HUIPF
Hydrogen Utopia International PLC

Aleksandra is a Founder and Director of Hydrogen Utopia and has been the CEO of what is now one of its subsidiaries, HU 2021 International UK Limited, since its incorporation in October 2020. Aleksandra is also the Chairperson of Hydropolis and a Director of Plastic Gold. Aleksandra founded the NGO, Plastic Neutrality Pledge on 11 February 2021. Since 2015, Aleksandra was a Proxy (similar to the role of a CEO under English law) with Carulac sp. Z.o.o., a Polish company with a fleet of buses. Carulac sp. Z.o.o. provides bus services to one of the largest tourist companies in the World: Group Voyagers Inc. The buses serve travellers in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Running Carulac sp. Z.o.o. made Aleksandra realise that the future of tourism should be based on hydrogen-fuelled buses. Aleksandra believes that hydrogen is the commodity of the future and has the ambition to progressively rollout HUI Facilities in Europe and to make Poland the first country in the European Union with a HUI Facility. She believes in the circular economy and views discarded and non-recycled waste plastic as the biggest threat to humanity. Her ambition is to make large companies see the advantages of a circular economy and the need to protect our environment whilst at the same time being able to make profits from investments in new but proven clean fuel technologies.

Keith is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers with 45 years of experience in energy, waste, and resources. Following 24 years in the power industry working around the world for companies including Babcock and Rolls Royce, Keith joined ("Veolia") in 1993 as Project Management Director. In 1996 he was appointed Managing Director of HWS, where under his leadership the company worked with officers and Members of Hampshire County council to create 'Project Integra', a partnership between 14 local authorities and HWS creating the first integrated waste management service in the UK based on the principles of the waste management hierarchy. This multi- billion contract has endured to this day and is still operated by a company in the Veolia group of companies. HWS' success in recycling and recovering value from waste formed the model upon which most international waste management companies in the UK now operate. Keith also represented Veolia on new initiatives such as renewable energy developments, climate change impact reduction and responses to UK and European environmental legislation.

Howard is a highly motivated and experienced entrepreneur with a broad skillset, latterly with a particular focus on alternative low carbon energy. Howard began his business career in 1973 in mainframe computing systems, progressing to the turn arounds of distressed businesses acquired from public limited companies. In 1987, Howard became a director and major shareholder of Christy Hunt Plc, a small UK listed engineering company, where he oversaw the substantial acquisition of Deritend Stamping Plc, a company engaged in high grade aluminium castings. Howard was responsible for group operations, until Christy Hunt was acquired by Triplex Lloyd plc. Howard subsequently became a director and major shareholder of Stanelco PLC, a listed radio frequency application group. In 2006, Howard founded AFC Energy to purchase assets relating to alkaline fuel cell technology and the business listed on AIM in 2007. In 2008, Howard founded Waste2tricity Ltd, a technology company originally involved in developing a method of producing hydrogen from waste, which was sold to PHE for £55 million in a share for share deal in 2020. Consequently, Howard and various members of his family together own 25.13% of PHE's ordinary shares.

Paul Formanko has been an independent member of the supervisory board of Slovenska SporiteI'na, a subsidiary of Erste Group, Austria, since 2019. Paul chairs the Risk and Nomination Committee and advises senior management on regional and global banking issues and strategies. During his career, Paul was a Managing Director and Head of CEEMEA Banks Equity Research at JP Morgan in London from 2013-2018, and Executive Director from 2003-13. During this period, Paul worked as a sell side analyst and investment advisor to regional and global institutional investors in respect of investments in Emerging Markets, with focus on CEEMEA financial equities. Paul started his career in banking as an Associate at JP Morgan Investment Management in New York in 1994 before taking up a position as Executive Director at Goldman Sachs International in London in 1998. Paul was Head of Emerging Market banks at CLSA Global Emerging Markets in London in 2001 before continuing his career at JP Morgan in London where he worked until 2018.

Steven Medlicott has been CEO of Fuel3D Technologies Limited since 2020. Fuel3D Technologies Limited is an Oxford University spinoff that develops 3D scanning solutions for a wide range of industries from medical research to optical retail. After advising e-Therapeutics PLC, a drug discovery and development company listed on AIM, on its £40m fundraising in 2013, Steve was appointed Finance Director to the company from 2014 to 2020. Steve has been Co-Founder and Director of Blueprint Advisors Ltd since 2012. Steve was a shareholder and Director of Water2Tricity Ltd. a company that provided structured solutions to the energy-from-waste-sector and was acquired by PHE in 2020. Between 2004 and 2011, Steve held key business development and sell-side analyst roles with KBC Peel Hunt, Singer Capital Markets Ltd, Altium Capital and Williams de Broe. Steven was voted the top Industrials Analyst in the Thomson Reuters Extel survey numerous times and was the top Pan-European Industrial Analyst in the 2011 Reuters Starmine Awards. Steven is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) having qualified with Cooper Deloitte (now PwC) in 1991.