Before becoming independent, he worked for more than 20 years in the European Commission. In 1999 he joined DG Enterprise and Industry in the sector for technical harmonisation in the Common Market and EN standardisation. In 2003 he was appointed Head of Unit dealing with Entrepreneurship and SME Policy and later Advisor in the same area. In 2016 he became Senior Adviser for Macroregional Strategies the Danube Region, working from Vienna. After returning to Brussels in 2018 he was named Senior Adviser for Advanced Industrial Technologies and Hydrogen Coordinator in DG GROW. Before joining the European Commission, Christian Weinberger worked in the private sector, for 10 years with a large multinational corporation in Marketing, Sales, Finance and Special Business Operations in various countries and at European HQ and then founded an international SME in Information Technology and was its CEO for 10 years. Being a European born in Austria, Christian Weinberger holds a Master of Physics in Engineering, an MBA and a Ph.D. in Economics.

Mrs María Trinidad is the current Managing Director of ErasmoPower2X, leading the growth of the company with focus in green hydrogen and renewable power development. Maria has more than 17 years of business development and M&A experience. Prior to working at ErasmoPower2x and Soto Solar, she occupied different positions in Repsol and Repsol renewables, leading international transactions worldwide.

Katherine Radeka is the founder and CEO of the Rapid Learning Cycles Institute, and the developer behind the Rapid Learning Cycles framework. The framework accelerates innovation with resilient decision making that eliminates the root causes of project delays and disappointing results. She has accelerated innovation in industries from aerospace to medical devices and pharmaceuticals to consumer electronics and alternative energy. She is the author of four books on innovation management, including The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product, which describes the framework in detail.

Holds Master's degrees in Physics and Finance. Chairman of Assarel-Investment's Board of Directors since 2012 - in charge with group's investments in mining, energy, new technologies industries. Coordinator of ZAHYR project. Vice-chairman of Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association, member of Board of Trustees of Bulgarian Academy of Science, Vice-chairman of Bulgarian Fuel Cell, Hydrogen and Energy Storage Association. Actively involved in development, management and promotion of hydrogen technologies and innovations in Bulgaria, including establishment of the Hydrogen Valley Stara Zagora as well as the Hydrogen Department at EDIH Zagore.

Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is CEO of Hydrogen Europe since 2016. Before he was Representative of Infineon Technologies in Brussels and Member of the European Parliament (2004 - 2014) inter alia in the ITRE Committee (Industry, Technology, Research and Energy) where he could contribute to lay the cornerstone for the first and the second Joint Undertaking on hydrogen and fuel cells. In 2007 he was elected 'MEP of the year' by his colleagues of the European Parliament in the category 'Research and Innovation'. In 2015 he was appointed ambassador at large for Greece. Mr Chatzimarkakis was born in Duisburg, Germany. He holds German and Greek nationality, a degree in political science from the University of Bonn.

Volker Häckh recently joined Lhyfe, a producer of green hydrogen with its headquarters located in Nantes, France, in September of 2022. In his role as a consultant, he is driving business development in Germany, focusing on the sectors of mobility and industry. Simultaneously, Volker is the managing director of his business consulting firm vohatec GmbH. Prior to that, Volker was holding several senior management positions at Linde AG, i.e. the management of global development, sales and marketing in Western Europe and the overall business of a German region. After studying chemical engineering at KIT in Karlsruhe, he took part in various leadership training courses, including one at Duke University, USA.