Agenda

Senior Vice President and Head of Front End Sales, HV Solutions,  NKT
Being passionate about value creating partnerships Michael C. Hjorth headed up the NKT Flexibles business for more than two decades providing large infrastructure flexible pipeline solutions to facilitate cost effective offshore production of hydrocarbons from the seabed. Having recently rejoined NKT – now with the focus on high voltage cable solutions – it is his desire to drive technology, efficiency and quality in all aspects of the business to support the power transmission industry become the backbone of tomorrows society. 

Managing Director,  DUCAB
Originally from the UK, Andrew Shaw has been Managing Director of Dubai Cable Company (Ducab) since 2007. Ducab is one of the region’s premier cable manufacturing companies with four industrial sites in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, employing over 1,500 people. The company is 100% UAE owned and manufactures the full range of electrical wire and cable from 1kV to 400kV as well as copper rod and wire. The new addition is Ducab Aluminium Company, based in KIZAD, Abu Dhabi, manufacturing Aluminium EC Rod, Aluminium Alloy Rod and OHL Conductor.

Prior to Ducab, Andrew worked for the Italian multinational Prysmian (formerly Pirelli Cables) as CEO of Prysmian Cables and Systems – China where he was responsible for 3 manufacturing joint ventures with different partners and where he also completed one of the earlier private company acquisitions by a foreign company in China.

Before moving to China, Andrew managed joint venture manufacturing companies in Malaysia (Pirelli), Thailand (BICC) and South Korea (Courtaulds).

He holds a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from London Business School.

Principal Analyst,  CRU
Richard Mack joined KMI in 1988 and became a CRU analyst when CRU acquired KMI in 2006. He has been involved in fibre optics since 1981 and is the current editor of CRU's Optical Fibre and Cable Monitor.
Richard is also on the team of analysts who write CRU's Telecom Cables Market Outlook.

 

Richard has completed hundreds of reports and consulting projects in areas including optics, telecommunications, and cable. Prior to his work as an industry analyst and consultant, he worked on several high-tech trade magazines.

 

Richard has a BA from the University of Delaware and an MS from Boston University.

 

Construction Market Expert,  Euroconstruct

Michael Weingärtler analyses European construction market trends for over 15 years as member of the strategic group of EUROCONSTRUCT, Europe‘s leading construction market forecasting network. He is contributing to construction related magazines and is holding lectures for national and international business events. Additionally, he is consultant for public goods at ISA (Institute of Strategic Analysis).

Analyst,  CRU
Hadrien Guillotin has worked for a number of years in China in the base metal industry for an international mining company.
He joined CRU group in Hong-Kong at the beginning of 2017. He is the editor of the Wire & Cable Market Outlook while also contributing to CRU's wider metallic cable products analysis. Hadrien has a proven track record in research and analysis with a focus on Asian markets.
He holds an MSc in International Economics from the Paris Sorbonne University.

CEO,  INCAB

Aleksandr Smilgevich was Founder and General Director of Bit-Telecom between 2002 and 2011. Between 2006-2008,  he was Innovation Director at ER-Telecom. Since 2006 he has been INCAB’s Founder and General Director. Furthermore between 2012 to 2014 Mr Smilgevich was Head of Telecom Cables Sector for the International Association “Elektrokabel”.

Deputy of General Director,  Russian Cable Research and Development Institute (VNIIKP)

Vitaly Meshchanov is Deputy General Director of Russian Cable Research and Development Institute (VNIIKP), Moscow. He has over 30 years’ experience in cable industry. He started in 1987 as foreman at the cable factory Electroprovod and after 7 years working in several management positions at the company he continued his career with Nokia-Maillefer (then Nextrom), working as Project Manager, Sales Manager. He was Head of the Russian representative office of Maillefer for more than 15 years. In 2017 he joined VNIIKP as Deputy of General Director with responsibility for business development and international affairs. He holds an Engineering degree from Moscow Power University in specialization of cable and insulation engineering. During his career he graduated different courses and trainings including SDA  Bocconi (Milan).        

Head of Primary & Products, Aluminium,  CRU

Industrial Analyst,  Credit Suisse

Max Yates works on the Credit Suisse Industrials Equity research team focusing specifically on the Resources, Cables, Marine and Healthcare equipment sub-segments. He has seven years of experience working as a financial analyst looking at both developed market and emerging market companies. Specifically, on the cables he has written detailed reports on consolidation trends in Cables and the Submarine cable market structure and covers related companies, Prysmian and Nexans. He graduated with a degree in History from Trinity College Dublin.”

