Dave Bramley
Dave is the Chairman of GrantScape and a Business Coach with over 30 years experience in the electricity industry. His career in engineering led to power station management and ultimately to directing operational functions in both generation asset and retail businesses. He has large programme and project management experience in both O&M and business transformation activities. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Dave has significant experience of large private business governance and he is a passionate advocate of sustainable development.
Chris Brown
Chris is a public affairs consultant and also a writer for several business magazines. He works with a range of public and private sector organisations, mainly on energy and transport issues. He is also a non-executive director of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and of Avenue Lettings, part of the Amicus Horizon housing association.
Chris was previously Head of Public Affairs for the Energy Saving Trust, which works between public and private sectors to encourage investment in energy efficiency. He has also worked as a marketing manager for BT and for ICL.
On a personal level, Chris has been involved in volunteer initiatives focused on race equality issues, road safety and homelessness.
Doug De Freitas
Doug is the Managing Director of Accountingwizards which specialises in building effective and efficient financial frameworks for small and medium-size businesses.
Qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 with KPMG, Doug has spent many years in the accountancy profession and in industry adding value to businesses. These have ranged from mining and wine farming in South Africa to Lloyd's of London insurance. His energetic and lateral approach to business allows for both strategic contribution as well as hands-on input when necessary.
Jacqueline Rae
Jacqueline is Director of Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust. She is also Grants Advisor to Burdett Trust for Nursing, and Founding Partner of Issimo, a consultancy company.
Jacqueline has advised over sixty grant-making organisations on a range of topics including: setting up trusts and foundations; grant-making IT and communication strategies; grant-management databases; application assessment; and grant-making policy.
Alan Loynes
Alan is a science graduate of the University of St Andrews. He started his career in ICI and has subsequently worked in a number of technology-based businesses as Managing Director/Chief Executive. He has also undertaken company turnarounds on behalf of banks. For three years Alan was a senior lecturer in a university post-graduate business school and, from 2001 to 2008, was Chairman of Bedfordshire NHS Primary Care Trust.
Alastair Singleton
Alastair is a former international civil servant who has worked for many years in executive search. In addition, he works actively as a mentor and strategic adviser to a number of early stage and developing businesses. He sits on the South West Regional Council of the CBI, and has extensive charity trustee experience, including seven years on the Council and Executive of the international development charity VSO.
Alastair is a committed environmentalist who believes that the international community must act decisively now, and with greater cohesiveness than it has ever previously shown, if catastrophic climate change is to be averted.
Sheila Torrance
Sheila works in a senior role in the public sector South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA) leading on business grants for Innovation and for Regeneration. She is responsible for the distribution of over £10m per annum of grant funding to facilitate business growth in a sustainable environment and for liaising on policy with the other Regional Development Agencies and central government departments Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) and Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
Sheila spent 10 years in Investment Banking with a number of blue-chip organisations including Credit Suisse First Boston advising institutional investors on investment strategies and portfolio mix. She has experience of running a small enterprise and forming strategic alliances with other organisations from her time as managing director of her own company and from the credit insurance market responsible for a UK broker network. She has a strong track record of both leadership and delivery with wide experience of corporate governance. She has an MBA from Cranfield University.
