Leaders in Cleantech

What’s it all about? Innovation and Intraprenuership! How can large organisations be disruptive, innovative and avoid the challenges of inertia that so often exist in corporations. Domenico has been doing this for many years, in more than one corporation. Danfoss are hugely active in the energy efficiency in buildings and industry, as well as the electrification on transport. Being a founder isn’t...

What’s it all about? Company culture, high performing teams and leadership. I speak with long time friend and collaborator Zena Everett about these topic and more as we dig into our personal and client experiences in this field for many years. It ended up a fluid and hopefully very valuable conversation. I look forward to your feedback. About Zena Everett:  Leadership Coach and in-demand Speaker Z...

What’s it all about? Impact! Climate science, behaviour change, story telling and combating FUD!  I loved this conversation with climate scientist Dr Lindsey Higgins. Bringing her talents, passion, and education to bear at one of the leading seed impact VCs, Pale Blue Dot, Lindsey shares her journey, her insights and her cats ears for an inspiring and entertaining conversation. About Lindsey Higgi...

What’s it all about? Cheap, abundant, low carbon energy. Looking at a Deeptech that has huge and literally game-changing capabilities. There has been much excitement, investment, and some key milestones in Nuclear Fusion in the last year. This week I have not one, but two guests, a Fusion founder and CEO, Dr Nick Hawker, and his investor, Dr Robert Trezona of Kiko Ventures. This is such an excitin...

What’s it all about? Talent. Jim Collins said, ‘Great vision without great people is irrelevant’. Something I firmly believe and it’s why I created Hyperion Executive Search, and more recently, along with Stephen Robinson, and the Fully Charged Show, Fully Charged Recruitment. We talk about Steve’s background and experience, and delve into some of the talent issues faced by cleantech companies hir...

What’s it all about? Flexibility. Not Yoga, but the essential tools to enable the energy transition. Too often renewable assets, energy storage and EV charging at mass are help back due to grid blockages and constraints. Flexibility in the system is required to unlock some of these blockages. We talk grid flexibility, international expansion and the road from PhD to Entrepreneur with Piclo CEO and...

What’s it all about? Entrepreneurship, Impact, global challenges, technology and being Unreasonable, and an impatient optimist and possibilist!  An action packed conversation with award winning entrepreneur and leading Impact pioneer Daniel Epstein of Unreasonable Group. What does it take to succeed, and what help is out there, and how do we repurpose capitalism. Enjoy the episode. About Daniel Ep...

What’s it all about? Deeptech, Innovation, and creating the ecosystems that drive both forward. My guest, Rubina Singh has a fabulously broad career in cleantech, from a solar engineer to a leader in Deeptech investment. We discuss innovation, barriers, challenges and solutions, deeptech, and diversity and inclusion. Enjoy the episode. About Rubina Singh:  Rubina is a pre-seed deeptech fund manage...

What’s it all about? Direct Air Capture, space geeks, a founders journey, the trials and tribulations of a cleantech CEO, self-awareness, new pastures and ventures, and what it really means to be successful. A fascinating and candid conversation with a founder I’ve known for many years, sharing his journey and his life beyond a cleantech CEO. About Max Beaumont:  Max is the founder and strategic a...

What’s it all about? Taking people and companies on a sustainability journey, cutting through the misinformation, lies and overwhelming amount of information to help take small collective steps that make a difference. An early internet tech founder with multiple exits, Graham is on a mission to get society to the tipping point of behaviour change to make sustainable living a way of life for all. W...

What’s it all about? Solving some of our biggest issues in the C&I (Commercial and Industrial) sectors. Buildings use SO much energy, electricity, heat and of course cooling. As climate change increases tempretures, more cooling is needed, creating a negative feedback loop. My guest today addresses this and many other energy and emissions problems, using……Water. And a great lesson, sometimes w...

What’s it all about? What a year it has been for Cleantech in Europe, whilst investment wasn’t quite at the record level of 2021, it came in second, we saw tremendous policy and government acceptance of Cleantech as a strategically important sector for Europe and the EU. Jules Besnainou and his team at Cleantech for Europe have made a huge impact on both fronts. Here we discuss some of those highl...

