Director and Co-Founder, SwitcH2 B.V.
Drs Saskia Kunst MBA has gained extensive global executive experience over 25 years, working with multinationals in Asia and Europe: Hutchison Port Holdings (Hong Kong / Kuala Lumpur), PSA International (Antwerp, Genova) and SBM Offshore (Monaco, Amsterdam). Saskia worked both at the corporate level (Director of Strategy, Head of M&A, Lead in capital markets transactions) as well as carried large P&L accountability (Country CEO in Italy for PSA International, Managing Director in the Netherlands for SBM Offshore NV).
In 2021 Saskia created, jointly with her business partner Bob Rietveldt, SwitcH2: Seawater into clean Hydrogen. This project development company is engineering & commercializing the next generation of floating production platforms producing green hydrogen and green ammonia offshore, aimed at providing an industrial answer to the decarbonization of the global shipping world.
Saskia also serves as non-executive director on the Board of Strukton Rail Italy (Bologna) and is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Energy Transition Fund (Rotterdam), a € 100m fund created by the City of Rotterdam to address the challenges of the energy transition in the port and city.