Marc Groves-Raines
Marc has been Head of Renewables at Allianz since January 2018. He joined Allianz’s newly formed renewable energy investment team in 2005 charged with building a portfolio of operational assets in core Eurozone markets. During this time, Marc has been responsible for leading European transactions and has been instrumental in growing an operating portfolio of over 2GW of renewable energy assets. Prior to that he worked for RES Group to help with the expansion of its development activities abroad, notably in France and Portugal. Marc has worked in the wind industry since 1991 developing some of the first wind farms in the UK.
Dr. Chris Eliasmith
Chris is a co-founder and co-CEO of ABR. Chris leads all of the scientific and technical aspects of ABR. Chris is also a professor at the University of Waterloo appointed in the Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering departments and cross-appointed to Computer Science. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience and is the director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN) at the University of Waterloo. Chris has published over a hundred articles and two books: How to Build a Brain (Oxford University Press) and his seminal Neural Engineering. In 2015, he won the prestigious NSERC Polanyi Award for his research.