Marcus Woodson is the Head of Government Affairs for Ørsted’s green hydrogen and e-fuels business, known as “P2X." For more than two years, he has secured government funding from the Department of Energy and informed the business’s decisions with his understanding of the Inflation Reduction Act and other policy developments.  His work with P2X in the Americas resulted in Ørsted becoming a partner in the HyVelocity Hub. Before joining Ørsted, Marcus worked within the policy world for 13 years in Congress and the National Nuclear Security Administration. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Juris Doctor from Temple University.

Nigel is an expert in Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) and low carbon Hydrogen. With over 25 years of global energy industry experience with major international energy companies Shell and bp, Nigel has lead public-private partnership technology programs, policy and regulatory development organizations, project development and operations, and capability building efforts in low carbon energy. This includes roles such as global head of CCUS at bp, chair of the CO2 Capture Project, chair of the North American CCS Association, peer-reviewer for International Energy Agency CCUS reports and US DOE CO2 Capture Baseline Studies, and alternate chair for execution of the National Petroleum Council CCUS Study.

At Baker Hughes, Nigel is Vice President of Energy Transition Project Development providing solutions that underpin CCUS & H2 project execution and operation, positioning the company to help meet global energy demand by offering lower carbon solutions across industries. He represents Baker Hughes on the Governance Board for the Future Use in Energy in Louisiana consortium, the International Advisory Board for the Danish INNO-CCUS partnership, and member of the Texas Hydrogen Production Policy Council. 

Nigel also is an industry lecturer at the University of Houston in their executive education courses on CCUS and the Hydrogen Economy.  He also serves as an independent board director for Natural Gas Services Group, and is chair of the Safety and Sustainability Committee and member of the Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees.

Nigel graduated from Imperial College, London with a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, and from The University of Leeds, UK with a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Mining Engineering. Nigel now lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and 2 children.

Liz is Executive Director for the HyVelocity Hydrogen Hub at GTI Energy. Liz has spent her career developing strategies and partnerships at the intersection of clean energy technology, policy, and finance. She is also a Founder and Partner at Mission Strategies.

Prior to co-founding Mission, Liz was a Senior Vice President with Boundary Stone Partners, where she co-led the Clean Energy, Fuels, and Buildings and Industrial Decarbonization practices. Concurrently, Liz served as Operating Partner of Overture VC, a climate-focused venture capital fund.

Liz was an executive appointee in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. In this role, Liz executed the DOE’s grid modernization research and development portfolio, transmission permitting, emergency response operations, and energy cybersecurity programs. Previously, Liz helped direct $900 million in nuclear energy RD&D funding as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy.

Liz served on the Appointments Team for the Biden-Harris Transition at the U.S. Department of Energy and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Pecan Street, Inc, and Advisory Boards for the University of Texas’s Energy Institute, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Energy and Environment Directorate, and the Atlantic Council's Veterans Advanced Energy Project.

An Arkansas native, Liz began her career in public service working for U.S. Congressman Marion Berry (D-AR). She holds a Master’s in Leadership from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and received her B.A. in Political Science from the College of Charleston.

Kera Gautreau is Senior Director of the Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) at the Greater Houston Partnership. HETI positions the Greater Houston region to lead the global transition to an energy-abundant and low-carbon future by convening energy leaders and key stakeholders in support of enabling technology, policy, and market initiatives. At HETI, Kera’s work has a particular focus on industrial and operational decarbonization, power management, and international energy development. She leads a broad coalition of industry, academic, government, and community partners to identify opportunities for GHG emissions reduction pathways that enable Houston to lead the world in profitably decarbonizing high-emitting and hard-to-abate sectors while maintaining a reliable and resilient regional power grid. 

Prior to joining the Partnership, Kera held technical and leadership roles within the global energy industry, including leading and managing projects around the world for Chevron. Her most recent role as an industry consultant combined her upstream project development expertise and track record of success in strategic relationship management to advise private equity clients on M&A projects and conduct audits and evaluations of key regulatory and governance reporting obligations.  

Kera holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology from Louisiana State University, along with energy, sustainability and leadership certifications from Columbia, Wharton, and AAPG. She has served as Co-President of the Houston Chapter of Ellevate Network and Global Chair of the Communities Council & Manager of the Mentoring Program for Lean In Energy.

Piran R. Kidambi is a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and Assistant Professor at the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University (on-leave). His research leverages the intersection between (i) nanomaterial synthesis, (ii) process engineering, and (iii) in situ metrology, to enable bottom-up materials design and synthesis for energy, separations, and healthcare applications. His research has been recognized via several awards/honors including ASME Rising Star (2024), AIChE NSEF Young Investigator (2023), DOE Early Career Award (2022), ACS PMSE Young Investigator (2022), NSF CAREER (2020), ECS Toyota Young Investigator (2020), and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2018), among others. 

Benoît Chedal-Anglay is a leader with over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Known for his results-oriented approach, he excels at developing and executing growth strategies, building strong customer relationships, and driving expansion into new markets. As the Commercial Director for the Americas at Axens, a global provider of advanced technologies and solutions for energy transition, Benoît oversees a commercial team across North and South America.

Dr. Andrey Bakulin, Ph.D. (Co-PI), is a Research Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at UT Austin. In his current role, he co-leads the TCCS IA alongside Prof. Sergey Fomel, with a focus on land seismic and advancing monitoring technologies, while developing new instrumentation and techniques crucial for supporting the energy transition. Andrey also leads the H2 injection field test at the Devine site, conducted by the GeoH2 consortium at BEG, focusing on hydrogen storage and innovative monitoring technologies.

With over 25 years of industry experience, Andrey’s work in reservoir characterization and monitoring has been pivotal. At Shell, he led Virtual Source monitoring initiatives using downhole sensors and spearheaded tube-wave and real-time completion monitoring projects, emphasizing cost-effective in-well solutions with fiber-optic sensors. At Saudi Aramco, he directed the seismic monitoring program, including feasibility studies and successful field monitoring of a CO2-EOR pilot in a carbonate reservoir. He played a key role in designing and demonstrating the first industrial hybrid monitoring system with 1,000 buried sensors and oversaw the 4D processing and interpretation.

Andrey also invented and field-tested the smart DAS uphole acquisition system, featuring vertical arrays on a single fiber—an innovative design to be employed in major onshore CCS projects.

Capucine Saikia-Courault has 17 years of experience in the underground gas storage industry. Capucine is a Principal Geologist at Geostock Sandia, LLC a company which provides consulting, engineering, construction management, operations, and maintenance for all underground storage techniques. Over the past several years, Capucine has been managing projects for the specificity of hydrogen underground storage. Capucine graduated as a geological engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in France and did an exchange program with Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.