Dr David Hewitt (Chairman)

David is a professional Naval Architect with over 30 years in executive management positions in the marine, defence, commercial shipping and offshore oil & gas markets. He founded the marine design consultancy, Armstrong Technology, in 1994, growing the business into a highly respected international organisation. The company was bought by the Babcock International Group in 2000 and, after successfully integrating the business into the Babcock organisation he took up the position of Director of Marine Technology with Babcock. In 2005 he set up an independent business consultancy servicing the marine sector. After establishing and leading the Marine Design Centre in Newcastle he has now returned to running his own business consultancy.

Graeme Mackie (CEO)

Graeme Mackie, the founder of Oceanflow Energy Ltd, is an MSc qualified chartered engineer with 35 years experience of leading marine projects in the defence, oil & gas and renewables energy industries. For the first 20 years of his career he worked in the naval defence sector with defence consultancy YARD Ltd and later with Swan Hunter Shipbuilders where his broad ranging understanding of marine sciences led to senior positions in the development of new technologies and integrated design solutions. From 1995 as Technical Director of marine consultancy Armstrong Technology he led a multi-discipline team of engineers responsible for the platform design of the first North Sea UK zone Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units. In 2002 he founded Overberg Ltd (now renamed Oceanflow Energy Ltd) and provided engineering design leadership and research management to a number of leading marine renewable companies before focusing on the in-house development of Evopod™ tidal turbine technology.

Matthias Haag (Non-Executive Director)

Matthias Haag joined the Board of Oceanflow Energy in November 2008 following investment by Aquamarine Power. Matthias is currently Chief Operating Officer of Aquamarine Power. Formerly General Manager of Projects with Shell WindEnergy, Matthias was responsible for the development of major offshore wind power projects in the UK, Netherlands and USA including the North Sea 36-turbine Offshore Windpark Egmond aan Zee. Matthias brings a wealth of offshore construction experience from his offshore oil and gas background with Shell and marine renewables developer Aquamarine Power.

Frederik W. Mowinckel (Non-Executive Director)

Frederik W. Mowinckel joined Oceanflow Energy as a non-executive director in July 2010. Frederik has over 20 years experience serving as CEO, director and chairman with a number of companies, delivering successful business development, investment and management strategies in 45 different countries. Frederik is the Chairman of Bergensis Capital AS, an investment company based in Bergen, Norway, which hold investments in various unlisted clean technology companies.

Previously Frederik has led the turnaround and rebuilding of several global manufacturing and trading companies such as Hunton Fiber AS, TNC International (Asia) Ltd, Rikett Technology AS and Solar Integrated Technologies, Inc. Frederik continues to sit on the Board of Skog Holding AS, and its subsidiary Hunton Fiber AS. He is a Non-Executive Director of Gas Turbine Efficiency Ltd and a Senior Advisor to Turquoise International Ltd, the London based boutique investment bank. In addition he is a Director of Mowinckel Management AS and Edinburgh-based wave energy company Aquamarine Power.

Alan Cramond (Financial Advisor to the Board)

Alan Cramond has held various senior financial management positions with mining and defence sector companies including Divisional Finance Director and then Commercial Director of defence services provider Babcock Rosyth. Alan brings a wealth of experience to the Board on obtaining value for money on multifaceted marine projects and in developing business growth initiatives in the marine sector. Alan left the Babcock Group in 2003 to form his own business consultancy business and has worked with a number of companies since then. He is currently a consultant to ENER-G whose core business activities cover the delivery of sustainable and energy efficient technologies on a business-to-business basis worldwide. Alan Cramond is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.