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Cyrille Brisson

Vice President, Electrical Sector Europe, Middle East and Africa Region – Eaton

Cyrille Brisson is Vice President for the EMEA region at Eaton Corporation. Beyond the classic marketing scope, this role includes responsibility for looking into the way markets are being changed by technology, customers' requirements or societal pressures, and the consequences of these changes both for our business and for the way markets operate. It also covers Eaton's involvement in trade associations and standard-setting bodies that contribute to creating interoperability and safety standards across the electrical industry.

With a diverse experience in technology and economics, Cyrille invests time to look into how technology, process and business model innovation can be applied to improve people's quality of life, access to energy, productivity or personal safety, while striving to anticipate and mitigate the impact that technology and market changes have on communities.

Prior to his current position, Cyrille was VP, Power Quality Division EMEA at Eaton Corporation. During that time, he organized research consortia looking into energy storage and the future of data centres and HPC, working with industry partners such as Nissan as well as academic partners such as EPFL.

He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry and began his career at Schneider Electric in 1995. Before joining Eaton in 2011, he had held several positions in Schneider Electric in headquarters and industrial and commercial subsidiaries in France, Japan, Singapore, Israel and Colombia, many of them in the context of acquisitions such as Digital Electronics or APC.

He started his career in Finance, IT and Logistics before transitioning to general management roles. Cyrille graduated from HEC Paris, with a major in Tax and Law.

Dr. Nina Skorupska CBE FEI

Chief Executive - Renewable Energy Association

Nina is the Chief Executive of the REA, the UK's largest trade association for renewable energy and clean tech. With approximately 650 members this not-for-profit organisation represents British renewable energy producers across power, heat, and transport, including energy storage and electric vehicles.

A chemist by training with over 25 years' experience in the energy industry, Nina has worked in a number of senior executive and board roles at National Power, RWE npower and Essent NV.

She joined National Power in 1993 as a fuel specialist and moved through the ranks to become the first female Power Station Manager of RWE npower's Didcot B.

Since then she has led a UK energy trading team, been Director of npower's Technology Services, spent time in Germany as RWE Group's Director of Performance Improvement, and then the Netherlands where she was Chief Technology Officer at Essent NV, a wholly-owned company of RWE Group and the Netherlands' largest energy company. There she was responsible for its entire generation fleet, innovation, R&D and renewable energy developments.

In July 2013 Nina took the helm of the Renewable Energy Association as its Chief Executive. She was awarded the CBE in the 2016 New Year's Honours List for contribution to Renewables and Equality in Energy.

Albert Cheung

Head of Global Analysis – Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Albert manages the global research team at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the leading provider of independent research on transformation in the energy sector. Albert's group is responsible for BNEF's research in renewable energy, energy storage, energy smart technologies and advanced transport, as well as cross-sector modelling. Albert joined BNEF in 2009 and has previously led the company's product management group, as well as its energy smart technologies analyst team. Albert holds a MEng in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.

Biographies

Cyrille Brisson

Dr. Nina Skorupska CBE FEI

Albert Cheung

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