Best Startup
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 Founder operating in the Renewable Energy space. If you think a Founder 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.
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.
Paul Ellis
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Electron
Paul Ellis is co-founder and CEO at Electron, a new platform focusing on reinventing the retail energy market in the UK using the Ethereum blockchain. Prior to Electron, Paul spent 13 years in Investment Banking. He founded a development business and fin tech incubator. He then created and ran an electronic trading platform for credit derivatives for a number of years.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Jeremy Leggett
Founder of Solarcentury
Jeremy Leggett is the founder of 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.
Arthur Kay
Founder of bio-bean
Arthur Kay is an award-winning designer and entrepreneur, the Co-Founder and CEO of bio-bean, an award-winning green energy company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels. Arthur came up with the idea for bio-bean whilst studying architecture at The Bartlett, UCL, and in two years has raised several million in financing, built the world’s first coffee waste recycling factory and a team of twenty. He currently holds positions on a number of boards associated with social enterprise and green entrepreneurship and is a Fellow of WIRED, the RSA and IoD. In 2013, Shell named him ‘the UK’s most Innovative Entrepreneur,’ he was appointed as a ‘London Leader’ by Mayor Boris Johnson, in 2014 he became one of NESTA’s ‘New Radicals’ and was named ’25 under 25 most influential Londoners’ by the Evening Standard. He was named the youngest ever Guardian Sustainable Business Leader of the Year in 2015.
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About bio-bean, Skyroom, UCL, United Nations Global Compact: bio-bean is a U.K.-based green company that offers its users with processes of recycling and waste management solutions.
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.
Clare Grey
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Nyobolt
Clare Grey is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Nyobolt.
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About Nyobolt: Nyobolt is a developer of high-power battery technology used to serve automotive applications.
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.
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.
Alexei Levene
Co-Founder of Desolenator
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About Desolenator, Gooseberry: An evolution in water purification, powered by the photons of the sun.
Jacopo Visetti
Co-Founder of Efforce
Jacopo is a pioneer in energy efficiency markets. After years of experience as a quantitative analyst, he founded AitherCO2, a leading company in the energy efficiency market. He is a visiting professor in several universities worldwide, regularly participates as a speaker at energy-saving events and has consulted on environmental market mechanisms to Fortune 500 Companies and to the California State Senate. Jacopo graduated in Finance from the Cattolica University of Milan and in Macroeconomics from Harvard University. He is Project Lead and Co-founder with Steve Wozniak of Efforce, the first blockchain-based energy-saving platform.
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About Efforce: Efforce is to be recognized as the first and main platform in the world for tokenized energy Savings.
Harish Bhaskaran
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Bodle Technologies
Harish is the academic founder of Bodle Technologies (with Peiman) and serves as its Director and Chief Scientific Officer, acting also as its founding executive until Jan 2016. He is an Associate Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group. A former researcher at IBM Research, Harish has worked in both industry and academia over the past 15 years, including in product development under joint development agreements. His research has most recently focused on novel applications of phase change materials and on the manufacturing of nanoscale components.
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About Bodle Technologies, University of Oxford: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
David Fyfe
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Bodle Technologies
David is a founder and Executive Chairman of Bodle Technologies. His career spans several top management positions in both Europe and the United States, and he has held board positions in several firms over the years. As Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Display Technologies (CDT), he took a laboratory-based spin-off to a NASDAQ flotation and a subsequent $285m trade sale. David is also the Executive Chairman of Oxford Photovoltaics. As a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, David also serves on the board of Cambridge in America foundation.
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About Bodle Technologies: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
Peiman Hosseini
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Bodle Technologies
Peiman is a founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bodle. As a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford, he demonstrated the use of ultrathin functional materials in electro-optical applications, setting up Bodle Technologies with Harish to commercialize this invention. He was a member of the RAEng Enterprise Hub in 2014 and has won numerous awards for this technology including the Printed Electronics R&D Academic Award. Pei leads the technology development and with the other management team members helps define business and development strategy.
