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Good Energy Group PLC
17 February 2021
Good Energy Group PLC
("Good Energy" or "the Company")
Zap-Map senior leadership appointments
Good Energy Group PLC (AIM: GOOD), the 100% renewable
electricity supplier and innovative energy services provider,
announces that Zap-Map, the UK's leading Electric Vehicle mapping
service, has appointed an interim CEO and Commercial Director as
part of an expansion of its senior leadership team.
As part of executing Zap-Map's growth strategy, the Zap-Map
Board identified the requirement for further commercial and
strategic leadership to consider long term opportunities, position
the business for scale and continue to develop the commercial
propositions.
Richard Bourne has been appointed as interim CEO and will work
alongside the Zap-Map Board to develop the long-term strategic
plan, positioning the business for scale and potential fund
raising. Richard is a dynamic start-up to scale-up business leader
who has operated across a broad range of industries. He has a
proven track record of developing and executing sophisticated and
disruptive go-to-market strategies to deliver high revenue growth
and value creation in venture capital and private equity backed
companies. This includes previous roles as CEO at Stratto Ltd and
senior positions at Cisco, Ubiquisys, Ericsson and Marconi.
Alex Earl has been appointed as Commercial Director. Alex will
be focused on driving continued growth of new revenues and services
to Zap-Map's chosen markets and working in collaboration with the
founders and board to embed commercial strategy, delivery, and
target success. Alex has over 20 years' experience in a range of
commercial roles, with the past ten years in electric mobility most
recently setting up Alfen's business in the UK as their UK Country
Manager and previously helping to start up New Motion as its Head
of Product and Energy.
The five-person Board of Zap-Map consists of Juliet Davenport,
Founder and CEO of Good Energy and Chair of Zap-Map, Tim Jones
independent NED from the Good Energy Group plc Board, Charlie Parry
from Good Energy, alongside the two founders of Zap-Map being Ben
Lane, CTO, and Melanie Shufflebotham, COO. Good Energy has a 50.1%
majority stake in Zap-Map's parent company Next Green Car
Limited.
Juliet Davenport, CEO and Founder, Good Energy and Chair of
Zap-Map said:
"Richard and Alex join at a crucial inflection point for the
decarbonisation of transport. Their experience will help Zap-Map
take the next leap in its exciting growth story and reinforce
itself as a leading player in the EV market in the UK and
beyond."
Richard Bourne, interim CEO, Zap-Map said:
"I'm delighted to join the Zap-Map team and have the opportunity
to accelerate the go-to-market strategy in one of the most exciting
companies in the UK. As a key enabler in the EV ecosystem helping
all EV drivers to seamlessly search for charge points, plan their
journeys and easily pay will be a crucial step in the mass adoption
of electric vehicles."
Enquiries:
Good Energy Group PLC Email: press@goodenergy.co.uk
Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive Email: press@zap-map.com
Charles Parry, Investor Relations Phone: +44 (0) 7718
Luke Bigwood, Communications 671003
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser Tel: +44 (0) 20 7597
and Joint Broker) 5970
Jeremy Ellis
Sara Hale
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523
Henry Fitzgerald - O'Connor 4617
Georgina McCooke
Notes to editors:
About Good Energy www.goodenergy.co.uk
Good Energy is a generator and supplier of 100% renewable power
and an innovator in energy services. It currently owns two wind
farms, six solar farms and sources electricity from a community of
1,600 independent UK generators.
Since it was founded 20 years ago, the company has been at the
forefront of the charge towards a cleaner, distributed energy
system. Its mission is to support UK households and businesses
generate, store and share clean power.
Good Energy is recognised as a leader in this market, through
our green kite accreditation with the London Stock Exchange and as
a top rated Green energy supplier by Which?.
About Zap-Map www.zap-map.com/live/
Launched in June 2014, with a mission to accelerate the shift to
electric vehicles (EV) and help the drive towards zero carbon
mobility, Zap-Map is the UK's leading EV mapping service. The
charging point map, available on desktop and iOS/Android apps,
helps EV drivers to search for available charge points, plan longer
journeys, share updates and pay for charging on participating
networks.
In the UK, Zap-Map attracts more than 120,000 cross-platform
users per month from a rapidly growing fleet of around 200,000
pure-EVs (Zap-Map's core user group) and 230,000 plug-in hybrids
(SMMT: December 2020).
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