Dr Doug Parr
Dr Douglas Parr is Chief Scientist and Policy Director at Greenpeace UK, looking after the science and political functions. Currently working on climate change policy in the power, heat and transport sectors, he has previously worked on a number of issues including GM crops, chemicals policy, green refrigeration, marine conservation, biofuels and nuclear power. He obtained a D.Phil in Atmospheric Chemistry from Oxford University in 1991.
Prof Julia King
After an academic career at Cambridge University, Julia King joined Rolls-Royce plc in 1994, where she held a number of senior business and engineering posts. She returned to academia in 2004 as Principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College, London, becoming Vice-Chancellor of Aston University in December 2006. Julia advises Government as a member of the Management Board of the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and the Committee on Climate Change, and through the ‘King Review’, published in 2008. She was also a member of the independent review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance which reported in October 2010. Julia is the UK’s Low Carbon Business Ambassador and a member of the World Economic Forum Automotive Industry Agenda Council and the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology. Her work has been recognised by the Grunfeld, Bengough, Kelvin and John Collier medals. Julia is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded a CBE in July 1999.
Andrew Oldfield
Andrew Oldfield is Head of Cleantech at Mercia Fund Management. Andrew has spent his whole career in cleantech, starting with a decade of technical and commercial roles in British Gas, BP-Castrol and ICI at the interface of energy, chemicals and automotive, inventing and commercializing new additive technology to increase the fuel efficiency of engines. More recently Andrew joined the UK’s first dedicated cleantech VC fund, WHEB Ventures where he focused on investment opportunities in renewable energy generation, energy storage & efficiency, water, waste and new materials. Andrew joined Mercia Fund Management at the end of 2010 to lead their cleantech activities. Mercia are currently raising a £35 million third fund investing in startup and early stage companies across the UK.
Andrew has a first degree and PhD in Chemistry from Cambridge, and an MBA from Oxford. He is also an Associate with Second Mile, a network of entrepreneurial managers providing pre-formed management teams for startup and early stage companies.
Lord Oxburgh
Ron Oxburgh (Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool) trained as a geologist/geophysicist (Oxford & Princeton). He subsequently taught and researched in those disciplines at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and Caltech also working as a consultant for the oil industry. After serving as President of Queens’ College Cambridge, he became Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence (1987 – 1993). From 1993 to 2001 he was Rector of Imperial College. He became Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading in 2004 and retired after the unification with Royal Dutch. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. He was created a life Peer in 1999 and has chaired the Lords’ Science and Technology Select Committee. He works with a number of organisations in the general field of energy and environment. He is Chairman of Blue-NG and an adviser to Climate Change Capital, Deutschebank, McKinsey and the Government of Singapore.
Chris Hole
Chris Hole leads TTP’s work for the Carbon Trust’s Entrepreneurs Fast Track program and provides technology and market consulting services to a variety of government, large corporate and venture capital organizations. After a first degree in Physics and a PhD in low temperature physics Chris carried out post doctoral work at the National Research Institute for Metals in Tsukuba, Japan. On returning to the UK Chris joined Oxford Instruments to work on high field superconducting magnets and other scientific instrument products. Subsequently he moved sectors to work on the development of high frequency electronics for mobile phone base station systems which lead to a series of design, system engineering, marketing and strategy roles over the following 12 years. Now at TTP, a leading specialist technology development company based near Cambridge, Chris works across a range of industries from power engineering to the thermal management of high performance electronic systems.
Professor Richard Brook OBE FREng
Richard is a co-founder of E-Synergy Ltd and an experienced early stage investor in technology companies. He leads E-Synergy’s work on proof of concept support for early stage innovative ideas, investment readiness training and incubation, including its work for the Carbon Trust and the Entrepreneur’s Fast Track. Richard’s technological background is in measurement and instrumentation in a variety of application domains, including manufacturing, defence, environmental monitoring and space. He is a Board Member and Audit Committee Chairman at the National Physical Laboratory and the new Thames Gateway Institute for Sustainability. He is also leading the UK’s strategic planning in relation to the use of space and satellite data for the monitoring of climate change and measures for mitigation. Richard’s earlier career was spent largely in research, development, testing, trialling and proving of advanced technology in industrial plant and other demanding end user environments.
Alastair Tolley
Alastair Tolley is Head of Renewable Energy for the Association of Electricity Producers, www.aepuk.com. He is responsible for renewable energy policy at the Association of Electricity Producers, the trade association representing companies that generate electricity in the UK. Through contacts with decision-makers and stakeholders in the power sector, the Association aims to create the best public policy and regulatory environment for companies that have invested heavily in the industry or are planning to do so. As well as covering all issues related to renewable energy, Alastair’s portfolio extends to a number of other topics, including planning reform, parliamentary affairs and energy efficiency programmes. Prior to taking up his current role, Alastair worked on a variety of environmental and regulatory matters and he has wide-ranging knowledge and experience of energy and climate change issues.
Nigel Dent
Renewables East
Greg Archer
Greg Archer is Managing Director of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP, www.lowcvp.org.uk), a not for profit multi-stakeholder partnership of approaching 200 organisations. LowCVP works to accelerate the shift to low carbon vehicles and fuels and generate opportunity for UK businesses through facilitating action by businesses, Government and the public. LowCVP’s activities in the transport sector have delivered around 1mt CO2 savings in the UK with a cost effectiveness of about £6/T CO2.
Greg is also a director of Cenex (www.cenex.co.uk), a public-private centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel-cell technology which he established in 2005. He is also a member of the Board of the Renewable Fuels Agency (www.renewablefuelsagency.gov.uk) and co-authored the influential Gallagher Review examining the indirect effects of biofuels.
