Margien Storm van Leeuwen – Moderator
“Microgrids are the next step in our energy transition. I foresee a significant growth of business in the next few years because it is a scalable service based concept and today the right technologies can be connected and combined in accordance with the specific demands of the markets.”
Margien Storm van Leeuwen studied Chemistry at Utrecht University. She did an additional major in heterogeneous catalysis at Shell developing GTL diesel. She worked at DSM for 12 years; at Research, New Business and developed commercially as a Product Manager and Purchasing Manager at Resins. In order to obtain more room for creativity and innovation, she then worked for three years at NedStack as an International Sales Manager of fuel cells and fuel cell systems. Focusing more on international marketing she started setting up the international marketing department at Bredenoord in 2009 for all business units. She joined the management team and headed the newly started New Business department and the Marketing and Communications departments. She focused on sustainable business by developing renewable energy systems that could improve and replace gensets and developed a new Energy as a Service business model. Together with her teams various battery systems as the ESaver and the BigBatteryBox were developed and introduced to the markets, as well as a fuel cell generator and the implementation of renewable diesel HVO. In 2019 she started doing business herself by joining a startup in the field of sustainable electrical drives, and helped several small companies with strategy and building marketing-sales funnels.
In 2020 she became director of the Cleantech foundation. This triple helix organization focuses on the development of a sustainable economy in the region via collaboration between education, municipalities and entrepreneurs. She enabled the Region Deal, reorganized the foundation in connection with her stakeholders as in the provinces and central government, and ensured the implementation of the regional agenda in the fields of human capital, energy transition and circular economy.
Margien is also an avid trail runner and enjoys sailing and walking with her family. She loves music, animals and art. She likes to work on topics as (re) branding, hydrogen economy, energy transition, stakeholder management, storage technology, developing and implementing scenarios and strategy, the similarities between sustainable entrepreneurship and sports, innovation and arts, and transformation towards new business models.