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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CFO’ operating in the Renewable Energy space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Neil Perry
CFO of Solarcentury
Neil Perry is the CFO at Solarcentury.
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About Solarcentury: Solarcentury develops, constructs, owns and operates utility-scale solar and smart technology across Europe, Latin America and Africa.
Carol Borg
CFO of Lightsource Renewable Energy
Carol is an internationally experienced Chief Financial Officer with experience spanning across natural resources and renewable energy. Prior to joining Lightsource BP, Carol held various senior financial positions at Vestas Wind Systems (a global leader in wind energy) based in Australia, Denmark and Spain. During this time Carol supported a 10bnEUR turnover as a Regional Chief Finance Officer, leading over 80 finance professionals supporting the Southern Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Latin America region. Carol was responsible for financial management of the entire value chain including sales, manufacturing, construction and after sales service, including the penetration and entry of new markets. Carol holds a degree in Business (Accounting) from Victoria University in Australia, and is a Certified Practicing Accountant.
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About Lightsource Renewable Energy: Lightsource is a provider of ground and rooftop solar installations in the UK.
David Bryon
CFO of First Light Fusion
David Bryon currently works as Chief Financial Officer at First Light Fusion.
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About First Light Fusion: First Light Fusion is an energy company that focuses on researching energy generation by inertial confinement fusion.
Trisha Miller
Chief Financial Officer of Sunamp
Trisha Miller serves as Chief Financial Officer of Sunamp Limited.
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About Sunamp: Sunamp is a company that provides industrial and residential heat battery storage systems.
Prash Patel
CFO of Nyobolt
Prash Patel is the Chief Financial Officer at Nyobolt.
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About Nyobolt: Nyobolt is a developer of high-power battery technology used to serve automotive applications.
Jonathan Lee
Chief Financial Officer of Pavegen
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About Pavegen: Pavegen is the global leader in harvesting energy and data from footfall.
Stephen Williams
Chief Financial Officer of Sonnedix
Stephen Williams is Sonnedix’s Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Vice President of the company. He joined Sonnedix in 2013 with over 20 years of experience growing innovative technology businesses in the UK and around the world. At Sonnedix, he has played a key role in developing the global finance team, as well as leading the London office through a period of massive growth and change. Prior to joining Sonnedix, he was a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Symbian—a joint venture set up by Psion, Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson—to develop a software platform for mobile phones. Joining at its inception in 1998 as EVP Finance and Operations, and later serving as CIO, Stephen helped grow the company to over 1,500 employees worldwide with a turnover exceeding £300M. In 2007, he joined former colleagues from Symbian to help establish AQA63336, a pioneering and highly successful text messaging Q&A service, which they grew from its infancy to six years of continuous profits before selling the business to a third party.
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About Sonnedix: Sonnedix Solar is a global power producer dedicated to produce low-carbon solar energy for the future.
Thomas Berg
Chief Financial Officer of Seajacks
Thomas holds an MSc in Engineering Management from Stanford University. He has experience of various finance functions and was employed as Partner in Whitecliff from 2000 to 2005 and as an investment banker in Orkla Finans from 1995 to 2000.
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About Seajacks: Seajacks owns and operates self-propelled jack-up vessels that safely and efficiently install and maintain offshore wind farms worldwide.
Francisco Martínez-Davis
Chief Financial Officer of Atlantica Yield
Francisco Martinez-Davis has more than 24 years of experience in senior finance positions both in the United States and Spain. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of several large industrial companies. Most recently, he has been Chief Financial Officer for the company responsible for the management and operation of the metropolitan rail service of the city of Madrid where he was also member of the Executive Committee. He has also worked as CFO for a retailer and as Deputy General Manager in Finance and Treasury for Telefonica Moviles. Prior to that, he worked for different investment banks in New York City and London for more than 10 years, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and BNP Paribas. Francisco Martinez-Davis holds a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Business Administration from Villanova University in Philadelphia and an MBA from The Wharton School.
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About Atlantica Yield: Atlantica is a total return sustainable infrastructure company.
Liam Hickey
Chief Financial Officer of Azuri Technologies
Liam is a qualified Chartered Accountant, who has worked with private investors and financial institutions in a number of countries across East and West Africa, to help raise funding and create structured financial instruments to support the development of sustainable, private sector enterprises. He has held several senior commercial and operational finance positions across Europe, the US and the Caribbean, in multinational companies including Bertelsmann, Ericsson & Digicel.
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About Azuri Technologies: Azuri brings affordable solar power to off-grid rural africans.
Fraser Welham
Chief Financial Officer of Invinity Energy Systems Plc
Fraser Welham is the chief financial officer at RedT. He was previously at the Green Investment Group (formerly the Green Investment Bank) where he was managing director of finance. He also served as a group CFO at Element Power and group FD at Shanks Group Plc.
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About Invinity Energy Systems Plc: Invinity Energy Systems Plc is a company which has created a method by which electrical energy can be stored in liquid form.
Keith Reid
CFO of Infinis Energy
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About Infinis Energy: Infinis is one of the UK’s leading generators of renewable power.
Ian Lindsay
Chief Financial Officer of Active Tree Services
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About Active Tree Services: Active Tree Services provide forestry services on a contract or fee basis.
Patrick Sinclair
Chief Financial Officer of 3T Energy Group
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About 3T Energy Group: 3T Energy Group is to harness the power of technology to transform training and enhance performance.
