Europex Board 2018 - 2019
CV Pieter Schuurs
Pieter Schuurs is President and COO of ICE Endex as well as Europex Chairman.
ICE Endex was established in 2013 as result of the split of the spot gas & derivatives business from APX-ENDEX. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is the sole shareholder of ICE Endex.
Before Pieter assumed his position at ICE Endex, he served as COO on the board of APX-ENDEX.
His career encompasses senior roles in the securities industry at Euronext Amsterdam, ING and Robeco. Pieter chaired and acted as a member of various Dutch and international representative bodies focusing on the consolidation and harmonisation of European securities infrastructure. Currently he is Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board of the Dutch Private Investors Association, VEB.
Pieter holds a university degree in civil, social and economic law at Utrecht University.
CV Jonas Törnquist
Jonas Törnquist is Chief Operating Officer of the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT
EPEX SPOT runs continuous 24/7 power markets and Day-Ahead power auctions throughout Europe. Appointed as COO in 2016, Jonas is responsible for leading the Exchange’s operations and for shaping the commercial services provided to its customers.
Jonas is an international leader of organisations with diverse cultures and
varied locations in Europe and Australasia. His experience englobes a unique
combination of strategy design and operational implementation, within both
financial and energy markets and their intersections. Jonas’ previous roles
span from board mandates to operational and strategy positions along many parts of the energy value chain. This includes exchanges, industrial utilities, trading desks, technology and research companies and governmental institutions.
Jonas has completed a Corporate Finance Program at the London Business School, he furthermore holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from Victoria University in New Zealand and an MSc in Materials Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden.
In his free time, Jonas enjoys travelling the world, spending time with his family and using his positive and curious personality to learn new things and challenge himself.
CV Egbert Laege
Dr. Egbert Laege is Powernext’s President since January 2015. He is also Executive Director Gas Markets of EEX Group and Supervisory Board member of the power exchange EPEX SPOT. He has been serving as a Board Member of EFET since 2001 and Europex since January 2016. Dr. Laege obtained his PhD from the University of Stuttgart in 2001. He spent 13 years at E.ON, holding several upper managerial positions before being appointed as Director of Prompt & Dispatch Trading.
CV Borut Rajer
Borut Rajer is Director of Operations at Borzen, the Slovenian Power Market Operator, where he previously held the post of Head of Renewables and R&D.
His work primarily encompasses the oversight and development of market operations (nominations, scheduling, imbalance settlement, balancing market), data reporting (REMIT RRM), and, in the field of renewable energy sources, mainly directing the operations of the Slovenian renewables support scheme (“Centre for RES/CHP support”). Other activities include analysis of electricity and related markets, market coupling and guarantees of origin.
His main projects include setting up and overseeing the Centre for RES/CHP Support in 2009 (which runs the Slovenian feed-in support scheme), the Slovenian Guarantees of Origin Registry and associated national GO system, and other applications (e.g. ADA-TS Single Seller Auction application, DELFI Short-term RES production forecasting tool). He was also involved in setting up the Slovenian Power Exchange BSP and the associated day-ahead market coupling project on the Slovenian-Italian border.
He is a guest lecturer for Energy Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, covering primarily the field of renewables and the energy market.
From 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2017 he was the Head of Working Group “Environmental Markets” at Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges.
Since 1 January 2018 he is a Board Member of Europex.
CV Erling Thiis
Erling Thiis is CFO and Member of the Management Board of Nord Pool AS. Nord Pool was established in 1995 and runs the leading power market in Europe, offering day-ahead and intraday markets. Before Erling assumed his position at Nord Pool he held senior management positions within a number of investment companies and industrials. He holds master degrees in both finance and industrial engineering.
CV Artur Trindade
Artur holds a Master of Arts in Development Economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury. In his earlier career, he lectured in several Portuguese universities whilst also working as a consultant in the banking sector. In 2000, he joined as an economist the Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos (ERSE), the Energy Services Regulatory Authority and took on the role of Director of ERSE’s Costs and Revenues Department in 2009.
Having left ERSE briefly in 2012 to serve as Secretary of State for Energy Policy in the previous Portuguese government, Artur returned to ERSE in 2015 to assume the role of Director General for Regulation. In addition to his national responsibilities, Artur chaired the European energy regulators’ Gas Working Group, from April 2016 to June 2017.
In July 2017 he was appointed to OMI, Iberian Energy Market Operator.