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About Bodle Technologies, Bodle Technologies: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
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
Barry Johnston
Co-Founder of Orbital Marine Power
Following his first degree in Offshore Engineering at Heriot-Watt University Barry went on to undertake a PhD in marine renewables at Heriot-Watt University’s Orkney Campus. Barry founded Scotrenewables in 2002 with an Enterprise Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has now worked in renewable energy for over 13 years with a continued focus on the commercialisation of his tidal turbine design. In addition to being Chief Executive and Director, Barry is involved in all aspects of the engineering design with a particular focus on offshore testing operations. Barry has won a number of awards for his work in renewable energy over the years.
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About Orbital Marine Power, The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Scotrenewables Tidal Power is a renewable energy research and development company focused on tidal power.
Li Yao
Founder, MD & CTO of Q Energy
Highly skilled professional in technology industry. Focusing on innovation in Smart Cities, sensing technologies, data platforms and machine learning .
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About Q Energy: Q Energy provides new revenue streams and savings on energy bills by enabling proactive management of consumption, production.
Ian Scott
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Moltex Energy
Ian went to Cambridge University to study nuclear physics, but was seduced during his first year by the excitement of the biological sciences and made his career in that field. He became Chief Scientist for Unilever plc before leaving to start an entrepreneurial drug discovery company. In 2012 he became bemused by how nuclear energy had gone from being “too cheap to meter” to too expensive to afford and determined to try to remedy that flaw. The result was his invention of the Stable Salt Reactor and the creation of Moltex Energy.
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About Moltex Energy: Moltex Energy is developing a next generation nuclear reactor that can produce clean electricity
John Durham
Co-Founder and Chairman of Moltex Energy
An active philanthropic environmentalist, John has been focused on innovative ways of influencing UK policy to tackle climate change since his retirement from the software industry in 2005. He co-founded the Weinberg Foundation with Bryony Worthington and through the Foundation met Ian Scott. He saw the enormous potential of the Stable Salt Reactor and formed a partnership with Ian, Moltex Energy LLP, to help bring this potentially world saving technology off paper and into reality.
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About Moltex Energy: Moltex Energy is developing a next generation nuclear reactor that can produce clean electricity
Alistair Potts
Co-Founder & CTO of Open Energy Group
Alistair brings a range of technical skills and entrepreneurial experience to the Open Energy team. Alistair began his career at the e-commerce pioneer Screen Pages in London, developing their innovative retail core and implementing a wide range of cutting edge business-oriented processes aimed at both the B2B and B2C sectors. He has subsequently founded and run a number of successful e-businesses in the UK. Alistair coxed for Great Britain and Cambridge University, where he received a doctorate in architecture.
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About Open Energy Group: Open Energy provides between $0.5m and $10m in non-recourse debt financing for solar projects.
Kayleigh Bottomley
VP And Founder of Storm4
Kayleigh Bottomley is the Founder and VP at Storm4.
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About Storm4: Storm4 is a specialist GreenTech recruitment marketplace, connecting organizations with the senior talent to drive their mission.
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.
Temi Jegede
Co-Founder of Big Pot
Temi has extensive software development experience (JAVA, XML, C++/ C, Python, Swift, PHP, Solidity (Blockchain development) stemming from a host of industry and University-based projects that have seen him contribute to the initiative’s growth in terms of power systems and software development.
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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
Dimitris Nikolaidis
Co-Founder and COO of Perceptual Robotics
Dimitris Nikolaidis is the COO and co-founder at 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
Kevin Lind
Co-Founder and CTO 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.
Martin Tangney
Founder and President of Celtic Renewables
Internationally recognised expert in microbial biofuel production, particularly biobutanol. Professor Tangney is Director of the Biofuel Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier University, which conducted the innovative research to develop the fermentation technology being commercialised by Celtic Renewables. Martin advises the Scottish Government on biofuels, and represents the government on its MOU with India on Renewable Energy. Martin is a prominent international speaker in the biofuel area and regularly features in the media, and his international profile, domain expertise and connections will be hugely beneficial to Celtic Renewables Ltd.
