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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 Director operating in the Clean Energy space. If you think a Director 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.
Mahesh Kolli
Founder, President, and Joint Managing Director of Greenko Group
Greenko is the largest renewable energy company in India with over $6 billion in investments and operating 5000MW of energy assets across 15 states in thecountry. Mahesh Kolli, a young & dynamic first-generation serial entrepreneur. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering, he has successfully founded and developed multiple businesses in Information Technology, Environmental Technologies, Clean Energy and Urban Infrastructure sectors over the last decade. His entrepreneurial journey started with an environmental solutions company focused on technology transfer from developed markets to India. Mahesh believes in creating infrastructure that has a lasting social impact while contributing to the growing demands of India as a nation and has always strived to contribute to the growth of the country thorough establishing suchbusinesses. Mahesh made his mark in the Indian Energy Sector by co-founding Greenko Group, a focused clean energy company along with Mr. Anil Chalamalasetty in 2006. Greenko is India’s leading Integrated Power Player & is replacing fossil fuel dependency with digitized, decentralized & decarbonized energy solutions. Mahesh is a keen participant and panelist in various investor forums and interacts with regulatory authorities and policy makers to ensure the development of the clean energy sector in India. In Feb 2019 the CEO club India awarded Mahesh with the “Unicorn Award ” for Greenko, for its exponential growth in ten years of operation to become the largest clean energy company operating in India . Outside of work, Mahesh stays in close touch with his roots and contributes towards the development of skilled individuals who can play a constructive role in India’s future.
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About Greenko Group: Greenko Group is a renewable energy company, replacing fossil fuels with integrated decarbonized energy and grid assets.
Nick Sassow
Director of SEaB Energy
Nick Sassow is Founder & CTO at SEaB Energy.
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About SEaB Energy, SEaB Energy: SEaB Energy has patented a micro anaerobic digestion system for onsite and in-building conversion of organics to energy, water, & fertiliser
David Ainsworth
Managing Director of Sustainable Marine Energy
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About Kite Power Systems, Sustainable Marine Energy, Sustainable Marine Energy: Sustainable Marine Energy develops a deployment platform for the tidal energy industry.
Arun Jayadev
Co Founder & Director of Airlite
Arun Renuka Jayadev is strengthening the cleantech team since November 2008. As a Principal, his primary task is to source and evaluate new deals and to support the current cleantech portfolio. An Indian native, Arun has exclusively focused on the cleantech industry in the last years. He has worked for Spanish S.I. Capital, a private equity firm investing in renewable energies, where he conducted extensive research on cleantech investments. Prior to this he has worked for a start up electric motorcycle company and also served as an advisor to an Australian Waste to Energy company. He has helped organize five clean technology forums across the world, e.g. the first industry-specific seminar in Spain, which brought together start-up companies, VCs and executives for the first time. Arun started his career as a consultant with Computer Associates on projects in India, the U.S. and various other locations. There, he has managed teams of up to 16 people. Arun holds a MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona in 2008, where he took also the opportunity to study one term at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles. In 2003, he finished a BE with a focus on computer science with distinction at the Rashtriya Vidhyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore.
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About Airlite: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Massimo Bernardoni
Co-Founder & Director of Airlite
Massimo Bernardoni is co-founder and director at Airlite® / AM Technology Ltd.
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About Airlite: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Phil Gower
Director and Co-Founder of Q2i Group
A senior technology leader and development manager, experienced from greenfield to enterprise. He has formerly worked at State Street as Development Manager and Head of Strategic Technology
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About Blue Spear Software, Q2i Group: Blockchain Interoperability – Complex Transactions Monetised – Blockchain Agnostic Platform – Q2iD – ID Control – Q2iPay
Mark Standish
Director and Co-Founder of Q2i Group
Senior business and technology executive and investor in the financial and asset management industry. Former COO of Egerton Capital, founder of a hedge fund consulting firm and former professional services manager at Advent Software
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About Q2i Group: Blockchain Interoperability – Complex Transactions Monetised – Blockchain Agnostic Platform – Q2iD – ID Control – Q2iPay
Tom Lipinski
Founder & Technical Director of Ventive
Founder of the company, Tom is an exceptional visionary and inventor. He is highly regarded in the sustainable construction sector, with his achievements recognized by more than 20 prestigious industry awards. Tom, a firm believer in Better by Design, is constantly proving his ability within the built environment. You can often find Tom locked away in the test facility, playing with his sensors.
