Green Hydrogen Seminar Speakers

Hannah Beveridge

Hydrogen Sales & Marketing Manager, Hydrasun

Hannah has been with Hydrasun since 2011 and completed her Graduate Apprenticeship with RGU in 2022, under the mentorship of the firm's CEO. During her studies, Hannah discovered her passion for the energy transition and played a key role in shaping the organization's strategy in wind, LNG, and hydrogen sectors. She has been a member of the hydrogen team for the past five years, where she contributes to market analysis, strategy development, strategic marketing communications, and corporate relationship management for 2 Scottish hydrogen project developers. Additionally, Hannah is an active member of the Women in Hydrogen Scotland committee and deeply committed to maximizing social investment in hydrogen projects.

George Colcomb

Business Development Coordinator, EMEC

Working in EMEC's business development team, George identifies, develops and secures funding opportunities for EMEC to grow its portfolio of R&D projects. He also supports engagement with new technology developers in the hydrogen, synthetic fuels and energy integration sectors, identifying funding opportunities that support real-world demonstration at EMEC. With a background in Ocean Sciences and Environmental Management, George has a broad understanding of technology development principles, consenting and regulation that can support or hinder project development.

Phoebe Finn

Policy Manager, Statera Energy

Phoebe is a Policy Manager at Statera where she leads the company's work on hydrogen-related policy and regulation. She also oversees Statera's external engagement with key policy and political stakeholders. Before joining Statera, Phoebe was a Senior Policy Lead at Ofgem, focusing on Electricity Market Design and evaluating the impact of locational wholesale pricing in Great Britain. Earlier in her career, Phoebe worked as a Parliamentary Researcher, running the Westminster office of a Member of Parliament.

Olivia Flynn

Head of Hydrogen Strategy & Systems, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Olivia Flynn is Head of Hydrogen Strategy & Systems at the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, where her team is responsible for cross-cutting strategic issues with relevance across the hydrogen value chain, including developing the UK Hydrogen Strategy, due for publication this autumn. Prior to joining DESNZ, she represented the UK in greenhouse gas negotiations at the International Maritime Organization between 2019 and 2024. Olivia has worked in a range of roles in the UK Government, with a focus on international and climate policy.

Simon Gill

Energy Consultant, The Energy Landscape

Simon is a freelance energy system specialist with 14 years’ experience in the energy sector. He spent five years with The Scottish Government providing detailed analysis and advice on a range of challenges including the development of electricity and gas networks, decarbonisation of heat and transport, and the role of carbon capture and storage in reaching net zero. He worked closely with Ministers to support delivery of Scotland’s stretching greenhouse gas emissions targets and he helped develop strong collaborations with regulators and the private sector. He was part of the team who wrote the 2017 Scottish Energy Strategy and the 2020 update to the Scottish Climate Change Plan.

David Hogg

Senior Consultant, Arup

David has been at the forefront of hydrogen developments in Scotland for well over a decade. From driving the development of The Hydrogen Office into the Levenmouth Community Energy Project, to leading Arup’s team on the Scottish Hydrogen Assessment, he has gained extensive knowledge, experience and industry links. David is frequently deployed on Arup’s projects for his deep technical understanding of hydrogen, including H100 Fife and Decarbonising InchDairnie Distillery, as well as his wider industry understanding, including the Scottish Electrolyser Assessment and Project Cavendish. He is a director of the Hydrogen Scotland and Bright Green Hydrogen and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events sharing the trials and tribulations of developing hydrogen projects.

Omar Ibrahim

Hydrogen Strategy and Policy Analyst, NESO

Omar is part of NESO's Hydrogen Policy team within the Strategy and Policy directorate, where his team is responsible for navigating how Hydrogen is featured in all NESO's Strategic Energy Plans; SSEP, CSNP and RESPs, as well as ensuring coherence with all policy developments from the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ofgem in this context.
Prior to joining NESO, he was active in the offshore hydrogen production research space in few organisations as EDF UK R&D and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.

Stephen Livermore

Development Manager, Green Cat Hydrogen

Stephen is a Development Manager at Green Cat Hydrogen where he works on project origination and supports the R&D and engineering functions. A Mechanical Engineer by training, Stephen previously worked in consultancy where he led a number of studies for the UK government on hydrogen.

Margo Maciver

Head of Hydrogen Policy Unit, Scottish Government

Margo leads the Scottish Government’s hydrogen policy unit. Her current responsibilities include hydrogen, geothermal, onshore oil and gas policy development, funding delivery and licensing. Margo has extensive government experience having held a number of policy making, strategy, project management and communications roles in the Scottish Government and UK Government including Head of CCS Policy Unit, and Head of Strategy for the Secretary of State for Scotland. She is a communications professional having worked as a Chief Communications Manager to several Scottish Government Ministers and worked as a journalist prior to entering government.

