What’s it all about? Seamlessly easy EV charging and the evolution to a full stack of revenues and grid services, the mobility transition supporting the energy transition. Also, the challenges and motivations of a co- founder CEO, and his own transition from corporate to start up life, the importance of good people and letting go. About Tore Harritshøj: Tore is an experienced Chief Executive Officer of Spirii, with a demonstrated success in the utilities solutions industry. Skilled in People and...
Jun 14, 2023•42 min
What’s it all about? Sodium metal batteries have hit the headlines of late, with major announcements from BYD and CATL for use in electric vehicles. I speak to CCO or LiNa, a UK start-up developing Sodium batteries for stationary storage, now beyond TRL6 and making good traction. We talk tech, but also the journey of Will Tope, from O&G to Cleantech, from global corporate to small start-up. Enjoy the episode. About William Tope: Will is the Chief Commercial Officer at LiNa Energy, with over ...
Jun 07, 2023•44 min
What’s it all about? Entrepreneurship, and the journey of failures. Uri Levine is the founder of not one, but two Unicorns, Waze and Moovit. He continues to be an active entrepreneur and investor, but his passion to help create more start-up success stories, and to support entrepreneurs led him to write ‘Fall in love with the problem, not the solution’. According to Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder) it’s the ‘bible’ for entrepreneurs, I’d have to say it’s indispensable, especially for B2C and App...
May 16, 2023•25 min
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 for everyone, but you can still be creative and disruptive, and work in a corporate environment, if...
May 10, 2023•40 min
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 Zena Everett is the author of Mind Flip, Take the Fear out of Your Career and the award winning, best-...
Apr 26, 2023•44 min
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 Higgins: Lindsey Higgins is a climate scientist and communications specialist from Buffalo, New York, USA....
Apr 19, 2023•41 min
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 exciting space, and things are happening now that give rise to great optimism we can achieve Fusion power w...
Mar 29, 2023•43 min
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 hiring, and by those who want to work in the sector, but don’t currently. About Stephen Robinson: Based...
Mar 15, 2023•42 min
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 Co-Founder James Johnston. About James Johnston: James Johnston is the CEO and Co-founder of Piclo,...
Mar 08, 2023•43 min
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 Epstein: Daniel Epstein is the CEO and Founder of Unreasonable, an organization dedicated to supporting...
Mar 01, 2023•43 min
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 manager at Octopus Ventures where she focuses on investing in deeptech enabling a sustainable planet. Previ...
Feb 21, 2023•40 min
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 adviser to Skytree (www.skytree.eu). Before starting Skytree in 2010 (with zero experience in business...
Feb 01, 2023•50 min
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. We talk about his entrepreneurial journey, the rewards and challenges, the desire to keep building an...
Jan 17, 2023•41 min
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 we all need a direct and maybe not so friendly piece of advice to put us back on track. A great entre...
Jan 11, 2023•50 min
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 highlights, and look at what we can expect, or hope for, in 2023. It’s Europe’s ‘man on the moon’ moment ...
Dec 17, 2022•45 min
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 David Martell: David Martell, Chief Executive of EVIOS and Andersen EV, was an advisor on EV infrastruct...
Dec 07, 2022•42 min
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 for an interesting reason, and it’s not to do with end of life batteries. Take a listen to what, and ...
Nov 24, 2022•49 min
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 Sedlmayr is the Co-Founder and CEO of instagrid. Founded in 2018, instagrid is on a mission to remove po...
Nov 15, 2022•38 min
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 to change the way public EV charging infrastructure is delivered: faster, fairer, rooted in local commu...
Nov 08, 2022•45 min
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 well as reducing carbon emissions. I talk to Alex about his business, his technology and the future of t...
Oct 12, 2022•42 min
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 pumps, EV Charging infrastructure and energy supply. A big task, but already with much traction, and...
Sep 28, 2022•45 min
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 through the programm to get their thoughts. Luuk Veeken, CEO and Founder of Dexter Energy Services, and...
Sep 21, 2022•43 min
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. KeeganBrendan P. Keegan is the Chairman, CEO & President of Merchants Fleet, the fastest-growing FleetTech co...
Sep 08, 2022•46 min
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 you enjoy the episode.About Laurin Hahn: Laurin Hahn is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of So...
Jun 29, 2022•45 min
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 same example companies from seed to exit. I hope you enjoy the episode.About Anton Arts: Anton Arts is a...
Jun 15, 2022•46 min
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 topics in this fascinating chat. My first podcast recorded in a Tesla Model 3 too.About Aidan McClean:...
Jun 01, 2022•48 min
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 culture has helped Acton grow rapidly and globally.About Janelle Wang: Co-Founder and CEO of Acton, ...
May 18, 2022•37 min
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 powertrains for regional electrified aviation. I hope you enjoy the episode.About Dr. Alex Ivanenko: Dr. Alex...
May 04, 2022•39 min
What’s it all about?Wireless charging!! We accept this as obvious for our smart phones, but less so for cars and vehicles of all types, but it was a flat phone battery that inspired the technology behind wireless charging leader Wi-Tricity. I speak with CEO Alex Gruzen about the technology, applications, and how close we are to simply driving over a charge pad, walking away, and coming back to a full battery. It’s far closer than you may think.About Alex Gruzen: Alex Gruzen is the CEO of WiTrici...
Mar 23, 2022•49 min
What’s it all about?Never a more important time than to think about where you spend your time (working time) and where you put and spend your money. This week I speak to serial cleantech investor and entrepreneur Duncan Grierson about his new venture, Clim8 Invest, and cleantech/fintech company making ESG investing readily available and much more transparent. I hope you enjoy the episode.About Duncan GriersonDuncan has 20 years as a cleantech entrepreneur and venture investor. He is now building...
Mar 02, 2022•43 min
