Intelligent Energy

Non-Executive Chairman

John Rennocks joined the Board as Non-Executive Chairman on 1 November 2006. Mr Rennocks has broad experience in the power generation, automotive, biotechnology, support services and manufacturing industries.

He served as Finance Director at Smith and Nephew plc, Powergen plc and British Steel/Corus plc throughout the years of 1981 to 2001. He is Chairman of Diploma plc and Deputy Chairman of Inmarsat plc.

He is also a non-executive Director of Babcock International Group plc, JP Morgan Overseas Investment Trust plc, and has previously served as a non executive director from some 15 other companies over the past 20 years.

Mr Rennocks is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director

Dr Winand joined the Board as Chief Executive on 1 September 2006.

He was most recently Vice President of Corporate Venturing at Rolls-Royce plc, the power systems provider for land, sea and air.

During his time with Rolls-Royce, Dr Winand managed a power systems business, introduced new manufacturing technologies into the group and was responsible for defining and supervising the implementation of strategies for deriving additional value from the group’s technology assets (involving serving on the boards of directors of some of the joint ventures in which Rolls-Royce invested).

Dr Winand has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a Masters of Business Administration from Warwick University and a BEng from Imperial College, London.

Henri is a Governing Board member of the European Union’s Fuel Cell Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) and Treasurer of the NEW Industrial Grouping, also part of the FCH JU structure. He is a member of the UK’s Automotive Technology Council, a member of the UK Government’s Green Economy Council, advising the Secretaries of State for DECC, DEFRA and BIS and a member of the University of Cambridge’s Alumni Advisory Board.

Contact Dr Henri Winand at our Loughborough office.

Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director

Dr Mitchell is an electrochemist with over 20 years of experience in fuel cell and related fields.

He was formerly Research and Development Manager at Innogy Technology Ventures Ltd (part of the Innogy Group) where he was engaged in the development of the “Regenesys” electrochemical energy storage system and directed Innogy’s research programme in regenerative fuel cell and electrochemical technologies.

Dr Mitchell has a BSc and a PhD in Chemistry from Loughborough University.

Non-executive Director

Flavio Guidotti is an independent business consultant and sits on the board of several corporations and non-profit organisations.

With over 30 years of business experience, he has worked in investment banking, first for the Banque Européenne pour l’Amérique Latine (at the time a Fortis affiliate) and then for the Royal Bank of Canada.

He has also managed various business divisions at the southern cone headquarters of of ExxonMobil in Buenos Aires.

In 1997 Mr Guidotti was appointed Senior Advisor to the President of the Central Bank of Argentina.

Mr Guidotti is a CPA and holds a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, where he has also been professor of General Management and Business Strategy for several years.

Chief Financial Officer

John Maguire joined the Board in January 2012 and has a wealth of Board level experience of listed and unlisted technology rich companies, having conducted strategic planning and successful financial management for growing businesses across the globe.

He joined Intelligent Energy from Etisalat Nigeria, one of four national mobile operators in the country, where his responsibilities included the negotiation and delivery of a national 3G licence. He was previously CFO at THUS Group plc, and worked in a number of senior positions, including as Vice President Japan and Asia, at Cable and Wireless before its acquisition of THUS.