For nearly two decades, Bryan has worked with leadership at the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) in a range of areas impacting the North American glass container manufacturing industry, including recycling, transportation, energy and air emissions. In his advocacy work for GPI, he helps draft comments and testimony for agency dockets, U.S. Congressional, and state-based legislative committees. His responsibilities for the association also include dissemination of statistical data and serving as a staff liaison for several sub-committees.

Wes is a climate tech professional with over eight years of experience developing, financing, constructing and operating renewable energy facilities around the world. Prior to joining the hydrogen industry he worked at leading renewable energy developers, during which time he successfully financed and constructed close to 1,000 megawatts of wind, solar and transmission assets, at a total value of over $1 billion. Wes has spent the past two years focused on green hydrogen project development in North America. He brings to the emerging hydrogen sector a deep skillset in power and infrastructure, and is leveraging his expertise to lead the commercial deployment of novel climate solutions to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors.

Born in 1962 in Zurich (Switzerland), Rolf Hilfiker is the grandson of Pneumofore’s founder Jakob Hilfiker. After graduating in Economics at the University of Basel, in 1988 Rolf became financial manager and CEO in the family’s foundry business based in Italy. In 1989, he entered the board of directors of Pneumofore. He also worked in the banking sector in Switzerland and as sales manager for industrial groups operating in the casting and steel production sector. Since 2015, Rolf has been serving Pneumofore as Chief Financial Officer, at first, and Chief Executive Officer at present. In the 90’s, Rolf Hilfiker was President of the Young Entrepreneurs Group of the Industrial Employers’ Association in Turin (Italy), a member of the President’s Committee of the Industrial Employers’ Association as well as a council member of AMMA, the Italian Mechanical and Mechatronic Companies Association.

Global sales and marketing leader with experience developing and implementing strategic glass initiatives with a focus on cost reduction and process improvement while maintaining customer quality and service. I have a passion for creating competitive positions, optimizing market awareness, and increasing financial performance worldwide while developing and maintaining an outstanding reputation for quality and customer service. Bringing a multicultural background, I have a history of developing and maintaining relationships in Spanish, English, and French.

Starting at Fives in 2018 in the Glass Division and growing into this position as Business Development for Solar Glass Projects in 2021, Bruno Malphettes has spent most of his career with glass melting.

2004 – 2011: Glass Ceramic Melting Manager – EUROKERA

2011 – 2012: Solar Glass Project Manager – Saint-Gobain SOLAR

2012 – 2018: Technical Expertise & Marketing – Saint-Gobain SEFPRO

He has a Master’s degree in Materials Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, France.

Peter has worked in the glass container manufacturing industry all his working life. A full history is available on his LinkedIn profile, simply search “Peter J Firth M.Sc.”

He holds degrees both in engineering and manufacturing, gained from the Universities in Sheffield, England.

He worked for several different UK glass manufacturing companies. His foundational experience being based at the Ardagh Knottingley Plant, where he progressed from Plant Engineering through manufacturing roles of Assistant Production Manager, Operations Manager, and Plant Manager.

This experience led to him being offered the role of “Mentor to Ardagh Moerdijk Plant” for the year of 2010. This was to help the Plant reach world-class performances in NNPB production, which it sustains to this day.

For the next decade, he worked with the European Operational Excellence Group of Ardagh Glass Packaging.

In April 2020, Peter left his employment with Ardagh and has been working freelance as a Glass Container Manufacturing Consultant.

In addition to being a Design Team Member on the Glass Futures project, he is currently active on a range of consulting projects. This includes assisting with increasing productivity and quality at a large NNPB plant and creating a new plant design specification for another client.

Toby Tiktinsky, Senior Vice President, Business Development, has lead Convergent’s business-to-business sales teams since 2016. Since joining Convergent, Toby has executed some of the largest behind-the-meter energy storage assets in North America while growing the sales team to serve coops, munis, and manufacturing facilities across the United States and Canada. Prior to joining Convergent, Toby spent a decade leading business development efforts for early-stage companies innovating services across solar, agriculture, and carbon. Before he entered sales, Toby spent five years at the United States Environmental Protection Agency covering communications and policy related to biopesticides, ag biotechnology, and air quality. Toby holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of San Francisco, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, and is completing an Executive Master’s in Business Administration from HEC Paris.

With over 25 years experience in the Glass industry, Stephen has worked on projects around the world with all the major Glass container manufacturers converting IS machines from Mineral oils to synthetic based lubricants and also from Synthetics to Synthetics supporting the industry in gaining the optimal performance and commercial packages.