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About Celtic Renewables: Celtic Renewables is a biofuel startup focused on the renewable energy and whisky sector.
Nick Grogan
Founder of Energy Solutions
Experienced UK energy broker, Nick Grogan has been helping industrial and commercial energy users find the best price and value on their electricity, gas and water contracts for 18 years. He has also advised energy suppliers, investment banks, hedge funds, traders and leading international property companies on the energy markets.
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About Energy Solutions: Leading UK Energy Procurement Specialists
Laurent Van Houcke
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of BBOXX
Laurent is a graduate from Imperial College London where he obtained a first class honours (M.Eng) degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was part of a team of students that founded “e.quinox” in 2008 and co-founded BBOXX in 2010.Laurent is responsible for macromanaging BBOXX’s operations globally from shipping to the point of sales going through marketing and long term business development in our different markets. Laurent has professional experience in the Energy Distribution Sector with EDF Energy in London and the Energy Consultancy Sector with Norman Disney & young. Laurent travels across our different markets to support BBOXX’s local partners from a technical, market and business development points of view.
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About BBOXX: BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems.
Christopher Baker-Brian
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Technology Innovation Officer of BBOXX
Christopher is a graduate of Imperial College London, where he obtained a first class honours (M.Eng) degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was part of a team of students that founded “e.quinox” in 2008 and co-founded BBOXX in 2010. Christopher is responsible for product development, supply chain and BBOXX’s manufacturing partnerships. In addition, Christopher has extensive technical experience in the petro-chemicals (Shell) and aerospace (Rolls-Royce) industries. He is a full member of the IEEE and IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) and currently serves as a general member of the 2011-2014 IEEE Ad-Hoc Committee on Humanitarian Activities.
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About BBOXX: BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems.
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
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.
Ken Ritson
Group Managing Director and Co-Founder of EDS HV Group
Ken Ritson is Group Managing Director. Ken is responsible for installation contracts and services/project management within EDS. Ken started his career with a UK Electricity Company and progressed to a Training & Development Engineer. In 1993 he joined a UK contracting firm as Contracts Manager, and formed EDS in 1994. As a founder member of EDS Ken has a vast experience from installation, training and development through management of multi-million pound companies. Ken’s practical, commercial, business and industry knowledge has left him well placed to deliver solutions to clients in the most challenging situations.
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About EDS HV Group: EDS HV Group engages in the design and installation of wind farm construction projects.
Alessia Affinita
Founder & Creative Director of Idea 188
Alessia has been passionately working in the advertising ir1JUSUV since 1996. Born copywriter and grown up as art director. she worked in well-known creative agencies in Italy and the UK for over 10 years. before becoming a professional freelancer. She won the Design S Art Directors Advertising Workshop in 2004. Alessia founded Ideai88 in 2008 and is enthusiastically leading the team. ty •
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About Idea 188, it’s campus: Idea 188 is driven by experienced creative freelancers. carefully selected across the world.
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.
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.
Nigel Preston
Co-Founder & Vice President Product Management of Azuri Technologies
Nigel has 30 years’ global experience of embedded electronic systems development and manufacture. Previous positions include a variety of senior roles with Motorola’s Automotive business unit including European Design Centre Director, and more recently he was COO International Operations for Pi Shurlok. Nigel is a Chartered Engineer and holds a B.Eng. and PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Liverpool.
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About Azuri Technologies: Azuri brings affordable solar power to off-grid rural africans.
George Fowkes
Co-Founder and Director of BasePower
George Fowkes is co-founder and director of BasePower, an award-winning Combined Heat and Power (CHP) developer to industrial sectors such as automotive and plastics, food manufacturing and pharmaceutical. Tailoring world-class technology and service to the specific needs of each customer, its projects create significant cost savings and carbon reductions for high-energy users at no capital expenditure or operational risk. George’s career has spanned the development of clean power, water and waste technologies in the UK and Europe. Prior to founding Basepower he was Head of Business Development at biogas developer, Tamar Energy, where he led the team overseeing five projects into construction and fifteen into development.