Alan Mortimer

Development Director UK & EU, Eneus Energy

Alan joined Eneus Energy in 2023 as Director of Development. His role involves identifying, developing and securing large scale clean energy projects including green hydrogen and green ammonia production and export facilities. Prior to Eneus Alan worked at ScottishPower for 22 years with roles including Head of Wind Development where he developed the strategy for, and helped establish a 1,000MW onshore wind portfolio. More recently at Wood as Director of Innovation his role included extending the company’s renewable energy activities in onshore wind, offshore wind (fixed and floating), solar, wave, tidal, hydrogen, heat and transport.

Maggie Olson-Jow

Policy Manager – Offshore and New Technologies, Scottish Renewables

Maggie Olson is the Policy Manager for New Technologies at Scottish Renewables. She focuses on hydrogen, wave & tidal, and INTOG. Our vision is for a Scotland leading the world in renewable energy. The sectors we represent deliver investment, jobs, social benefits, and reduce the carbon emissions which cause climate change. Our members work across all renewable energy technologies, in Scotland, the UK, Europe and around the world.

Maggie’s work as the Policy Manager for Hydrogen, Wave & Tidal, and INTOG involves managing and supporting the development of Scottish Renewables’ policy positions, which aim to create the conditions for the sustainable growth of Scotland’s renewable energy industry, and communicating these effectively to key policy and regulatory decision makers.

Colin Palmer

Director of Offshore, Scottish Renewables

Colin is Director of Offshore at Scottish Renewables, the representative voice of Scotland’s renewable energy sector. He is responsible for leading the organisation’s work in supporting and enabling the development and built out of Scotland’s world leading fixed and floating offshore wind pipeline, and in helping realise the tremendous wave & tidal energy opportunity Scotland has.

Before joining Scottish Renewables, Colin was Director of Marine at Crown Estate Scotland for a period of 5 years in which his responsibilities included leading the ScotWind and INTOG offshore wind leasing rounds.

Colin has always been passionate about the development and delivery of renewable energy having previously worked at SSE where, amongst other roles, he was the development phase project manager on the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm project.

He has degrees in marketing and in engineering project management.

Angus Paxton

Head of Gas and Whole Energy Network Development, NESO

Angus joined NESO in November 2023 after 18 years of consulting. As a consultant, Angus built optimisation models and led on gas topics and in particular future global gas prices and flows including gas pipeline a storage valuation, but also on diverse topics in the energy space such as European electricity prices, hydrogen infrastructure, biomethane, distribution, energy market design and regulation/law. Before being a consultant Angus spent ten years planning GB gas transmission network.

Alexander Reumert-Kristensen

Power-to-X Analyst, European Energy

Alexander is an analyst with European Energy, who joined the company in 2022, working primarily in the Power-to-X department. With 900 employees, representing 41 nationalities, European Energy has already established more than 200 projects in 18 countries since its founding in 2004. The company specializes in four technologies: solar, onshore & offshore wind, and Power-to-X, and has developed and built nearly 6GW of renewable energy capacity since its inception.
European Energy is expanding its presence in the green hydrogen sector and is partnering with Hygen on the Selms Muir project in Scotland, which has been shortlisted for HAR2 funding.
European Energy also operates the world’s largest e-methanol plant in Kassø, Denmark, which produces 42,000 tons per annum. Companies like A.P. Møller – Mærsk, LEGO, and Novo Nordisk are among the off-takers for the project, which opened in 2025.
Alexander will share more about the project's development and the vision for Power-to-X as part of the energy solution of the future.

Jon Simpson

Energy Transition Specialist, Scottish Enterprise

Jon Simpson is a specialist within the Energy Transition directorate at Scottish Enterprise. Jon’s focus is on developing opportunities in the hydrogen economy in Scotland, specifically hydrogen utilisation. This includes the use of hydrogen as a feedstock to produce sustainable fuels including Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Jon is also involved in Scottish Enterprise’s Grangemouth Programme which is tasked with progressing enquiries via Project Willow; a joint UK and Scottish government initiative focused on securing a sustainable future for the Grangemouth industrial site in Scotland by exploring low-carbon alternative uses for the area, including SAF production

Jon's former roles at Scottish Enterprise include research and development grant appraisal – this involved working with and evaluating funding applications from companies of all sizes and across a range of sectors but with a particular focus on technology, engineering and chemical sciences. Prior to joining Scottish Enterprise, Jon graduated from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, with a PhD in Chemistry (Nanochemistry).

Donna Sutherland

Head of Commercial, Veri Energy

Donna has a background in commercial, business development and projects. Donna’s experience includes, as part of a small team, founding EnQuest’s wholly owned subsidiary Veri Energy, delivering successful subsea execution projects and, together with the Northern Producer Decommissioning project team, she won the OEUK Excellence in Decommissioning award in 2022. Donna has extensive experience in securing government funding; managing complex commercial partnerships and through the Veri Energy entity is leading the transformation of the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland into Europe’s largest energy hub to provide a range of industrial decarbonisation solutions

Nicole Tang

Project Development Manager – Grangemouth Green Hydrogen Project, RWE

Nicole is a chartered chemical engineer and is the project development manager for RWE’s Grangemouth Green Hydrogen project. She leads all aspects of project development, including managing technical and expert input from the wider project team.
Nicole previously worked for an electrolyser company, and as a consultant leading on electrolyser and battery energy storage projects.