Stuart Lacey
Chief Executive Officer
Stuart joined ElectraLink as Chief Executive in 2010. He is responsible for ensuring that ElectraLink steps up to play a major role in providing the data management, interoperability and governance services underpinning the roll out of 'Smart'; infrastructure across the UK energy industry.
Before joining ElectraLink, Stuart was the Commercial Director of BT's largest financial services client and Chief Operating Officer of its health division. Stuart joined BT following the acquisition of Infonet, a US quoted provider of outsourced IT and network services, where he was Managing Director of its UK subsidiary.
In his earlier career Stuart led the turnaround and growth of several mid-sized businesses in Asia and EMEA - with full P&L responsibility he managed teams solving various enterprise customer requirements with technology and communications. He has undertaken a number of business acquisitions and disposals. Stuart holds an Economics degree from Durham University and a MBA with distinction from INSEAD.
Brian O' Shea
Chief Financial Officer
Brian joined ElectraLink in 1999 with responsibility for all financial and commercial matters. His first task was to lead the transition of the company from a project based organisation into a fully operational company.
In 2004 Brian took on responsibility for ElectraLink's commercial development. Through utilising existing core infrastructure and branching out into new areas such as code governance, a sound commercial foundation has been established. Brian is a qualified accountant with 15 years commercial, financial and operational experience in the commercial sector.
Paul Gath
Chief Technical Officer
After completing a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Paul started his working life with ICL, where he took a traditional career path through software development support, via project management to programme management. Paul joined ElectraLink in 1998 and, being in from the outset, has given him a great depth of understanding of all the technical services that we provide and how these can be used to the benefit of our customers.
Paul has managed the evolution of the DTS from an old fashioned, X.400 network to a modern, IP-based service using the latest technologies ready for the challenges of Smart metering. He has managed these changes whilst maintaining live, operational performance to very stringent service levels and reducing costs by over 60%. Paul is looking forward to the next stage of the company's development, including the provision of new technical services within a Service Oriented Architecture to help the utility industry move towards a fully operational Smart metering environment and a Smart grid.
Gavin Jones
Business Development Director
Gavin Jones is Business Development Director for ElectraLink and is responsible for growing their commercial business in support of the UK Energy industry, for instance through the sale of data services in support of the UK move to Smart Metering and Smart Grids.
Gavin is involved in the UK Smart Energy arena at both customer and policy level, speaking, writing papers and meeting with policy makers across Europe. In the UK he is a member of the DECC and Ofgem's Smart Grid Forum which is shaping the future UK policy in this area. He has been influential in setting up Smart Grid Great Britain and is its first chair. Gavin also chairs Intellect's (the UK technology industry association) Utilities and Smart Metering and Smart Grids Working Groups.
Prior to moving to ElectraLink, Gavin was IBM's Future Energy Leader for UK, Ireland and Nordics and has specific responsibility for leading the team selling Smart Grid solutions in the geography.