James Wang serves as Chief Financial Office at VP Ventures. He has 15 years of experience in private equity investing and has deployed over $5 billion of equity into dozens of companies across the energy, power, industrials, and infrastructure sectors. He has also raised billions of dollars in…
John Palamara is general manager, liquefied natural gas (LNG), at Air Products. He has global responsibility for all LNG engineering and commercial activities related to the sale of the company’s natural gas liquefaction technology and equipment, and the coordination of ongoing technical support to operating LNG facilities. In…
Brent Williams is the Director of Sustainability at Callon Petroleum where he leads Engineering, Commercial, and Investment activities related to emission reduction, low carbon, energy transition, venture capital and emerging technology initiatives. Previously, he was the Director of Corporate Development and the Director of Strategic Planning at Callon.…
Blake Simmons serves as the Chief Scientific and Technology Officer and Vice President of the Deconstruction Division at the US Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in Emeryville. After earning his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Washington, Simmons continued his studies at Tulane University…
Jan Sherman is the Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Carbonvert. Jan has 30 years of experience in leadership, project development, and asset management for the oil and gas industry with Shell’s Upstream deepwater and unconventional businesses. Prior to joining Carbonvert in 2020, Jan led Shell’s Carbon Capture…
Esben is Senior Director at Plug Power - responsible for global development of the Green Chemicals electrolyzer market. Esben has held that position for a little over a year and during that time facilitated relations with a host of the key players in the green chemicals market and…
Jim Sledzik has more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He is the Managing Director for North America team of Aramco Ventures. Prior to Aramco, he served as MD at Hall Labs. He was a Senior Partner and President of North America for…
