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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 Battery 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.
Tim Sawyer
Chief Executive Officer of Carnegie Clean Energy
Tim has over 13 years experience in marine surveying, environmental impact assessment, management and mitigation of environmental impacts, permitting and approvals. Tim has an in depth knowledge of offshore renewable energy development including wave, wind and tidal stream energy. As Project Development Officer Tim is responsible for wave energy resource definition and commercial site identification and assessment. Tim’s role also encompasses stakeholder consultation and management of project permits and approvals.
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About Carnegie Clean Energy: Carnegie Clean Energy Limited (ASX: CCE) is an Australian wave energy technology developer
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.
Nat Edington
CEO of Dukosi
Nat has over 20 years’ experience in fast paced technology companies, from start-ups and SMEs to global players. Prior to CCS, he was VP & General Manager at Wolfson Microelectronics for 8 years, managing their largest revenue businesses in excess of $100m with blue chip consumer customers. Previous roles include Board Directorship, General Management, Business Development, Strategic Marketing and Engineering in the semiconductor, electronic products and manufacturing sectors
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About Dukosi, Dukosi: Dukosi is bringing new technology to market drawing on its extensive experience in battery systems
Miles Freeman
Chief Executive Officer of Aurelius Environmental
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About Aurelius Environmental: Aurelius Environmental is a battery recycling company.
Francis Massin
CEO of Faradion
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About Faradion: It is already impressive IP portfolio is growing and, with a wide range of products available
Christoph Birkl
Co-founder, CEO of Brill Power
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About Brill Power, University of Oxford: Brill Power is a clean-tech platform that develops cutting-edge battery management technology.
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.
