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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 CEO’ operating in the Energy Management space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Frans van den Heuvel
CEO of Solarcentury
Frans van den Heuvel is the CEO 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.
Matthew Lumsden
Chief Executive Officer/Founder of Connected Energy
With 20 years experience in the low carbon energy and transport sectors, Matthew founded Connected Energy to commercialise a range of energy storage and control systems developed by parent company Future Transport Systems.
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About Connected Energy, Future Transport, Unreasonable: A pioneer of 2nd life electric vehicle battery based energy storage systems.
Devrim Celal
CEO of Upside Energy
Experienced and versatile executive with blue chip management consultancy and corporate finance background. Over twenty years of experience in leadership positions across variety of industries, sectors and geographies. Demonstrated record in creating self-perpetuating organisations, ground-up business development, and defining, structuring and delivering innovative solutions to complex managerial problems.
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About Hca legal, Octopus Energy, Upside Energy: Upside Energy reduces greenhouse gases by enabling people to make smart choices about when to use energy.
Catherine Newman
Chief Executive Officer of Limejump
Catherine Newman is the Chief Executive Officer at Limejump.
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About Limejump: Limejump is a Technology-Driven Utility: harnessing the power of big data to positively disrupt and transform today’s energy market.
Nick Thain
Strategic Advisor to CEO of 85 Degrees Renewable
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About 85 Degrees Renewable: 85 Degrees is a renewable energy business formed to identify and develop high-quality geothermal projects.
Mansoor Hamayun
Chief Executive Officer of BBOXX
Mansoor is a graduate from Imperial College London where he obtained honours (M.Eng) degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was the founder and the first Chairman of ‘e.quinox’ 2008 and co-founded BBOXX in 2010. Mansoor is responsible for the global strategy of BBOXX which includes HR, new markets and industrial partnerships. Mansoor has professional leadership experience in the Engineering/Customer Service Sector with Rolls-Royce plc in the UK and Hong Kong. Mansoor spends considerable amount of time in the market attempting to create the framework and partnerships necessary to fulfil the social aim of the business i.e. mass electrification.
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About BBOXX: BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems.
William Burton Blair Ainslie
Chief Executive Officer of Seajacks
Blair holds a BSc in Physical Geography from the University of London and has significant experience of the offshore industry. Workfox UK employed him from 1999 to 2006 as Business Manager, responsible for marketing, contracts and commercial and general management of the Seafox fleet. He has also been a Contracts Manager at Kvaerner Oil and Gas from 1995 to 1999 and Senior Quantity Surveyor at Babtie Group from 1986 to 1995.
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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.
Darius Maikstenas
CEO of Ignitis group
Darius Maikstenas is the CEO and chairman of the board at Ignitis group. He was the Founder and CEO of Widerfi.
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About Ignitis group: Ignitis Group is an international energy corporation that manufactures, distributes, supplies, and provides various energy-related services.
Alistair Clarke
Founder and CEO of EV Technology Limited
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About EV Technology Limited: EV Technology is an electric vehicle consulting and technology provider to the industry.
Gilbert Lennox-King
CEO & Co-Founder of Demand Logic
Mike is a leading expert in building services engineering, and has worked in the field for over 20 years. He has designed and delivered controls systems for multi-million pound installations, including for major banks, covering business-critical systems. Mike leads all our engineering and energy efficiency work and provides consultancy support for clients.
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About Demand Logic: Demand Logic is an online energy efficiency system that analyzes data from building management systems.
Peter Allan
CEO of Surple
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About Surple: Surple builds software to help organisations optimise their energy use.
