Dr. Machteld Tiemessen

In July 2018, Dr. Machteld Tiemessen joined Danone Nutricia Research as Team Leader Immunology in the Global Center of Excellence Immunology. Since obtaining her PhD in Immunology in 2004, which was focused on the induction of oral tolerance in food allergy, she has held many different positions, both at academia and in industry. The main topic at the start of her career was the investigation of the role and mechanisms of regulatory T cells in normal immune responses and during diseases, such as allergy and cutaneous T cell lymphoma. In 2010, she received a Veni-grant to further elucidate the role of Wnt-signaling in peripheral T cell function (not restricted to regulatory T cells). After 14 years of research at several universities in The Netherlands and King’s College in London, the United Kingdom, she started in 2013 at Johnson & Johnson to apply her immunological knowledge in the field of viral vaccines. At J&J, she led various discovery projects, with a focus on early discovery projects in the field of oncology vaccines and in the field of polio vaccines.

Richard Russell

With over 10 years of experience in the renewable energy sector in various group finance, operational finance and latterly commercial roles.

RES Group is an independent developer, constructor and asset manager of grid connected renewable energy infrastructure. RES Group has delivered over 16 GW of new renewable energy projects to date, including the construction of almost 10% of the wind energy capacity in the USA, and is active in a range of energy technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar, energy storage and transmission and distribution.

Prior to RES, Richard worked within PwC’s assurance and audit practice. Richard is a Chartered Accountant and holds an honours degree in Economics from Durham University

Elizabeth Bailey

Charles King

Charles “Chas” King has served as the Transportation Security Administration’s Counter-terrorism Coordinator since October, 2018.  He is responsible for synchronizing the agency’s response to both emerging threats and on-going incidents.  In addition, he coordinates programs with interagency partners.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. King was TSA’s liaison to headquarters, Department of Homeland Security.  In this role, he ensured that the agency’s major programs and initiatives had broad support with departmental senior staff.

Since 2003, Mr. King has held policy positions in TSA, working for both the Office of the Administrator and in various iterations of what is now Plans, Programs, and Engagement.  Prior to joining TSA, Mr. King worked for Eli Lilly and Company and, before that, as an officer in the United States Army.

Mr. King graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science.  He has also earned a Master of Business Administration from Duke University and a Master of Science from the National War College.

Toby Potter

Toby Potter leads the sales and partnerships team at Altitude Angel.

With a technical background designing and building analytical solutions for global retail, telecommunications and financial services organisations, Toby founded a marketing analytics business which was subsequently acquired by a US software company.

After taking leadership positions with Informative and Kognitio in the ‘Big Data analytics’ space, Toby led the EMEA organisation at DataSift, a software company specialising in the analysis of the world’s Social Data.  From there he took his first steps into the world of drones by leading the EMEA organisation at PrecisionHawk, Inc. before joining Altitude Angel in September 2018.