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About Q-Bot, Ventive: Ventive creates healthy internal environments. Pioneers of Passive Ventilation with Heat Recovery
James Batchelor
Managing Director, Automotive Division of Intelligent Energy
James Batchelor was appointed Managing Director, Automotive Division in October 2011. James brings a wealth of experience, including engineering leadership, business development, sales, technology licensing and partnership-forming responsibilities with large OEMs and their tier-one suppliers. James joins from Torotrak plc, a clean-technology development and IP licensing business, where he was responsible for the commercialisation of its innovative transmission systems across a number of global markets and applications. He has previously held senior engineering, commercial and business development positions at Land Rover, BMW AG and Trafficmaster plc, where he was responsible for its European subsidiary. As Managing Director, Automotive Division at Intelligent Energy James is responsible for expanding the company’s automotive business globally, building upon successful relationships such as its ongoing partnership with the Suzuki Motor Corporation.
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About Intelligent Energy: Intelligent Energy is a clean power systems company offering fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
Peter Brown
Managing Director, Distributed Power & Generation Division of Intelligent Energy
Peter joined from Turbo Power System where he was Chief Executive. Turbo Power System manufactures high performance electric motors and generators, drives and power electronics. Prior to that, Peter’s experience spanned a number of roles in Customer Sales and Finance in Rolls-Royce’s Energy business, Vickers Specialist Engines and Vickers Defence Systems, culminating in the position of Executive Vice President for Customer Business for Rolls-Royce Energy.
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About Avnera, Intelligent Energy: Intelligent Energy is a clean power systems company offering fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
George Prassinos
Director – Systems Engineer of SDnC Ltd
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About OXTO Energy: SDnC, is a private start-up engineering company focused on the development of energy storage solutions.
Andrew Lever
Director, Policy & Innovation of Carbon Trust
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About Carbon Trust: Carbon Trust is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions now and develop.
Nick Bartlett
Director of Blue Sky Bio
Nick has spent 30 years in Business Development: Following his PhD in radiation Biochemistry in 1983 he moved to Marketing of Plastics working for Courtaulds BCL Films Division in Somerset. Thereafter he moved to GE Plastics European HQ in the Netherlands to develop the European packaging market using GE materials solutions. Notable developments in this period were the development of a reusable beer bottle for Heineken and a multilayer ketchup bottle for H.J.Heinz and a JV with PLM. In 1991 Nick left GE and started his own company, working as a commercial agent and consultant for leading Plastics company Constar (US) and later Resilux (B) developing business in the newly opened Central and Eastern Europe area. During the 90s the business developed to a £30 million turn over, which served as the base for internal investments in local operations with the opening of factories in Hungary, Poland and Russia. During this time Nick travelled the length of the former East Block and did business in 28 countries. In 2004 Nick was requested to take on the role of Product Management and New Business development at Resilux which resulted in the creation of a successful launch of a family of patented high value barrier plastic products which are still running today, adding significantly added value to the company. In 2008 Nick joined a small group of entrepreneurs and started development of a new process for producing thin wall injection moulded PET containers and a new process for aseptic packaging and processing foods using ohmic heating. A joint development program with a major multi-national was suspended due to a company take over which effectively suspended the program for the time being. In 2010 Nick switched to developing the application of electric fields for reducing fouling in sewage treatment facilities. During this period of 2010-2012 he learned the process of Anaerobic Digestion used by the sewage companies and realised the opportunity for redeveloping this poor performance and inefficient technology.
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About Blue Sky Bio: Blue Sky Bio is UK government backed clean-tech R&D firm.
David Foster
Commercial Director of Blue Sky Bio
David manages the procurement of feedstock supply contracts for Blue Sky Bio. Through collaborating with an American company producing specific bacterial compost accelerators and inoculants, David developed an in-depth knowledge of aerobic degradation techniques, which has led to him developing a valuable network of contacts throughout this very competitive business. David now coordinates the development of the organic waste supply contracts for the Hygen Bioenergy Reactor generation process. These contracts cover industry and municipal sources, as well as the organic by-product producing commodities industry. David’s role is to not only ensure that he is able to source adequate quantities of material in a cost effective manner, but also that these inputs possess the right nutrient values to maximise energy outputs.
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About Blue Sky Bio: Blue Sky Bio is UK government backed clean-tech R&D firm.
