SPEAKERS 

As senior vice president, capital markets at Vantage Data Centers, Rich Cosgray leads the company’s global strategy for capital raising, including debt financing and financial risk management. With more than 16 years of capital markets experience, Cosgray is a seasoned leveraged finance banker with a track record of originating, structuring and advising on financing transactions such as buy-side advisory, acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, development financings, recapitalizations and equity placements. Earlier in his career, Cosgray served in a variety of roles at Truist Securities, most recently as managing director and head of TMT leveraged finance. With a specialization in digital infrastructure financings across data centers, fiber networks, broadband providers and towers, he led a dedicated team of capital markets professionals focused on providing creative financing solutions for corporate and financial sponsor clients in the technology, media and telecom sectors. During his tenure at Truist, he executed more than $100 billion in debt financings. Cosgray received Bachelor of Science degrees in finance and accounting from Miami University (Ohio) and participated in the Richard T. Farmer International Business Program in Luxembourg.

Jessica is a seasoned senior finance professional with over 17 years of experience specialising in commodities market research and investment strategy. Throughout her career, she has engaged and collaborated with management teams and key decision-makers around the world to shape corporate and financial strategies, and has served as non-executive director. Jessica is currently Head of Consulting at Project Blue, a leading provider of market intelligence for critical material supply chains. She oversees the development and execution of strategic consulting projects for industry, financial, and government clients, while also serving as an informal mentor to the analyst team within the firm. Prior to Project Blue, she was Head Strategist at Pala Investments in Switzerland, a multi-asset firm investing across critical mineral supply chains. Earlier, she served as Commodities Strategist and Equity Research Analyst at BMO Capital Markets in Canada, a member of the top-ranked Global Metals & Mining Research team, where she published investment insights into base metals, precious metals, and steelmaking commodities and companies for a diverse global clientele.

Tobias Grimm has been Munich Re’s Chief Climate Scientist since 2025 and has been heading Climate Advisory and Natcat Data since 2023. His team is responsible for developing climate-related solutions and the NatCat database, one of the largest for natural catastrophe losses worldwide. Tobias has a long track record as Climate Expert at Munich Re. Before his current role, he was based in Sydney from 2020 until 2023, where he was the local climate expert for Munich Re Australia, developing greentech insurance solutions and supporting a banking project. For many years, he was a senior project manager and deputy to Munich Re's chief climate scientist, playing a leading role in a wide range of projects related to natural hazards, climate change and the energy transition. Tobias has been with Munich Re since January 2005. He holds a Master’s degree in geography and applied meteorology from the LMU – University of Munich. Before joining Munich Re, he worked for three years as a weather expert at a private weather service provider.

Irene Rummelhoff has since 2018 served as EVP of Marketing, Midstream and Processing (MMP) at Equinor ASA and has been a member of the CEC since 2015. With more than 4200 employees worldwide, she has the responsibility for flow assurance, processing, and marketing of all Equinor's products, including marketing of the Norwegian State's natural gas and crude of the Norwegian continental shelf. The responsibility includes development of the company's hydrogen and CCS value chains. Between 2015 and 2018 she served as the EVP for Equinor’s New Energy Solutions. In that context, she was instrumental in Equinor’s market-leading transition into the renewable energy field, ahead of all the other oil majors. She was tasked with forming a new division and driving the development of the Equinor’s strategy in renewable and alternative energy solutions, whereby she pushed for offshore wind and low carbon solutions such as carbon capture and storage and other related technologies, including hydrogen development. From 2014 to 2022, Ms. Rummelhoff was a member and later Deputy Chair (2016) of the Board of Directors of Norsk hydro, and as of March 2022 she is a member of the Board of Directors of Airbus.

Girish Sankar joined EQT in 2020, and has worked on investments in data centers as well as energy transition related businesses. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Girish worked in private equity at Advent International in the TMT team based in London, UK. Prior to Advent, Girish worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York. Girish holds an MBA from the Wharton School, and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania

Kate Southwell is Group General Counsel for Anglo American plc, a FTSE listed global diversified mining company. Prior to joining Anglo American Kate was General Counsel at Pala Investments, a mining focused private equity fund based in Zug, Switzerland. Kate is an experienced board advisor and Non-Executive Director and has been a director of Atlantic Tin, Nevada Copper and Dumas Mining. Kate is passionate about sustainable mining, improving safety and diversity in the industry, and in the role the mining industry can play in the just energy transition.

Born in 1975, Isabelle Spiegel is a graduate with an engineering degree from the École des Mines de Douai and the Technische Universität Berlin. She began her career at a Chamber of Commerce and Industry, before moving on to provide consultancy services for almost 15 years to PricewaterhouseCoopers clients on Corporate Social Responsibility. She spent two years in China and directed international task forces preparing publications by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In 2015, she went on to Arcadis to head up its Environment activities in France and oversee the development of the Sustainable Development business for Arcadis’s Europe, United Kingdom and Middle East region. Isabelle joined VINCI SA in August 2019 where she was appointed Environment Director of VINCI and will be named to the VINCI Executive Committee in April 2022.