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.
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.
Steven Henry
Steven is a classic entrepreneur with a passion for the environment. He has successfully spearheaded a number of winning bids for national awards, including Sales & Marketing, Green Business as well as innovation and technology.
His career has spanned both the business and charity sector where his innovative and creative approach has made a real difference to achieving sustainable outcomes that benefited the environment whilst making sound business sense.
Steven is currently the Managing Director of Chalmor Limited, a company which has been delivering energy efficiency solutions for over 25 years to industry, commerce and the public sector.
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.