Having worked in the Chemical Industry for the 12 years, prior to joining Glass Futures in December 2022, I was fortunate enough to work across several disciplines.

Starting life in manufacturing, before moving into R&D, where I worked on sustainable projects, such as plastic recycling, and the hydrogen economy, I moved into a marketing role in 2020. My last role, before joining Glass Futures was helping to join the dots between academia and my employer, when it came to R&D, and how to make those relationships as effective as possible.

Within Glass Futures, I sit across both the projects and the membership team, enabling key cross-member collaboration, to ensure that the research we are doing at Glass Futures can provide value for both our stakeholders and the wider industry.

Currently based in Teesside, in the UK, I spent the previous three years living and working in Maastricht, so I know the area very well!

Mo Ahmed has over twenty years of experience in the steel industry. Before joining Schneider Electric, he worked for Primetals Technologies, Siemens, Ivaco Rolling Mills and GE. He filled roles starting from automation and drives engineering, maintenance management, pre-sales support and finally sales of multi-million-dollar steel plant projects. He has engaged in the industry on a global scale, travelling to over 50 countries to meet and understand the needs of his customers. He is also an author of multiple white papers that have been published and presented at numerous steel-industry conferences.

Mr. Sarim Sheikh is an experienced global business leader and an independent director with more than two decades of P&L and business leadership experience across energy, transportation, health care and retail sectors. He has held several global and regional leadership positions since joining Shell Group Plc in 1995, in Downstream, Midstream and Renewables and of living and working on 5 continents. In 2012 he joined as President & CEO of GE Industrial businesses in the Central Asia region for Aviation, Health Care, Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables. In 2019, he was appointed the Chief Operating Officer, GE Offshore a start-up within GE.

Mr. Sheikh was named one of the "Best Performing CEOs" by Karachi Stock Exchange and was also awarded the GE Chairman’s Leadership Award. Mr. Sheikh has served on several not for profit boards of charities, industry associations, public companies and government advisory boards. Mr. Sheikh is a global thought leader on energy transition and a passionate advocate its acceleration.

Mr. Sheikh has a B.Sc in Physics and an MBA from London Business School awarded with distinction. He and his wife live with their daughter and son in London.

Sabrina Santarossa is chemical engineer with international experience in sales and business development in energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Sabrina works in Turboden since 2008 and she is Sales Manager for Heat Recovery application and Gas Expander product.

She supports potential customers to find the optimized configuration for each project with a consistent attitude to deliver high value customized solutions supported by a solid academic background.

In her free time she likes reading, doing sport and travelling.

Davide Rizzi is Sales Engineer at Turboden, responsible for Large Heat Pump application in industrial processes.

He started his journey in Turboden as engineer in charge of energy efficiency project in the O&G industry, working in project in North America and Middle East.

Now, together with the Large Heat Pump team, he develops energy efficiency solutions based on Large Heat Pump implementation in industrial processes, helping industries to decarbonize their assets.

Davide Rizzi holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Università degli Studi di Brescia with major in industrial processes. During his studies, he joined the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan as research fellow working with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Program Manager Industrial Carbon Capture at TNO, the applied research organization of the Netherlands

Drive to make an impact on CO2 emissions to reduce the carbon footprint of Industry and have a positive impact on the climate. In my job I am responsible for the team that works on two main topics. 1) Improving state of the art Post Combustion Capture technologies and 2) Implementation of TNO’s Pre Combustion Capture technology SEWGS.

Chemical background and worked from the beginning in the field of the energy transition. From Researcher, to Project Leader and now Business Developer and Program Manager.

Ira Brueckner is Senior Manager Sustainability Strategy at Heidelberg Materials, based in Heidelberg, Germany. At Heidelberg Materials, she assists and reports to the CSO regarding sustainability strategy and leads the global circularity strategy implementation. In her professional career to date, Ira has gained experience in waste and wastewater treatment as well as change and strategy management. She is a Waste (B. Sc.) and Environmental (M. Sc.) Engineer and holds a PhD from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.