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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 Environmental Consulting 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.
Martin Bloom
Non Executive Director of Renesola Pty Ltd.
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About Renesola Pty Ltd.: ReneSola is a leading global manufacturer of solar wafers and PV modules
Andrew Diplock
Angel Investor & Non Executive Director of Marine Power Systems
Andrew Diplock is the Angel Investor and Non-Executive Director at Marine Power Systems.he also the Founder and Managing Director at Utility and Environmental Solutions.
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About Marine Power Systems, Utility and Environmental Solutions: Marine Power Systems Ltd (MPS) develops wave power technology.
Ben Wilde
Member of the Board of Directors of FirstCarbon Solutions
Ben Wilde is a Member of the Board of Directors at FirstCarbon Solutions.
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About : FirstCarbon Solutions is a consulting company that provides sustainable practices and business solutions to its clients.
Tony Meakin
M&A Director (secondment) of RSK Group
Prior to joining PHD Equity Partners, Oxford graduate Tony, was previously at Ernst & Young in both Liverpool and Manchester, working both in audit and as part of the forensic team. Tony has extensive financial modelling skills and contribution have been invaluable to a number of high profile transactions including the £112m sale of Multisol to Brenntag and working with the management team on the £78.3m MBO of Ideal World (funded by Inflexion Private Equity). Tony is a Director of PHD Equity Partners, and works with our investors and identifies investment opportunities in SMEs.
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About PHD Equity Partners, RSK Group: RSK Group is the UK’s largest privately-owned multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy and one of the fastest growing companies.
Kathryn Millett
Director of Biosecu.re
Kathryn Millett is the Director of Biosecure, a company dedicated to safeguarding the bioeconomy, and strengthening biosecurity through education, training and policy advocacy.
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About Biosecu.re: Biosecu.re helps ensure a resilient, safe, and secure environments, frameworks, and processes.
Mikhail Gryaznevich
Director of Tokamak Energy
Mikhail is a founder of Tokamak Energy, the Chief Scientist and a member of our executive board. He is a leading global authority on tokamaks and has performed experiments on 16 different tokamak during his distinguished career. After graduating with an Honours Diploma in Plasma Physics from the Leningrad University in his homeland, Mikhail earned a PhD in Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion from the USSR Academy of Science. In 1990, he joined the Culham Laboratory in Abingdon and has been responsible for leading experimental programmes, preparing and performing experiments, designing, constructing and operating tokamak systems and diagnostics, as well as supervising students and scientific and engineering personnel. Mikhail is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College in London and an editorial board member for the Plasma Science & Technology Journal and the Open Plasma Physics Journal. He regularly lectures about the physics behind spherical tokamaks at universities and plasma physics schools across the world.
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About Tokamak Energy: Tokamak Energy is a private company developing and accelerating the development of fusion power.
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.
Michael Day
Managing Director of ServiceTracker
Having spent most of his career at the IT end of UK compliance, Mike is a highly experienced Service Management Software developer, business analyst, integrator and consultant. Mike is a certified, Sage and Salesforce.com (SFDC) Consultant, developer and Administrator with over 18 years of experience in the field of IT and Service Management systems. Mike specialises in high skilled blue collar service management applications and field service technologies.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Nigel Sargent
Managing Director of ServiceTracker
With over 20 years experience as an IT Director and business leader, Nigel’s passion is to help high-skilled blue collar service organisations transform their business. He specialises in IT & Business Transformation initiatives, Strategic Planning, Programme & Project Management assignments, Business Process Optimisation and maximising Business & Customer Engagement.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Peter Fraenkel
Director & Co-Founder of Gravitricity
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About Gravitricity: Gravitricity develops a novel storage technology which offers some of the best characteristics of lithium batteries and pumped storage.
Derek Stewart
Director of Advanced Plant Growth Centre
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About Advanced Plant Growth Centre: APGC develops science that underpins commercial, economic, and environmental benefits in the agriculture, food, and beverage sectors.
Graeme Mackie
Managing Director of Oceanflow
Graeme Mackie, the founder of Oceanflow Energy Ltd, is an MSc qualified chartered engineer with 35 years experience of leading marine projects in the defence, oil & gas and renewables energy industries. For the first 20 years of his career he worked in the naval defence sector with defence consultancy YARD Ltd and later with Swan Hunter Shipbuilders where his broad ranging understanding of marine sciences led to senior positions in the development of new technologies and integrated design solutions. From 1995 as Technical Director of marine consultancy Armstrong Technology he led a multi-discipline team of engineers responsible for the platform design of the first North Sea UK zone Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units. In 2002 he founded Overberg Ltd (now renamed Oceanflow Energy Ltd) and provided engineering design leadership and research management to a number of leading marine renewable companies before focusing on the in-house development of Evopod™ tidal turbine technology.
