Our People

Professor Cross was appointed Chair of the Board in November 2016. He also serves as Executive Director for R&D.

Professor Cross recently retired as the LCRI Professor of Renewable Energy in the College of Engineering at Swansea University. With over 40 years of experience in the field of computational modelling, analysis and optimisation of engineering processes and systems, he pioneered the concept of simulation-based design using advanced numerical methods on high-performance parallel computers.

He has worked with Crossflow Energy since its earliest days on conceptual design and analysis of its turbine systems and for much of this time has provided essential technology support to the Board. Mark has wide industrial and senior management experience. He was a Head of School, Director of Research and then Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich over a 20 year period, where he spun out a number of high technology start-up companies from his research team, including one the US which successfully sold to a multi-national corporation in 2012.

Anthony founded Crossflow Energy in 2007 and is currently Executive Chairman.

He has had broad international business experience in many fields. Having realised the multi-billion dollar growth potential in the energy conservation business, he founded CarbonAqua, which within five years of start-up had over £80 million of business in the pipeline, with clients such as Microsoft, Mercedes Benz and the British Government.

After examining the enormous potential of what has become the Crossflow Energy turbine, he formed the Crossflow Energy Company and resigned as the executive chairman of CarbonAqua in order to totally concentrate on developing Crossflow Energy into a profitable, global company, with the financial benefits that that could bring to those involved.

Edward has been a Non-Executive Director of Crossflow Energy since 2012.

He has had a long career in investment banking, strategy consultancy and the provision of advisory services to private businesses and their owners, with a particular focus on the Emerging Markets and specifically Latin America.

He was a director of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in its corporate finance division, chairman of several Barclays/BZW asset management businesses and subsequently co-led the Latin American corporate finance and strategy practice for McKinsey & Company, based in Brazil.

He is a non-executive director of several companies and serves as an advisor to a small number of Family Offices as well as to a FTSE 100 company on Latin America. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Juan-Enrique is one of the principal investors in Crossflow Energy, and has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company since April 2012.

He manages his family’s investments in steel, oil and gas, industrials, alternative energy, transport, agriculture and mining.

Jonathan became a Non-Executive Director in 2013.

He has over 35 years of commercial and financial experience in the aerospace, energy, mining and consulting sectors.

Prior to joining Crossflow Energy, Jonathan was director of strategy for Rolls Royce plc and a member of its group executive for ten years, retiring in 2010. He was responsible for corporate strategy, M&A, development of new businesses and partnerships, and technology development and commercialisation.

Over his career, Jonathan has also worked for Anglo American in South Africa; Fluor in San Francisco; LEK  Consulting in London, where he was a senior partner, a member of the executive committee and responsible for its industrial practice; and Ascot, a fine and speciality chemicals company, where as head of corporate finance and strategy he oversaw several acquisitions and disposals.

Jonathan has an MBA from Harvard School of Business Administration and an MA and BA from Cambridge University in Metallurgy and Materials Science.

Chris has been a Non-Executive Director of Crossflow Energy since 2010.

He most recently founded Momentum Underwriting Management, a specialist personal accident and life managing agency, which he recently sold.

Previously, Chris helped to set up CIGNA RE Europe, the European arm of American company CIGNA Corp.

Chris is a graduate from Reading University.

Jim Barry joined the Crossflow Energy team as from January 2017 bringing substantial financial and business experience from the banking and renewable energy sectors. Most recently he was with Vestas, the leading Danish based Wind Turbine manufacturer who he joined in 2010 to develop training to ensure a thorough understanding within Vestas of Project Financing structures and techniques, at the time supporting Vestas to preposition itself from a sales focussed to one supporting developers to secure finance and providing long term O&M support for projects. Prior to Vestas Jim worked for over 20 years in the Banking Sector with Barclays, Dresdner, HBOS and UniCredit where he ran various specialist teams focused on both advisory and debt arranging and underwriting activities in the Project & Export Finance area. His financing experience goes across a wide range of Infrastructure sectors and geographic regions, but in recent years he has focussed increasingly on renewable energy including time spent with Trinergy, a leading developer and operator of wind farms in Italy and Germany, as Head of Capital Management, helping to develop and secure a €1bn+ refinancing structure for a portfolio of Italian and German wind assets. Jim, in his capacity as CEO, has now joined the Board of Crossflow Energy.

