Meet The Team

Matthew Lumsden

Chief Executive Officer

With 15 years experience in the low carbon energy and transport sectors, Matthew founded Connected Energy to commercialise a range of energy storage and control systems developed by parent company Future Transport Systems. In the emerging energy storage sector, a key focus of Connected Energy is to provide customers with end to end expertise and support in developing their projects.

Matthew worked in the renewable energy sector from 2000 for 10 years as Business Development and Managing Director of energy consultancy TNEI where he also delivered a wide range of projects primarily focussing on the introduction of new clean technologies and business models including marine renewables, biomass systems, small scale/urban wind and electric vehicles. In so doing he realised that electric vehicles represented a potential risk to grid stability as well as a clean technology and environmental opportunity.

In 2009 he founded Future Transport Systems to provide specialist consultancy and project management in the field of electric-mobility with an emphasis on the relationship between electric vehicles and energy networks

In 2014 Matthew founded Connected Energy to provide energy storage systems and operating services.

Matthew has a 1st Class degree in Business Administration and spent his earlier career in sales and marketing in the construction industry.

Pete Beasley

Chief Operating Officer

Pete is a project management and operations professional with fourteen years of multi-disciplinary experience.

Pete has played a key role in developing a competitive Connected Energy supply chain and is responsible for overseeing the programme management of all major projects, from contracting and liaising with clients to ensuring projects achieve quality, cost and delivery targets.

With a proven track record in project, commercial, supply chain and relationship management with an operational delivery focus, Pete was responsible for delivering multiple projects through the new product development and introduction phases as a Senior Project Manager at Lotus Cars Limited. He has also managed all aspects of projects for multi-national third party clients, as the operations-focussed project manager for several vehicle assembly programmes.

Arek Porebski

Chief Technology Officer

Arek is an enthusiastic, passionate and dynamic Leader with over 15 years’ experience in New Product Development and Senior Level Management of multidiscipline Engineering & R&D teams across key industries such as Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, Subsea, Defence and Automotive. As an effective collaborator at all organisational levels who inspires team members by modelling leadership and responsibility in his commitment to excellence, he has made a key contribution to the development and commercialisation of Connected Energy’s range of energy storage systems.

With career achievements in Business to Business (B2B), Small Medium Enterprise (SME), large global organisations (Co) and start-ups, Arek brings to Connected Energy the best practices in Engineering along with the ability to think strategically and commercially by developing the Technical/Product Strategy and directing all aspects of Product Management to balance the desire for Innovation with business practicality delivered through cost savings and margin maximisation.

Through the capability of building efficient multidiscipline and multicultural Engineering/Project teams and developing professional relationships with clients, partners and suppliers Arek plays the key role in Connected Energy growth and Business scale up. Arek has a strong belief in always hiring and retaining top talent then supporting them with effective Performance Management.

Matthew Booth

Macquarie Bank

Matt is a Senior Managing Director in the Commodities and Financial Markets group at Macquarie Bank, where he is responsible for principal investments. Matt has nearly 20 years’ experience in financing assets in the energy and infrastructure sectors and led the commercial development of the 299MW biomass power plant in Teesside, UK. Matt previously represented Macquarie on the board of directors of Energy Assets Group plc. Prior to joining Macquarie Matt practised law in the project finance team at Linklaters. Matt holds an MA in Mathematics from Oxford University and an MsC in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Brendan Wauters

Engie Fab

Brendan has more than 20 years of experience in the energy sector and is currently the Director of Business Development for Engie Fab, Engie's global innovation pole. He joined Engie (then Tractebel) in Brussels in 1999. He moved to Thailand in early 2002 to take on the role of CFO and thereafter Head of Strategy for the Asia Pacific region. In 2009 he moved to Singapore where he became CEO of Senoko Energy, the largest gentailer in Singapore. In 2014 he moved back to Thailand to take on the role of CEO of Glow Energy, Engie's listed subsidiary in Thailand. Upon the completion in early 2019 of the sale of Engie's stake in Glow Energy, Brendan returned to Europe. Brendan holds an MBA from the University of Brussels.

Makoto Yoshida

Sumitomo Corporation

Makoto has 15 years of experience in Sumitomo Corporation and is currently Director of the Business Development Unit for Sumitomo Corporation Europe Limited in London. Sumitomo Corporation Group conducts business activities in a wide range of industries on a global scale, and in his role, Makoto promotes business development on a mid- to long- term basis from a company-wide perspective, with a focus on addressing key social issues. Makoto holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in frontier sciences from the University of Tokyo.

Jonathan Cogman

Project & Supply Chain Manager

Manage our global supply chain

Not having a detrimental effect on the planet for future generations

Roger Tudor

Technical Manager – Controls Software

Over 6 years

Lead the Controls Software Team

Frazer Wagg

Energy Storage Analyst

Over 4 years

Manage our vast data pool and use it to optimise customers energy systems

Eduard Sanz

Hardware Technical Manager

Support the Engineering Team coordinating and leading all aspects related to the hardware side of our products. Our motto is “If you can touch the problem, it is probably our problem”.

to be able to give back to nature as much as we take, nothing more and nothing less.

Nigel Dent

Head of Sales

Leading the sales team delivering award winning second life battery storage systems

the company has a great ethos and is giving a product that uses scarce resources a second life and thus increasing the life of the product.

Arek Porebski

Chief Technology Officer

Over 3 years

Provide strategic and technical leadership and manage the product development and engineering functions across the business

Andrew Riches

Electrical Design Engineer

3 years

Design, Test and Commission Electrical Enclosures in our E-STOR's

Nathan Evans

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsible for the mechanical design of all E-STOR systems.

I am proud to be part of an organisation that really cares about the future of the Planet, and is taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

Tania Saxby

Project Coordinator

Support the delivery of projects

Over 1 year

Ewa Bartnik

Supply Chain Coordinator

Less than 1 year

I help coordinating various projects and support the Supply Chain management

Pete Beasley

Chief Operating Officer

Over 7 years

Try and glue everything together to deliver on our mission!

Matthew Lumsden

Chief Executive Officer

Since the beginning

Try to provide direction, focus and motivation for the bright lights around me