Investor

CEO of Everfuel

Jacob Krogsgaard serves as CEO of Everfuel and has previously worked more than four years as Senior Vice President of Nel Hydrogen Solutions. Before this, Jacob worked as CEO and co-founder of H2 Logic from 2003 until the company was acquired by NEL ASA in 2015. Additionally, Jacob has served in several board positions and holds a B.Sc. in Business Development from Aarhus University.

Jesper Ejlersen serves as CFO of Everfuel and has previously worked as former CFO and CEO of Stibo Systems A/S and as CFO of EG A/S. Latest Jesper comes from Mash Makes, a green company focusing on biofuels, hydrogen and more. Jesper has more than 25 years of experience in Finance and Business administration and holds a Master degree in Business Administration from Aarhus School of Business. Jesper is a retired Captain of the army reserve.

Dr Uffe Borup serves as CTO of Everfuel and has previously worked more than three years as Vice President of Technology at Nel Hydrogen Solution. Before this, Uffe worked as Director of Business Development at Danfoss Drives, R&D director at Danfoss Solar Inverters and co-founder (CTO) at Powerlynx. Uffe holds an Industrial PhD from Aalborg University and a MSc Eng. in Power Electronics from Aalborg University.

Peder Pedersen serves as COO of Everfuel and has near decade long experience with project management, sales, and product management within industrial refrigeration. Since 2010, Peder has worked in the industrial gas sector, first as project manager at Union Engineering and for the past 11 years as Production Manager at Air Liquide with responsibility of four highly automated production facilities within the large industry segment. Peder holds a degree as Marine Engineer, and a HD in Organisation.

Søren Eriksen is CEO and managing partner at Viegand Maagøe A/S, with previous experience as CEO at Danish Rail and CFO at TDC. Prior to that he has been Head of Finance and Financial Analyst at Tele Danmark A/S. He holds a number of board positions, primarily within the renewable and energy sector. Søren holds a MSc in economics from University of Southern Denmark.

Yasuhiro Miyata has extensive experience of trading and investment in metal and mineral commodities such as iron ore, non-ferrous, coal and steel products. In addition, he has led internationally diversified organizations in India, Chile, UK and Japan. He is currently leading the metal and mineral group of Europe/CIS territory in ITOCHU group and through that assignment, he has a broad network and access into steel, power, cement and chemical industries in Europe/CIS. He holds bachelor’s degree in metallurgy.

Pierre-Etienne Franc served as Chair of Hydrogen Europe (2011- 2016) and then co-founded and coordinated the World Hydrogen Council as Secretary (2017-2020). Within Air Liquide - where he spent over 25 years of his career – PierreEtienne occupied several global business, strategy, and operational management positions. In 2021, he co-founded FiveT Hydrogen, a hydrogen investment pureplay, and then co-founded Hy24, a 50/50 regulated asset manager (a joint venture between Ardian and FiveT Hydrogen). Hy24 currently manages a hydrogen infrastructure fund, which is today up and running with EUR 2 billion of allocations and has made eight investments. Hy24 has recently launched a second initiative focused on hydrogen equipment and technologies. Hy24 aims to scale up the whole low-carbon hydrogen value chain, deploying large scale projects in the most dynamic geographies in Europe, Asia, and America. Pierre Etienne is the CEO of Hy24. Franc graduated in 1993 from France’s HEC business school, where he was awarded the HEC Foundation Prize and the second prize of the Ernst & Young Foundation for his final thesis on industrial joint ventures.

Christina Aabo is an independent advisor, and has spent most of her career in the energy and renewables industries. She has previous experience as Head of R&D at Ørsted and was working as Vice President for Product Management at Vestas before that. Christina holds a MSc in civil engineering from Aalborg University. 

Martin Skov Hansen has over 20 years’ experience as auditor and adviser primarily at PwC where he resigned as partner in 2019. His areas of expertise include multinational/cross-border production companies across industries. Since
2019 until 2022 he worked as CEO for Society of Life A/S, leading them through a growth and scale-up plan. He was part
of Everfuel A/S Board of Directors from it was founded in 2020 and until 2023, where he resigned from the Board of Directors to take a position as Deputy CEO to support and drive organizational development and mature key business and
internal processes. He holds an MSc in Business Administration and Audition from Syddansk University

Dr. Marc Schürch has over 10 years of experience in M&A, investment management and advising energy companies. He is responsible for the international renewables strategy at Swiss Life Asset Managers and, most importantly, the two international renewables funds. In his current role, he is also a board member for various portfolio companies with activities in renewable fuels, hydropower, onshore and offshore wind, solar power and biomass. Marc was a member of the founding team of Energy Infrastructure Partners AG (Credit Suisse), where he headed the
transaction team. Previously, he was an Associate Partner at The Advisory House AG, a consulting company specializing in the energy industry. His clients included Swiss and international energy utilities, as well as the public sector, which he advised on strategy, finance and organisational issues. After research stays at Duke University in the USA and the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Marc obtained a Dr. oec. HSG in St. Gallen, and before that, a lic. rer. pol. at the University of Basel.