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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 Renewable Energy 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.
Hayden Wood
Co-founder / CEO of Bulb
Hayden co-founded Bulb with Amit Gudka in 2015 with a mission to reduce people’s bills and cut carbon emissions. Today Bulb has over 1 million members, supplies 100% green electricity and 100% carbon neutral gas and was recently named the fastest growing private company in the country.
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About Bulb: Bulb provides affordable renewable energy for homes and businesses.
Joanna Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Electron
Jo-Jo Hubbard is the co-founder and COO of Electron, one of the original energy tech firms to harness blockchain technology for transactive grid systems. She is a thought leader on the topic of digital energy and a frequent keynote speaker at energy and technology events. Her previous experience includes renewable energy investment banking, cleantech VC, and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co. Jo-Jo sits on advisory boards for several UK utilities on digital transformation and community trading models and writes for international publications on these topics.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
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.
Nick Boyle
Founder and CEO of Lightsource Renewable Energy
In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsource announced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.
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About Lightsource Renewable Energy: Lightsource is a provider of ground and rooftop solar installations in the UK.
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.
Andrew Bissell
Founder and CEO of Sunamp
Andrew Bissell serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sunamp Limited. Andrew Bissell is a Founder of Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe, Ltd. He is a successful technology entrepreneur, previously the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Voxar Limited which he grew to a business having the #1 global market share for 3D medical visualisation integrated into PACS. He founded Sunamp in 2005 and is responsible for the strategic direction of the business in terms of both technology and markets addressed. He also acts as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Architect, defining, maintaining and directing execution of the technology and product roadmaps for the business. Andrew Bissell is a graduate in Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh.
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About Sunamp: Sunamp is a company that provides industrial and residential heat battery storage systems.
Riccardo Segat
Founder & CEO of Amplio Group
During his career, Riccardo has worked on a number of private equity deals across Europe, which required international complex financial structuring. He was partner of AMP Private Capital a large international insurance company managing USD 2 billion of private capital in Europe, Asia and Australia. Prior to this, Riccardo was a Principal at Compass Partners, a USD 1 billion LBO fund focused on acquisition of non-core assets from large international corporations. Riccardo started his career in the Investment Banking group of Merrill Lynch in London and the Equity Capital Group at GE Capital.
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About Amplio Group, Envirogen Group, ReGen Future Planet: Amplio Group invests in renewable energy, alternative fuels, filtrations, recycling, environmental services and specialty care enterprises.
Nigel Pocklington
Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy
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About Good Energy: Good Energy is a British renewable electricity company with a difference.
Laurence Kemball-Cook
CEO and Founder of Pavegen
Laurence is CEO and Founder of Pavegen Systems – a clean-technology company that generate electricity from footsteps. Winner of over 20 awards, including International Businessman of the Year at the PEA Awards 2013, Laurence is a renowned thought leader and worldwide speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation. He is acclaimed by The Guardian for “shifting perceptions of renewable energy.” Having spoken at more TED talks than any other technology company, Laurence’s TEDxBerlin presentation was featured among TED’s top talks on envisioning cities of the future and changing attitudes to fossil fuels. Clients include Google, Cisco, Nike, Adidas and the Federal US government and technology has been adopted in over 200 sites around the globe.
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About Pavegen: Pavegen is the global leader in harvesting energy and data from footfall.
Axel Thiemann
Chief Executive Officer of Sonnedix
Axel Thiemann became CEO of Sonnedix in September 2018 after serving as a member of the senior leadership team and Board of Directors. Since joining Sonnedix in 2011, Axel has played a fundamental role in its evolution, initially based in London, as COO with responsibility for Asset Management, Finance, HR and E&C, and more recently based in Miami, overseeing M&A, integration and strategy during a four year period when the company experienced five-fold growth. Prior to joining Sonnedix, Axel spent seven years in banking and held various senior roles with Barclays Bank in London. Before this he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company in Cologne, Germany. Axel graduated as an Electrical Engineer from Hannover University in Germany and holds an MBA from IESE Business School, Spain. To Axel, the most special thing about Sonnedix is its team of bright and passionate people across four continents that have come together to create a sustainable future for the world.
