Meet the speakers

Keith Martin

Senior vice president in charge of LNG, gas, power, carbon and renewables, PetroChina International (London)

Keith rejoined PetroChina with global responsibility for building its LNG, gas, carbon, & renewable power business outside of China. Initially based in Singapore he has now moved to London. Prior to rejoining PCI he served as both an Executive Board Member and Chief Commercial officer of Uniper SE, whilst also holding the role of CEO of Uniper Global Commodities. Previously he successfully developed Petro China's marketing and trading in Global LNG and carbon from London.

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David Percival MBE

Chairman of Manchester China Forum, Managing Director of Deloitte (China)

David Percival MBE is the Managing Director of China Services Group. David joined Deloitte in 2012 leading a new team – The China International Business Development Group which he devised and founded. The team focuses on developing strategic business relationships across all Deloitte service lines relating to China’s globalization. This has included a UK government-funded low carbon prorgramme between UK and China and Deloitte's recent review of The UK – China Hyrdrogen sector opportunity.

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Andrew Bissell

Founder and CEO of Sunamp Ltd.

Serial technology entrepreneur Andrew Bissell founded Sunamp in 2005 to develop an affordable and sustainable solution for heat energy storage for commercial and domestic markets. He led one of the most exciting academic and industry partnerships in Scotland, teaming up with the University of Edinburgh to develop the unique heat energy storage phase-change material which is the core patented technology delivering high powered heating and cooling in Sunamp thermal batteries.

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Roger Adams

Executive Director at RSK Group

Based in London, Roger is a executive director of RSK’s core business, working across their main markets in Africa and the Middle East, including high growth regions, such as Neom in Saudi Arabia. His background is in the real estate investment business, training at Jones Land LaSalle’s Head Quarters in London as partner lead for National Investment, and then on to fund management roles with LaSalle Investment Management.

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Dr. Li Yao

Managing Director of Q Energy

Dr. Li Yao is the founder & managing director of Q Energy, a leading AI-based EnTech company based in Manchester with the vision to accelerate the transition to a net zero carbon future. He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Manchester and since then he has worked across academia, banking industry and settled in the technology industry.

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Carol Yan

Director and General Manager of Power Link Machine (UK) Co.,Ltd.

Carol Yan is the Director and General Manager of Power Link Machine UK leading the business strategy, planning and operations of the UK branch of Power Link Group. In the past 20 years, Carol took various roles in the Power Link Group both in the Headquarter in China and in the UK. Carol set up the Power Link factory in Shanghai successfully in 2005 and took charge of the export sales and became a director in 2008.

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Tim Hawkins

Lead of Manchester Airports Group's strategy, public affairs, external communications and CSR teams

Tim Hawkins leads Manchester Airports Group's strategy, public affairs, external communications and CSR teams. He has been with MAG since 2013. Prior to that, Tim was a part of London Stansted Airport's senior leadership team with responsibility for economic regulation and long term planning. Tim led the airport's engagement with the CAA during the regulatory review which led to Stansted being de-regulated. Before joining Stansted in 2011, Tim held a number of positions with BAA, working on a wide range of regulatory, competition and policy issues.

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Corinna Fletcher

Organisational Development Director of Group Lotus

Corinna Fletcher, MBA, BSc (Hons), is the Organisational Development director for Lotus cars, she has been with the company for three years. Her focus is on developing people solutions to support the business strategy during a time of significant transformation. Since Geely invested in Lotus in 2017 Lotus have launched 3 new vehicles, the Evija, the Emira and the new Eletre and made a commitment to an electric future. Prior to lotus Corinna ran a small consultancy supporting strategic planning for several FTSE organisations and her earlier career was in the pharmaceutical industry with Astrazeneca and GSK working in the UK and the US.

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