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 has been involved in renewable energy for 20 years.

Following nineteen years with utility company SWALEC, he started Energy Power Resources Ltd (EPRL) in 1996 and shortly afterwards undertook a £25 million private placement, the UK’s largest private placement in renewable energy. The target set by the venture capitalists was to create the UK's largest renewable energy company, generating over a 100MW of base load capacity from biomass within three years. David was Chief Executive of EPRL until February 2002 by which time EPRL had achieved its growth targets.

David co-founded Eco2 in November 2002 and led negotiations on a £100m funding deal with Good Energies Investments Ltd and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ to build a windfarm in Scotland, Wales’ first commercial scale biomass project and a number of other windfarm projects. He is now leading an ambitious business plan to develop over £1Bn of biomass projects throughout Europe.

David is a member of the British government’s Renewable Energy Advisory Board and was previously an Independent Grant Assessor for the DTI. He has also been a member of the DEFRA Biomass Implementation Advisory Group and is a non executive advisor to New Zealand based CE3 renewable energy fund.

David won the Champion Award - given in respect of a lifetime's achievements in renewable energy - at the Renewable Energy Association's Awards in June 2007.

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 involved in the Manufacturing, Property, Transport, Retailing and Service sectors, gaining a good working knowledge of a variety of industries and of the diverse requirements of owners and investors, ranging from owner managed companies to family groups to autonomous subsidiaries of larger companies.

He first became involved in the then fledgling renewables sector in 1994 and from 1996 until 2004 worked for Energy Power Resources Limited in a variety of finance, admin and operational roles, rising to Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary.

He was involved in all aspects of the group’s projects, including, as part of the original management team, the raising of the initial VC funding and the subsequent financing and construction of the successful projects. Other activities included the implementation of a stocking and supply control system for the logistics of providing a continuous flow of fuel to the world’s largest straw fired power station.

Since joining Eco2 in 2004, Charles now heads the Finance team and is responsible for the effective budgeting and reporting controls across the wide range of the development and operational projects in which the company has an interest, both on land and offshore, and at home and overseas.

Martin is a graduate in electrical and electronic engineering with an MSc in power electronics. He has spent the great majority of his career in the marine sector, firstly as a Marine Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy for 12 years, and then 15 years in industry. He became the Vice President for Marine and Offshore Systems in Alstom Power Conversion (APC) based in Paris in 2000, before being appointed as Managing Director for APC Ltd in Rugby, UK in 2003. In this time he was heavily involved in projects such as the Queen Mary 2 cruiseliner, and the Royal Navy’s new class of Type 45 destroyer – where the company designed and supplied the ships’ electrical propulsion systems. After 2 years as MD with L-3 Communications Marine Systems, Martin has now joined Tidal Energy Limited as Managing Director and will lead the company in the next critical stage of its development, the build and commissioning of its full scale prototype DeltaStream device.