Run by local people, doing things differently

Andrew Moore has lived in Newton Ferrers since 2013 after relocating from Oxford. His background is in Clinical Biochemistry, and has previously established laboratories in the NHS, grown new diagnostic industries, and had his own consulting and publishing companies, as well as chairing a Parish Council. A major research interest for over 40 years has been evidence around treatments for pain. Andrew was previously a YCE director from 2015 to 2021 but took time oM to work on an international pain project. He is glad to be back.

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Ray Holland, BSc, MIET, is a chartered electrical engineer, trained at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth. He has spent the last 30 years managing renewable energy projects and energy policy programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, including managing a small consulting firm, and an EU programme that set up the Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (now GET.Invest). Much of this work involved local communities owning their own electricity supplies, so he is keen to apply lessons from this experience in his own community in South Devon.

Dominic Crawley brings extensive banking and risk evaluation knowledge and experience to the Yealm board. He had a 40-year career in financial and capital markets, including 20 years in banking and subsequently 20 years with S&P Global Ratings, where he was an executive managing director and head of Global Rating Services. Dominic joined the board for Yealm as he saw the opportunity to share his knowledge and skills and contribute to making the opportunity to acquire three local solar farms become a reality, thereby securing a lasting endowment to the local communities. Dominic lives in Newton Ferrers.

Tony Roper has nearly 30 years’ experience of making and managing infrastructure investments. Between 2006 and 2017, Tony was responsible for two listed infrastructure funds, financing and making investments in a wide range of infrastructure assets including solar PV. He joined YCE to help with the financing and purchase of the solar farms for the local communities, including Newton Ferrers where he and his wife have a home.

Stephen Brown has recently retired after a career in trading seafood. Based in London and with offices in Europe and the USA, Stephen ran a seafood company trading in frozen seafood mainly from the Far East to Europe, USA and Central and South America. He has also been involved with Seafish in the UK and SIPA in Europe working on technical and regulation aspects of the seafood trade. Stephen is a resident of Holbeton.

Stephen originally trained as a materials engineer and worked for a number of years abroad as an R&D scientist before moving back to the UK and embarking on a 30-year legal career as a patent attorney. In this role he has advised and represented clients in relation to inventions in a wide range of technologies, power production and distribution. He has a home near Holbeton. He will be retiring from his professional partnership in summer2025, and plans to spend more time thereafter in the South Hams.

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George Middlemiss was born and raised in Yealmpton and has a strongconnection to the area. He attended the University of Leeds where hestudied Environment and Business, focussing his research on renewable energy,energy poverty and sustainability consulting. He has experience in the energysupply (Yorkshire Energy) and social housing sectors (Plymouth CommunityHomes). George works at Regen (a not-for-profit centre of energy expertise) onvarious project to support