About us

Marcel Verhoeven
Deputy CEO

Marcel serves as the deputy CEO of CEG and is responsible for the overall management of the business. He has a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology and strong experience in Asia and Europe in General Management, Business- and Product Creation, Operations and Product Marketing.

Marcel has worked in several Sr. Management and Executive roles at Philips, Siemens-Industry, Zumtobel Group and Momentum Capital, where he successfully built up organizations from scratch and transformed existing organizations to suit new business needs. Marcel likes challenges and gets a lot of energy out of achieving what others describe as “not possible”.

Martijn Dekker
Head of R&D

Martijn Dekker supports the maturing phase of the unique technology for the torrefaction of biomass of CEG as Head of R&D. 

Martijn received a PhD in theoretical physics upon which he joined Philips Research in 1993. After a series of technical management positions in LG.Philips Displays and Philips Personal Care division, he joined the LED start-up Lemnis Lighting in 2007. In 2013 he continued to contribute to LED lighting in an independent role and supported LED technology company Seaborough from the very start and was the CEO of Carus, a LED lamp design and manufacturing company in Germany, till 2017.

Now he is excited to have the opportunity to contribute with the CEG team to the world’s transition to renewable energy by ramping up to industrial scale this unique technology for producing biocoal from biobased waste streams.

Rene Buwalda
Head of Operations & Project Management

Rene Buwalda is a project manager with a broad technical background. He is responsible for the production line of CEG. His career started over 25 years ago in the power generation sector. Rene worked in senior positions in engineering and production facilities and later as a senior project manager and project director in several complex international biomass projects.

Rene is a natural leader in multidisciplinary teams and he uses his strategic thinking to engage with partners to realize successful and ambitious projects. Through his experience with production facilities he is able to take future-proof decisions to make CEG’s process as efficient and safe as possible.

Neil Butler
Technical Director

Neil Butler, CEng, MIMMM, is technical director of Clean Electricity Generation B.V. and managing director of CEG Technology UK Ltd and of Bio2Carbon Ltd. Neil is a most experienced engineer, for over 25 years leading and managing complex energy system implementations all over the world.

Neil has worked with clients such as Arcelor Mittal, BP, US EPA and Gazprom, among others. He further brings in more than 25 years of practical experience in designing, engineering, building and operating power plants using unconventional gases and biomass

Stuart Paskett
VP of Business Development

Stuart began his career in the US analyzing high-yield and distressed industrial credits before joining the portfolio management team of Climate Change Capital. He was part of the portfolio management team responsible for raising Climate Change Capital’s $1 billion carbon fund. After deploying the fund’s capital across a portfolio of more than 50 carbon mitigation projects, mainly focused on Asia, Stuart assumed responsibility for commissioning carbon mitigation projects in Central Asia. Stuart is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

Stuart has a proven ability to bridge financial and engineering mindsets. In addition to financial and project management experience, Stuart has consulted on technical mine design and mining feasibility studies. He has a degree from Wharton and an engineering degree from the University of Exeter.

Martijn van Boxel
Manager Finance & Control

Martijn has developed over 15 years of experience in several finance and business control roles within the telecommunications, media and cable industry with NBCUniversal and Liberty Global before moving to CEG one year ago.

He is a strong manager and finance professional with experience in business process and analysis, business strategy, process improvement, mergers & acquisitions and financial modeling. 

He is highly experienced in bridging business with finance and oversees the business and financial operations of CEG and shares responsibility for CEG’s economic and financial performance. He has a MSc in Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam and a MBA from the Amsterdam Business School.