TELCA 2024 Judges

Here are the people making up this year’s judges’ panel

 

 

A highly accomplished, influential and results-driven Senior Executive with over 25 years experience leading and managing complex programmes across the Energy industry. Significant experience in managing large teams, projects, programmes & portfolios to deliver transformational change & business benefits.

Alan Davidson

Brian Cairns

 

Brian cairns has 16 years experience in Energy Management across the Retail, Commercial, Distribution and Hospitality sectors.  He has worked in Senior Leadership roles covering National and International portfolios for organisations including Tesco, Marks and Spencer and Aggregate Industries.  He currently leads the Maintenance and Engineering team at Costa Coffee looking after the UK equity estate of 1500 stores. 

 

 

Caroline Pitt is an independent energy consultant who helps businesses get to the bottom of what energy and carbon really means to them. From projecting energy prices at Pöyry to leading the consulting team at Utilyx, Caroline has been building her energy policy expertise for over 20 years. She now works with energy users, suppliers and policy makers to turn political rhetoric into commercial sense. 

Caroline Pitt

Chris Webb

Chris Webb retired in 2023 after a 40-year career in the chemicals sector; initially with petrochemical EPC contractors, and subsequently in industrial gases with BOC Ltd and its owner Linde. For the last 16 years he was responsible for procurement and advocacy associated with electricity, natural gas and environmental credits, in the UK and EMEA. From 2010 he was a Vice President of the International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (Europe). 

 

Guy is Energy Category Manager for Imerys Minerals Ltd, a French multi-national company that specialises in the production and processing of industrial minerals. In his current role, Guy is responsible for the purchasing of all energy commodities in UK as well as other European countries. This includes the delivery of renewable projects across the energy intensive portfolio, focusing on key areas such as hydrogen, PV solutions, HVO and wind turbines. Over his 30-year career in energy, he has previously worked in senior roles for energy suppliers including E.ON and SEFE Ltd, and more recently as Procurement Lead for bp on the Central North Sea Electrification project.  

Guy Bradbury

Heike Hintze

Heike Hintze has a degree in agricultural economics from Goettingen University in Germany and worked as an agricultural economist and market information manager at the HGCA/AHDB (an agricultural levy board) for a number of years. Before joining United Biscuits (now pladis) she worked as a senior consultant for the metal, mining and fertilizer consultancy CRU in London. Heike purchased and managed utilities for pladis UK & pladis Northern Europe for 9 years before joining Diageo as Global Manager, Utility Price Optimisation in 2022. 

 

Jo works as an Independent Advisor and Non Executive Director helping businesses and investors navigate the UK energy market. She has a mixed portfolio of Board positions and consulting clients using her broad knowledge and experience of policy, regulation, and operational leadership. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Jo has spent her career working in the energy sector.  

Jo Butlin

Jo Ragdale

Jo has over 25 years experience in the Energy sector spending much of her early career as a derivatives trader for BP and Barclays. She then moved to npower to manage the structured product teams and optimisation desk before becoming Director of Pricing.  In 2015, Jo co-founded the The Energy Manager consultancy with a core focus on offering large businesses energy procurement, sustainability and risk management advice in an open and transparent way.  After achieving significant success in the commercial sector. Jo sold The Energy Manager in 2022. She is now an independent consultant advising businesses and suppliers on risk management, commercial strategy and product management.

With over 13 years of dedicated experience in the Renewable Energy sector, JP stands at the forefront of innovation as the CEO of Renewabl. His expertise lies in pioneering digital enterprises within the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) landscape, driving transformative change in the renewable energy industry. Before spearheading the digital frontier of renewable energy, JP focused on physical trading across diverse commodities. This foundational experience endowed him with a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics and a keen insight into navigating complex ecosystems. 

Juan Pablo Cerda

Jullie Allen

 

 

Julie has been in energy management for 25 years, working with industrial, commercial and retail. Four years ago she moved into the Public Sector and 12 months ago took up the challenge of Heat Decarbonisation within Higher Education. 

