Piero Gattoni

EBA President - Consorzio Italiano Biogas

Italian Biogas Association

Piero Gattoni has a Degree in Economics at University Cattolica of Sacro Cuore in Milan (1997). He operates his family’s farm in North Italy with great passion for breeding, cheese production and renewable energy, running a biogas plant since 2010, promoting biogas and biomethane technology.

Piero was the Vice-President of Consorzio Parmigiano Reggiano (2008-2016) and he is the President of CIB – Consorzio Italiano Biogas since 2011. He is founder and Executive Board Member in EBA and was also Vice President of the association for the period 2019-2020 and Acting President in 2021. He is also founding member of the Gas for Climate consortium.

Michael Niederbacher

EBA Vice-President and CAC Chairman - TerraX

TerraX

Michael is Board Member of the EBA since 2019 and he chairs the Company Advisory Council of the association. Michael is founder and CEO of TerraX, where he works in the development of new technologies in the field of the anaerobic digestion to produce biogas/biomethane and gasification to produce hydrogen. As by-products of these processes, he is able to produce a green fertilizer as digestate and premium green biochar.

Prior to this, he was CEO of BTS Biogas, an international leading company in biogas plant engineering and construction. As agriculturalist, graduated at the BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Science) in Vienna, he has devoted over 20 years of his life to the world of biogas. He was also cofounder of the Klimaenergy fiery in Bozen, the Consorzio Italiano Biogas (CIB) and finally the European Biogas Association (EBA).

Michael studied agricultural economics in Vienna – BOKU. His proudest AD accomplishment is the development of an AD plant in his home village in 2000. His driving force: protecting our planet and preserve nature for our future generations.

Maria Malmkvist

EBA Executive Board Member - Swedish Gas Association

Since 2016 Maria has been the Managing Director of the Swedish Gas Association. My journey with the association began in 2013 as a department manager under the leadership of Anders Mathiasson (former EBA President). She has worked with energy related questions for a long time, first at the Swedish Energy Agency between 1998 and 2012 and, subsequently working as a consultant for a year. She holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Linköping University and began my professional journey at Astra Zeneca. Her extensive board experience includes being active in the board of Energiforsk and Konsumenternas Energimarknadsbyrå. Additionally, she has been an engaged member of the Managing Committee and the Board of Liquid Gas Europe for over six years.

Stefan Rauh

EBA Executive Board Member - German Biogas Association

FvB, Germany

Dr. Stefan Rauh studied agricultural sciences at the Technical University of Munich. The focus of his studies was crop production and economic analysis in the field of renewable energies. At the end of 2009, immediately after completing his doctorate, he switched to the German Biogas Association. Since then, he has been head of the agriculture department and has also been managing director since June 2013.

Since his studies in agricultural sciences, renewable energies have accompanied him and have not let him go. For years, his main concern in daily work has been to communicate the valuable characteristics of the biogas sector to policy makers in Germany to develop the sector. This contribution to the energy system must now be maintained and sustainably expanded in the coming years.

Stefan is a Board Member of the EBA since 2022.

Annette Kroll

EBA Executive Board Member - Engie

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Annette is the Head of Regulation and Advocacy at ENGIE Renewable Gases Europe since 2023, coordinating biomethane regulatory affairs across six European countries. Annette aims to accelerate biomethane project development, address barriers, and ensure a positive business case. She has extensive experience in European and Public Affairs and is committed to collaborating with stakeholders to achieve common objectives.

PJ McCarthy

EBA Executive Board Member - Renewable Gas Forum Ireland

PJ McCarthy is CEO and a founding member of Renewable Gas Forum Ireland, (RGFI) which was established in 2014 as an industry forum to represent the interests of the full supply chain in the renewable gas industry and gas consumers. Through its advocacy at national and European level, leadership of strategic collaborations and knowledge transfer, RGFI has established itself as the national co-ordination and design authority for AD biomethane as a key central enabler of the bio economy. PJ McCarthy represents the National Associations Platform as Chair of NAP on the Board of the European Biogas Association. Prior to RGFI,  PJ spent over 20 years as a  project management consultant working with  Deloitte, KPMG, ACC Bank, Ulster Bank and PHM Project Management Ltd.

Coen Meijers

EBA Executive Board Member - DMT Environmental Technology

Coen Meijers has worked for 22 years in the sustainability sector and is devoted to the mitigation of climate change. He has built his career in the water and gas sector, in different commercial positions for General Electric and DMT Environmental Technology. As Sales Manager for DMT, he worked on the first commercial scale membrane biogas upgrading plant in Europe, the operational lease of upgrading plants and the expansion of the biogas sector into new markets. In his current role as Manager Business Development, he focuses on the implementation of new technologies for biogas valorisation, such as liquefied biogas (LBG or bio-LNG), capture of CO2 and asset management services. In the last 2 years Coen has been serving as a member of the Company Advisory Board and the Executive Board for the EBA.

Guillaume Tuffigo

EBA Executive Board Member - SWEN Capital Partners

As Director of Asset Management at SWEN Capital Partners, Guillaume participates in the investment decisions and supervise the portfolio of biomethane developers, supporting them on strategic, operational or commercial topics.

Guillaume has an engineering background, supplemented by an Executive MBA from ESCP. He joined SWEN Capital Partners in 2023 after working for some twenty years in the operation and development of gas infrastructures. In particular, as marketing manager within the French TSO, He defined, in collaboration with the regulator, a contractual and regulatory framework favorable to the development of biomethane in France. More recently, Guillaume contributed to the development of numerous projects across Europe based on biomethane purchase agreements and non-recourse financing.

Sandra Esteves

EBA Executive Board Member - University of South Wales

Prof. Sandra Esteves is a Professor in Bioprocess Technology for Resource Recovery (Energy and Materials), directs the Wales Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion and has over 20 years’ experience in biotechnology research, development and full-scale deployment of anaerobic processes. Sandra earned a first class BSc (Hons) degree in Energy & Environmental Technology from the University of Glamorgan in 1996. Sandra read her PhD in 2002 from the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales) on the control of biotechnology processes using artificial intelligence techniques. Sandra has directed and co-investigated ~£12M of R&D projects. Her research has been funded by the EU, Innovate UK, BEIS and Research Councils as well as through private sector funding including TATA Steel, Wales & West Utilities, Welsh Water, Severn Trent, WRAP, Veolia and ARUP. Sandra is a member of the European Biogas Association’ Scientific Advisory Council, Member of the Internationl Advisory Group for the Swedish Biogas Research Centre & supports AD deployment internationally. She has provided technical services and R&D collaboration to over 200 companies and informs government on policy. Sandra’s research has focused in the areas of waste and wastewater recovery, in particular organics as well as C1 (CO2, CO and CH4) gases, bioprocess conversions design, monitoring, modelling and control, the production of novel anaerobic and aerobic processes and products, microbial ecology, profiling and enrichment and the evaluation of metabolic performance of microbial cultures for the production of energy gases, chemicals and biopolymers. She has successfully supervised 10 PhD graduates (and over 50 MSc Students), managed/mentored 15 post-doctoral fellows and is currently supervising 7 PhD students. Sandra is the co-inventor of 2 patents, 5 trademarks in addition to over 70 scientific publications with an h-index of 24. The impact of her work has been felt within academic and industrial sectors.