BIOGRAPHIES NICOLAS BRAHY SAE HOON KIM Nicolas Brahy, Cofounder and General Counsel at FiveT Hydrogen, and General Sae Hoon Kim is Senior Vice President AMIR SHARIFI Counsel, Public Affairs and ESG Director at Hyundai Fuel Cell Centre, an at Hy24, has been at the core of the organization dedicated to the development Amir Sharifi is Senior Managing Director development of the hydrogen sector for of technologies and new businesses in the Ardian Infrastructure team, leader more than a decade. Before joining FiveT opportunities in hydrogen. He joined of its Energy Transition team, and Chief he spent five years as Managing Director Hyundai as manager of the fuel-cell Investment Officer of Hy24. He joined of Hydrogen Europe, and six at The Fuel engineering team in 2003, served as project in 2007, and has led the development of Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. In leader for the Tucson ix35 Fuel Cell, the the Ardian franchise in the renewable total he has spent 14 years’ building and world’s first commercial-production FCEV, energy sector, now with 7.5GW of heat and implementing Public-Private Partnerships and led the successful launch of Hyundai’s renewable capacity under management for hydrogen, working from both the public second-generation FCEV, the NEXO SUV. across Europe and the Americas. He is and the private sides. He holds a PhD He is co-secretary of the Hydrogen Council founder of the Ardian Foundation, which in law, and lectured at the University of and received a doctorate in mechanical he launched in 2010. He is a graduate of Louvain in public finance and intellectual engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany. ESSEC Business School. property. 75