Wa’el Almazeediis Co-founder and CEO of Avance Labs, a data-driven net zero accelerator established to decarbonize products across supply chains and finance first-of-a-kind energy transition projects by, among other things, pioneering digital product passports and structuring privately and publicly funded financing mechanisms.

He is a recipient of the 2006 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Energy Category for the New England Region of the USA.

He acquired his experience in energy, project financing, private equity, and multilateral development while working in Boston, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuwait, London, Yokohama, and Washington D.C.

He is a member of hydrogen and energy transition advisory committees in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and is the lead author of the Kuwait Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap White Paper.

In 2007, he conceived of and prepared a pre-feasibility study for an undersea HVDC cable project linking Tunisia with Sicily, which has recently been transformed into a European Project of Common Interest (PCI).