MANAGEMENT

■ JOEL STAADECKER, Chief Executive

Joel Staadecker has spent over 30 years in the capacity of CEO and COO building a number of businesses in a wide variety of industries, including those operating in the oil and gas, information technology, and aviation industries, in addition to renewables. He has accumulated extensive experience in launching and developing new startup ventures and has managed the corporate development process through to IPO on US and Canadian markets. Mr. Staadecker worked in the venture capital industry for several years and has been responsible for identifying a number of target technologies that were successfully financed and developed. Other tenures have included corporate advisory roles with emerging growth companies directed upon specific objectives in the areas of strategy, corporate finance and marketing. Mr. Staadecker developed the concept for SeaEnergy with Steve Remp, Chairman, in 2005 and has been developing the company’s strategy in the marine renewables sector from inception.

■ ALLAN MACASKILL, Business Development Director

Allan MacAskill has a track record of technical and commercial innovation in both the oil and gas and renewables industries. In the last 10 years he has been involved with a number of mature reservoir redevelopments with proven expertise in project management, field development, reservoir management, production operations and renewable energy. Mr. MacAskill has extensive experience managing commercial teams to develop and implement unique solutions and deliver improved financial outcomes. This background led him to propose the Beatrice Demonstrator Wind Farm development off the Northeast coast of Scotland where he served as the overall Project Director for Talisman Energy and Scottish and Southern Energy, the joint owners. The Beatrice Demonstrator Wind Farm, which was also sponsored by the European Union DOWNVInD program and the UK and Scottish Governments, is an award winning development that represents a number of technical “firsts” for the offshore wind industry. Mr. MacAskill also serves on the Steering Committee of the TP Wind Secretariat of the European Wind Energy Association.

■ RONNIE BONNAR, Operations Director

Ronnie Bonnar was formerly Project Manager on the Beatrice Demonstrator Wind Farm development and has 22 years experience in the offshore oil and gas industry with management responsibilities over the last 17 years. He has previously held overseas project management appointments in Indonesia, the Middle East and South America with KBR Maritime, Halliburton and Brown and Root. Mr. Bonnar had overall responsibility for the fabrication and pre-commissioning of 33,000Te of Topsides for the Barracuda and Caratinga FPSOs for the Campos Basin offshore Brazil (valued at US$300M). He later assumed responsibility for the installation, hook-up and commissioning of 16,500Te of Topsides on the Barracuda FPSO (valued at US$100M). Immediately before joining the Beatrice Wind Farm development team Mr. Bonnar had overall responsibility for the development of the control estimate and schedule for the £4Bn CVF Carrier Project involving a scope of work that included the design, procurement, fabrication and commissioning (including in-service trials) for two aircraft carriers for the UK Defence Procurement Agency.

■ DAN FINCH, Development Director

Dan Finch is Development Director of Seaenergy Renewables Ltd, and the Project Director of Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd; responsible for leading the development of commercial-scale offshore wind generation in the challenging conditions of the outer Moray Firth. Dan’s background  brings together engineering  authority and business  expertise, which, combined with his involvement in the world’s first  deep offshore wind demonstrator project, makes him uniquely equipped to deal with the technical and commercial challenges of pioneering wind generation in the North Sea. Dan is now leading the development of offshore Wind Energy in Zone 1 of the Round Three Licensing Programme – the outer Moray Firth.

 DIRECTORS

■ STEVE REMP, Chairman

Steve Remp is the founding member of Ramco Energy plc, which became a market leader in the oilfield service sector in the 1980s. Most successfully, Steve was invited to lead the first western consortium (including BP, Statoil and Pennzoil) for a 5 billion barrel offshore oilfield in the Caspian Region. After almost 30 years in the oil industry, and following some difficult times in the offshore Irish Sea, Steve made the decision to reposition Ramco as an 'Energy Investment Company'. In 2005, Steve identified the potential of the renewable energy market and three years later, with the support of CEO Joel Staadecker, formed SeaEnergy Renewables.

Steve was educated in Europe and the US, obtaining a BA in Economics from Claremont College in California and an MA in International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.

■ DAVID SIGSWORTH, Non-Executive Director

David Sigsworth has spent over ten years as a main board director of FTSE 100 utility companies and has a career spanning 43 years in the energy sector.He held several appointments in Yorkshire Electricity Board before joining the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board in 1987. He was appointed as Commercial Director of Scottish Hydro Electric plc in January 1995 and subsequently held several positions on the board of SSE.

During the latter half of his career at Scottish and Southern Energy, David had responsibility for all of SSE’s environmental issues and managed one of the largest and most diverse generation fleets in the UK with over 10,000 MW of plant. He was also responsible for a £1bn programme of investments in renewable generation technologies.

David is now active in promoting high technology start–up companies, involved in the renewable and sustainable energy markets, and holds several associated non-executive directorships. He is also Chairman of Sigma Capital Group plc, Chairman of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Chairman of the Dundee Science Centre, Vice President of the Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA), a board member of Energy Action Scotland, a member of the Advisory Boards of ITI Energy and the New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC), as well as a trustee of the think tank Sustainability First.

David has a degree in electrical engineering, is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and a Professor at the University of Dundee.

■ STEVEN BERTRAM, Finance Director

Steven Bertram has over 20 years experience in the oil and gas sector and is Managing Director of Ramco Energy plc, SeaEnergy’s parent company.  During his time at Ramco, Steven has guided Ramco’s financial affairs from its original USM listing, through its international offer and listing on the American Stock Exchange in 1997 and its move to AIM. Steven has an MA Honours degree in Economics with Accountancy from Aberdeen University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Young in 1984.

 

 

■ JOHN ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, Non-Executive Director

John Aldersey-Williams has worked in the energy business for 25 years and in renewables since 2001. Originally in technical roles, he graduated with an MBA in 1990 and moved into commercial and financial positions, where he became Texaco’s Finance Director in its Aberdeen business unit. In 2001, he founded Redfield Consulting Limited, a consultancy offering commercial, strategic and economic advice to companies across the zero-carbon energy space. Redfield has advised public and private sector clients in wind and marine energy, as well as in carbon capture and storage and policy areas. He was involved from the beginning of SeaEnergy, building the business plan with the Chief Executive and working with investors and partners to develop the business. He was also a Director of the European Marine Energy Centre from 2005-2009.