Andre is responsible for supporting sustainable system-related innovation and leveraging Copeland’s global cold chain to drive adoption of integrated solution in North America. He most recently led marketing efforts pertaining to the company’s food retail and chiller markets. Prior to that, he had managed the Copeland product porfolio’s global CO2 development. Andre has more than 37 years of industry experience in sales, marketing, training and business development of HVACR system architectures and applications with compression and component technologies. He is a certified Mechanical Engineering Technologist C.E.T. (since 1984), and is a member of AHRI, ASHRAE and RSES.

Andreas Meier has several years of experience in management functions within the refrigeration sector. He has been a member of TEKO’s management since August 2015. He was previously President of Sales D / A / CH at GEA Refrigeration Technologies, based in Berlin – Germany, and before that he was the Head of Marketing and Product Management at GEA Küba GmbH. He also worked in Zug – Switzerland, as Sales & Marketing Manager at a Japanese manufacturer for industrial refrigeration.

Anja Sofie Meiner Jensen has nearly 17 years of experience in the heating and cooling industries. She’s experienced in international management and marketing.  Anja has worked in her current role at Danfoss for five years. She focuses on energy efficiency, sustainable solutions and why these are important solutions. In particular, she’s an expert in how and why CO2 is an ideal answer to these questions. 

Anthony is an Application Engineer at Tecumseh’s Laboratory located in La Verpillière, France. He is a graduate of Grenoble-Alpes University, France, and completed his Ph.D. in the field of heat exchangers. He has been working for five years supporting Tecumseh’s customers in the development and testing of sub-150 GWP refrigerant alternatives for ice makers, reach-in cabinets and ice cream machines, as well as other low GWP applications. Anthony is passionate about R&D projects which focus on energy-efficiency improvement.

Asbjørn Vonsild is the convener of the working group behind the IEC 60335-2-40 Ed. 7, to be published mid-2022. Asbjørn Vonsild is an independent consultant since 2015 specialising in safety standards and legislation related to flammable refrigerants. He has previously been at Danfoss from 2003 to 2015, responsibilities have included a department for refrigerants and standards, and before that a product technology department. Asbjørn has a Master of Engineering from University of Southern Denmark.

Barbara Gschrey, Managing Director at Öko-Recherche, has been involved in national, EU and international projects in the field of ODS, F-gases and alternatives since 2009. She is contributing to Cool Up as technical and policy expert since the beginning of the programme.

Christina Starr is a Senior Policy Analyst leading EIA’s advocacy and engagement on HFC policy in the United States. Christina has been closely involved over the past eight years in providing input into US EPA regulations and at the state level in California, Washington, and New York among others. She is also a member of several Underwriters Laboratories (UL) safety standards committees for refrigeration and air conditioning.

Clare Perry is the Climate Campaign Leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). With more than 20 years working on global environmental issues, Clare is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of EIA´s climate campaign, which seeks to reduce emissions of climate super-pollutants, including ozone depleting substances, hydrofluorocarbons and methane. Clare has advocated ambitious environmental policies at multiple international fora (Montreal Protocol, UNFCCC, CITES, International Whaling Commission), including the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and the EU F-Gas Regulation. Clare graduated from the University of Southampton in 1993 with a BSc in biology and subsequently gained a Masters degree in coastal zone management.

Dawid Ławreszuk has nearly 6 years of experience in Heating and Oil and Gas industries working primarily with product development, first as R&D engineer of heating substations and currently as Heat Recovery Unit (HRU) Project Manager.  In his current role Dawid focus on the development of highly efficient heat recovery solutions for CO2 refrigeration systems. Convinced that heat recovery will play an important part in the fight against climate change, Dawid works passionately for the introduction of this technology.

Devin Yoshimoto currently serves as the Communications Lead for the Cold Chain Innovation Hub Philippines project. As Communications Lead, he works with the project team to oversee messaging, media, research and communications activities. For the past three years, Devin has also served as Associate Editor of Asia-Pacific at ATMOsphere where he has researched, covered and reported on developments in the natural refrigerants industry for the company’s industry-leading media platforms, R744.com, Ammonia21.com, and Hydrocarbons21.com.

In her role as Emerson’s product marketing manager for Cold Chain, Emily leads the commercialization of product/program launches. Her responsibilities encompass creating the go-to-market strategy and marketing plans, which includes the target audience, positioning, messaging, differentiation, etc. She then works closely with MarCom to develop collateral and sales enablement tools. Emily started her Emerson career in 2019 as part of the Engineers in Leadership Program. She spent her first year at InSinkErator as the commercial product technology specialist, where she worked on business development, demand generation and product launches. In her second rotation, Emily was a strategic planner at Professional Tools, where she contributed to a variety of Emerson management processes and marketing initiatives. Emily earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Fionnuala Walravens is EIA’s Senior Climate Campaigner. She first joined EIA in 2007 where she developed EIA’s pioneering Chilling Facts supermarket refrigeration campaign, which supported a global shift away from HFCs towards natural refrigerants in the commercial refrigeration sector. She is currently leading EIA’s investigations into illegal trade in HFCs, engaging both with the enforcement commuting and policy makers. Fionnuala is also involved in promoting pathway to net-zero cooling products and supporting EU Climate ambition through the F-Gas Regulation. After leaving school with a European Baccalaureate, Fionnuala studied Anthropology at University College London where she graduated with a BSc (Hons) and has a Masters of Research in Primatology from Roehampton University, London.

