TEAM Energy announced board transition as employee ownership thrives
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Energy and Net Zero Consultancy, TEAM Energy, is celebrating a significant chapter in its journey as two of the business’ founding directors, CEO, Simon Miles and Solution Delivery Director, Jim Inglis, retire from the Board after decades of service.
The leadership and vision of Simon and Jim have been fundamental in shaping TEAM’s success, leaving a legacy that the business continues to build upon.
As the business looks to the future, it is delighted to announce the appointment of three longstanding colleagues to the Board. Together, they bring over 40 years of combined experience within TEAM. These appointments signal an exciting time for the company while also ensuring continuity, shared expertise, and a commitment to its values as an employee-owned business.
Meet TEAM’s new Board members:
Tom Anderton, Commercial Director
Tom has over a decade of experience across carbon, sustainability, energy management and energy supply. A commercially astute and collaborative leader, he identifies new opportunities, builds strategic partnerships and aligns commercial priorities with effective delivery, while maintaining a strong focus on risk, compliance and service excellence. Passionate about balancing sustainable growth with employee engagement in an employee-owned business, Tom works closely with stakeholders at all levels to ensure customers consistently receive outstanding value.
Paul Dowling, Customer Success Director
Paul has over 15 years’ experience delivering strategic value and long-term partnerships in the energy sector. With deep expertise in the I&C market, he brings strong operational and commercial insight from roles spanning energy supply, customer service leadership and enterprise-scale delivery. Paul plays a key strategic role in shaping customer success initiatives, ensuring customer needs remain at the heart of the organisation’s approach to service excellence.
Edward Kilby, IT Director
Edward is a highly experienced technology executive with over 20 years in the energy sector, specialising in delivering IT strategies that align technology with business goals. As IT Director, he leads enterprise architecture, cloud transformation, information security and agile delivery, and has guided organisations through major industry changes such as Faster Switching and the Market wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS).
TEAM’s new directors will be working alongside Service Delivery Director, Graham Paul, who is responsible for TEAM’s infrastructure and oversees system administration and customer support, with a cross functional role in pre-sales, alliances and marketing.
On these new appointments Graham Paul said
“This is an exciting time for TEAM Energy as Tom, Paul and Edward step into their new roles. By growing leadership from within the business, we have showcased the true power of employee-ownership. We are confident that their experience and insight will help us grow, innovate and deliver our commitments to our customers and colleagues.”
This transition reflects the strength of being an employee-owned business as TEAM promotes their leadership from within to preserve what makes the organisation special, whilst also accelerating their ambitions to support their customers in achieving their net zero and energy management goals. By empowering internal talent, TEAM safeguards the long-term interests of their colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
As TEAM embarks on this next chapter, the business remains committed to delivering an exceptional service and driving sustainable solutions for UK organisations.
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About TEAM
TEAM is an energy and sustainability consultancy. It helps organisations with large energy estates reduce consumption and carbon emissions to save money and meet commercial and compliance targets on their journey to net zero.
Founded in 1985, it has a long history of helping customers navigate changing definitions and certification standards. TEAM Energy is an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), with employees having a direct stake in its customers’ success.
