Clare Spottiswoode Non Executive Chairman

Clare is a mathematician and economist by training and is currently a member of the Independent Commission on Banking. Clare's career includes her time as Director General of Ofgas, the UK gas regulator, and more recently as policyholder advocate for Norwich Union's with-profits policyholders at Aviva where she negotiated a special bonus worth approximately £2.1 billion to 1.1m of its with-profits policyholders as well as other payments.

Clare has set up and managed her own businesses and has considerable experience in the energy sector. She is currently Chairman of Gas Strategies Group Limited, a Non-Executive Director of the FTSE 100 security company G4S plc, EnergySolutions Inc. and Illika plc, and until recently a Non-Executive Director of the FTSE 100 oil company Tullow Oil plc..    

Adrian Charles Hutchings Chief Executive Officer

Adrian has a degree in Chemical Engineering. Prior to founding Energetix Group in 1997, he was the Managing Director of International Energy Systems Ltd (“IES”), a subsidiary of BNFL which developed, manufactured, and marketed a high technology flywheel for storing electrical energy, for the UPS and distributed generation markets. Before this, Adrian was a Commercial Manager with BNFL New Business Ventures.

His role was identifying technologies and business opportunities based on internal intellectual property, for non-nuclear applications, as part of a diversification program.

Prior to this he was the BNFL Project Manager for a £50m capital, £500m life cycle, design and construction project for a major facility at the Sellafield Site.    

Tony Stiff, Commercial Director

Tony was Commercial Director of Bglobal plc ("Bglobal"), the AIM-listed smart-metering company. At Bglobal Tony helped prove the concept of their smart-metering products and was responsible for securing commercial contracts with leading energy suppliers which ultimately brought the business into profitability and set down the foundations for future growth opportunities.

In 2000 Tony founded Atlantic Electric and Gas Limited, a business backed by US-based Sempra Energy inc. The business quickly became one of the UK's leading independent energy suppliers, with over 300,000 customers and revenues exceeding £250m. Tony then oversaw the shareholders' exit strategy and in conjunction with the administrative receivers of the company the business was sold to Scottish & Southern Energy.

In 1994 Tony founded Webbins Limited ("Webbins"), in order to exploit the gap in the market for a software product that customers could use to evaluate energy contracts. Having grown Webbins into a company with over 100 staff and £10m turnover, Tony negotiated the sale of the company to MMT Computing plc, and continued to manage the business for three years afterwards.

Tony initially trained as an electrical engineer and has held various positions with the Central Electricity Generating Board, Eastern Electricity plc and Powergen plc.

Alan John Aubrey Director

Alan is the Chief Executive Officer of IP Group plc, a FTSE 500 company that specializes in investing in and building technology businesses based on intellectual property originating from Universities and other research intensive institutions.

Previously Alan was the founder and CEO of Techtran Group Limited, a business that was sold to IP Group plc in 2005. From 1995-200 Alan was a partner in KPMG where he specialised in providing corporate finance to and raising money for fast growing technology businesses.

Alan holds a BA in Economics and a MBA with Distinction from the University of Bradford and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.      

Dr. H J Cialone Non-Executive Director

Dr. Henry Cialone is President and CEO of Edison Welding Institute (EWI), North America’s leading independent materials joining technology organisation and an Ohio Edison Centre. Henry became a non-executive director on 14 March 2008.  

Prior to joining EWI in 2005, Henry was an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute, where he led the commercial energy business and served on the governing board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 

Henry is a member of the National Coal Council and the Miami University Research Advisory Council; a Trustee of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; and a Non-Executive Director of the NanoSteel Company, a venture-backed spinout from Idaho National Laboratory.  

Henry received his BS degree in materials engineering from Brown University, and his MS and PhD degrees in materials science, also from Brown, where his area of specialisation was hydrogen enhanced fracture.