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Topsoe has made a number of changes to its board. Kim Saaby Hedegaard has been appointed as the company’s new Executive Vice President, Power-to-X. Hedegaard has served as interim Head of Power-to-X since May 2022. Before that, he held the position as Chief Operations Officer (COO). He joined Topsoe in 1999 and has since held various leadership positions within engineering, technology, and sales. Since 2017, he was responsible for Catalyst Production and Technology globally. He holds a MSc in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. He is replaced as COO by Andreas Bruun Jørgensen.

The company has also appointed Morten Holm Christiansen as interim CFO as his predecessor Philip Eickhoff is returning to the healthcare industry. Christiansen previously held the position of CIO and will maintain those responsibilities in parallel with his position as interim CFO. He has had a long career in Maersk and the Novo Nordisk Group as CFO.

Topsoe CEO, Roeland Baan, commented: “We are on a fast track to build a strong commercial position based on our decarbonization solutions, and I have no doubt that Morten with his extensive leadership experience and financial background is the right person to support the organization in delivering on our strategy, while we look for a more permanent solution. Philip [Eickhoff] has done a great job in building a strong foundation and team to help drive our transformation, and I want to thank him for his contribution and dedicated efforts for Topsoe the past two years. I truly wish him all the best in his future endeavours.”

Chief Communications & Brand Officer Kristine Ahrensbach is also leaving Topsoe. Ahrensbach joined Topsoe in 2014 and was responsible for Marketing the first six years. In her place, Kasper Westphal Pedersen is joining Topsoe as Vice President of Communications & Brand and will report to Chief Human Resource Officer, Peter Kirkegaard. Pedersen has a strong track record of working with the sustainability agenda as a Communications executive. For the past seven years, he has worked as Director of Communications & Branding at Rambøll. Prior to that he spent almost ten years as communications agency executive with responsibility for clients within environment, energy and sustainable development, and he has previously worked as Press Secretary to the Danish Minister of Environment.

Tree Energy Solutions (TES) has announced the appointment of Alexandra Pieton as Chief Projects Officer and Yves Vercammen as Chief Corporate Officer. The company says that it is building the largest green energy hub in Europe in Wilmeshaven, Germany to convert renewable electricity from solar and wind into green hydrogen and affordable, renewable gas. Pieton brings over 20 years of valuable experience in the global energy industry and has held senior positions in engineering, project execution, operations, and business management in key strategic markets such as the US, U.K., Malaysia, Indonesia and France. Yves Vercammen is an energy commodity markets expert with over 25 years of experience in the sector. Since 2018 he has been Transformation Projects Director at energy infrastructure group Fluxys, focusing on the challenges and opportunities related to the energy transition.

The company has also appointed Cynthia Walker as CEO of TES Americas and as Chief Strategy Officer of TES Group. She will head the company’s newly established office in Houston, Texas.

In these new roles, Cynthia will be responsible for building TES’ business in the Americas with an initial emphasis in the US and Canada and for supporting the development of the TES strategic plan and resource allocation. Marco Alverà, CEO of TES Group, said: “I am delighted to welcome Cynthia to our rapidly expanding and multinational team. Cynthia is one of the most well-established energy executives and she holds significant expertise in execution, finance, and development. Her in-depth knowledge of the energy sector and broad skill set will fit in perfectly with TES’s game-changing mission to create a net-zero future. Having her on board will further enable us to bolster our growth strategy and our operations particularly in the North American market.”

Tountzer Ramadan has becomes head of machine sales for RHEWUM GmbH. He has worked in the sales department at RHEWUM since 2011 and acted as deputy sales manager from 2017 to 2020. He will appoint a deputy at the end of the year.

ClimeCo has appointed Dan Linsky as Senior VP, Voluntary Markets, Emily Damon as Senior VP, Sustainability, Policy & Advisory, and Erika Schiller as Senior VP, Project Development.