Judges

Angela Reid

Head of New Business Development, NPower

Angela Reid has been the Head of New Business Development at npower, energy services since 2009. She has been responsible for policy implementation & infrastructure build to support the delivery of Green Deal & ECO capability.

Richard Twinn

Policy & Public Affairs Officer, UK Green Building Council

Richard leads on domestic retrofit for UK-GBC, who have taken an active role in developing the Green and continue to act as a forum for continued dialogue between industry and government.

Carl Harvey

Director, My Home Survey Ltd

Carl Harvey works as an independent retrofit coordinator at My Home Survey Ltd, a business that Carl established in 2006 and now delivers a full suite of retrofit coordination services including Pulse air permeability testing, and as the senior retrofit coordinator at Osmosis ACD Ltd overseeing the PAS 2035 process within the business and promoting best practice in the industry.

Gregory Elliott

Independent

Gregory Elliott is Property Services Director for Vibrant Energy Matters, the largest EPC supplier in the UK carrying out over 160K instructions per year. He hass been involved in the EPC industry from conception, with over 10 years in the property sector and overseen many changes. The most exciting has being within the energy sector, having worked with Birmingham Council with the first go early EPC scheme in 2007 to one of the first Green Deal Advise Reports. Experience gained from working with most of the Big Six energy companies on several ECO projects has given him both insight and an understanding on the opportunity that ECO and the Green Deal brings to the industry.

Andrew Burke

Policy Officer , National Housing Federation

Andrew is an Architect with extensive experience in energy efficiency and housing. He worked for a local authority research and development group on energy efficiency and solar water heating demonstration projects before working in central government on fuel poverty, building regulations, energy and construction research. He joined the Federation at the beginning of 2010 to lead on asset management, with a particular emphasis on refurbishing, retrofitting and greening existing homes. Andrew also leads the Federation's technical work on the design, construction, maintenance and improvement of housing and has been closely involved in the Government's Housing Standards Review.

Prof Bill Gething, MA (Cantab) Dipl Arch RIBA

Sustainability & Architecture, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

Bill Gething is Professor of Architecture at the University of the West of England and a practicing architect and sustainability consultant.
He was the RIBA President's Sustainability Advisor from 2003 to 2009 and has worked with the Energy Savings Trust on addressing the challenges of insulating hard to treat homes.

Claire Curtis-Thomas, PhD(Hon), C.Eng FIMechE FIET

Chief Executive, British Board of Agrement

Until 2010 Claire was the elected Member of Parliament for Crosby, and was Chief Executive of The Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM) prior to joining the BBA.

Daniel Mackie

Business Development Director, Hamilton (Building Contractors) Ltd

Having worked previously in Electrical, Heating and Renewable Contracting and after several years working with utilities delivering CERT & CESP, Daniel joined Hamilton (Building Contractors) Limited, to continue their growth in the Solid Wall Insulation market. Hamilton's have been at the forefront of the SWI market for over 18 years and in 2013 alone delivered External Wall Insulation to almost 4,000 properties in the UK.

David Brierley

Managing Director, Evolve Partnership Limited

David Brierley is the founder and Managing Director of Evolve Partnership Limited, which has been supplying EPCs and other services to the property industry on a nationwide basis since 2007 and GDARs since 2012.

David Cox

Managing Director (Designate), Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA)

David Cox joined the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) as Managing Director Designate in January 2014. He has a strong policy and stakeholder engagement background, having held previous senior policy roles at the National Landlords Association (NLA) and the International Union of Property Owners (UIPI). A trained barrister, David has also acted as Parliamentary Advisor to a well-known backbench MP.

Emma Pinchbeck

Energy Policy & Politics Expert, Sustainable Energy Association

She also works for the energy consultancy, Ecuity, with recent work on the RHI, Building Regulations, and Community Energy. Until 2011, Emma worked in finance; she believes economic analysis is key to securing Government support for policy.

Frank Harris

Director, HD Services Ltd

Garry Stevens-Smith

Chief Executive, Elite Network

Garry Stevens-Smith, Founder and CEO of the Elite Network, GDP Network and Be Training Academy, operating and delivering throughout every level of the Green Deal & ECO. The group currently employs 65 staff with billings of £8m and excellent relationships with all major energy companies and national merchants. Garry's expertise spans over 25 years in marketing and business strategy, specialising in forming and developing businesses.

Gary Braybrooke

Director, Energy Efficiency & Retrofit Awards

Gary Braybrooke has been a passionate voice calling for the success of the Green Deal since its launch in January 2013. It is the opportunity to tackle fuel poverty and save the lives of the most vulnerable through the success of the Energy Company Obligations scheme that drives him to help make the industry successful.

