An experienced
team with deep
knowledge in the
energy industry

Derek started his career with Macquarie Bank where he was involved in designing derivative products,and trading options and futures in the bonds, bullion and energy markets. After completing his MBA, he joined Accenture as a Strategy Consultant in financial services and energy markets.

In 1999 Derek established iVentures Capital to take advantage of internet technology opportunities in the energy markets. He raised funds to establish PowerEx an online power exchange for energy suppliers, generators and suppliers which he sold to Amsterdam Power Exchange for their entry into the UK energy markets.

Derek then acquired BuyENERGYonline which he now runs, set up EnCentric, an IT business, with joint venture partners and established Eclipse Energy to trade and supply energy.

Chris Popplewell
Tender & Service Delivery Manager

Chris joined Beond in April 2013 having graduated with a BSC in Economics and an MSC in Finance. After a year on the graduate programme in the tendering team Chris moved into the Risk Team to specialise in commodity risk management and put his degrees to good use. Over the next four years this broadened into also understanding flexible quotes, clients with thousands of site portfolios, compliance, and non-energy cost forecasting. In 2017 Chris also became involved in software development, project managing design and switch-over to the next generation of our proprietary software. After 5 years looking after Beond’s strategic clients, from April 2019 Chris was promoted to Tendering & Service Delivery Manager, a team Chris originally started in back in 2013.

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Alastair Hutson
Managing Director

Alastair has worked in the energy industry for over 18 years. He initially worked for Southern Electric as Senior Gas Controller where he was responsible for balancing the retail gas portfolio. He then moved on to spend time with two US utilities, Aquila Energy and Duke Energy. At both these companies he traded wholesale electricity and gas in both the UK and western European markets. Alastair was responsible for setting up the European electricity trading desk for Duke Energy.

After gaining experience in the wholesale sector, Alastair moved to the retail sector where he spent over 8 years at Utilyx. He was responsible for creating and managing the risk management desk at Utilyx and when he left, his team was responsible for managing energy portfolios on behalf of large industrial and corporate clients, with energy spend under management at over £2 billion.

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Mark Callaway
Consulting and Risk Services Director

Mark is an expert in managing energy price risks and creating new opportunities for large customers. He joined London Electricity in 1990 when the electricity market deregulated and was responsible for the company’s electricity procurement and risk management. He set up the electricity trading desk and was one of the first participants in the UK wholesale market. Mark set up the team that gave all the quotes to and created products for commercial and industrial customers after the deregulation of the ‘100 kW’ market.

After London Electricity was purchased by the US utility Entergy in 1998, Mark became a founding employee and director of Entergy Koch trading, helping the company to successfully build a UK and European power and gas trading business and manage the risks for two large power stations built in the UK.

Mark joined Global Insight as an Associate Consultant and advised clients such as regulators and very large customers on topics such as customer demand management at time of peak prices and pan-European power price differences.

In late 2004 Mark was hired by Power Efficiency, a consultancy that procures energy for large commercial and industrial customers to offer their clients the opportunity to buy their energy in the wholesale market. Starting with a consortium of large customers in Canary Wharf, Mark and his team created and executed wholesale strategies for all of their large customers in the property, datacentre, financial and industrial sectors.

Mark joined Beond in 2013 to further develop the commercial services offered to a growing group of large energy users.

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Stephen Shilling
Systems & Data Director

Having obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in London, Stephen started his career with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) working in the Oil & Gas department which involved the certification of offshore oil platforms and Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO’s).

In 2001 Stephen joined iVentures Capital in the IT team developing PowerEx an online power exchange system for electricity suppliers, energy traders and power generators trading in the new competitive electricity markets. This led to responsibility for establishing the Beond online auction service where he now directs the energy tendering team.

Stephen is an avid Arsenal fan and was a keen cricketer in the past, playing at The Oval (twice) and at Newlands in Cape Town, SA.

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Ross Mair
Consulting Director

Ross started his career with BB Energy as an Oil trader trading physical gasoil and gasoline. This was followed by a period in Athens working in shipping operations learning the end to end delivery processes of the Oil markets.

Following this Ross returned to London working as a proprietary Oil futures trader. Ross then joined Beond as an energy broker and now directs the energy broker team.

Ross recently qualified as a Private Pilot and is a former Scottish and British University Boxing Champion.

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Gavin McCormick
Consulting Director

Gavin has joined Beond as Consulting Director to partner with our clients to deliver significant long term value in the ever changing and complex markets.

Gavin gained over 14 years’ experience in the energy industry working with EnergyQuote JHA to drive forward new client acquisition in the UK markets and latterly in the emerging European and International markets.

He was predominantly responsible for working across a wide range of sectors and energy profiles to create and deliver innovative energy and carbon solutions which adapt to the ever changing market conditions.

With a keen interest in the evolution of energy policy, Gavin focuses heavily on helping large energy consumers manage the immediate risks and opportunities together with setting out long term strategies which consider a range of scenarios and have helped to deliver significant savings on top of the traditional energy procurement services.

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Ian White
Commercial Director

Ian has worked in the energy industry since 2003 initially joining Elf Business Energy to manage their public and strategic accounts. Ian was then moved over to the sales department during the rebrand to Total Gas & Power to help set up the UK Broker channel, growing the team from 2 to 15 in 4 years. Ian was also part of the gas interruptible team working with strategic clients during times of gas shortages as well as being part of the IT steering committee, helping drive system innovation.

Ian then moved to a leading energy consultancy initially as the Sales & Marketing Director, tasked with growing the business domestically. Having achieved year on year growth, Ian was then subsequently tasked with developing the international footprint of the business to provide energy and carbon management support on a global basis.

Ian joined Beond to help develop and coordinate the consultancy functions to help facilitate future growth and to ensure consistently high service delivery to our clients.

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Contact:
20, St Thomas Street
London
SE1 9RS

Call:
+44 20 8634 7533

Email:
info@beondgroup.com

An experienced team with deep knowledge in the energy industry

An experienced
team with deep
knowledge in the
energy industry