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Thomas is responsible for Jupiter Oxygen's international business development and sustainable strategies. He is the company's representative with two Washington based NGOs, the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE), as well as in contact with other NGOs such as the PEW Center for Global Climate Change.
Thomas is a BCSE delegate at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He leads Jupiter Oxygen's engagement in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP), where Jupiter Oxygen plays an active role in the Aluminum Task Force and Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force, including active project development of US - Indian business relationships for energy efficiency and emission reduction.
He previously had sixteen years of experience in interdisciplinary project management at a 70 employee construction firm in Germany, including as CEO. As lead project manager and then chief executive officer, Thomas had to balance economical and environmental aspects of major infrastructure and urban redevelopment projects in the former East Germany with a focus on Berlin's metropolitan area after reunification.
His focus at Jupiter Oxygen includes carbon market policies and emission trade issues that support clean technology development and deployment. In this context he has presented Jupiter's clean technology options internationally:
2005 Montreal, Canada at the UNFCCC Eleventh Conference of the Parties and the First Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-11/MOP-1)
2006 California, USA at the 2. Asia-Pacific Partnership (APP) meeting
2006 Cologne, Germany at Carbon Expo 2006
2007 Hyderabad, India at INCAL 2007 (upcoming)
Thomas holds an environmental engineering degree from Nuertingen University, Germany (known today as Business Economics and Environment University (BEEU), Nuertingen-Geislingen / Germany). | 