Daein Cha brings over 25 years of energy and resources industries experience. Through senior roles for international business development, major capital project management, and commodity sales and trading at Tokyo Gas and Chevron, Daein brings extensive expertise, experience and network to originate and develop multi-billion dollars industrial projects.
Daein joined Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd in 1998 and has since served roles of increasing responsibilities including Manager of LNG procurement & trading, and Manager of LNG upstream business development. Daein joined Chevron in 2012 as Deputy Business Manager and in 2014 as Deputy Project Manager for the Gorgon Expansion Project. He also served on the Project Leadership Team to manage the development of Chevron's Gorgon Stage 2 and Jansz-Io Compression projects.
Daein has taken on the role as the Founder and Director of Transborders Energy (mid-scale gas resource commercialisation business) since November 2016, and as Founder and Managing Director of deepC Store (commercial scale CCS project developer) since August 2021. He also serves as Senior Projects Manager for the Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Center, an Australian Government and industry funded R&D organisation striving to decarbonise LNG exports and grow clean hydrogen production for Australia.
Daein received his Bachelor’s degree in management from the International Christian University (Japan), Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business (USA), and qualification as Certified Cost Professional (CCP) of AACE International accredited by the Council of Engineering and Scientific Speciality Boards. Daein is also a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN) and the Society of Decision Professionals.
For AIEN, Daein Cha serves as a member of the Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) Taskforce and term sheet working group. Daein is the co-author of the “White Paper CCUS Opportunities and Implications for the AIEN.”
Gabrielle Finger is Commercial Manager for Storegga (Houston, TX) working on Carbon Capture and Sequestration projects globally.
Previously, Gabrielle was Senior Commercial Advisor for Chevron New Energies (Houston, TX) working on Carbon Capture and Sequestration projects along the US Gulf Coast, focused on the Bayou Bend Project in the Golden Triangle region. Prior to the Chevron-Noble merger, Gabrielle worked as an international commercial advisor at Noble Energy for 10 years, working on various west Africa assets in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, focused on monetizing the Alen gas field through the EG Gas Mega Hub and the Yoyo-Yolanda cross border development. Commercially, Gabrielle has negotiated a wide range of agreements, including farmout agreements, unitization contracts/bilateral treaty, joint operating agreements, condensate/LPG/LNG sales agreements, joint venture agreements, capture and sequestration agreements, and various government granting instruments.
Gabrielle is a graduate of the Emerging Leaders Program at Chevron (2023), has an MBA from the University of Houston, and a BA from Washington University in St Louis. She is fluent in Spanish, knows enough French to be dangerous.
Gabrielle is the current Vice President of New Energies for AIEN.
Nick Fulford is Gas/LNG and Carbon Management Senior Director–Americas for GaffneyCline, with over 40 years of experience in the natural gas sector working on all aspects of the gas value chain from complex upstream projects, midstream and LNG export projects, LNG imports and gas to power, wholesale and retail market management, regulatory policy and trading. He is renowned as a leading Global LNG expert who has closely been involved in the US gas markets since the late 1980s and again more deeply since 2008 with the rise of the US shale gas boom. In recent years, Nick has engaged with the emerging Energy Transition impacts on energy markets globally, including CCS, offsets and net-zero LNG.
Greg Hammond, represents parties in major M&A, Corporate Finance, Joint Venture and Projects transactions in the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on the Energy industry. He has represented Governments, public and private corporations, private equity firms, hedge funds, banks and multilateral agencies.
He is particularly active in the Energy Transition as it relates to the Oil & Gas industry; advising on the origination, execution and financing of projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions. This has encompassed everything from (i) Hydrogen to Hydro, (ii) Gas Monetization to Electrification, and (iii) LNG to RNG.
Greg currently sits on the New Energies Committee of the AIEN and is a member of its CCUS and Hydrogen Taskforces.
He is also (i) a past-Chairman of the African Sub-committee of AIEN (which he established and transitioned into the current self-standing Africa Regional Chapter Committee), (ii) an original member of the Oil & Gas Sector Table of the Iraqi-British Business Council, (iii) an original member of the Legal Advisory Taskforce to the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels, and (iv) a member of the AIEN Europe Regional Chapter Committee.
In December, Greg participated in a key Panel session at COP 28 on “Advancing Legal and Regulatory Principles for the Energy Transition”, examining some of the fundamental UNFCCC principles which drove the outcomes in the final UAE Consensus.
Stephen Highfield is an International Commercial Negotiator with over 30 years’ experience in the energy industry negotiating Upstream E&P, New Energy (CCS) and M&A contracts and transactions.