| Loughborough,
UK--Leading fuel cell power systems company Intelligent Energy today
announced the appointment of Thomas Bennett as general counsel and commercial
director for the Intelligent Energy Group. Bennett will also serve as an
executive director on the company’s board, under the leadership of chairman
John Rennocks. The appointment marks the beginning of a new phase
of Intelligent Energy’s growth and brings the company closer to the attainment
of its commercial goals. Intelligent Energy recently unveiled the Crosscage,
a prototype hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle developed in collaboration with
Suzuki.
Intelligent Energy CEO, Henri Winand,
commented: “This appointment shows that Intelligent Energy has moved beyond
the technological R&D stage of its growth and is now moving into the
commercialisation phase of our business plan. This is a further step
in the maturing of Intelligent Energy as an organisation, and has been
carefully considered by Intelligent Energy’s leadership and subsequently
endorsed by the board.”
Thomas Bennett was previously senior
treasury counsel and assistant group treasurer at Rolls-Royce Group plc.
In addition, he was a director of AirTanker limited, the EADS, Thales,
Vosper-Thorneycroft and Cobham joint venture, and was responsible for taking
the multi billion pound FSTA PFI government contract to the financial markets.
Thomas Bennett qualified as a solicitor
in 1995 and trained as a finance lawyer in the City of London . Previous
firms include Denton Wilde Sapte and Allen & Overy. He has experience
of working with financial institutions and large companies as a business
director, finance lawyer and company treasurer.
Alongside Bennett, Intelligent Energy’s
Board is made up of non-executive chairman John Rennocks (former finance
director of Smith & Milton, Powergen plc and British Steel/Corus plc);
executive director and company CEO Henri Winand (former VP of corporate
venturing at Rolls Royce plc); executive director and COO Philip Mitchell
(former R&D manager of Innogy Technology); non-executive director and
independent business consultant Flavio Guidotti (also senior advisor to
the president of the Central Bank of Argentina) and non-executive director
Talal Shakerchi (MD of Meditor Capital Management Ltd).
About Intelligent Energy:
Intelligent Energy is focused on
the provision of cleaner power and carbon abatement, via a range of world-class
fuel cell, fuel processing, desulphurisation and hydrogen generation technologies.
Intelligent Energy partners with leading companies globally in the transportation,
oil and gas, aerospace, defence, distributed generation and portable power
markets. Current partners and customers include Boeing, PSA Peugeot Citroën,
and the Suzuki Motor Corporation.
www.intelligent-energy.com
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