What’s it all about? Serial entrepreneur David Martell founded and floated a business, then founded and sold a business ($170m) to BP, now he’s at it again, founding Home EV Charging company EVIOS. David started his first emobility business ‘Chargemaster’ in 2008; how many EVs on the road then?  We discuss capital, profitability, fundraising, and of course EV Charging. Enjoy the episode. About Dav...

What’s it all about? Batteries, glorious batteries. With the exponential growth of battery demand for both electric vehicles, and grid storage, we’re already seeing resource challenges as mining and supply of materials tries to ramp up with this demand.  Given batteries are lasting in EV’s far longer than many expected, I thought large scale recycling of batteries was some time away, but it isn’t...

What’s it all about? I first saw Instagrid pitch at an investor event about 3 years ago, and they blew me away. Such an obvious idea, but difficult to do, such a big problem that no one thinks about, but Andreas and his Co-founder Sebastian did, and they are now scaling like crazy.  If you like batteries, tools, buildings, or clean air, you’ll love this episode. About Andreas Sedlmayr:  Andreas Se...

What’s it all about? Hot on the heels of their recent announcement of a £110m fundraise, I catch up with Be. EV CEO and Co-Founder Asif Ghafoor. We talk all things emobility, disruptive markets, fundraising, company culture, entrepreneur insanity and community-based EV charging hubs, and much more.  About Asif Ghafoor:  After 25 years working in UK infrastructure investment, Asif co-founded Be. EV...

What’s it all about? I love this stuff!! Smart grids for the home, community and beyond. I also love when entrepreneurs from a fossil fuel, or ‘dirty’ world see the light and create great cleantech businesses. Never has energy been a bigger topic in the average household. The silver lining in the present energy and inflation crisis is that cleantech solutions make even more financial sense, as wel...

What’s it all about? Keeping the increase in global temperatures to below the 1.5 degrees agreed at the Paris climate change summit. My guest today, Philipp Schroeder has been instrumental in the growth of Tesla in Europe, the growth of Sonnen globally, and now throws his talent, connections and money into changing the landscape of last mile delivery of residential and small commercial solar, heat...

What’s it all about? Accelerators! What are they, what do they do, and should you join one (if you are an early stage founder/entrepreneur). I speak With Max Ter Horst, entrepreneur and Managing Partner at Rockstart cleantech accelerator about what they are all about, how they help, and what part an accelerator plays in the cleantech ecosystem. I also speak to a couple of founders who have been th...

What’s it all about? The electrification of Fleet transport, and more so about disruption and leading markets and businesses through change. There are so many challenges, but so many opportunities in our cleantech disruptions, and here I talk CEO and business Thought Leader Brendan Keegan about how his business is leading the electrification of fleets in North America. About Brendan P. KeeganBrend...

What’s it all about? An affordable solar powered car! And so much more. Laurin Hahn is a founder and entrepreneur with a vision to see solar power on every vehicle, as a way to remove reliance on fossil fuels. It’s been an inspiring journey that I have been watching for many years from afar. We also talk about growth, leadership, values and the road from crowdfunding to IPO. And a lot more. I hope...

What’s it all about? The right people with the right ideas and the right money change the world. Impact investing is talked about a lot these days, but my guest this week has been making real impact through cleantech investments for many years. We talk about what makes an investable start-up or founding team, what areas of technology and disruptive business models are receiving investment, and sam...

What’s it all about? Disruption, I love cleantech disruption, and if ever there was a market that needed disruption it was car rental. On so many levels. And that is exactly what Aidan McClean has done. We talk about that, but also the transition from corporate to start-up life, the challenges of starting from scratch, fundraising, hiring, family life, EV and Clean Energy myths and host of other t...

What’s it all about?eScooters, eBikes, last mile solutions and all things Micro-mobility. Great to see how design thinking and innovation applies not just to technology, but to company cultures and business models. This week I talk about the challenges and opportunities for micro-mobility and mobility as a service across cities in various parts of the world, and how building an innovative company...

What’s it all about? Electric Flight!! We had just before Christmas an episode on battery flight, we turn our attention again to fuel cell Hydrogen powered flight. This is one of the use cases in transport I do see hydrogen having a big part to play. I talk technology, timelines, talent, and territory ( I like alliteration!) with CEO and Co-Founder Alex Ivanenko of Hypoint, developing the powertra...