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About Oceanflow: Oceanflow is a technology development company with specific focus on the design and demonstration of floating solutions.
Ami Davies
Managing Director of Brand Ami
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About Brand Ami: A dynamic and forward thinking business, using breakthrough technology to develop a portfolio of location based Bluetooth solutions.
Mike Moffatt
Senior Director of Smart Prosperity Institute
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About Ivey Business School, Smart Prosperity Institute: Smart Prosperity Institute is a nonprofit organization that offers advance practical policies and environmental market solutions.
Robert Durrant
Inventor and Director of Scour Prevention
Robert Durrant is Founder at Scour Prevention.
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About Scour Prevention: Scour Prevention develops solutions to protect marine structures from scour, which occur around piles, foundations and subsea cables.
Phil Ely
Managing Director of EHS Data
Phil is the Managing Director of EHS Data, and started with MonitorPro in 1996. Coming from an Environmental Engineering background, with a passion for technology, Phil brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and a commitment to protecting the environment to the company.
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About EHS Data: EHS Data providing environmental data management solutions to a variety of organisations in over 40 countries worldwide.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
Charles Ewen
Director of Information Technology & CIO of Met Office
Charles Ewen responsible for the development and implementation of our ICT Strategy and for the internal technical teams within the Technology Information Services Directorate – and work closely with our Science teams to operate our High Performance Computing capability. The Met Office relies heavily upon cutting-edge IT to improve the quality of forecast services and increasingly to make those services accessible and effective for customers and the Public. I have worked for the Met Office in a number of senior technology roles since 2008 and, prior to that, worked in the Business-to-Business online retail and distribution industry. During this time I used relevant technologies to transform businesses from traditional retail approaches to being internet and technology capable. As well as a number of consulting appointments, I worked within the Premier Farnell group of companies for over 10 years. I have run my own small technology company and started my career as an Electronics Engineer in the defence industry.
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About Met Office: A world-leading weather and climate service.
Charles Ewen
Director of Information Technology & CIO of Met Office
Charles Ewen responsible for the development and implementation of our ICT Strategy and for the internal technical teams within the Technology Information Services Directorate – and work closely with our Science teams to operate our High Performance Computing capability. The Met Office relies heavily upon cutting-edge IT to improve the quality of forecast services and increasingly to make those services accessible and effective for customers and the Public. I have worked for the Met Office in a number of senior technology roles since 2008 and, prior to that, worked in the Business-to-Business online retail and distribution industry. During this time I used relevant technologies to transform businesses from traditional retail approaches to being internet and technology capable. As well as a number of consulting appointments, I worked within the Premier Farnell group of companies for over 10 years. I have run my own small technology company and started my career as an Electronics Engineer in the defence industry.
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About Met Office: A world-leading weather and climate service.
James Dean Miet
Director & Founder of Circuitree Energy Independence
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About Circuitree Energy Independence: Circuitree systems capture and store energy from new or existing P.V installations.
James Dean Miet
Director & Founder of Circuitree Energy Independence
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About Circuitree Energy Independence: Circuitree systems capture and store energy from new or existing P.V installations.
Michael Dunn
Finance Director of Adler & Allan Group
I am a professional financial director with a proven record of working with business owners and managers to unlock potential value and achieve successful exits. I create value by driving improvements in direction, decisions, systems, teams, margins, profits and cash. Private equity situations, turnover £20-£100m, are my speciality. Key abilities include strategic planning; commercial decision-making; delivery of critical performance indicators and margin information; ensuring that all members of the team pull in the right direction. I have the necessary technical skills in analysis, forecasting, accounting, treasury, IT, HR, cost control, working capital management and M&A.
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About Adler & Allan Group: Adler and Allan is a provider of oil and environmental services that offers both operational capability and consultancy expertise.
Peter Lohan
Commercial Director of Acumen Waste Services
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About Acumen Waste Services: Acumen Waste Services is a multi-disciplined garbage management firm that handles all elements of waste disposal.
