ABOUT

EV infrastructure adviser. Strategic consultant. Author.

Some careers follow a straight line. Mine has followed the energy.

For more than thirty years I have been building things — businesses, teams, partnerships, and in some cases the infrastructure that powers entire cities. I started in enterprise networking at 3Com in the early 1990s, at a moment when the internet was just beginning to rewire the world. I ended up running broadband business development across EMEA, building a team of 100 people in 46 offices and growing revenues from zero to $100 million in two years. It was an extraordinary education in what it takes to bring a new technology to scale across many markets simultaneously — and it set the pattern for everything that followed.

That pattern has repeated across very different industries and geographies: find a technology that matters, understand the market it’s entering, build the commercial and operational foundation it needs to succeed, and stay focused on real-world delivery rather than the slide deck.

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The energy transition — three decades in the making

I arrived in EV charging before most people had heard of it. In 2017, I joined Parking Energy — the world’s first intelligent charger designed as a drop-in replacement for Finland’s engine heater socket infrastructure. In 2018, Parking Energy won the WWF Climate Solver Nordic Award.

Since then: leading electrification strategy for a 1,200-bus Nordic fleet at VR Group (15 MW depot, one of the largest in the Nordics); designing depot charging across five Finnish cities; NED at Trojan Energy; and leading CPO and motorway charging programmes at Willbert by Euroloop.

The energy transition will be won or lost at the infrastructure layer — on the ground, at the grid connection, in the depot. That is where I work.

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Beyond EV — systems thinking at scale

Between 2008 and 2013, through New ERA Partners and New ERA Energy in Western Africa, I co-developed the NewLAWMA programme — demonstrating that Lagos State could generate a surplus of over $8 billion through a wealth-from-waste model rather than a $2.4 billion liability. Also contributed to LASEPA organisational reform, the LASAA turnaround, and a Federal Nigerian power generation masterplan.

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What I bring to a board or advisory role

I am not an academic or a policy specialist. I have operated at scale — commercially, technically and organisationally — across multiple countries, cultures and sectors. I bring practical knowledge of where EV infrastructure is genuinely hard, and a longer perspective from working in energy, environment and infrastructure across Europe, Africa and Asia.

I am actively looking for NED, strategic advisory and interim executive roles in EV infrastructure, clean energy, and ESG-focused businesses.

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