

PETER DARWELL
CHAIRMAIN ... more
DAVID WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR ... more
RICHARD AYRE
DIRECTOR ... more
PHILIP BACON
DIRECTOR ... more
MICHAEL MARTIN
ANVIL PARTNERS LLP ... more
CHRIS WILLIAMS
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR ... more
SARA THOMAS
DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE ... more
CHARLES McINNES
COMPANY SECRETARY ... more
Peter is the founder and Chief Executive of Economy Power Limited, a start up Electricity Company. He sold this successful company with a turnover of £100million and 48,000 business customers after 5 years. After this Peter went on to become founder and Chairman of Eco2 Limited in 2002. He is also Chairman of Tidal Energy Limited.
David is a graduate Chartered Electrical Engineer who also holds qualifications in Management, Accountancy and Finance. He founded Eco2 with others in November 2002 and led the negotiations on a £100m funding deal with Good Energies Investments Ltd and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ initially to build a wind farm in Scotland and Wales' first commercial scale biomass project.
David is a member of the government's Renewable Energy Advisory Board and an Independent Grant Assessor for the DTI. He chairs the Biomass Sub Group of the DTI's Renewable Energy Advisory Board and is a member of the DEFRA Biomass Implementation Advisory Group. He is also a non executive advisor to New Zealand based CE3 renewable energy fund. In June 2007 David won the Champion Award - given in respect of a lifetime's achievements in renewable energy - at the Renewable Energy Association's Awards.
The DeltaStream concept was conceived by Richard, a Marine Engineer with 34 years experience project managing marine civil projects. He managed the construction of the Combined Heat and Power plant at the Gulf Refinery and Irish Ferries harbour terminal in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. He has developed major expertise in creating structures which work in the sea and the skills to install and maintain them.
Phil is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, and a specialist in setting up R&D. He gained engineering and management experience with GEC, ICI and Texaco. His experience in project management includes responsibility for annual budgets of £36 million at Texaco and the construction of a £150 million facility for ICI. He has also set up maintenance activities for complex operations.
Michael Martin is an investment banker with over thirty years experience advising companies on Mergers & Acquisitions, IPOs and private equity in Europe, USA and Asia. As a founding partner of Anvil Partners LLP, an independent corporate finance and venture capital investment firm, he has spent the past twelve years advising entrepreneurially led high growth businesses on private equity fund raising and exits.
Anvil is advising TEL on raising capital to progress DeltaStream.
Chris is a Chartered Civil Engineer with 18 years experience developing engineering and renewable energy projects including marine and coastal works. His experience encompasses all aspects of project development, including environmental and planning procedures, procurement and construction supervision. Chris started work on renewable energy projects in 1995, designing hydropower projects. He spent two years with the Environment Agency before joining United Utilities where he was responsible for the Scarweather Sands Offshore Wind Farm. Before joining TEL, Chris spent 3 years developing windfarms in UK.
Sara graduated from University of Wales Swansea in 2006, where she obtained a BSc in Geography and in 2008, graduated from Swansea University with an MRes in Environmental Management. Her studies focused on the interactions of tidal stream turbines upon the environment.
Following completion of the MRes degree, Sara was employed as a Research Assistant on a Tidal Energy Project and worked as Site Development Manager for a Tidal Stream Developer.
As Development Executive Sara provides technical and environmental expertise to Tidal Energy Limited to manage the development of the DeltaStream tidal stream device and associated development sites.
Charles qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1979 and, moving into industry on qualification, spent his early professional life in a variety of SME businesses. He first became involved in the then fledgling renewables sector in 1994 and from 1996 until 2004 worked for the Energy Power Resources Limited in a variety of finance, admin and operational roles, rising to Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary.