Hydrogen Energy Of The Future
TUESDAY, JUNE 9 AT 8:00AM PT. Take the pulse of the latest innovation and the role hydrogen can play in energy transition!
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Agenda:
Introduction by Franck Avice, President at the FACC Houston and Brett Perlman, CEO at the Center for Houston's Future. Hydrogen introduction and basics Future potential of H2 across applications in the U.S. 5, 10, and 20 years out Opportunities in the U.S. Gulf Coast region Q & A
Experts:
- Karine Boissy-Rousseau, President, Hydrogen Energy & Mobility North America at Air Liquide
- Dave Edwards, Director and Advocate for Hydrogen Energy at Air Liquide
- Charles Sanders, Vice President Of Business Development at Air Liquide
- Brett Perlman, CEO at the Center for Houston's Future
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Webinar organized in partnership with Air Liquide, Center for Houston's Future and Evolen.
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Bios:
- Karine Boissy-Rousseau
Karine Boissy-Rousseau currently serves as President of Air Liquide Hydrogen Energy U.S. LLC. In this role, she leads the development and expansion of Air Liquide’s position in hydrogen for transport in the U.S. and Canada. Karine is focused on the continued growth in commercial and business development along with the improvement in the hydrogen market infrastructure.
Prior to her current role Karine was Managing Director for Air Liquide Benelux Industries in Belgium, managing the Large Industries and Industrial Merchant activities in Benelux. Karine joined Air Liquide as an engineer more than 20 years ago and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the Air Liquide Group including strategy, marketing, energy, and operations management in the Engineering & Construction, Large Industries and Healthcare businesses.
Karine holds a Master's of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s in Marketing & Management.
- Dave Edwards
Dave is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal and external partnerships with industry, academia, and government entities as needed to advance the technology and business opportunities in Hydrogen Energy for Air Liquide in the US.
For more than 20 years with Air Liquide in R&D and Hydrogen Business roles, Dave has responsibilities for Air Liquide’s investment and project efforts driving towards the adoption of Hydrogen Energy in the transportation and power sectors across the country.
Dave has established R&D programs and executed development strategies in areas of cryogenic air separation, rotating machinery, syngas production, energy, and process engineering and has led hydrogen technology programs in solid state storage, MOF materials, high pressure carbon fiber vessel designs, steam methane reformer catalysis development, high temperature SMR tube development, and small scale hydrogen production systems.
Dave has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
- Charles Sanders
Charles Sanders is Vice President, Business Development of Air Liquide Hydrogen Energy U.S. LLC, a role he assumed in July 2019. Charles and the H2E BD team are responsible for bringing in profitable long-term growth for Air Liquide’s nascent North American hydrogen mobility activity.
Charles joined Air Liquide in France in 1996 after completing an MBA at INSEAD outside of Paris, and held a series of management and business development roles within several diverse activities over the next 19 years, including engineering & construction, home healthcare, and project development. He returned to the US in 2015 to take a position as Director, Business Development for ALLIUS in Houston.
Originally from Texas, Charles holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.