Board
Strone Macpherson (Chairman). Strone was previously Chairman of Close Brothers Group plc, British Empire Securities and General Trust plc, and JP Morgan Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc. He was a Director of AXA UK and Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, and was Treasurer and a Trustee of the King’s Fund and a Governor of Heriot Watt University. Strone was part of the core team which founded Misys plc and built it into a FTSE-100 company..
Max Aitken (Founder, CEO). Max co-founded Estover in 2009. Over the past 15 years Max has founded a number of businesses in energy, IT, and media. He is a director of Cherif Capital, a family office investing in the UK and North America, President of the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation based in Montreal and a Trustee of the Beaverbrook Foundation.
Marcus Whately (Founder, Director). Marcus co-founded Estover in 2009. He is Co-CEO, and a Director of the Speyside and Cramlington CHP plants. His previous career was in the IT industry, where he was founder and CEO of a group of IT software and consulting businesses that he built up over 8 years and sold in 2008.
Henry Warde (Founder, Non Executive director). Henry qualified as Chartered Accountant with Deloitte. As well as working for Estover as Finance Director, has been involved in a number of property business. He is currently Managing Partner of the Squerryes Estate in Kent.
Advisory Board
Edward Hyams Edward was most recently a Partner at Englefield Capital focusing on the renewable energy sector. He has worked in the energy industry since 1970, including as Engineering Director of what is now Scottish & Southern Electricity, Managing Director at Eastern Group, Non-Executive Chairman of the UK Energy Saving Trust, a Board Member of the Carbon Trust and Chairman of The Utility Strategy Group.
John Watson John was FD then MD of Fibrowatt, which developed, built, owned and operated three biomass power plants fired with poultry litter and agricultural and forest biomass, generating a total of 65 MWe. John was previously a director of Robert Fleming & Co in Corporate Finance. He is a director of a small hydro development and advises a waste-to-energy business.