SOLARSHARE - Key Persons
Andrew has over 20 years experience as a practitioner, Director and non-executive Director in the environmental and energy sectors globally, both as a consultant and as an in-house advisor for a multi-national business. Andrew's background includes the establishment of consulting services specialising in advisory on renewable energy feasibility, carbon management, energy efficiency, product and supply chain sustainability and corporate responsibility.
Derek is an architect used to delivering complex projects. He lives in Berlin and works internationally on property and energy projects. He's developed and delivered 70MW of solar in the UK and Holland, 30MW of which were community solar projects.
Richard started his career in power electronics in the Far East as a product development engineer in the mid-nineties and subsequently worked in a battery research centre in Switzerland. Realising the Green Revolution was still a long way off (sadly), he hung up his lab coat and caught the internet wave and started a software company to accelerate product development.
Successfully exiting that venture, since 2005 his career has been focused on the transition to a zero-carbon economy. He has masters in renewable energy (UCC 2007), environmental policy (LSE 2008), and energy finance (WBS 2014).
Since 2010 he has worked in the smart grid, the renewable and solar industry, from utility-scale to community scale, to domestic scale, most recently with a domestic rooftop portfolio of 10,000 homes (23MW).
Thomas started his career in solar PV in Germany in 2001. He was appointed CEO of Pfalzsolar in 2011, the solar PV installation division of the German electricity utility Pfalzwerke. In that role he spearheaded its international expansion into other European and US markets developing and constructing solar PV projects. In a career spanning two decades in the solar PV industry he has successfully delivered several hundred megawatts of solar generation.