Board Update:  “Hydrogen from hype to pragmatism between 2019 and 2025” with Portfolio Chair and expert,

Richard Oblath

12/02/2026 1.55 pm GMT

Guests welcome £40 + VAT

Members inclusive

“Hydrogen from hype to pragmatism between 2019 and 2025”

Richard will share his experience about the state of the hydrogen market in light of recent items in the press and the changes on the politics of climate change,

particularly in the USA but also in other OCED countries.

Richard M Oblath PhD CEng FIMMM FEI

Non- Executive Chairman H2Transition Capital, Non-Executive Director Firmus Energy and HyOrc

Chair, Technology Communities Board, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)

Post his retirement from Royal Dutch Shell in mid-2017, Richard has built a portfolio of global advisory positions for Boards and C-Suite Executives in the Downstream Oil, Chemicals and energy intensive industries focusing on strategy and corporate transformations ahead of the Energy Transition. He is the Executive Chairman and a General Partner of H2Transition Capital LLP an emerging global fund focused on developing, managing, and investing in the hydrogen value chain, a non-executive director of Boson Energy, a private waste to energy/hydrogen company and a non-executive director of Firmus Energy a gas distribution company based in Northern Ireland. He is the Chair of the Energy Transition Group of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (where he also a Fellow), a Fellow of the Energy Institute, a member of Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) and a member of Chapter Zero (a community of non-executive directors who understand and can position the Energy Transition with their board colleagues).

During 25 years with Shell, Richard had various executive leadership positions in global M&A for Downstream and New Energies, Lubricants in the eastern hemisphere, Strategy and head of enterprise accounts for global Chemicals, and head of the PET business. During this time, he was also a non-executive director of many of Shell’s businesses and joint ventures. Prior to joining Shell, he held appointments for 14 years with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in a number of roles including strategy manager, manufacturing director, technology director and President of a JV in Japan.

Richard has a B.Sc. with Honours in Metallurgy and Materials Science (Nottingham University, UK) and a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry (Royal Military College of Science/Imperial College, UK). He also completed a graduate diploma from the FT in non-executive directorships in 2019.

Richard is married with two children and four grandchildren. He is a dual US/British citizen and enjoys international affairs, music, art, and too infrequently golf.

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