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Ewan is an Assistant Vice President covering EU Beverages with over 6 years’ experience in the Financial & Manufacturing industries. Ewan joined European Staples in 2017 covering large cap Food & HPC and was ultimately lead analyst on the sectors before switching to Beverages. Prior to joining Equity Research Ewan worked on the UK strategy team for Barclays Corporate & Investment bank and was also an analyst in FIG. Ewan has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Diploma in Industrial Studies from Loughborough University, he has also passed both level 1&2 from the CFA program.

Ivan Androcec is working in the Croatian Electricity Utility (Hrvatska Elektroprivreda d.d.) since 2001 where he is currently Section Head of Investment Strategy and New Technologies in Strategy and Development Department. He is also president of supervisory board of LNG Croatia Ltd. He has PhD from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, from 2012 as well as Diploma Study in Management from 2006. Part of PhD was on SINTEF Energy Research, NTNU Trondheim, Norway. His main interest are strategic and investment planning, energy market, business development, energy and investment project development. He was involved in several energy projects and teams, study works and analysis. He has written more than 50 R&D international and domestic papers and participated in many energy conferences, seminars, panels and as speaker. He is also involved as external associate on Faculties on subjects from energy field.

As Senior Market Development Analyst I’m responsible for market development activities in Europe. Through power system optimisation I’m showing the value of flexibility in power systems and how to integrate renewable energy sources. I am also conducting feasibility studies for specific projects and advising on modelling related issues.

Stewart Howard is the European Ambassador for Seedlip, the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic Spirits. With a background managing bars in London for restauranteurs including Mark Hix, Stewart’s expertise in cocktails, menu development and training has enabled Seedlip & Aecorn to be championed by many of Europe’s best cocktail bars and restaurants.

A keen cyclist, nature lover and Biomimicry student, Stewart is the embodiment of a modern day drinks industry brand ambassador.

As a Cider Maker of 25 years Jonathan Kaye has a wide ranging experience with his smallest cider making season consisting of 20 Litres of keeved sweet cider and his busiest cider making day pressing over 2,200 Tonnes of apples.  Now working for Bevisol, Jonathan looks after Technical compliance, including UK and EU legislation, and Product Development across all ciders and flavoured wines and beers.  Jonathan lives on a smallholding in Herefordshire, Wassail!

Having spent his whole working life in drinks, across retail, buying, distribution and sales, David Peek founded Angioletti Italian cider in early 2016.  Creating, sourcing, developing and selling a cider brand from a country which has an almost non-existent cider market and bringing it to the world’s biggest cider-consuming country (UK) and other markets has been “the challenge of a lifetime”.  Today, Angioletti Italian cider is widely distributed across UK Off-Trade (eg: Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys, etc) and On-Trade (eg: Carluccio’s, Bella Italia, Matthew Clark, LWC, etc), as well as the US, Ireland, Finland, Sweden and Lithuania.