Johnathan’s comprehensive understanding of these sectors enables him to effectively coach a diverse range of businesses, crafting growth strategies, scenario planning, and designing disruptive business development and marketing plans. His contributions include authoring several regional and local strategies and providing advisory on national and European policy.
Before 2019, Johnathan played a crucial role in the expansion of OrbisEnergy, one of the UK’s premier innovation hubs for clean energy. His efforts there significantly spurred innovation and investment throughout the East of England and further afield, supporting more than 180 tenants’ companies, creating 1,200 new jobs, investing more than £5m into early-stage innovations, and facilitated more than £7 billion of investment into the East.
His track record also includes the development and implementation of numerous business development and improvement programs, aiding business leaders and senior management teams in R&D, technology commercialisation, strategic diversification, and securing finance for growth.
Currently, Johnathan is supporting major projects across industrial decarbonisation, critical infrastructure with National Grid, and new generation across a portfolio of offshore wind (fixed and floating), hydrogen production, and nuclear, including Sizewell C in Suffolk.
As a co-founder of Hydrogen East, the East of England’s regional cluster body, he is a champion for the hydrogen sector and is exploring a range of novel energy hub concepts, aimed at large-scale hydrogen and offshore wind integration.
Johnathan holds positions as a non-executive director of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership; and Chairs the New Anglia Innovation Board, which is now recognised as one of England’s largest regional innovation networks across energy, digital, agriculture, and space. He serves as an assessor for both InnovateUK and the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership.
Previously, he was a non-executive director of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia, General Manager of the East of England Energy Group.
