Following RWE’s acquisition of Essent, Richard Lewis has been appointed Managing Director of Essent Trading, now RWE Supply & Trading Switzerland S.A. and RWE Supply & Trading Netherlands B.V. Richard joined RWE Supply & Trading GmbH in March 2009 in the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer, Sales & Origination. His group combines RWE Supply & Trading’s existing Gas Supply, Industrial Sales and Origination functions.

Prior to joining RWE Supply & Trading, Richard was previously a Managing Director of Commodities for Barclays Capital bank in London, where he was responsible for European trading and sales of power, gas, coal and CO2 allowances.

Maurice Paulussen is a senior professional with over 17 years of experience in international energy markets. As the SVP International Development at Essent Trading, Maurice identifies, develops and implements energy merchant opportunities in new markets, for new products and in new segments of value chains.

Before joining Essent in 2000, Maurice worked as an advisor and project manager at PNEM/MEGA-Group's (PMG) Corporate Strategy department.

Remco Frenken has been a senior trading professional in the European energy industry over 19 years. As Senior Vice President of Global Green Commodities, Remco is responsible for the global trading of bio-energy, wind power and emissions, and his career in our company has spanned more than ten years in various positions.

Prior to joining RWE Supply & Trading Switzerland S.A., Remco worked at KEMA as Project Manager in the field of advanced computer models (fuzzy logic, neural networks).