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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Manager operating in the Clean Energy space. If you think a Manager 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.
Matt Leipnik
Lead Specialist Cyber Security Sales Manager of Baker Hughes
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About Baker Hughes: Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide.
Richard Sephton
Business Development Manager (UK) of tado°
Richard joined tado in early 2017 and now leads the UK growth of it intelligent heating control products by partnering with utility, tech and telco partners. Super passionate about the connected home and in-particular the impact tado has on consumer savings and energy conversation, Richard is focussed on strategic partnerships in the UK to ensure households are educated and adopt its smart technology .
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About tado°: Tado° offers smart thermostats and apps that adjusts to the real-time behavior of residents in private homes and small businesses.
Daniel Crispin
Key Account Manager of tado°
Dan is the UK&I Key Account Manager for tado°, Europe’s most efficient and compatible smart thermostat. Dan’s focus is on developing successful customer propositions with utility and home services partners, whilst establishing solutions where these partners can also achieve significant value from the data that tado° can provide. tado° is multi-award winning, including receiving many UK Best Smart Thermostat awards for 2019. Their aim is to offer customers not only best-in-class features and benefits, but also to provide unique insights into their boiler health and deliver remote boiler monitoring services, so that a tado° home can be quickly notified and assisted if their heating system ever fails. In addition to energy efficiency benefits, tado° provides users with key insights on the air quality in their home, combining this data with external pollution and pollen data to make specific and data-backed recommendations on the best times and lengths to open your windows for, to maintain optimum air quality in the home. Dan has worked for almost 10 years in the energy, cleantech and smart home sectors in both the UK and Australia. His experience spans a range of company size, from a multi-billion dollar energy company through to a two-person start-up.
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About tado°: Tado° offers smart thermostats and apps that adjusts to the real-time behavior of residents in private homes and small businesses.
Chris Robinson
Product Manager of WATR
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About WATR: WATR develops a water monitor that is self-powered, portable, easy to install, with a live data dashboard and notification alerts.
Charlie Blair
Marine Technology Accelerator Manager of Carbon Trust
Charlie leads the Carbon Trust’s work on Marine Energy, bringing the technology to market quicker and at lower cost. He is responsible for delivery of the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund for the Scottish Government, an £18 million fund that will support the first arrays of marine energy devices in Scottish Waters. Charlie is also working on an industry consortium supported by the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult in Glasgow to develop enabling innovations for early wave and tidal arrays. He was involved in the installation of 6 full-scale prototype devices at EMEC through the Carbon Trust’s Marine Renewables Proving Fund, and supports Carbon Trust work on the European SI Ocean initiative. Charlie is also involved in work on other technologies by the Carbon Trust Innovation team (particularly electricity storage, micro-generation and electric vehicles; and generic commercial support to low carbon innovators). Charlie has over ten years’ experience commercialising innovative emerging energy technologies. Before joining the Carbon Trust in 2010 he worked as a strategic energy consultant, both for his own company and for Delta Energy & Environment in Edinburgh. He has experience analysing markets and business plans for a number of emerging energy technologies other than marine, particularly distributed generation, electricity storage and solar PV. Charlie has a first class Geography Degree from Durham and an MSc in Environmental Technology (Energy Policy) from Imperial College London
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About Carbon Trust, Gravitricity: Carbon Trust is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions now and develop.