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About Sonnedix: Sonnedix Solar is a global power producer dedicated to produce low-carbon solar energy for the future.
Pradeep Pursnani
Chief Executive Officer of Konexa
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About Industry Capital, Konexa: Konexa is an energy company that engages in the development and long-term management of integrated utility projects and renewable assets.
Marc Borrett
Co-Founder & CEO of Reactive Technologies
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About Reactive Technologies: Reactive Technologies develops new technologies that assists the energy industry to deliver cleaner, greener, and more affordable energy.
Sandra Sassow
Founder & CEO of SEaB Energy
Sandra Sassow is Founder & CEO at SEaB Energy.
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About SEaB Energy, SEAB Energy Inc, Unreasonable: SEaB Energy has patented a micro anaerobic digestion system for onsite and in-building conversion of organics to energy, water, & fertiliser
David Shaffer
Director, President & Chief Executive Officer of EnerSys
Shaffer was appointed Director, President and Chief Executive Officer effective April 2016. He served as our President and Chief Operating Officer from November 2014 through March 2016, and our President – Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) from January 2013 through October 2014. From 2008 to 2013, Shaffer was President – Asia. Prior thereto he was responsible for EnerSys’ telecommunication sales in the Americas. Shaffer has worked in various roles of increased responsibility in the industry since 1989. Shaffer received his Masters of Business Administration degree from Marquette University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
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About EnerSys: EnerSys is the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. We complement our extensive line of motive power,
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.
Miloš Milisavljević
CEO of Strawberry energy
Miloš Milisavljević is a Founder & CEO at Strawberry energy.
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About Serbian Association of Managers, Strawberry energy: Strawberry energy develops smart green urban devices in order to improve our everyday lives in cities.
Oluyemi Jegede
CEO and Co-Founder of Big Pot
Oluyemi is a whole energy systems specialist. His interests cut across the multiple energy vectors and the interactions between energy supply, demand and the wider economy. More importantly, he is an ardent believer in the promise of a thriving Nigeria and his passion has seen him birth the Bigpot initiative.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Kostas Karachalios
Co-Founder and CEO of Perceptual Robotics
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Yohei Kiguchi
Co-Founder & CEO of Enechange
Graduated from the University of Tokyo and Oxford graduate school. Joined Milog in 2009. He participated as a co-founder. Joined Cambridge Energy Data Lab in 2013. Jointly joined as a co-founder and data scientist. Joined ENECHANGE in 2015. He participated as a co-founder. Joined SMAP Energy in 2016. He participated as a co-founder. Was elected in 2017 Forbes Europe as 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 (“FORBES 30 UNDER 30 EUROPE”).
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About Cambridge Energy Data Lab, Enechange, SMAP Energy: ENECHANGE is the technology-focused multi-national energy ventures.
Mark Simmers
CEO of Celtic Renewables
Mark is an entrepreneur and commercialisation specialist with over 20 years of international experience in sales, marketing and business development. In 2011 Mark graduated from the highly prestigious Saltire Foundation Global Entrepreneurial Fellowship Programme, which included a fast-track MBA programme at Babson College, Boston USA. Mark helped to co-found Celtic Renewables in late 2011, and has been the company’s CEO since its inception leading the rapid growth of the company, which has seen its technology proven at pilot commercial scale leading to establishing it at industrial scale by 2017. Mark has won numerous investment pitching and business presentation awards on behalf of Celtic Renewables, and has built a strong and dynamic team at the company. Mark graduated from Bristol University in Economics and Accounting and started out his career with the International Management Group in London working with a team commercialising and managing the global golf assets of IMG. Mark founded and managed his own events and promotions company in Scotland from 2001-07. Mark is married with three children, and is a keen sportsman in his spare time.
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About Celtic Renewables: Celtic Renewables is a biofuel startup focused on the renewable energy and whisky sector.
