ACTIVE ENERGY GROUP - Key Persons


James Leahy - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Chairman

Jason Zimmermann

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Jason Zimmermann has over 20 years' experience in the timber resource sector. He is currently the President of Zimmfor Management Services Ltd ("Zimmfor"), an industry leading consulting firm focused on sustainable forestry management, and Managing Partner at GreenRaise Consulting GbmH ("GreenRaise") and Global Forest Support GmbH ("GFS") - both businesses focus on the implementation, maintenance and marketing/sales forest carbon offset projects. Jason has field and technical expertise relating to timberland assets worldwide and Zimmfor has worked with AEG in previous projects in Canada and Ukraine. He is a Registered Professional Forester and a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry.

Max Aitken

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Max Aitken has founded and been instrumental in the financing of several businesses in the energy industry. He founded and is CEO of Estover Energy, a leader in the UK biomass industry which built wood-fuelled biomass CHP plants using over 700,000 tonnes of fuel annually, financed with £350m of capital. He is a trustee of the Beaverbrook Foundation in London, and President of the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation in Montreal. He is Chairman of 3ti, a fast-growing solar EV charging business.

Michael Rowan - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Solicitor
Michael is a qualified solicitor, qualified investment manager and successful corporate financier with a broad range of international commercial and legal experience.

Michelle Fagan

Job Titles:
  • Interim CFO
  • Interim CFO November 2022. Qualified FCCA Accountant
Michelle Fagan appointed interim CFO November 2022. Qualified FCCA accountant with 24 years' experience as a finance professional. Detail orientated driven CFO, highly regarded for leadership, integrity, and specialised excellences in all finance areas. After completing her training at Bank of Ireland, she then went on to roles as a CFO at Assured Asset Energy Group, Nowtel Group and Chemistry Strategic Communications. Whilst at the Bank of Ireland, Michelle worked on Sarbanes-Oxley reporting, with the main focus being Balance sheet reporting. At Nowtel Group, she gained experience putting together a restructure of a group set of companies to combine revenue and resources to produce a targeted net profit and improve shareholder return on investment. Throughout her CFO role at Assured Asset Energy Group, she was responsible for complex model reporting to private equity funders.