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.

James Higgins

Partner, Ecuity Consulting LLP

Karl Drage, CEng, MEng, MIMechE, DMS, ACGI, MIOD

Chief Executive Officer, Coefficient Renewable Heating Solutions Limited

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.

Alan Ring

Managing Director, Just Energy Solutions

Alan originally trained as an engineer with British Gas before forming AFR Limited in 1986 which held partnering contracts with Social Landlords for 22 years. Eaga acquired AFR in 2007 and appointed Alan as managing director of their heating division which included managing Warmfront Scheme and developing renewable business.

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.

Bryn Kewley

Political Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to the Shadow Secretary of State for BEIS., BEIS

Bryn Kewley is a Political Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to the Shadow Secretary of State for BEIS. He works with Rebecca Long-Bailey, writing for, briefing and representing her on issues surrounding energy and climate change. Labour's Industrial Strategy includes a mission to source 60% of our power and heat from low carbon sources and Bryn has been establishing policies to fulfil this pledge. Previously he worked for the think tank E3G campaigning to make energy efficiency an infrastructure priority. An keen adventurist he's raced across the Atlantic, ridden horses in Afghanistan and driven a motorbike from the UK to SE Asia.

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.

Craig Dean

Chief Executive, Clean Carbon Ltd

Craig Dean, founder and Chief Executive of Clean Carbon Ltd, a leading eco and Technical monitoring company.

Craig had previously held a number of senior management roles at Elite Network and Npower in areas of marketing, sales, Business development, installation.

Proven experience of working successfully with multi channels across the business. An excellent negotiator with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels.

Craig has a passion for helping customers in fuel poverty and has been recognised for his personal efforts within the eco compliance market.

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.

Frank Harris

Director, HD Services Ltd

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

Judith Kay

Co-Founder, Energy Saving Installers Association (ESIA)

Judith Kay is Co-founder of Energy Saving Installers Association (ESIA) which has been founded to fill a void of encouragement and support, particularly for SME's operating in the energy usage and energy efficiency sectors.
Judith is also a partner in a small plumbing and heating company and has been involved in many energy efficiency and fuel poverty projects and initiatives.

Dr Kerry Mashford, BSc (Hons) MSc PhD MSt (Cam) CEng FIMechE FRSA

Chief Executive , National Energy Foundation

Working as a consultant to the Technology Strategy Board, Kerry led the inception and delivery of a major UK programme to investigate the discrepancy between theoretical and measured as-built and in-use performance of UK buildings. She now leads the work of the National Energy Foundation, the primary objective of which is improving the use of energy in buildings through: inspiring action, increasing capacity across stakeholders, advancing knowledge through collaborative research and development and supporting the delivery of high-performing new and refurbished buildings.

Kerry holds a masters qualification in Interdisciplinary Design of the Built Environment from the University of Cambridge and in Applied Mechanics from Cranfield University and a doctorate in Design Theory and Methodology of Multi-Domain Systems from Brunel University. She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

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.

Marcus Jefford

Operations & Marketing Director, Greenworks

Marcus Jefford is currently the Operations & Marketing
Director for Greenworks, Part of Saint Gobain Building and
Distribution which include Jewson, Graham, Minster and
Gibbs & Dandy.

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 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.

Pádraig Barry

Chairman, Insulated Render and Cladding Association (INCA)

Pádraig Barry has been with the Saint-Gobain group for over seven years and been Managing Director of Saint-Gobain Weber (UK & Ireland) since 2010. Prior to joining Weber, Pádraig was Managing Director of Isover Ireland Limited and was elected as Chairman of INCA, the representative trade organisation for the external wall insulation industry (EWI), in July 2014.

Before joining Saint-Gobain, Pádraig spent over 20 years working in the medical device manufacturing sector, 15 of which were at General Manager level, with a strong focus on manufacturing and operations. Other roles included product development, marketing and operations.

Pádraig is originally from Limerick, Ireland, and holds a BSc in Manufacturing Technology and an MBA, both from the University of Limerick. Pádraig is married with 5 children, has a general interesting in most sports, particularly running, rugby and golf.

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.

Simon Lomax

Managing Director, Kensa Group

Since 2007, Simon has been Managing Director of the Kensa Group. Kensa Heat Pumps is the UK's only manufacturer of a full range of ground source heat pumps whilst Kensa Contracting has been launched to provide installation services on select projects, most notably large scale retrofit schemes for social housing landlords. As Chairman of the Ground Source Heat Pump Association and a member of the MCS Heat Pump Working Group, Simon is a leading advocate on the need for more refined Government policy to support the uptake of high quality renewable heat systems.

Simon Woodward

Chairman, The UK District Energy Association

Simon was the Chief Executive of Utilicom/Cofely District Energy for some 20 years and has recently left to set up in independent private practice as Woodward Energy Consulting. Simon is a passionate advocate of district energy and was instrumental in the formation of the UK District Energy Association which has grown rapidly from a founding 6 members to nearly 80 in four years. Simon is the current Chairman of the Association.

Stephanie Karpetas

Founder, Sustainability Connections

Stephanie has worked in the sustainability arena for over twenty years. Co-founder and director of Action Women! Community CIC, and founder and CEO of Sustainability Connections CIC, Stephanie aims to ensure that public funds are spent wisely. She works with the public sector, business and voluntary sector organisations to bring about sustainable, profitable projects that address social and environmental issues.

Tim Pollard

Head of Sustainability, Wolseley UK