Xyntéo-GLTE Low-Carbon Leadership Board adds three new members

We are delighted to announce that Harry Brekelmans, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Planning at Shell, Henrik Madsen, CEO of DNV, and Michael Treschow, Chairman of Ericsson and Unilever, have joined the Xyntéo-GLTE Low-Carbon Leadership Board. All three bring enormous leadership experience and low-carbon expertise to the board.

Since joining Shell in 1998, Harry Brekelmans has served in a variety of exploration and production R&D positions. He has held assignments in Egypt and the UK involving a range of roles in geosciences, subsurface operations, devel¬opment planning and co-ordination, and organisational change management. He assumed his current position in 2009. 


Henrik Madsen joined DNV in 1982 as chief scientist in structural reliability analysis, working to introduce structural reliability methods in the standard-setting work of the oil and gas industry. He has since held senior management positions in all of the company’s business areas, both at its headquarters in Norway and abroad. Dr Madsen was appointed CEO in 2006.


Michael Treschow has served as Chairman of the Board of Ericsson since March 2002; he is also Chairman of Unilever and AB Electrolux.  Mr Treschow was President and CEO of the Electrolux Group between 1997 and 2002. For his contribution to Swedish-European trade relations, Mr Treschow has received numerous awards.

The Low-Carbon Leadership Board is chaired by Peter Darbee of PG&E and co-chaired by Jamshed J. Irani of Tata Sons; Caio Koch-Weser of Deutsche Bank; and Alexander Medvedev of Gazprom.

The board, uniting pioneering CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s top companies, provides guidance to the Global Leadership & Technology Exchange.

Members of the board serve as strategic mentors to GLTE by helping to:

  • shape the programme for the partnership’s twice-yearly “exchanges”, to help ensure that the content is up-to-the-minute and totally relevant for business leaders
  • identify new partners, supporting the widening and deepening of the partnership’s representation of key industries and geographies
  • support GLTE collaborative projects, by giving advice on the implementation of current projects and offering suggestions on new ones
  • foster a new understanding of leadership – of what it will take to be an effective business leader in the low-carbon economy

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