OPTIMISED GROUP - Key Persons


Carla Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Consulting
Experience Managing the consultancy side of Optimised, including Net Zero, Cost Recovery, and Compliance. With an MSC in Engineering, Carla is highly experienced in energy and sustainability project management with both public sector and process experience.

Corinne Boddy

Job Titles:
  • Group Head of Client Engagement
Experience With 10 years experience at a Big 6 energy supplier and within the energy consultancy arena, Corinne is well placed to oversee our sales processes within the Group. Corinne works across all of our sector verticals, with a particular focus supporting strategic and complex portfolios into the Group. Corinne is acting Head of Client Services for the Hospitality sector, while also responsible for many of the sales processes underpinning the Group and managing our BDM team. Corinne holds a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc in Carbon Management.

CORINNE JULIE HOLMES

Job Titles:
  • Head of Client Services - Hospitality
Experience With over 30 years' experience in the Energy Sector, Julie has a proven track record building strong relationships with her clients, helping her to deliver sustainable value. As our Head of Client Services - Hospitality, Julie looks after our Hospitality clients as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and drive towards net zero.

Emily Witt

Job Titles:
  • HR Manager
Experience Passionate about sourcing the best talent, maximising productivity, creating a great culture, and ensuring equity and compliance across our business. Emily is an experienced and proactive HR professional, part qualified CIPD Leadership and Management Level 7, fully dedicated to internal clients. Experienced in working in dynamic companies with rapid growth.

GARY BARK

Job Titles:
  • Sales & Marketing Director
Overseeing all sales & marketing activities, Gary strives to tackle our client challenges, and deliver both short & long term solutions.

James Wood - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Experience James has a strong background in consulting and finance, starting as an energy and marine insurance broker at Lloyds of Londo n, and James has developed the vision for the Optimised Group. While his strengths lie in sourcing and structuring large integrated service transactions, James also plays a major role in serving key accounts from strategy definition to delivery and implementation of the Optimised Group's many services.

John Waters

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Director
Experience John has over 30 year's experience in the automation, controls and energy industry of which more than 10 years was spent in the highly legislated and validated pharmaceutical market. His building services, controls expertise and technical knowledge of how buildings and manufacturing plants should be designed, installed, operate and optimised makes him an exemplar engineer and leader in the sector. As one of the founders of the Optimised Buildings and Optimised Spaces, delivering optimisation projects and managed services nationally and internationally while building an operational team and creating the standards for others to follow.

Julian Thorpe

Job Titles:
  • Director of Managed Services
Experience Overseeing our 24/7 ROC, Bureau, Recharging, Energy Procurement, am&T, and Facilities services.

Lewis Buxton

Job Titles:
  • Head of Client Services - Renewables
Experience Lewis has been in the energy market for almost 20 years and has spent many years working with farmers and blue chip companies alike to provide cost effective solutions and to also educate businesses in ‘energy'. His previous roles have covered energy procurement, financial and consumption reporting, analytics and strategy development to name a few. Utilising his experience, keen eye for detail and creativeness Lewis provides a client centric approach to truly make clients feel welcome and informed to make the correct decisions. Responsible for all consultancy services in the renewable sector.

Nick Wood

Job Titles:
  • Technology Director
Experience The Optimised Group is ahead of its competitors when it comes to innovation and Nick's passion for technology will continue to keep us there. As an expert in data management, Nick enables us to combine our endeavours into advanced technology solutions to solve our clients' problems. Nick has worked at some of the biggest names in innovation. With an impressive CV including HP and Dimension Data, plus various other cloud services, he is at the heart of our forward-thinking, professional service and technology approach. Nick spearheads our technology innovations and brings industry leading software to reality, both internally and with our client solutions.

Noel Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Head of Client Services - Manufacturing
Experience A former Royal Navy officer, Noel is at home equally at land or at sea. Qualified as a Naval electrical engineer, he also has distinctions in non-domestic energy assessment, chartered energy management and a specialist in a number of other industry requirements. His final posting for the Royal Navy was leading a 50-man multi-disciplinary team responsible for the maintenance and safe docking of nuclear submarines at the Faslane facility. Once his Naval career had finished, Noel became a CHP engineer and joined the founding team for Optimised Energy in 2002. Since becoming a key member of the team, Noel has managed the energy efficiency services offering which delivers large scale retrofit programmes for manufacturing businesses. Responsible for all consultancy services in the manufacturing and industrial sectors.

Peter Chappell

Job Titles:
  • Head of Client Services - Public Sector
Experience Peter is vastly experienced with a proven ability to think strategically, help drive business growth and profitability and deliver on key business objectives. He is a specialist in BeMS and HVAC with a broad technical knowledge garnered from working with the Pharmaceutical / R&D, Healthcare, Industrial, Food Production, Commercial and Education industry sectors.

Richard Slater

Job Titles:
  • Head of Client Services - Retail
Experience Richard has 25+ years experience in HVAC and the BeMS sector. Experienced in Sales, Business Development, and Account Management with a demonstrated history of working in the Environmental services industry, especially in the Retail sector developing long standing client relationships. Richard is skilled in Negotiation, HVAC, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Management, focusing on Energy and carbon savings, identifying further possible energy saving opportunities with his extensive knowledge of BeMS and HVAC applications. Leading the sector business development and multi-service delivery teams to execute client strategies, KPI and energy intensity savings.

STEVAN AGAR - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Finance Director
Heading up our Finance Team, covering all aspects of finance including general accounts, processes, procedures, supplier management, insurance and reporting.