Graeme Mackie (CEO and Chairman)

Graeme Mackie, the founder of Ocean Flow Energy Ltd, is an MSc qualified chartered engineer with 33 years experience of marine projects in the defence, oil & gas and renewables energy industries.

As Principal Technologist (Naval Architecture) with defence consultancy YARD Ltd he was responsible for a number of future strategy technology reviews for the MoD(Navy) and as Company Naval Architect at Swan Hunter Shipbuilders he saw the design and build of the Fort Class Replenishment Ships through from tender design to trials of the first of class (RFA Fort George).

From 1995 as Technical Director of marine consultancy Armstrong Technology, now Babcock Design & 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 for Conoco MacCulloch, Shell Curlew and Texaco Triton fields.

As Engineering Manager and later Engineering Director at Wavegen (2002 - 2005) he was responsible for air turbine developments and performance optimisation of their Limpet OWC wave power plant.

Matthias Haag (Non-Executive Director)

Matthias Haag joined the Board of Ocean Flow 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.

Dr David Hewitt (Non-Executive Director)

David Hewitt joined the Board of Ocean Flow Energy in May 2009. He is currently Director of the recently established Marine Design Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne having been responsible for developing the original concept, through acquisition of funding to the Centre’s current high profile in the marine market.

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. Following a series of appointments with increasing responsibility in world-class companies in the marine sector, he founded the marine design consultancy, Armstrong Technology, in 1994.

After growing Armstrong Technology into a highly respected international organisation, the company was bought by the Babcock International Group in 2000. Following the successful integration of Armstrong Technology into the Group, he took up the position of Director of Marine Technology with Babcock before setting up David Hewitt Associates, an independent consultancy servicing the marine sector in 2005.