Junior Isles is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Energy Industry Times – a specialist monthly newspaper that is distributed internationally. He holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from Middlesex University and has worked as a technical journalist in the electronics, communications and power generation sectors since the late 1980s. Junior is a well-known commentator on the industry. He has appeared at both industry and private conferences as an accomplished moderator, and over the years has become a trusted colleague of key players in the energy industry.  

Junior Isles

Paul Densham

 

 

Paul is a savvy and respected energy expert who worked for Sainsburys/Argos for over 40 years and was Energy Buyer for almost 20 years before retiring in 2023. He worked with and met an extensive range of consultants and industry experts over his time as Energy Buyer so knows what’s required of and the value of the welcome additions provided by both consultants and suppliers in the energy industry.  

Sarah Shaw is UK ESG Director for CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS), covering everything from strategy to implementation for CBRE’s  clients. She is an accomplished ESG Director with 16 years’ industry experience and holds an MSc in Environmental Science. An accredited and MEI Chartered Energy Manager, she covers environmental compliance, sustainability strategy, building assessment and energy management. Sarah also has extensive knowledge in the following areas: energy auditing, detailed BMS analysis, ESOS Lead Assessor, CMVP, environmental project management, HVAC, renewable energy and building surveying. Sarah’s successes have been recognised with a PFM Partnership in Energy Award, a Global Procurement Sustainability Award and growing her ESG team by over 600%. 

Sarah Shaw

Stuart Dawes

Stuart has worked in the UK energy sector for over 25 years having held senior commercial roles for B2B suppliers and TPIs including SmartestEnergy, Inenco, EDF, British Energy and Npower. For the past 5 years he has been focused on growing The Utility Market Experts (TUME) who provide specialist interim expertise, market insight, executive search & recruitment services to companies across the UK utilities sector. 

A returning TELCA judge, Stuart has 16 years experience of in the energy industry, initially managing large customer projects for a major metering services provider followed by a 3 year spell as Bureau Service Delivery Manager at a leading TPI business. He then crossed to the other side of the desk to become the customer and has since bought and managed a wide rage of utilities category contracts and services including Consultancy (Bureau, Risk Management, Special projects etc), main supplier flexible contracts, metering and other services while working for businesses across the Leisure, Manufacturing, Retail and Infrastructure industries.

Stuart Griffiths

Susan McDonald

Susan is an award-winning Electrical and Mechanical Engineer with over 14 years’ experience in designing and overseeing major engineering infrastructure programs in the power, utilities, and renewables sector. She is the Energy Transition Lead within Deloitte’s Sustainability & Climate Strategy team. Susan joined Deloitte in 2016, after six years at National Grid. Susan is also a Non-Executive Director at The James Hutton Institute, a globally recognised independent research organisation to drive the sustainable use of land and natural resources, and an ambassador for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which helps promote engineering globally. 

An experienced company executive, Tim has spent the last 2 decades working in the energy industry. With a proven record of strong leadership, business planning and governance/assurance strategy, he offers a forward thinking, considered and insightful approach to work. Tim’s career in energy has seen him start up and run two consultancies. Between those two organisations he worked for 7 years as Director at a PLC energy consultancy where his roles included mobilisation planning for the expansion of the consultancy services into Europe, the implementation of a regulated sales floor and running the Corporate Division responsible for energy trading and energy efficiency projects. 

Timothy Hipperson

Wendy Cheeseman

Wendy is an experienced energy and carbon manager and has worked in both the commercial and public sector for over 20 years on energy and carbon reduction strategies. Wendy is one of only six energy conscious organisation (EnCO) practitioners globally driving energy reduction through people-led interventions and solutions. Her specialism is distilling complex technical guidance in relatable, simple ways to a non-technical audience, including for Government publications. She is a relentless advocate of obtaining quality, granular data to facilitate change. Several of Wendy’s energy reduction behaviour change projects have won awards such as the UK National Energy Efficiency Award and the prestigious Ashden awards. In addition to her work in December 2023 Wendy won the Net Zero Hero award for achievements over her career. She is driven by a passion to do the right thing and infuses all that she does with enthusiasm inspiring others to do the same.