Internet of Things and Smart City Strategist,  TDC Group
Søren Nørgaard Madsen earned an  M.Sc. Urbanism and Strategic Planning from the University of Copenhagen. 
He has a background in Urban Planning where he has worked in several ministries and municipalities. Søren Nørgaard Madsen has extensive experience in developing urban development strategies including smart city strategy. Søren has been the initiator of the capital's two largest smart city projects, Copenhagen Solutions Lab (Program Manager) and City Data Exchange platform. In TDC business, Søren continues the work with public customers and developing smart city strategies. The area has been designated as a "Must Winn Battle" by TDC's top management.
Søren is a member of TDC Erhvervs Internet of Things core team, which also works with private clients as well as private companies.

Principal Consultant,  CRU

Zaid joined Consulting’s Aluminium and Copper desk in January 2017, bringing extensive experience from the aluminium and nonferrous metals industry. Prior to CRU, Zaid spent more than six years in the Middle East working for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), where he led the market research unit and held various positions within marketing and sales, corporate strategy and finance. He previously worked in London for several years for a number of commodity-focused consultants as an analyst, where he also managed the precious and base metals research unit at Diapason Commodities Management. He began his commodities research career in 2002 as a global energy economist with AUPEC, an oil and gas consultancy firm.Zaid holds an MA with honours in Economic Science from the University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Zaid is fluent in Arabic and French.

Head of Department - Power Lines,  Energinet

Johannes Stentoft Clausen has been  working with Cable projects at Energinet for the last five years. For the last two years, as Head of Department, Power Lines. Prior to that, Johannes was Project Manager on  Kriegers Flak OWF Cable project as well as on the Anholt OWF Exportcable repair. He has been responsible for several cable procurement projects and has been leading the initiative on having the first 132-150 kV frame agreement at Energinet. Prior to his employment at Energinet, he has been working in a ranges of positions in the power equipment  supplier market, and in connection with this been working in the global wind market since the year 2000.

 

European Product Manager Fire Safety,  Nexans

Dario graduated in Engineering at Politecnico of Milano.
He is involved in Marketing and Product Development of cables of leading International Companies since 1995 and participated and coordinated various Europacable WGs dealing with CPD/CPR since year 2000. He is currently the Convenor of the Europacable WG CPR Communication.

Technical Director,  BASEC

Dr Jeremy Hodge is Technical Director of British Approvals Service for Cables (BASEC), an independent cable testing, certification and Notified Body based in Milton Keynes, UK. He has held his current role since 2017, having led BASEC as Chief Executive from 2005, overseeing the opening of BASEC’s new laboratory facilities in 2012. Dr Hodge is a member of a number of standards committees on cables and fire. He is Chair of the European HAR group’s laboratories committee and is active in the delivery of CPR for cables.

Principal Analyst & Team Leader, Marketing and Business Planning Team, Global Network System Div.,  Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Takashi Hasegawa started his carrier in SEI as a Process Engineer and spent two years as VP of Chengdu SEI fibre optics in China to start-up the factory. After coming back to Japan, he worked as Sales Engineer, Oversea Contract negotiator, and project leader of Joint Venture Company's Start-up. He now holds the position of Principal Analyst and Team leader of Marketing & Business Planning team of the Optical Communication division. 

Executive Officerand General Manager, Marketing Department,,  Fujikura Ltd
Dr. Kiminori Sato is an Executive Officer and General Manager, Marketing Department of Fujikura Ltd. He is responsible for future strategy and marketing of all power and telecommunication systems products both in domestic and international market. He joined NTT in 1979. Prior to joined Fujikura Ltd. in 2009, he was a Vice President, Global Business Office of NTT West Corporation. Most of his career in NTT, he has been engaged in the R&D of optical fiber and outside plant technologies. He had been very active and played an important role in international standardization activities both in ITU-T and IEC.

Managing Director,  Cablo
Marc Faller, is Managing Director of Cablo Metall-Recycling & Handel GmbH in Fehrbellin, Germany, the leading German Cable Recycler. He also runs E.R.N. Elektro Recycling Nord GmbH in Hamburg, like Cablo a member of the Aurubis Group.
Cablo operates two state-of-art Cable recycling facilities, processing ca. 30.000 mt of various grades cables annually, both copper and aluminium.
arc spent his professional career in non-ferrous recycling and recovery of metals. He worked in metals recovery, recycling of cables, electronics recycling, and related fields. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA.

Managing Director,  European Copper Institute – Poland

Graduated from the Faculty of Management and Marketing, Wroclaw University of Economics (1997). In 2010 completed MBA program at Franklin University. In 2012 completed postgraduate studies in Mediation in Business at WSB Wroclaw.

Has professional experience in marketing and sales and, in particular, in management gained from work for, inter alia, Volvo Dealer Network and from 1998 for the Polish Copper Promotion Centre (PCPC). His professional interests are focused on coordination of market development projects in Poland, with a particular focus on energy area.

