Advisory Board

Alastair Rennie is a Consultant Engineer with YOenergy Ltd., partly overlapping with 19 years with Amec Foster Wheeler as Project Director leading, bidding and winning work in new areas of scope, all profitably. These included offshore integrated services for 5 Northern North Sea O&G platforms, 500 staff, refurbishment and live operations. Internal strategic work assessed renewable energy options and this led to a UK interest in CCS. Prior experience of 19 years included 3 as head of Public Works for St Helena, with 500 staff providing all utilities and infrastructure support to the Island. Other roles covered North Sea gas field development, subsea contracting, mine construction, design and consulting experience. Since 2000 he has focused primarily on low carbon energy issues, raising company activity and board membership of the CCSA and UKHFCA, instigating actions around value chains for hydrogen and CCS.
 

Colin Pritchard is a chemical engineer, with over 30 years-experience in the refining, petrochemical, oil & gas and energy sectors having held roles covering technical, operational, environmental and commercial responsibilities.

At the Grangemouth site, Colin led commercial aspects of energy and utilities delivery, including responsibility for CO₂ emissions trading and plans to reduce these emissions.  He helped create the Net Zero Roadmap for INEOS at Grangemouth during 2021, and was appointed as Sustainability Director to oversee delivery of the roadmap.

Colin also serves as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde.
 

Dr Vinay Mulgundmath is an Engineering Specialist within Saudi Aramco’s New Energies Engineering Division.  Prior to joining Aramco, Vinay held the role of Chief Technologist at the NetZero Technology Centre in Scotland, UK. He has been a Board member of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and Scottish Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) chaired by Scotland’s First Minister. Vinay is a Non-Executive Advisor Scotland’s Hydrogen Accelerator at University of St. Andrews and an Honorary Administrator at University of Aberdeen’s Directorate of Research & Innovation. Vinay holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering with specialization in post-combustion carbon capture technologies and MSc degree in Process Engineering from France. Dr Mulgundmath is a Subject Matter Expert on crosscutting themes including clean energy technologies, and environmental sustainability.

Duncan Wall is an Environment Manager for Diageo’s European supply business. He responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to reduce the environmental impact from maltings, distilling, brewing and packaging operations across 60 sites in the UK, Ireland and Italy. Diageo is an industry leader in sustainability with ambitious targets to be reached by 2020 covering water, carbon emissions, sustainable packaging and waste. Duncan has worked for Diageo for 10 years on a number of energy, water and carbon reduction projects, including a significant investment in renewable energy plants. Prior to working for Diageo, Duncan worked in the pharmaceutical and food sectors on similar energy and environment projects. He holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology from University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology and is a chartered Chemical Engineer. He also represents Diageo and industry interests on Scotch Whisky Association energy & environment committees.
 

Jonathan Slater is the Principal Process Engineer and Technical Authority for CCUS at Altrad Babcock. He holds a BEng (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and is a chartered Chemical Engineer. Jonathan has worked for Altrad Babcock (formerly Doosan Babcock) for 15 years on a range of projects in the energy sector from consultancy to technology development and project delivery. Jonathan has been involved in carbon capture since 2010 with significant experience gained in both Oxyfuel and Post Combustion technologies through feasibility studies, FEED studies and full EPC. He was a key member of the design and operations team for the Ferrybridge 100 t/day post combustion carbon capture plant (CCPilot100+). Jonathan continues to lead projects and provide technical assurance and direction on low carbon energy projects and technology development.

Nick has spent the last 5 years working with the Scottish Government where he leads the Industrial Decarbonisation and CCUS Unit, focusing on supporting Scotland’s industry as they optimise for the environment and economic growth on their journey to net zero. Previously, he was Head of Digital Economy leading on policies to improve productivity through the adoption of technologies. Prior to joining the Scottish Government, he worked with the UK Government City on economic strategy including City Region Deals and Regional Growth Deals.

The majority of Nick’s career has been in the private sector working on social inclusion and innovation programmes where he held a range of operational, corporate and leadership roles. Building on his experience across the UK, he took up the role of Consultancy Director advising governments across the Middle East on a range of social inclusion initiatives including: female empowerment, disability rights, childcare and skills development
 

Nigel Holmes is Chief Executive of Hydrogen Scotland (formerly Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association), the trade association for development and deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Hydrogen Scotland is one of the most active hydrogen and fuel cell industry associations in Europe, with over 75 members mostly based in Scotland and UK but with an increasing number of members based overseas. Nigel also represents Hydrogen Scotland member interests on the Renewable Industry Advisory Group (RIAG), and is a steering group member for both the Scottish Transport Emissions Partnership and Community Energy Scotland.
 

Owain Tucker is the Global Deployment Lead for CO₂ Storage at Shell. He leads storage projects, is responsible for technical assurance, integration, and informing the CCS research agenda, along with the development of capability within Shell. Over the past eight years, he worked extensively across Shell’s projects, and particularly on maturing Goldeneye in the UK: the candidate store for the former Longannet and Peterhead CCS projects. He also focussed on the wider challenge of developing transport and storage business models, co-chairing the ZEP taskforce. Owain co-chairs the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative work group on CO2 storage capacity and the SPE taskforce on Storage Resource Maturation System, and is a board member of the UKCCSRC. Owain has worked in wide variety of roles, as a reservoir engineer, economist and strategy consultant.