Board Of Directors
James SD Leach, Non Executive Chariman
JSD Leach has spent most of his career in Hong Kong working with the prominent Kadoorie Family. During this time he was exposed to many privately held operations, but latterly he has been involved with their associated public held corporations, China Light & Power (CLP) Holdings, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, and Tai Ping Carpets. He was closely involved, from the inception, of CLP's international operations in Thailand, India and Australasia. Since his retirement in 2006 he has remained on several boards including CLP, HK Aircraft Engineering, and China Construction Bank (Asia) – formerly known as Bank of America (Asia). In the early 1980s he ran a Venture Capital company which invested in oilfield manufacturing equipment and construction materials.
Chris Every, Chief Executive
Chris comes from a background in sales and marketing to Board level management and new technology development in engineered and technical products, for companies including Wiggins Teape Paper, Courtauld International Marine Paints, National Starch, and Williams Holdings. He moved from corporate management to consulting twenty years ago and has worked with major organisations including Michelin, Powergen, TXU Energy and national and local government. He also has extensive experience in building new businesses, including Enhance Biotech Inc. and Brimac Ltd. Most recently, Chris has served as the CEO of Enhance Biotech Inc. a biotech start-up, and is an active board member for Brimac Ltd, an environmental business focused on the manufacture and application of carbon for filtration in the sugar refining and water treatment fields.
Peter Rugg, Finance Director
Peter comes with extensive financial experience from corporate and investment banking, working internationally in M&A, capital markets and venture funding as well as practical experience in major public corporations including as CFO in Triton Energy. Peter is currently Chairman of Inflect Technologies, Nviro's seed funding partner. In recent years he has been consulting to technology companies in the early growth phase with strategic and financial development support across a wide range of industry sub sectors and global territories as a senior partner with a consulting firm. Prior to his role with Triton, Peter was Vice President of the corporate finance division for JP Morgan with leading relationships with ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, and BP Amoco.
Dr Mustapha Omar, Commercial Director
Mustapha has extensive experience in capital markets, primarily in the field of investment analysis, and latterly in corporate broking. Prior to his role with Fairfax Equities as Head of Research, he served 10 years at Collins Stewart, where he was one of the original 18 partners and was also Head of Research. His City career commenced at Williams de Broe in 1989 where he was an analyst covering the Capital Goods sector. However in early 2000 Mustapha switched his sector coverage to embrace the Technology and Telecoms sectors. He has four years industrial experience as a Senior Research Scientist with Taylor Woodrow and IDM Electronics. Mustapha has a First Class degree in Mechanical Engineering with Mathematics, a PhD in Materials Science, and is the author of five scientific publications in international journals.
Libby Cooper, Non Executive Director
Libby is an experienced corporate lawyer, with a unique focus in waste management and environmental law. She is currently European Legal Counsel with Golder Associates, a global consultancy that specialises in ground engineering and environmental sciences, where she is responsible for advising the European operations on all legal matters affecting the business. Previously, she has been a leading member of Clarkslegal’s environmental law practice leading both government and private clients to create environmental compliance strategies, develop renewable energy projects, and implement regional waste management programmes.
Andrew Cosentino, Non Executive Director
Andrew Cosentino is a Yale graduate with over 25 years of experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions and capitalization of companies though public and private equity and debt financings from seed stage financing through to post-IPO financings. During that time, Andrew also acquired experience in corporate and securities law in legal practice. He was a partner in the New York office of several major U.S. law firms. Andrew has worked on over 500 transactions for a variety of public and private company clients, ranging from early stage companies to mature industry leaders, as well as investment banking firms and funds, based in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Far East. He has counselled enterprises focused upon diverse businesses including high technology, biotechnology, clean technology, software, financial institutions and investment banking, communications and media, consulting, consumer products marketing and distribution, manufacturing, specialty retailing, transportation and transportation services and mining.
Duncan Sedgwick, Non Executive Director
Duncan is a proven leader in the energy sector. He is currently the CEO of the Energy Retail Association (ERA) in the United Kingdom. He has helped to build the association from the ground up, becoming a key spokesman for the sector in time of unprecedented price rises. He has delivered major operational performance improvements in the areas of selling, customer transfer and billing within member organisations. Prior to his role with the ERA, Duncan held various positions within PowerGen, the largest UK power utility. As Director of Business Transformation, he led company wide change programmes to reduce operating costs and improve productivity. Prior to this role, he was the Retail Director – Residential Markets where Duncan was responsible for the £1bn consumer business. While in this role he led unprecedented growth in utility consumers, repositioned the brand and company, as well as overhauled the IT infrastructure to provide for efficient and stable growth.
Phillip Hollobone, Non Executive Director
Phillip is currently both a Member of Parliament for the Kettering constituency and a member of the Kettering Borough Council for the Buccleuch ward. Before being elected to Parliament in 2005, Phillip spent most of his working career as an utilities industry analyst within Williams de Broe, Société General, and Panmure Gordon examining the performance of water, gas and electricity companies across the UK. Prior to his career in investment banking, Phillip served over eight years in the Territorial Army, latterly as a paratrooper. He was educated at Oxford University, where he studied Modern History and Economics.
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