Matthew Timms
Chief Digital and Technology Officer & CEO of E.ON
Matthew Timms is the chief digital and technology officer at E.ON.
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About E.ON: E.ON is an international, privately owned energy supplier.
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.
Ron Kastner
Founder / CEO of Future Spectrum
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About Future Spectrum: Future Spectrum is an independent wind energy developer involved in creating environmentally-sensitive wind farms.
Jean de La Verpilliere
CEO and Co-founder of Echion Technologies
CEO @Echion Technologies.
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About Echion Technologies: Echion Technologies develops superfast-charging Li-ion batteries
Jonathan Carling
CEO of Tokamak Energy
Jonathan Carling is CEO, Tokamak Energy Ltd.
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About Tokamak Energy: Tokamak Energy is a private company developing and accelerating the development of fusion power.
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.
Steve Packard
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Trident Energy
Steve Packard is the Chief Executive Officer of Trident Energy. Prior to his appointment with Trident, Mr Packard was the founder and CEO of whereonearth Ltd. whereonearth was a software vendor, providing “location enabling” technology for Internet search services. As CEO, Mr Packard raised £8m in venture capital funding and assembled a strong management to grow the business. Mr Packard was awarded “Innovator of the Year” in 2001 at the CSSA’s Annual Gala Dinner and the company secured a top ten place in the Sunday Times “Tech Track 100” in 2002. He exited the company via a successful trade sale exit to Yahoo! Inc in 2005. Prior to wheronearth, Mr Packard was part of a three man start-up team of a company named San Serif. San Serif secured the exclusive rights to produce Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary Board Games worldwide and Mr Packard was Group Production Director. Mr Packard was part of the team which successfully completed the IPO of Serif PLC in 1987.
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About Trident Energy: Trident Energy is an independent developer of enabling technology for the offshore renewables industry.
Santiago Seage
Chief Executive Officer of Atlantica Yield
Santiago Seage was named Chief Executive Officer of Atlantica Yield when the Company was created in December 2013. Between May and November 2015, he resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Atlantica Yield to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Abengoa S.A. and during this period he remained involved in Atlantica Yield as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2006 he was named Abengoa Solar’s CEO. Before joining Abengoa, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company. Santiago Seage holds a degree in Business Management from ICADE University in Madrid.
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About Atlantica Yield: Atlantica is a total return sustainable infrastructure company.
Pawel Kisielewski
Chief Executive Officer of CCm Technologies
Pawel Kisielewski is the chief executive officer of CCm Technologies.
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About CCm Technologies: CCm Technologies is an environmental technology company that focuses on resource optimisation.
Joseph Daniels
CEO and Founder of Project Etopia
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About Project Etopia: Project Etopia is a creating more economical and environmental developments through technological advancements.
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.
Derya Baran
CEO of Iyris
Derya is an assistant professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. The technology which powers Iyris was born from her research group. Derya has a scientific background in efficient organic photovoltaics where she is renowned amongst the research community.
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About Iyris: Iyris is creating the glass technology.
Alistair Phillips
CEO of SSE
Alistair has been with SSE since 1997, and possesses a detailed knowledge of the operations of each business area having held a number of senior roles throughout the Company. Prior to joining the Board in 2002 as Energy Supply Director, Alistair was Director of Corporate Finance and Business Development. In 2010, he became Generation and Supply Director, before Deputy Chief Executive in 2012, then Chief Executive in 2013. Alistair’s career progression has supported the development of sound leadership skills and a detailed understanding of the energy markets in Great Britain and Ireland, including the implications of EU membership and the increasingly global context in which they operate. Through his role, Alistair has initiated significant focus on people development and efficient operations in order to develop SSE’s capabilities for future growth. Alistair is a Chartered Accountant and prior to 1997 worked for HSBC and National Westminster Bank.
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About SSE: SSE, provider of energy and related services in a low-carbon world.
