Board of Directors
Chairman, Mervyn Jones
Mervyn Jones joined Aquamarine Power in October 2007. He has spent much of his career in the oil industry both in the UK and abroad, holding a number of trading, commercial and business restructuring roles with BP. Among his broader responsibilities he has also been Chairman of the Grangemouth Development Group, Vice President of a Chamber of Commerce and a LEC Board Member. Since 2003 when he set up the Maple Jones Consultancy, Mervyn has been a Council Member of the Scottish Funding Council for Further and Higher Education, there chairing its Strategic Funds and Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Groups. He is also a non-executive Director of Greenrock Energy Supply Company and SMRU Ltd and a Member of Court of the University of St Andrews. In 2010, Mervyn was named Non-Executive Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors Scotland.
Non-Executive Director, Allan Thomson
Company founder, Allan Thomson is a successful technology development entrepreneur responsible for founding several companies in the offshore construction and wave power sectors. Allan has been a leading developer of wave power technology in the UK; responsible for identifying and testing wave power concepts and overseeing the development and sea testing of several devices over the last 20 years. Allan is a fellow of the World Technology Network and was a founder member of the UK Energy Ministerial Renewable Advisory Board.
Non-Executive Director, Frederik W. Mowinckel
Frederik W. Mowinckel joined Aquamarine Power as a non-executive director in May 2007. For the last 20 years, he has served as CEO, director and chairman with several companies, delivering successful business development, investment and management strategies for them in 45 different countries. Frederik has led several turnarounds of global manufacturing and trading companies such as Hunton Fiber AS, TNC International (Asia) Ltd., Rikett Technology AS and Solar Integrated Technologies, Inc. He is currently the Chairman of Bergensis Capital AS, a Bergen, Norway based investment company with holdings in various listed and unlisted companies in clean technology including renewable energy. Frederik holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island.
Non-Executive Director, Tristan Fischer
Tristan Fischer joined the board of Aquamarine Power in October 2007. He was CEO of Camco International, the award winning carbon developer listed on AIM with one of the largest carbon portfolios in the world. He has a track record in the global renewable energy sector, having previously worked as a project developer for Shell WindEnergy. He also led the establishment of new businesses in the wave and solar sectors for Shell Renewables and Shell Technology Ventures. He has widespread geographical experience in regions including Eastern Europe, South America and Asia, and has led a number of early-stage companies. He began his career with Citigroup project finance, developing power and infrastructure projects. Tristan has an MA (Hons) from Cambridge University.
Non-Executive Director, David Gardner
David Gardner is the Head of Scottish and Southern Energy's (SSE) Ventures unit and Director of SSE Venture Capital Limited, a subsidiary investment vehicle of SSE plc. Having worked for the SSE group for over 20 years, David has been responsible for the delivery of various generation assets for SSE, including hydro, wind, combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT), combined heat and power (CHP), and oil fired plants. Latterly he was responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of 160MW of onshore wind farms. David was instrumental in the establishment of the SSE Venture Capital business in 2007 and has seen the business grow significantly in this time: SSE Venture Capital now includes 15 different 'Cleantech' businesses investments with an SSE commitment of just under £100m.
Specialist Advisor to the Board, Professor Trevor Whittaker
Professor Trevor Whittaker is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Coastal Engineering at Queen's University Belfast. He has been a pioneer of wave power engineering since the early 1970s, when he first worked with Professor Allan Wells on the design and delivery of the first Wells Turbines. In the 1990s he managed the team which designed, constructed and operated Britain's first wave power station, located on the Isle of Islay. It became one of only four grid-connected wave power stations in the world. Since then Trevor has been involved in the design and deployment of six wave power devices, and supervised 22 PhDs in wave power.
Find out more about Professor Trevor Whittaker.
Read scientific papers co-authored by Professor Trevor Whittaker.
Specialist Advisor, Professor Stephen Salter
Professor Stephen Salter is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an MBE. A pioneer and leader in his field, Stephen led a team at the University of Edinburgh in the 1970’s to design and develop ‘Salter’s Edinburgh Duck’. The Duck was the first generation wave energy converter, designed using a revolutionary wave tank. The Duck is one of the most efficient wave-energy converters to date and can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland. Stephen continues to design and develop a range of technologies and innovations in many sectors including renewable energy, climate change and global warming.
