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Chairman of the board

Dr. Herbert Diess was Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG from 2018 to 2022. Since 2023, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies AG and, since early 2024, as Chairman of the Administrative Board of The Mobility House.

Following the start of his career at Robert Bosch GmbH in 1989, he held various senior positions at BMW AG (serving as a member of the Board of Management from 2007 to 2015) as well as within the Volkswagen Group. His expertise in electromobility and his activities in the solar industry come together in his role at The Mobility House, with the aim of driving the energy transition forward and realizing The Mobility House’s vision: zero emissions, zero cost.

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Alexander is passionate about energy and technology, and transitioned from fossil fuels to new energy. He joined the Board of the Mobility House in 2011 as an early investor. He is also a shareholder and Director of Lambert Energy Advisory (UK). For over a decade, he was Chairman of energy company SUEK (Russia) and fertilizer producer EuroChem Group (Switzerland), helping both to grow into top-5 international blue chips in their industries. Earlier, he was Board Member at Barloworld (South Africa), and co-founded C-level mentoring firm Bernotat & Cie (Germany). Before that, he was Global Gas Lead Partner at Accenture and Head of Oil & Gas Debt at Dresdner Kleinwort.

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Brandon Chia Seng Boon is currently the Managing Director (Asia Pacific) at SP International in the SPGroup, a leading energy utility group in Asia Pacific.  It owns and operates electricity and gastransmission and distribution businesses in Singapore and Australia as well as district energy businesses in Singapore and China. Brandon has about two decades of experience in the energy utility industry serving in various senior positions within the SP Group in Singapore and the companies SGSPAA and AusNet Services in Australia. Furthermore, he worked in the Monetary Authority of Singapore on infrastructure finance. Joining the Board of Directors of The Mobility House in October 2020, he is passionate about innovation and opportunities to enable the energy transition towards an emission-free world.

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GM Europe, Opel, BMW and Tata Motors/JLR: Carl-Peter Forster held numerous top positions in the automotive industry before "taking up office" at The Mobility House. Today, he is active as a supervisory board member at the Chinese car company Geely and Volvo Cars, among others, and is developing the new electric London Taxi. He is committed to a world in which electric mobility has a firm place. Carl-Peter Forster has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2012.

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Andreas Feicht, born 1971 in Bogen / Bavaria, has been CEO at WSW Energie & Wasser and WSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke from 2007-2019. From February 2019 until the start of the new federal government, Mr. Feicht was State Secretary in the Federal Ministery for Economic Affairs and Energy; since August 2022, he functions as CEO at RheinEnergie and Managing Director at Stadtwerke Köln GmbH.

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Michael Mohnhaupt was a managing partner at Accenture, specializing in energy companies, market development, and strategy. He was responsible for establishing energy trading and risk management for large European companies, among other things. In addition, the Ph.D. computer scientist worked as a senior advisor for various international energy companies. Since 2015, Michael Mohnhaupt has been the president of The Mobility House LLC, based in California. The emobility enthusiast and father of two have been a member of the board of directors of Mobility House since 2010.

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Franz Reiner has been the CEO of Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG since June 1, 2019. The company finances and leases every second vehicle delivered by Mercedes-Benz. Under his management, Mercedes-Benz Mobility has set itself up for the future with its three core activities financial services, fleet management, and digital mobility solutions including Charging.

As CEO of Mercedes-Benz Mobility, Reiner leads the company into a future of flexible and sustainable mobility concepts as well as innovative and digital financing solutions of tomorrow.

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Benjamin Nennig is General Manager of Energy Systems at Renault Group. With 15 years’ experience in the automotive sector, he is passionate by the electrification of the car industry and its transformation towards energy centric services.

After several positions within purchasing department, driving innovative commodities in electronic and batteries, he holds the Energy Business Unit of Software Republique.

Benjamin is a member of the Board of Directors since December 2024.

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As the owner of a strategic consulting company with a focus on energy, Thomas Raffeiner founded The Mobility House in 2009, creating one of the first service companies for e-mobility in Europe. Inspired by the technical possibilities he is convinced that the end of the age of fossil fuel is coming closer and therefore takes challenges and chances of this shift into account. Conquering the summit is what matters to the pioneer of e-mobility on one side in an economical sense with his team and in his spare-time he strives towards the peak by hiking, biking or paragliding. The Austrian citizen, and father of three, also supports a Children’s Village, in Ladakh, located in the Indian part of the Himalaya.

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Marina Shestakova is a Managing Director at Wermuth Asset Management GmbH (WAM), an asset manager focusing on high risk-adjusted financial returns alongside positive environmental impact. WAM advises the Green Growth Funds - which invest in “exponential organizations” that solve a major problem of humanity profitably and can reach a billion people quickly, aiming to cut 2% of global emissions. Marina has about two decades of experience in asset management, serving in various positions within WAM, including listed investments, quant strategies, private equity and risk management. She has Certified Financial Analyst® and Certified Alternative Investment Analyst® designations and was for a decade a board member and then a vice president of her national CFA Association and, in this capacity, part of the international governance of the CFA institute. Marina received a Bachelor of Science with distinction from the Moscow State University, in Computational Mathematics and a Master’s in Economics from the New Economics School initiated by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. She has emigrated from Russia and lives and works with her family in Berlin-Brandenburg. She joined the board of directors of The Mobility House in 2023.

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Marc O'Connor, based in Ireland, is General Manager at Mitsui & Co., Europe PLC. Marc O'Connor brings extensive experience from roles at Rail Partners, Rail Delivery Group and M&T Aviation Ltd.

Marc holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance. With a robust skill set that includes Business Strategy, Management, Project Planning, Project Management, Change Management and more he contributes to The Mobility House.

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Mathieu Vallot is a seasoned finance professional with extensive experience in investment and structured finance within the energy and commodities sectors. Currently serving as Principal Investment at Mercuria Energy Trading S.A. since November 2011, Mathieu focuses on infrastructure, oil and gas, and mining and metals in the EMEA region.

Prior roles include Head Structured Finance at BNP Paribas (2000 - November 2011) where responsibilities encompassed oil and gas project finance and structured debt across the MENA region.