John Sinfield

Managing Director, Knauf Insulation

John Sinfield has worked for Knauf Insulation for seven years, the last four as MD of its Northern Europe region. Knauf Insulation is the leading manufacturer of insulation in the UK, and improving energy efficiency is core to the business

Lawrence Slade

Chief Operating Officer, Energy UK

Lawrence has been involved with the energy industry since the late 1990's, prior to the creation of Energy UK, he ran the Energy Retail Association.
At Energy UK Lawrence has specific executive responsibility for all energy supply activities including Retail Markets, Smart Metering and Grids, Energy Efficiency and consumer engagement
Prior to the Energy Retail Association, Lawrence ran the Society of Petroleum Engineers where, as Regional Managing Director he greatly expanded the society's operations in the emerging energy markets of Russia, the Caspian and Africa. Before this, Lawrence served as Deputy Chief Executive and Technical Director of the Energy Institute in London.

Maria Wardrobe, BSc

Director of External Affairs, National Energy Action (NEA)

Maria has extensive experience of campaigning at a national level, organising and speaking at regional and national events and broadcasting on local and national radio and TV. She is responsible for the Secretariat for the All-Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group (FPEEG) and is Chair of the Age Action Alliance Safe Warm Homes Working Group.

Maria has worked for NEA for 20 years. She is also a Trustee of the British Gas Energy Trust.

Mark Hampson, IEng, MIGEM, MIDHEE, ACIBSE

Head of Energy, Wates Living Space

Mark is Head of Energy at Wates Living Space, and has worked in the energy sector for over 30 years. Having held positions ranging from Service Engineer to Managing Director, Mark has expert sector knowledge and understanding, having been responsible for overseeing £1.5bn of energy efficiency work in the private and public, domestic and commercial sectors during his career. With extensive government, energy market engagement and contractual experience, Mark leads the energy team at Wates Living Space as it seeks to expand its work with registered housing providers and local authorities. Mark currently leads Wates Living Space's on-going programme of energy efficiency retrofit solutions in order to tackle the root causes of fuel poverty, and reduce carbon emissions from the nation's building stock.

Mark Weaver

Head of Business Development, Alsecco

Mark has worked in senior Sales and Marketing roles within the Construction Products sector for the past thirty years. Mark is now Head of Business Development for Alsecco, a major supplier of facades solutions and part of the International DAW Group. Mark has been actively involved for many years in the Energy Efficiency and Retrofit sector and was Chair of SWIGA, the solid wall industry guarantee scheme during its inception. Mark is presently acting Vice-Chair of INCA, the leading External Wall Insulation trade association. Cycling, football and his family are what keep Mark sane out of working hours.

Mike Crompton

Chairman, Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors

Chairman of IDEA, Member of the DECC Green Deal Advisory Group, Member of the GDORB Assessor Forum, Member of the Traditional Buildings Working Group for Asset Skills

Neil Marshall

Chief Executive, National Insulation Association

He had previously held a number of senior management positions at British Gas in the areas of marketing, business development, energy efficiency, fuel poverty and corporate responsibility.

He is a member of the Trade Association Forum Steering Group, Energy Efficiency Partnership for Buildings, British Energy Efficiency Federation, ECO Steering Group, Green Deal Installer Forum, Green Deal Advisory Group, and Green Deal Skills Alliance Expert Advisory Group.

Phyllis Prior-Boardman, BEM, BSc (Hons) CIHCM

Founder & Chairman, Green Deal Consortia

Phyllis Prior-Boardman is the chairman of the Green Deal Consortia. She was awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Years Honours List in recognition of her contribution to the Green Deal and Energy Efficiency

Richard Lambert

Chief Executive, National Landlords Association

Richard Lambert joined the National Landlords Association as Chief Executive Officer in October 2011. He began his career as a parliamentary civil servant in the House of Commons, where over 10 years he worked on Select Committees, various aspects of the legislative process and interparliamentary affairs. Following a brief spell in commercial lobbying, he moved into trade associations, spending five years as the Policy Director covering residential issues at the British Property Federation, then becoming Chief Executive of the British Woodworking Federation in 2002. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former Chairman of the National Training Organisation, Housing Potential.

Rob Wellman, B.Ed, Eng.Tech, MICPHE

National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies

With a wide range of experience within the sector, initially having completed a Plumbing Apprenticeship,as Plumber, Engineer, Contract Manager, Designer and Estimator before moving into education.

Within education lecturing and management roles included Head of Construction at both Richmond upon Thames and St Helens Colleges.An External Verifier for City & Guilds, Rob also supported development of the initial Plumbing NVQ's.Rob has been a member of the British Association of Construction Heads (BACH) and was President of the National Association of Plumbing Teachers.