After obtaining his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2002, Giacomo Pisano worked for one year as a Project Manager for General Electric’s Oil & Gas division, where the core business is turbomachinery applied to the oil \\u0026 gas industry. He joined DORIN in 2003 in the R&D department, taking responsibility of the CO2 compressor development and being in charge of the product’s technical qualification. Giacomo Pisano then took over several application engineering roles and is currently responsible for the CO2 compressors’ business development. In the meantime he joined several ASERCOM working groups and was the Chairman for the association’s CO2 working group for many years.

With a post-graduate degree in journalism from Rhodes University in South Africa and 10 years of experience relating to the HVAC&R industry, Ilana joined ATMOsphere (formerly shecco) in 2019. Co-founder of ATMOsphere, she also heads up the Market Intelligence team, focusing on market research, policy analysis, media, and specialized campaigns – all with the aim to accelerate the global transition to clean cooling and natural refrigerant solutions.

Jan Dusek currently serves as Head of Global Partnership for the Cold Chain Innovation Hub. Dusek holds a Doctor of Engineering degree in System Design from Hosei University in Tokyo and a Master’s degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Having lived in Japan for over 13 years, Jan communicates fluently in Japanese and has a rich experience cooperating with Japanese industry. He is currently based in Tokyo, responsible for the Asia Pacific operations of ATMOsphere (formerly shecco) as COO and Head of APAC. Having spent over 8 years in the HVAC&R industry helping various organisations to accelerate their transition to #CleanCooling technologies, he is a devoted advocate for natural refrigerants and other sustainable solutions.

Joseph Marchetti is the CO2 Refrigeration Product Manager at Energy Recovery where he leads the technical scope of the PX G1300 development, application and introduction into the HVACR market. He has worked specifically on developing the controls and systems scope of the PX skid to be integrated into existing refrigeration systems. Previous to CO2 refrigeration his role was in the R&D team primarily focused on reliability, system design, integration and core technology improvements on oil and gas projects. Previous to Energy Recovery, his experience was with major turbomachinery, in operation, reliability, optimization as well as project management and execution at multiple onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities. Joseph is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas and holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. His research was completed in multiphase pump design and testing on electric submersible pumps for oil and gas applications

Katja Dinges is an associate director at Guidehouse where she focuses on energy and climate policy. She has more than 20 years of experience with energy and environmental policy consultancy and project implementation for national governments, the European Commission, corporate clients, and NGOs. Katja is an expert in designing and evaluating policies and measures to promote energy efficiency, in particular of buildings and industry. Her work focuses on the implementation of the European Energy Efficiency and Buildings Directives, the regulatory frameworks for the decarbonization of the industry, the development of energy services markets and smart finance for energy efficiency. She is very experienced in the management of large and complex projects and programs with multidisciplinary teams and has steered several stakeholder engagements. Before joining Guidehouse, Katja worked for a consulting company in the field of environmental protection, rational use of energy and Structural Funds. For this company she developed a certification system for local energy policy and prepared various climate action plans. In addition, she conducted several EU energy implementation projects like energy management for SME and benchmark projects. Prior to that she worked in the international development cooperation, where she managed a training program to introduce environmental management systems in Latin American industries.

Kristina Kaar has been working for several years as a project manager at Öko-Recherche and has extensive experience in F-gas and ODS data collection and analysis and using data to inform policy making processes. Throughout the years, she has contributed to several national and EU projects using her technical expertise on F-gases.

Founder of ATMOsphere a global, independent market accelerator with a mission to clean-up cooling. Marc Chasserot has 20 years of experience in the HVAC&R sector. His focus throughout those years has been with Natural Refrigerant based technologies used in Refrigeration, Heat Pumps and Air Conditioning applications. He has founded several industry platforms, namely; www.R744.com, www.hydrocarbons21.com, ammonia21.com, and Accelerate Magazine. Published numerous reports for industry and policy-makers, chaired over 70 ATMOsphere conferences worldwide. Marc has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and America. He holds several degrees in Economics, Marketing and Politics.

After obtaining his Masters’ degree in Mechanical Engineering (University of Padua, 2011), Marco Fusca gained extensive international experience as a product engineer for valve applications in the oil & gas sector. Marco joined CAREL in 2019 as an Application Specialist for food retail refrigeration applications. He is currently the Application Manager in charge of development and deployment of high-efficiency solutions, defining marketing strategies and supporting customers and the sales network with technical and application consulting. Recently he has been focused mainly on the use of DC compressors with natural refrigerants, CO2, and propane.

