Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Arminger, received his PhD in Applied Statistics in 1975 from Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and served from 1978 until 2014 as full Professor of Statistics at the Schumpeter School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.
Additional to his scientific career, he cofounded SAF AG in Switzerland which, by applying statistical forecasting and mathematical optimization theory, solved the problem of fully automating supply chain logistics for many large retail customers.
SAF was listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 2006 and bought by SAP in 2009. Since then Professor Arminger still pursues his scientific and consulting interests, but his main focus is now on developing IT and technology companies such as HYDROGRID.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Wolfgang Sauerzapf received his degree from Vienna Business University and is regarded as an expert in the area of finance.
He has held various executive leadership positions in the international automotive supply industry, serving inter alia for 12 years as EVP and CFO for Magna Steyr and Magna Powertrain International and is currently a managing director at Peek & Cloppenburg.
Additional to his board membership at HYDROGRID, he is also a board member at Deutsche Handelskammer in Austria and serves on the supervisory board of the AVL List GmbH.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Wouter Jonk is a Managing Partner and co-founder of SET Ventures.
He has 25 years of experience in energy and cleantech venture capital combined with experience in business creation, innovation, and M&A.
Previously, Wouter spent 10 years at Philips, at the M&A group, as CFO of an incubator, but predominantly at the corporate venturing team in Silicon Valley and Europe.
Before that, he worked at PwC Corporate Finance and at two technology venture capital firms.
Besides his investment responsibilities, he oversees the financial and legal affairs of SET Ventures.
Wouter holds an MSc Degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Technical University Twente.
He serves as a board member at Energyworx, Greencom, Luxexcel, Enocean, and Hydrogrid.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Sabine Fleischmann started her career as a computer sciences professional. She held various professional and leadership positions in the IT industry at Oracle, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and IBM.
Later she extended her professional experience to international energy management after earning a Professional MBA degree in this field followed by an engagement for a startup developing business models for smart energy systems.
In 2013 Sabine Fleischmann joined Constantia New Business (CNB), a VC investor based in Vienna.
In her role as Senior Investment Manager she represents CNB as member of the advisory board after they have become an investor in Hydrogrid.
Chief Executive Officer
Janice Goodenough received her master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Vienna University of Technology.
For the last 10 years, she has applied her knowledge of time series modelling, forecasting and optimization in the energy industry in various positions, serving as the Manager of the Quantitative Analysis team with responsibility for all price forecasts and pricing of structured products and as Distributed Generation Manager at Austria’s largest hydro power producer.
She is regarded as an expert in the field of optimization of flexible power generation assets and is also in the board of the European Energy Analyst Meeting Steering Committee.
Chief Operations Officer
Annette Mossel received her PhD in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology.
During the last 12 years she has done basic research in visual computing and machine learning at various research institutes (MIT Media Lab, Fraunhofer IGD) and has applied her knowledge as founder and CEO for her mixed reality start-up, and as technology consultant for international companies. Her award-winning work has been featured in the press worldwide, including CNBC, MIT Technology Review, ACM Communications, Reuters and ORF.
As a scientific entrepreneur, she has sound experience in driving innovations forward and translating them into products, setting up organizational processes and effectively managing software development in order to react quickly to market needs while keeping an eye on the goal of contributing to the European Green Deal with HYDROGRID.