Tom Mason
Co-Founder and CEO of Bramble Energy
Tom has led the engineering and manufacturing development of the PCBFC since 2013. He was involved in the development of the PCBFC whilst working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL. With initial proof of concept shown, Tom was appointed as the technical lead of an InnovateUK funded manufacturing project (101979). As a co-founder of Bramble Energy Tom joined the company as a director and Chief Technology Officer when the company spun-out of the universities in late 2016 before moving to the role of CEO in September 2017. With close to 10 years of electrochemistry experience, Tom is the foremost authority on all things PCBFC. Tom’s appointment to the role of CEO brings a fresh approach to leading the Bramble Energy team.
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About Bramble Energy: Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack
Dominik Peus
Founder & CEO of Antaco
Dominik Peus is a Founder & CEO at Antaco.
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About Antaco: Antaco’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to a circular economy.
Alfie Cheyne
CEO & Founder of ACE Winches
Alfie is CEO and founder of ACE Winches. Graduating with a Marine Engineering Apprenticeship, Alfie worked as a Downhole Valve Specialist in the oil industry. In tandem he opened a marine and hydraulic engineering workshop manufacturing deck equipment, to service the fishing industry. As the fishing business took a down turn, Alfie looked to new markets, primarily offshore oil and gas for ACE winches and deck machinery. ACE Winches is the trading name of Alfred Cheyne Engineering Limited and over the last fifteen years Alfie has seized opportunities to establish engineering, hire equipment, hire personnel, service and winch academy divisions. Alfie was named Scottish CEO of the Year 2013 at the Scottish Business Awards and the 2012 Institute of Directors’ Global Director of the Year. A series of prestigious awards for ACE Winches has been attained over the years including two prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in International Trade.
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About ACE Winches: A global leader in the design, manufacture and hire of winches.
Arthur Hanna
Senior Advisor & CEO of World Energy Council
Board member Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies. Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at Loughborough University. Fellow, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines. Responsible for supporting a number of agendas focusing on the development of strategies to promote energy transition across multiple energy sources. Arthur retired from Accenture in 2016 after 26 years working in the Energy consulting sector. He was a Senior Managing Director, leading the Global Energy Strategy business. Prior to joining Accenture in 1990 he spent 10 years with BP in a variety of international roles spanning the Middle East and Europe.
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About World Energy Council: World Energy Council is a UN-accredited global energy body dedicated to delivering a sustainable energy system worldwide.
Simon Bransfield-Garth
Chief Executive Officer of Azuri Technologies
Simon has 30 years global experience building rapid growth, technology-based businesses in sectors including Semiconductor, Automotive and Mobile Phones. He currently sits on the Governing Council of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), and his career includes 7 years at Symbian, the phone OS maker, where he was a member of the Leadership Team and VP Global Marketing. Named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2012, Simon is also founder of Myriad Solutions Ltd, and was previously a Fellow at Cambridge University. He holds a BA and Ph.D in Engineering from St John’s College, Cambridge UK.
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About Azuri Technologies: Azuri brings affordable solar power to off-grid rural africans.
Brian Menell
Chief Executive Officer of TechMet Limited
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About TechMet Limited: TechMet – Securing the critical metals for the global technology revolution
Thomas Anderson
Co-Founder & CEO of Grid Edge
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About Grid Edge: The way we use energy is changing
Mark Buchanan
Founder & CEO of ELe-Extreme Low Energy
With over 20 years of experience in technology professional services, Mark founded ELe® in 2014 with an ambition to eliminate energy wasted through the AC/DC conversion process. Having developed a unique approach to distributing power and data through Ethernet cabling, Mark now works with our in house team and specialist manufacturing partners to further develop our disruptive technology portfolio and design customer focused solutions. Mark says “being so passionate about what we do means I get to play all day developing technologies for a cause I truly believe in, I’m incredibly lucky”
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About ELe-Extreme Low Energy: Extreme Low Energy ELe® is a specialist manufacturer of patent-pending power infrastructures.
Brian Murphy
Chief Executive Officer of Balcas
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About Balcas: Balcas is a timber products supplier, and has pioneered biomass renewable energy in the British Isles.
