Maxine Kennett

Head of Global Trade Compliance

Hitachi Energy

Maxine Kennett is the Head of Global Trade Compliance at Hitachi Energy.  She is a specialist in trade policy and compliance with nearly 20 years of experience in leading trade teams and programs.

She started her career as a commercial lawyer for the international law firm, Allen & Overy, and then worked governments and international governmental organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East as a Legal Policy Advisor, Trade Negotiator and Economic Growth specialist. In 2010, she returned permanently to Switzerland to take up the role of Head of Legal Affairs (General Counsel) at the International Road Transport Union (IRU) and thereafter the role of Global Head of Trade Affairs at Syngenta.

In January 2020, she joined Hitachi Energy (a global energy company with 40,000 employees) as the Head of Global Trade Compliance – where she leads the Global Trade team (of approximately 70 team members) to ensure trade compliance and optimize trade related business operations.

She is qualified as a lawyer in the UK, Ireland and Switzerland and an alumna of the University of Bern. 

Ameetess Dira

CEO

Petzey

Emily Wrenbeck

Head of Protein Engineering

Gingko Bioworks

Nathan is a four year Ginkgo veteran who has had both Design and Protein Engineering roles. Prior to Ginkgo, he was a postdoc at UCSF where he focused on de novo protein design to test structure-function relationships. His PhD is from the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he studied peptide-membrane interactions.

Maria Fátima Lucas

CEO

Zymvol

Maria Fátima Lucas is co-founder and CEO of ZYMVOL, a Barcelona-based deeptech company specialized in enzyme design and development through computer simulations. With the aim of making industrial chemical processes more sustainable, ZYMVOL is able to discover and optimize enzymes for very specific purposes in less time than with traditional methods

Since its founding in 2017, the company has participated in several European research projects and has worked with industrial clients worldwide.

Thanks to this work, in 2020 María Fátima Lucas was one of the winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators, awarded by the European Commission.