Mario has been employed with Tecumseh for the last 21 years and takes pride in being a fourth generation Tecumseh employee. He graduated from ITT Technical Institute in 2000 with an engineering degree in Manufacturing. He has worked in various skilled positions throughout Tecumseh’s Engineering Labs for 14 years, providing valuable research and testing for new product development and OEM support. Over the last seven years, Mario has enjoyed the opportunity to directly support Tecumseh’s customers from OEM to wholesale as an Application Engineer in the North American region.

As East Regional Sales Manager, Mark manages accounts and manufacturers representatives in the East region for M&M Carnot. His responsibilities include providing technical assistance and promotional support of M&M Carnot’s products which range from Transcritical CO2 systems, packaged low charge ammonia systems, compressor packages, vessels and controls. Mark has also worked closely with the Engineering team at M&M Carnot on the development of the Pure Cold low charge ammonia condensing unit. Mark has worked in the refrigeration industry for 12 years. Previous to coming on board M&M Carnot, he worked at Alfa Laval with their desiccant dehumidification products and industrial refrigeration heat exchangers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo.

Mark Sever has a background in thermodynamics and more than 20 years of experience in refrigeration applications with an emphasis on electronics and monitoring systems. For the last decade, Mark has focused on developing technology that uses CO2 as a refrigerant and on enhancing system performance in food retail applications. Mark greatly enjoys sharing his knowledge in refrigeration applications.

Maurice Robinson has over 25 year experience in the retail and commercial refrigeration industry, passionate about natural refrigerants and technology. He spent 20 years of his career as the national sales and marketing manager for CAREL South Africa while gaining international experience with CAREL’s world wide network. Recently relocated to Europe while still focusing on his passion for natural refrigerants.

As the Head of Content for ATMOsphere (formerly shecco), veteran journalist Michael Garry is responsible for the news articles on R744.com, Hydrocarbons21.com and Ammonia21.com. He also contributes to in-depth market reports, and helps to organize ATMO conferences. Starting at ATMOsphere in 2014, he has also served as editor-in-chief of Accelerate America and Accelerate Magazine. Prior to joining ATMOsphere, he led the coverage of sustainability, technology and logistics at Supermarket News for 11 years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of M.I.T with a degree in political science, he is the author of Game of My Life New York Mets: Memorable Stories of Mets Baseball.

Michael Kauffeld has been working with research and development of refrigeration systems with natural refrigerants and ice slurry for more than 30 years. Since 2002, he has been researching and teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. He also advises public and private institutions on the use of natural refrigerants and ice slurry.

Morten Deding is the Director for Heat Pump Applications in JCI EMELA and has over 20 years of Industrial Refrigeration experience. He has been in the consultant, product and project manager roles in his career and is now using that experience to influence the adoption of heat pumps, supporting electrification and de-carbonization of the heating sector. Over the last decade he has been an entrepreneur in industrial heat pumps resulting in over more than 300 units and over 300MW of installed capacity. He is dedicated to go above 100°C on double digit MW heat pumps in the next decade. Morten has two degrees in engineering and an MBA and his passion is enabling energy savings, utilization of waste heat and renewables in heat pumps. All solutions are matched up against the customer’s business model to ensure a full life cycle solution that provides the best net present value for the buyer.

Richard has been the general manager of Weston for over 20 years. Prior to that, he was the manufacturing and production manager. He has led the company to offer turnkey solutions with the latest designs and technologies, making Weston the leader in the region with natural refrigerants like CO2 and R290. He holds a bachelors in manufacturing engineering from Boston University and a postgraduate management degree from the INALDE business school.

Satyaki Das is the Director of Product Development at Energy Recovery where he leads the commercial scope of the PX G1300 development, application and introduction into the HVACR market. He has worked specifically on developing the product and overseen PX G1300 market introduction. Before CO2 refrigeration, his role was in the Corporate Development team primarily focused on product development in oil and gas. Before Energy Recovery, his experience was with subsea oil and gas project management in development of large oil and gas greenfield and brownfield expansions. Satyaki holds a B.Tech (Hons) degree from IIT Kharagpur, India and MBA from the Washington University at St. Louis.

After having graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Padua, Sebastiano Di Lena started his professional experience as a project engineer for a contracting company in the steel mills sector, before joining a multinational in the refrigeration and industrial cooling market. After 15 years dealing with heat exchangers and covering different roles and responsibilities in technical support, sales and product management, he joined CAREL in 2019 as Group Marketing Manager in the food retail market unit.

Thomas Lergenmueller is Product Manager heat pumps at GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies. Since 2015, he has been responsible for the product management and development of packaged components within the Heating & Refrigeration Technologies division. Prior to that, from 2008 to 2015, he was responsible for the product engineering and development of packaged components. He graduated from the Berlin University of Technology (GER) M.S. in mechanical engineering and from the Stevens Institute of Technology and Fordham University (NJ/NY, USA) M.S. in Management

Tommy Ångbäck is a leading expert in the field of plate heat exchangers used in industrial refrigeration and air conditioning applications. Tommy has spent more than 20 years working with high-efficiency, natural-refrigerant-based plate heat exchangers, and he has focused specifically on ammonia/CO2 applications for the last decade.