Christophe Nappez obtained a BSc in physics at University College London and then an MBA from ESSEC Business School Paris. He started his career in the photovoltaics industry in Tokyo, Japan, before joining EDF in Paris as a project manager for rural electrification in developing countries. Then, after a few years as product manager for energy efficiency in the EDFs marketing department, he moved to EDF’s transmission engineering center where he is business development manager for South-East Asia.

Thomas Reindl is the Deputy CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and Principal Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He started with photovoltaics (PV) in 1992 at the SIEMENS Corporate R&D Labs. After holding several management positions at SIEMENS and running one of the leading German PV systems integration companies as Chief Operating Officer, he joined SERIS in 2010 and soon became Director of the Solar Energy System cluster.