Our team
As a small company we focus on developing sites and supply chains. For construction and operation, we are working with companies who have built and operated many forestry biomass plants in Europe.
Board
Strone Macpherson (Chairman) Strone is Chairman of Close Brothers Group plc, British Empire Securities and General Trust plc, JP Morgan Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc, is a Governor of Heriot Watt University and is Treasurer and a Trustee of the King’s Fund. Strone has extensive experience of growing businesses, having been part of the core team which built Misys plc into a major international company.
Max Aitken (Director) Max leads on investor relations and marketing for Estover. He has started three companies including a national daily newspaper, as well as raising and managing an early-stage Venture Capital fund.
Henry Warde (Director) leads on finance and negotiating with our engineering and industrial partners. Henry qualified as an accountant with Deloitte and then ran the finance function of a large property company. He also runs his family's estate in Kent.
Marcus Whately (Director) manages forestry partners and potential sites. Prior to Estover he spent 7 years building up a software and IT consulting business which he sold in 2008.
Senior Advisors
Andrew Troup (Project Development) Andrew spent 23 years with and lattery was on the board of a FTSE250 planning & environmental consultancy. He most recently has developed both solar and hydro renewable projects.
Mark Candlish (Senior Advisor). Mark has worked in the renewable energy industry for 20 years, and was recently the Business Development Director at RES Group. Mark was also the Commercial Director of Slough Heat & Power, transforming the loss-making coal fired power station into the UK's most prominent biomass CHP plant (subsequently acquired by SSE).
Team
Harry Jameson (Supply Director, Scotland) After an environmental science degree at Newcastle and a career in the Army, Harry has been working on Estover's woodfuel supply chains from commercial forestry in the North of England and Scotland.
Ben Heathcoat Amory (Supply Manager, Southern England) Ben joined Estover in June 2010 fresh from an agroforestry and diversification project on a rural Estate. Ben's focus is on forestry in Southern England, working on wood supply chains, harvesting and logistics.
Danny Finlay (Project Development) Danny is a Chartered Engineer, and worked for the CEGB before becoming a Regional Sales Manager for Powergen/E.ON with account management team covering North of England and Scotland. He then became Business Develoment Manager for Connective Energy, a Carbon Trust Company.
Alexander Allan (Project Development) Alexander joined Estover in 2011 having spent two years developing biomass sites around the UK. Prior to that Alexander gained a Masters in Environmental Technology, and spent six years in the Grenadier Guards.
Gillon Dobie (Project Development) Gillon recently completed a Masters in Geophysical Hazards at UCL, and has a Degree in Environmental Science from Sheffield University.
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