Speakers

KD Merz is a graduate in chemical engineering at tech. College in Duesseldorf in 1980. He worked at the R&D at Sonnenschein Batteries for 7 years. From 1993 to 1999 he was Marketing and Product Manager for EV and HEV Applications. From 2000 to 2007 he was Director Marketing for Motive Power Products for Exide Technologies.
In 2008 he joined Abertax Technologies to work on product for Energy storage, sustainable energy generation and EV and HEV technology. He consults several battery companies in Europe, Asia and USA on VRLA battery technology, works on systems integration of batteries and accessories for complete energy solutions.
KD is council member of the Abertax Group of companies.