Keith has over 30 years international business experience in the development, financing, ownership, design and construction of electricity, oil and gas, civil and process related organisations, during which time he was Chief Executive of National Power plc, Kvaerner Engineering and Construction plc and Brown & Root Limited. In recent years he has held a number on senior non-executive roles, including Chairman of Burren Energy plc, Chairman of Petrojarl ASA, Deputy Chairman of PGS ASA, and as a director for Enterprise Oil plc, First Calgary Petroleums Limited and South East Water Limited. He is currently the Chairman of Regal Petroleum plc and the Senior Director of Sterling Energy plc.
Trained as a civil engineer, Keith holds a BSc from the University of London and a MSc from Birmingham University. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Adrian is a Chartered Energy Engineer and holds a PhD in fluid mechanics. He specialises in renewable energy and sustainable energy project development and implementation. He was involved in research aimed at improving the efficiency of nuclear reactor boiler tube bundles for Electricity de France and the Central Electricity Generating Board. Adrian also successfully managed the development process for the portfolio of power purchase agreements for an independent biofuels company, which included developing a subsidiary company aimed at exploiting the growing requirement for energy crops and land remediation. Since 2004, he has been a principal consultant to SgurrEnergy Ltd assisting on biomass, liquid transport fuels, hydrogen and waste to energy projects. He has considerable experience in corporate and project finance, contracting and contract negotiation in a difficult market place. He is a member of the Energy Institute and contributes to this forum.
Alan has more than 19 years of experience within the energy sector. He began his accounting career with GEC in 1989 and has since held various positions in ABB Alstom, Alstom and most recently Siemens. During this time Alan has worked within businesses that design, manufacture, install and service rotating equipment within the power generation, and oil and gas markets. He has gained considerable experience of capital equipment sale, turnkey project management, financial systems implementation, and also overseas business start ups.
Chris holds a BSc in physics, a MSc in engineering ceramics and a MBA. With experience covering engineering materials, commodity chemicals, cables and the public sector he has delivered major change programmes in T&N and ICI and established a new joint venture with Hitachi Cable for BICC. Chris acted as head of inward investment in setting up Renaissance South Yorkshire a regeneration delivery body in South Yorkshire.
Barclay farmed in Berwickshire and developed one of the UK´s largest drying, storing and haulage businesses for barley, wheat and rapeseed. He is a former Vice President of the Scottish NFU and past Chairman of British Cereal Exports where he was responsible for promoting to Europe, North Africa and China. He was Vice President of The China Britain Business Council, responsible for Food and Agriculture. Other positions held by Barclay include: Chairman of Oxford Farming Conference 2003; Winner of the Royal Agricultural Award 2004; Chairman of The Farmers Club, Whitehall 2005; and Non-Executive Director of D1 Oils plc.
John has over 15 years´ experience within renewable energy and sustainable systems. He has worked for several of the UK´s largest renewable energy companies, served as director on key trade associations and advised government and local authorities on the formulation and implementation of policy for the promotion and implementation of the UK´s renewable energy industry. John is currently a member of the Renewables Advisory Board, which provides advice to the UK Government on a wide range of renewable energy issues.
David Brocksom was appointed to the Board in December 2009 as a non-executive director and chairman of the Audit Committee. He is currently Finance Director at UK Coal plc, and was previously Finance Director of Pace Micro Technology plc and Avesco plc and has worked in a number of UK listed companies, for over 15 years as a Board member. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse having read Law at Cambridge University.
Mr MacDonald has extensive experience of investing in the forestry industry and in 2007 founded and is chairman of Specialist Waste Recycling Limited, which is an integrated waste management company with an innovative approach to collection and recycling. Prior to this he was Chief Executive Officer of eFinancial Group for 11 years, which was sold to Dow Jones and Dice Inc for £79m in 2007.
In addition to the above, Mr Macdonald was a director of Noble Group Limited until 2007, was a director of Glenshian Limited until 2006 and is a director of Roshven Restorations Limited.