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About BasePower: BasePower designs, develops and finances CHP systems for intensive energy users, delivering energy security & savings.
Julian Hammond
Co-Founder/Chairman of Zamare Minerals
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About Zamare Minerals: Zamare discovers, acquires, and explores mineral resources, such as copper and cobalt, that are needed in renewable energy industries.
Mathieu Bellanger
Technical Director and Co-Founder of Lightricity
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About Lightricity: Lightricity Ltd was founded in 2017 to commercialise its high-efficiency energy harvesting technology.
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.
Paul Brewster
Co-Founder & Director of Pure Marine
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About Pure Marine: Pure Marine is a technology company focused on generating electricity from off-shore waves.
Stephen Pomeroy
Chief Executive & Founder of HardHat
cStephen is a high-level strategist and communications expert in business and media communications, with over 20 years’ experience in devising and implementing communications strategies in both the private and public sectors. He has provided advice, has managed and been instrumental in countless campaign programmes for international, national and regional clients.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Julian Sproule
Co-Founder of Hydraredox
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About Hydraredox: Hydraredox develops and manufacturers electrochemical energy storage based on proprietary vanadium redox technology.
Sean McKeague
Founder and Director of NVP Energy
Sean is a Director of NVP Energy since founding the company to commercialise the wastewater treatment technology. Sean has been Managing Director of Nucleus VP Group since 2012 and has considerable knowledge when it comes to establishing new businesses. Sean, in previous positions, was a Project Manager for Hynes Construction Ltd. from 1987 until 1993, Director of Servirail from 1994 until 2006 and Founding director of Nucleus Venture Partners from 2008 until 2014. Sean has over 25 years’ experience in successfully creating, developing and growing new companies, specifically through implementation of operation and customer value proposition strategies Sean in a chartered Civil Engineer having received his Bachelor’s Degree from Ulster University.
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About NVP Energy, Onwave: NVP Energy markets energy positive wastewater treatment technology that turns wastewater into a revenue generator.
Thomas Anderson
Co-Founder & CEO of Grid Edge
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About Grid Edge: The way we use energy is changing
Daniel Wright
Co-Founder & CTO 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.
Carolyn Hogg
Founder of Cascade Water Products
Carolyn’s role is to create and develop the business. She will lead from the front, develop, design and implement the strategic plan for the company in the most time efficient and cost effective manner. Her role is delegating appropriate tasks and concentrating on what needs to be done to bring our innovate products to market.
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About Cascade Water Products: Cascade Water Products Ltd’s customers will be businesses wishing to make savings on their water bills, energy bills and carbon footprint
Molly Webb
Founder of Energy Unlocked
Molly Webb is a Founder at Energy Unlocked.
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About Energy Unlocked, The Climate Group: Energy Unlocked is accelerating energy system and market innovation, not specific technologies.
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.
Bill Rumble
Director and Co-Founder of BillSaveUK
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About BillSaveUK: BillSaveUK is an energy saving expert, making homes more comfortable and helping reduce utility bills.
Nathan Snowden-Merrills
General Counsel and Co-Founder of BillSaveUK
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About BillSaveUK: BillSaveUK is an energy saving expert, making homes more comfortable and helping reduce utility bills.
Judy Pearson
Co-Founder, Director of EcoLogicLiving
The marketing power behind the throne thanks to a marketing degree and Diploma in Business Management, Judy has been with EcoLogicLiving since the very beginning. She enjoys travelling to exotic locations and scuba diving, although looking after two children is proving just as much of an adventure!
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About EcoLogicLiving: EcoLogicLiving is a reseller and installer of renewable energy, heat, and power generation technologies.
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.
Lars Frank
Co-Founder of Energy Cool
Lars Frank is Co-Founder & Directors at Energy Cool.
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About Energy Cool: The Company with the Green Vision.
David Watson
Founder of Scour Prevention
David Watson 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.
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.
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.
Jim Clarke
Founder of Clarke Energy
Jim Clarke is Founder at Clarke Energy.
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About Clarke Energy: An award-winning multi-national specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of engine-based power plants.
