Prof David Hart is a Director of E4tech, a UK- and Swiss- based business consulting company specialising in sustainable energy and transport, and is responsible for the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Practices. He is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy. In 20 years in the fuel cell sector, he has led numerous far-reaching consulting and academic projects on fuel cells and hydrogen energy for a wide range of organisations worldwide, including national governments, major industrial companies, financial organisations and NGOs. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he now focuses primarily on strategic business advisory work. David also has extensive experience on industry committees and boards, including the Investment Committee of Conduit Ventures (a VC focused on low carbon energy), and the UK’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership. He chairs the Grove Fuel Cell Symposium Steering Committee, and has been an invited keynote speaker and conference chair on six continents. Following a childhood in Africa, he has lived in N America, Europe and Asia and speaks grammatically incorrect French, German and some Japanese.

Johnathan Lewis is a senior business leader with extensive experience in the provision of Business Development, Economic and Strategic Consultancy for leading multi-national organisations in Europe, the USA and Australia. Specific expertise has included successfully developing public/private partnerships and securing UK and EU funding provision for advanced technology led programmes. He is technically competent, commercially astute and culturally fluent, with a reputation for consistent achievement and for building, organising and motivating international multi-disciplined teams focused on delivering high performance standards. Jonathan has worked in the fuel cell and hydrogen field for over eight years, including six with Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems Ltd. The experience includes strategy and marketing development, supply chain building, business plan preparation and project development working with both UK and European consortia to undertake part-public funded projects. Jonathan works with key public sector bodies including the European Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, and the European lndustry Grouping for fuel cells and hydrogen. Current work includes development of a coalition of twenty five Europe wlde businesses, to undertake a Stationary Distribution Technologies fact based Study.