Amrit Chandan
CEO of Aceleron
Amrit Chandan joined ACELERON as CEO in 2016.
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About Aceleron, Unreasonable: Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner.
Colin Mallett
Founder and CEO of Trusted Renawables
Colin Mallett founded Trusted Renewables in 2008. The company has granted patents which exploit secure, trusted IoT technology and distributed ledger/blockchain architectures for Smart Energy. Previously Colin worked on converged e-commerce services along with fiber optic and mobile systems at BT Labs at Martlesham near Ipswich in the UK. He also had a spell at Bell Labs in the USA. Colin has an MSc in telecommunications, is a Chartered Engineer and Director of the non-profit UK Smart Homes and Buildings Association.
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About Trusted Renawables: Trusted Renawables is an ICT/electronics and renewable energy industry.
Christine Boyle
CEO of Senergy Innovations
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About Senergy Innovations: Senergy Innovations is a smart solar thermal panels designer and manufacturer.
Nick Kitchin
Chief Executive Officer of Cumulus Energy Storage
Nick has 30 years’ experience as a general manager, chartered engineer, MBA and strategy consultant. His operations and management experience includes chemicals and plastics manufacturing with Shell Chemicals, Amalgamated Plastics and as General Manager (300 employees) at polyurethane foam manufacturer Carpenter. Nick’s consulting background includes strategy consulting to over 250 SME’s in the UK across a wide range of industries and growth companies.
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About Cumulus Energy Storage: Developing super-storage grid-level batteries.
Isabel Boira Segarra
CEO of Future Earth Energy
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About Future Earth Energy: A technology agnostic partner for local renewable energy projects .
Jeremy Long
Chief Executive Officer, European Business of MTR
Jeremy is Chief Executive Officer, European Business of MTR Corporation, the Hong-Kong headquartered international railway and property company, which is regarded as one of the foremost international railway developers and operators. In recent years, MTR has expanded internationally, with operations in Europe, mainland China, and Australia. In Europe, MTR are co-owners of the successful London Overground concession operated for TfL, and are the operator of the large Stockholm Metro system in Sweden. Jeremy was formerly Managing Director of FirstGroup Rail Division, and was founder and Chief Executive of GB Railways Group plc, an award-winning passenger franchise, open access, and rail-freight operator.
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About MTR: MTR is a manufacturer in the Smart Grid metering industry.
Henrik Thorsen
Co-Founder & CEO of Energy Cool
Henrik Thorsen is Co-Founder & CEO at Energy Cool
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About Energy Cool: The Company with the Green Vision.
Peter Head
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Ecological Sequestration Trust
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About The Ecological Sequestration Trust: The Ecological Sequestration Trust establish low carbon development pathways to improved water, energy and food security.
Art Russell
Chief Executive Officer of VivoPower
Art is an experienced CFO with over 25 years of global experience in financial management, business performance improvement and turnaround across a diverse range of industry sectors. He has worked extensively in the private equity investment space, on both sides of the investment transaction. Art was previously CFO of APC Technology Group PLC, a business listed on AIM of the London Stock Exchange, successfully turning around the business following significant loss, near business collapse, and management change. APC provides design, specification, and distribution of specialist electronic components and systems, lighting technologies and connectivity products to the defense, aerospace, industrial, real estate, logistics and healthcare sectors. Prior to joining APC, Art was CFO of a UK based KKR private equity investment in the aviation sector, responsible for financial management of a £250m turnover international business through to successful exit to a FTSE 100 PLC. Previous experience includes ten years as Senior Vice President & CFO of a SME private equity investment firm in North America, responsible for all M&A activity, financing, and portfolio management. Prior to this, Art led finance for a private equity backed international marine and fuel distribution company, joining that business after eight years in audit, tax, and financial advisory services at Deloitte. Art holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta. He is qualified as a Chartered Accountant in both the United Kingdom and Canada.
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About VivoPower: VivoPower provides renewable energy to customers from solar power assets that it builds, finances and operates.
