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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Energy Storage 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.
David Ladipo
Managing Director of Azura-Edo IPP
David Ladipo is the managing director of Azura-Edo. David earned his PhD at University of Cambridge.
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About Azura-Edo IPP: Azura-Edo IPP is a 450MW open cycle gas turbine power station being constructed near Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria.
Stephen Thornton
Executive Director of Energy Optimisation Solutions
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About Energy Optimisation Solutions, Socialite: Energy Optimisation Solutions provides research-based solutions to building energy storage systems.
George Prassinos
Director – Systems Engineer of SDnC Ltd
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About OXTO Energy: SDnC, is a private start-up engineering company focused on the development of energy storage solutions.
Jean Louis Cols
Technology Director of Invinity Energy Systems Plc
Jean-Louis Cols joined Intelligent Energy as Group Engineering Director in February 2013. During his 25 year career in Engineering, he developed a practical approach to bring technology products to market. He has worked in aerospace, wireless and semiconductors, serving diverse markets such as space telecoms, mobile phones, automotive and consumer electronics. Prior to joining Intelligent Energy Jean-Louis was at Head of Engineering programs at NXP semiconductors. During his career he has also held senior engineering management positions at Wolfson Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Sony Ericsson and Matra Marconi Space. Jean-Louis holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts & Metiers in Paris and an MBA from HEC Montreal.
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About Intelligent Energy, Invinity Energy Systems Plc: Invinity Energy Systems Plc is a company which has created a method by which electrical energy can be stored in liquid form.
Paul Docherty
Operations Director of Invinity Energy Systems Plc
Paul Docherty is an operations director at RedT. Prior to joining RedT, Paul served as a business manager at Jabil Circuit Inc.
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About Invinity Energy Systems Plc: Invinity Energy Systems Plc is a company which has created a method by which electrical energy can be stored in liquid form.
Ed Porter
Energy Assets Director of Invinity Energy Systems Plc
Ed Porter is the energy assets director at RedT. He joined the company in December 2018 from Gazprom Marketing & Trading where he held the position of power portfolio manager, responsible for 1GW of UK assets. Prior to this, Ed held various senior positions for Gazprom, RWE npower and Innogy Renewables.
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About Invinity Energy Systems Plc: Invinity Energy Systems Plc is a company which has created a method by which electrical energy can be stored in liquid form.
David Green
Sales Director of Moixa Technology
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About Moixa Technology: Developer of distributed energy storage, aggregation and smart DC technologies
Joe Warren
Managing Director of Powervault
Joe previously worked for Open Energi, helping to bring their smart grid dynamic demand product from concept to commercial reality and creating a new market in which Open Energi arrived first. He also worked as Director of Hosting Operations at Pipex Plc looking after datacentre and power infrastructure. Joe holds a BA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD
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About Powervault: Powervault aims to disrupt the energy storage market by supplying the first plug and play energy storage device
