WOLVERTON COMMUNITY ENERGY - Key Persons


Jane Grindey

Job Titles:
  • Founding Member
Jane is a founding member of Wolverton Community Energy and has served as a Director since April 2015, has been instrumental in building the foundations of Wolverton Community Energy. Prior to joining the Wolverton team, Jane spent seven years working with a diverse range of start-up and medium sized businesses in the field of co-operative and community business development. This included Calleva Community Energy where she joined the Board in November 2013. Jane's early career was in marketing, strategy and business development honed with companies such as HJ Heinz and Seagram at international Director level.

Marie Osborne

Job Titles:
  • Director of Future Wolverton Limited
Marie is a Wolverton resident and Director of Future Wolverton Limited. Future Wolverton has a five year track record of working on community energy projects, aimed at improving the energy efficiency of Victorian homes in the Town. Marie is a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and is passionate about all things Wolverton! With Jane, Marie has project managed the work of the Society for the past year, using her excellent networks within Milton Keynes to further the cause of Community Energy in MK. Marie brings an invaluable experience of delivering complex projects with many stakeholders, and invaluable skills in engaging the community developed through over 10 years work within her local community.

Paul Johnston

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
Paul is an advisor, interim, local entrepreneur and experienced serial Chief Technology Officer. Paul most recently worked in a Senior technical role at Amazon Web Services where he spoke at conferences on several continents and was involved in helping to develop one of the fastest growing products in the business. Paul has over 15 years experience in both running his own companies, creating startups and working at and advising enterprise level organisations. Paul has provided both technology solutions and strategic consulting to companies like Sony Mobile, Unilever, Carphone Warehouse, Tesco and the UK Government. He has been involved with founding or helping to start several startups, and now does due diligence and advisory work helping investors to identify whether the technology a company has created does what they say it does and has been well put together.