Multilingual. Jörg is a Swiss national. He is a qualified lawyer and partner in an international law firm as well as author of several law journals. During his long and illustrious career Jörg has been involved as founder, director and partner in a variety of successful business ventures ranging from engineering and manufacture to aviation and telecommunications. Jörg became involved in the renewable and sustainable power industry in early 2000. In 2002 Jörg together with his colleagues founded Agrofarm and remains today the chairman of Agrofarm London Limited, parent company of the Agrofarm Group, which operates in England, Italy and Greece. Jörg manages the company’s corporate, legal, compliance and financial affairs and together with the board assists in implementing strategy.
Stefano is a multilingual Italian national and UK resident. After his university graduation Stefano has specialized in financial services and worked for 5 different investment banks during his successful 15 year career as money manager. After leaving Lloyd bank TSB in 2009 Stefano entered the renewable and sustainable power production industry with his own company In 2010, after an M&A operation, Agrofarm group acquired his old company and Stefano became a shareholder and director of Agrofarm. Stefano remains the Italian director is in charge of managing the O&M companies, suppliers, relationships with border authorities, agriculture government agencies, national power Grid Company and GSE.
David is an established and successful entrepreneur with a background in Property, Finance and IT, David entered in to the renewable energy space initially via Solar in 2009 by establishing and subsequently selling two solar development companies having successfully developing circa 50 Megawatts of solar developments both as roof and land arrays. He became interested in GSHP and also small scale hydro and worked with a number of companies in that space. David is also the founder, major shareholder and lead in the development of a major bio mass power station generating 41.5 Megawatts of power in Alberta Canada. He developed in partnership with others a 6.5Megawatt CHP bio mass plant in Sheffield which was funded via GIB and a private equity fund; this was subsequently sold to the equity fund. David has been involved with Agrofarm since its creation and handles the corporate activities for the company in the United Kingdom.
University Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 108/110 with particular reference to the Study of Energy, Thermo Fluid Dynamics and Fracture Mechanics. He is responsible for the planning and installation of power plants as well as plants for the delivery of heating and cooling, CHP and CCHP plants. He remains as the Technical - Administration Manager of the CHP and CCHP plants for the group. Providing monthly data processing of thermal and cooling energy consumption of all clients served by CCHP Plant at 'Centro Servizi di Capriate' (BG)
A Certified Chartered Accountant, he works as a consultant in economics, finance and tax matters, with offices in Milan. Alessandro is professor of Financial Accounting at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, and of Business Administration at the University of Insubria in Como. After graduation in economics, in 1996 he obtains a Master Degree (MSc.) in Financial Economics at Queen Mary and Westfield College - University of London; as academic researcher his main research interest concern corporate performance measurement, capital structure, intangible
assets valuation, and the evolution and the implementation of the international accounting principles IAS/IFRS, with particular reference to banks and insurances.
Marinka, is a Chemical Engineering PhD I (Organic Photovoltaic / Electrochemistry), Marinka has worked with Agrofarm and Greenworld Power for some 4 years and assists the company in maintaining all of the requisite environmental registrations and supports the company by undertaking inspections of various feed stock suppliers on behalf of the company. Marinka has more than 15 years of experience in the Renewable Energy field, of which 9 years have been spent at European Commission DG-JRC, covering scientific and technical support to EU Renewable Energy policies. During her time at the European Commission, Renewable Energy Unit, her main activities were in the bioenergy field including the quantification of CO2 emissions in agriculture due to irrigation and fertilisers used in support of the main author of the Well-to-Wheels study (JRC-CONCAWE-EUCAR). Marinka Vignali became then leading expert, auditor and trainer in this specific field for Certification Bodies and contributed to the Technical Panel established by CTI (Italian Technical Committee) for Drafting the Technical Standard UNI/TS 11429.2001, which is the recalled standard under Italian Decree 23.01.2012 and s.m.i., where she has provided specific input about emissions calculations. Since 2014 Marinka Vignali has been seen as the leading consultant for all economic operators in the supply chain from feedstock to bioenergy and has a worldwide reputation.
Associate Fellow Chartered Insurance Institute London BA (Hons) Economics, University of York Chair of Environmental External Advisory Board Lancaster University Board Member, Cambridge Centre Climate Change Mitigation Reduction, Cambridge University, Founder Member of the Cambridge Retrofit Programme Organising Group Karen recently stepped down as a Director at KPMG Sustainability in UK. She has been active in the sustainability market since 2000 and has worked in a number of International Cities.
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