Greg is a Chartered Chemist with wide ranging experience in environmental: policy, research, businesses and programme management. His previously managed the UK business energy efficiency advice programme at the Carbon Trust; the UK Government air pollution research programme; and an environmental consultancy.
Chris Sullivan
Chris Sullivan has 20 years consulting and private sector practice with an international footprint across Europe, Japan and North America. Experienced across the investment continuum from Proof-of-Concept through trade sale/ IPO exit he has been a member of the senior management team for 3 hi-tech start-up companies.
Throughout his career Sullivan has used his strategic thinking and marketing skills to identify new category segments, scope out customer and investor value propositions and bring disruptive technologies to market.
He is currently a Partner with the Market Entry practice Conduit Partners and directs a low carbon technology collaboration between Conduit, QinetiQ plc and the Carbon Trust. He has a background in systems engineering, semiconductors and parallel processing architectures and is presently focused on the commercialisation of highly differentiated low carbon technologies.
Rob Waddington
Robert Waddington is one of the founders and Managing Director of PMSS, a leading independent renewable energy consultancy. Rob has over twenty years’ continuous experience in the power generation industry and has played a significant role in the emergence and maturing of the renewables sector, having managed the construction of numerous wind energy projects throughout the UK and mainland Europe.
Robert’s strategic roles in a long succession of renewable energy projects have made him one of the most respected figures in the renewable energy industry.
Dr Roger Welch
Dr Roger Welch, Senior Consultant, of Isis Innovation Limited (the technology transfer company of Oxford University) has assisted in the commercialisation of many innovative technologies and the formational of numerous spin-out companies. For the past four years Roger has been working closely with Carbon Trust on their Business Incubator Programme (now Entrepreneurs Fast Track) and supported the growth of early stage Low Carbon technology businesses.
Professor Patrick Corbett
Professor Corbett is currently Head of the Energy Academy, Heriot-Watt University. He graduated in 1977 with a degree in Geology (Exeter University) followed by a MSc in Micropalaeontology in 1978 (University College London), a postgraduate Diploma in Geological Statistics in 1982 (Kingston University), a PhD in Petroleum Engineering (Geopseudo Upscaling, 1993, Heriot-Watt University) and a DSc “Petroleum Geoengineering” (Heriot-Watt University - July 2006).Between 1978-89, Patrick worked in various positions in international exploration and development geoscience for Unoca. Since coming to Heriot-Watt University in 1989, his research focus has been on the integration of geoscience and engineering through geological analysis, petrophysical measurement and flow modelling. In recent years, he has led academic initiatives in the broader Energy and Sustainability fields - particularly with respect to the Petroleum Industry and developing links with Marine Renewables. He is an active, award-winning member of the major upstream oil industry societies, a Chartered Geologist, a Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.In his broad Energy Academy role he has also served on the Green Energy Commission for Scotland (2009-10), as a judge for the ENI Award (2009) and as an External examiner for the MSc Energy Futures at Aberdeen University (2010).
Andy Kerr
Andy was recently appointed as Director of the new Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change, which fosters collaborative working between policy, community and business leaders to deliver workable solutions for a low carbon future and coordinates the delivery of professional skills training. He was a Director of E3 International, an environmental company which works with major corporations and non-governmental organisations to support their responses to the shift in environmental regulation - from traditional command and control measures to more sophisticated approaches often characterised by market-based instruments and mechanisms. Previously, he worked for Greenergy, a biofuels company, setting up a used-cooking oil biodiesel supply chain, and the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management. He obtained his doctorate in climate change from the University of Edinburgh. Notable publications with which I have been involved recently include the Scottish Government's Climate Change Delivery Plan, which sets out the measures for meeting Scotland's challenging emission reduction targets, and the 3rd edition of the book which I co-author, Climate Change & Emissions Trading.
Mark Bornhoft
Mark Bornhoft is currently Programme Manager and Principle Consultant with ANGLE Plc responsible for ANGLE’s services to the Carbon Trust Entreprenuers Fast Track (previously Carbon Trust Low-Carbon Business Incubator). Since 2007 he has managed and delivered consulting services to over 40 low-carbon entrepreneurs and ventures in a wide range of clean-tech sectors including: solar, marine and wind energy, fuel cells, low-carbon materials, building products, biofuels, energy efficiency, and industrial processes. His earlier career was in the telecommunications, energy, and software sectors working for GEC, Nortel, Electricity Corporation of New Zealand, and ERA in a variety of roles covering R&D, product development, technology marketing, and contract management. He has also been an advisor for Technology NZ helping encourage technology-led innovation within SMEs, worked for a VC fund assessing technology based ventures, and managed a spin-out company from the University of Surrey from laboratory to technology sale.
Jeremy Cresswell
Jeremy Cresswell has been an energy journalist/analyst for more than 20 years and is best known as the editor of the Energy supplement at the Press and Journal, which he joined in November 1989. He has contributed to many business and energy-oriented titles, has co-authored a significant number of upstream oil & gas reports and publications and is the author of four energy-related books. He is an associate of the energy economists, Mackay Consultants. Cresswell instigated the successful ‘All Energy’ conference series staged in Aberdeen since 2000 and founded the award-winning private-public partnership Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group. He is an honorary professor of Aberdeen Business School – The Robert Gordon University; an honorary research fellow at the School of Geoscience – Aberdeen University; and a burgess of the City of Aberdeen. He is also the recipient of the Personal Achievement Award at the Scottish Green Energy Awards – December 2010.