From June 2008 Managing Director at European Copper Institute, Poland. Responsible for programme activity and relations with industry on Central European markets. He is also coordinator of activities in the field of Communication PR and the Building Construction Non Electrical (BCNE) campaign. He successfully managed Copper for Healthcare development program in Poland.

Manager of Leonardo Energy, LPQI, EPQU and Motor Challenge projects in Poland co-funded, inter alia, by Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE). Member of the Steering Committee of PEMP Project (energy-efficient electric drives for industry), co-funded by UNDP/GEF, member of the Board of Directors of NOBE.

Currently, in cooperation with international consortium, he is implementing the RIGRID (Rural Intelligent Grid) project, co-financed by, inter alia, ERA Net Smart Grid+. Coordinator of the Leonardo ENERGY in Poland. Founder of the information energy portal Leonardo-ENERGY.pl (Polish chapter).

Senior Manager, Strategic Technical Marketing, Aurubis Rod and Quality,  Aurubis AG
Dr Cornel Abratis has a metallurgy and materials science university degree and a PhD in metal forming both from RWTH Aachen University. Since 2010 he works with Aurubis in different positions with focus on quality, technical marketing and product development.

CTO,  ZTT Preform Rod
Jiang Xin Li has Ph.D. in Physics from University of Massachusetts. From 1997-2012, he was senior Engineer in Lucent and OFS, where his work focused on the innovation of preform manufacture process and the development of the new products. He was Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of OFS.

 

He joined ZTT group in 2012. Currently, he is CTO of ZTT optical fiber preform factory and is leading the development of various single mode, multimode and specialty fiber products. He has authored and co-authored 40 papers and holds more than 15 patents.

Application Marketing Manager,  Borealis
Fredrik Bergfors is the Marketing Manager for Communications & Jacketing wire and cable applications for Borealis since 2013.

 

Fredrik joined the Borealis Group in 2008 and has worked in various positions in Product Management and Marketing within Wire & Cable industry.

 

He started his commercial career with IMI plc and since then has had several roles in Marketing and Business Development in Sweden, Germany, UK and Switzerland.

 

Fredrik holds a MSc. in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and has an MBA in International Business from the Gothenburg School of Economics.

Executive Advisor,  OFS Denmark
Peter Arnoff Nielsen has been with OFS for more than 18 years holding various positions within sales in EMEA of optical fiber and cable as well as global product line responsibility for OFS’s portfolio of NZDF fibers. Prior to joining OFS he has been with Danish telecom company GN Great Nordic amongst other it-oriented companies. Mr Nielsen has a M.Sc. Econ from Odense University.

Deputy GM,  Sahra Kablo
Selman Ünlü was born in 1981 and graduated from Mechanical Engineering Department in 2006. As a third generation he has been working in family business company, Sahra Kablo since 2006. Sahra Kablo was established in 1968 and produces only Aluminium Cables since 1990. For the past couple of years, Selman Ünlü has been mostly carrying out production, application and promotion of Aluminium Flexible Cables.

Manager of Statistical Analysis,  International Copper Study Group

Shairaz Ahmed is the Manager of Statistical Analysis at the International Copper Study Group in Lisbon. He has been with the Study Group since 2014. His responsibilities include the preparation of the industry-renowned Monthly Copper Bulletin, Directory of Copper Mines & Plants, World Copper Factbook and providing ICSG’s macroeconomic forecasts.

Shairaz holds more than ten years’ of experience in base metals research. Prior to joining the ICSG, he worked for commodity consultancy’s CRU and Thomson Reuters GFMS in London as a Senior Analyst.

Shairaz read Economics & Geography from Queen Mary University of London in 2007 and holds an MSc in Financial Markets & Derivatives from London Metropolitan Business School in which he achieved a Distinction.

Presentation Description

Shairaz will be giving a presentation on ICSG’s findings based on the latest Directory of Copper Mines & Plants. The Directory provides current and a five-year outlook of capacity for over 1,200 existing and planned copper mines, smelters and refineries on a country by country basis, including SX-EW plants. The Directory separates operations between Operating & Developing and Exploration & Feasibility stages.

CEO,  Clobbi Cable & Wire
During 15 years of Dmitriy’s experience in Clobbi he led, actively participated and successfully completed a number of digital transformation and business processes optimization projects in Ukrainian, Russian and international companies. Among the achievements there are projects for process optimization in the largest Russian and Ukrainian cable companies like Uncomtech, Kamsky Cable, Kirscable, Cable Alliance Holding, Nexans-RUS, Interpipe Group, Antonov aircraft and others. Dmitriy’s main competencies are industrial consulting, business process re-engineering and optimization, development, delivery and implementation of advanced production management system (APS\MES), management of equipment repairs (EAM,RCM), manufacturing quality control based on the Industry4.0.SmartFactory ideology.