategy consultancy firm focused on sustainable energy, now part of ERM, the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy. He has 25 years’ experience working with private and public sector clients on the opportunities and challenges of a sustainable energy transition and guiding business strategy and policy decisions. In particular, Ausilio advises energy, chemicals and transport companies, technology developers, industry associations and governments on low carbon fuels growth opportunities, with assignments ranging from the assessment of specific low carbon fuels technologies and supply chains, and the modelling of their technical, economic and environmental aspects, to the development of innovation, business and policy agendas. 

Ausilio has recently been advising multi-stakeholder organisations such as the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative and the World Economic Forum. He is part of advisory panels for a range of organisations and initiatives including the EC’s Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda, UK Department for Transport technology demonstration grant competitions (Advance Biofuels Demonstration Competition, Fuels for Freight and Flight Competition, and Green Fuels Green Skies Competition), IEA's Bioenergy Roadmap Advisory Group, and the Climate Bonds Initiative's Technical Working Group on bioenergy. He is a Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London.