Details zur Moderator/in: Shelley Cantrick
Vita: Shelley Cantrick is Vice President at Deutsche Bank, leading ESG Implementation and Transformation for the Investment Bank’s Origination and Advisory division. In her current role, she drives initiatives across sustainable and transition finance, net zero strategy, and sustainability operations. Since joining Deutsche Bank in 2017 as a Graduate Trainee, Shelley has held roles in strategic execution within Corporate Cash Management and served as Executive Assistant to the Management Board member for the Americas.
A Seattle native, Shelley holds a B.A. in Music from Rice University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Business from Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a member of the NextGen SteerCo at the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, and was a member of the NextGen Program 2023-2024. Shelley is an avid cyclist, is actively involved in music ministry, youth leadership, as well as community service in Central Africa.

Details zur Teilnehmer/in: Julia Römer
Vita: Julia is an industrial engineer, cooling technology inventor and CEO at Coolar, a company pioneering heat-driven,100% water-based cooling systems. With her team she built and deployed the Coolar off-grid medical refrigerator that can enable electricity-independent cold storage for life-saving vaccines and medicines in regions without reliable electricity where clinics serving over one billion people worldwide struggle to provide access to medicines that need reliable cooling.
In 2014 – while still a student TU Berlin – she started the project that became her company Coolar, which she has since led as co-founder and CEO.

In addition to her career as an entrepreneur and inventor, Julia is passionate about environmental advocacy and has served on the board of BUND e. V. (Friends of the Earth Germany, the country’s largest environmental NGO) for over nine years, among other activities.

Due to her leadership in pushing for sustainability and innovation she was chosen to advise the federal government of Germany on innovation policy as a member of the Hightech-Forum 2019-201, i.e. promoting new legislation on tax benefits for R&D activities, as well as government support for social entrepreneurship and innovation.

Details zur Teilnehmer/in: Carmen Rommel
Vita: Carmen Rommel, COO and co-founder of BIOVOX, founded BIOVOX in 2021 together with Julian Lotz and Vinzenz Nienhaus to solve the plastic problem in our hospitals. At BIOVOX, she is responsible for Operations, Investor Relations & Sustainability. During her studies of mechanical engineering at TU Darmstadt, she focused on sustainable product and material development. In 2024, Carmen received AmCham Germany’s Female Founders Award. In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors – either hiking or binking – often accompanied by her dog.