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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 London based VP’ operating in the Energy space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Charles Chipchase
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Chipchase is a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Riverstone. He is based in London. Prior to joining Riverstone in February 2014, Mr. Chipchase was General Counsel of Tercel Oilfield Products, a private equity-owned oilfield services company specializing in providing drilling, completions, and downhole services to the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Tercel Oilfield Products, Mr. Chipchase was an Associate at Vinson & Elkins LLP, where he focused on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions work in the energy sector. Mr. Chipchase received his M.A. in History from Edinburgh University and his Diploma in Law and Legal Practice from the College of Law. He is licensed to practice law in England and Wales.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Kevin Wang
Vice President of Riverstone Holdings
Vice President at Riverstone Holdings.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Gerard Penning
Executive Vice President Human Resources Downstream of Shell Oil Company
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About Shell Oil Company: Shell Oil Company is an oil and gas company that explores and produces energy products.
Chris Thomas
Vice President & Head of Strategy and Business Development and Group Company Secretary of Seven Energy
Chris has over 25 years’ experience in corporate finance generally and, for the last 17 years, in the exploration and production sector. Previously, Chris was a founding director and group company secretary of Melrose Resources, the former London Stock Exchange FTSE 250 listed international E&P company with interests in EMEA and the US. Chris is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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About Seven Energy: Seven Energy is an indigenous Nigerian oil and gas exploration, development, production and distribution company.
David Bunch
Vice President Retail Sales and Operations & Chairman SDSA of Royal Dutch Shell
David has been with Shell for 17 years – in a number of marketing & sales roles. Prior to his appointment as Vice-President Marketing, David was General Manager Retail Lubricant Sales for the Americas within the Global Commercial organization.After graduating in Psychology and Economics, David completed an MBA at the London Business School and then began his career in Asia, moving to Europe and then the US – where prior to joining Shell he worked with Sony, in the PlayStation division; Japan Steel, in new product development; and Anderson Consulting, in the Retail practice.
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About Royal Dutch Shell: Royal Dutch Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies.
James Cullens
Executive Vice President Human Resources of SNC Lavalin
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About Atkins, SNC Lavalin: SNC-Lavalin is an engineering and construction group.
Chloe MacEwen
Senior Vice President of Argus Media group
Chloe MacEwen is Senior Vice-President, Global Public and Regulatory Affairs, based in London. She joined in 2014 and is responsible for Argus’ engagement with policy makers, legislators and regulators around the world. Chloe qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons and then worked as a competition lawyer at Herbert Smith before spending ten years working as a regulator at the Competition Commission, Office of Fair Trading and DG Competition, European Commission. Prior to joining Argus Chloe had worked as Head of International Policy at Lloyds Banking Group overseeing the bank’s engagement strategy with policy makers on a broad range of financial services and competition issues. Chloe was educated at Kings College London where she gained a LLB and LLM
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About Argus Media group: Argus Media group is a global energy and commodity price reporting agency.
Giora Salita
Executive Vice President, Business Development and M&A of Etrion
Mr. Salita has over 15 years of executive experience in the renewable energy, technology and private equity sectors. Prior to joining Etrion, Mr. Salita was one of the founding members of Sunray Renewable Energy Ltd., a leading solar power developer in Europe and the Middle East that was acquired by SunPower Corporation, a leading U.S. solar energy company, in 2010. Subsequently, Mr. Salita held the position of Vice President Utility Power Plants International at SunPower, where he led the marketing, sales and business development teams responsible for project development, engineering, procurement and construction of utility-scale solar parks. Mr. Salita graduated from the Warwick Business School with a bachelor’s degree in management sciences and attended the development program for owners/directors at INSEAD Business School in France.
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About Etrion: Etrion Corporation is an independent power producer that develops, builds, owns and operates utility-scale solar power generation plants.
Kayleigh Bottomley
VP And Founder of Storm4
Kayleigh Bottomley is the Founder and VP at Storm4.
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About Storm4: Storm4 is a specialist GreenTech recruitment marketplace, connecting organizations with the senior talent to drive their mission.
Jonathan Carpenter
Vice President, New Energy Services of Petrofac
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About Petrofac: Petrofac is a provider of oilfield services to the international oil and gas industry. It is registered in Jersey, with its main corporate
Vishnu Aggarwal
Deputy VP Origination and Renewables Trading of SmartestEnergy
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About SmartestEnergy: SmartestEnergy is a different type of energy company.
Jerry Stokes
Executive VP Europe of Moixa Technology
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About Moixa Technology: Developer of distributed energy storage, aggregation and smart DC technologies