With over 25 years experience in renewables Rob has led engineering teams in innovative product design across Europe and U.S. As a Composite Consultant, he became extensively involved in design, construction and inspection of both racing yachts and wind and water turbine blades. Project siting, anemometry mast design and installation, power performance evaluation of commercial wind farms, wind focus, keen sailor, boat builder are all key attributes that make Rob the multi-disciplined dynamic lead required to drive the engineering design to a successful completion.

A degree qualified Mechanical Engineering, having spent 15 years in engineering and project finance, in both the private and public sector, Rebecca has considerable experience in the management and delivery of large engineering projects and has excellent business focus, analytical and negotiation skills.
Managing the business on a day-to-day basis, Rebecca’s role is to provide strong direction and motivation to the South-Wales based team in order to achieve the vision and goals of the organisation, and drive strategic performance at all levels. She is responsible for delivering the business strategy, key goals and initiatives to enable Crossflow Energy to bring the Crossflow renewable energy technology solution to commercialisation.
With a passion for sustainable development, having managed in-country student engineering projects in rural Africa, Rebecca lectures in Project Management in Sustainable Engineering at Swansea University.

Wezi has dynamically progressed from Graduate Engineer to Design & Operations Engineer since joining Crossflow in 2014 applying his MSc and BSc in Mechanical Engineering, pragmatism & innovation to; deliver Crossflow’s Smart Power Management System, compiling structural load cases and effectively running all operations at the Test Site.
Before joining the company, he worked for an automotive OEM gaining varied experience with controls and instrumentation, data acquisition, data reduction & analysis and Health & Safety management.

Integral to the Crossflow Team is Farzan Hefazi from Swansea University College of Engineering. Farzan has been involved in undertaking and developing the complex fluid dynamic modelling using Physica, Ansys and Open Foam 3D, and works closely with the Engineering Team in the design iteration modelling and development.

With his Mechanical Engineering background, Wayne has been the lead Operations and Maintenance Technician for our Wind Turbines since 2016.  He interfaces and coordinates all vendors, and sub-contractors, at our sites.  With this experience, he represents the operations and maintenance inputs in all current turbine, and overall Integrated Energy Solution designs so as to ensure the next product is more operator friendly.  He has mentoring experience in the past with apprentices teaching hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical engineering and electrical installation, which has led him to mentor the two Trainee Technicians, helping them gain valuable experience in the workplace prior to them starting their apprenticeships with Crossflow in Autumn 2018.

Before joining Crossflow, Wayne worked in the coal mining industry for numerous years and has 3 years’ experience working on the Lee Tunnel Project in London; the deepest tunnel in the UK.

Nathan joined Crossflow for 2 days per week in January 2018 to assist the Site Technician in the deconstruction of the X-feg turbine whilst under the supervision of the Operations & Maintenance Technician.  He has gained hands on experience working with Wayne whilst studying his Electrical Installations NVQ at College. His intention is to start an apprenticeship in Autumn 2018, staying with Crossflow to assist in the installation, commissioning and maintenance of the new IES unit.

As with Nathan, Cerith joined Crossflow for 2 days per week in January 2018 to assist the Site Technician in the deconstruction of the X-feg turbine whilst under the supervision of the Operations & Maintenance Technician.  He has gained hands on experience working with Wayne whilst studying his Electrical Installations NVQ at College. His intention is to start an apprenticeship in Autumn 2018, staying with Crossflow to assist in the installation, commissioning and maintenance of the new IES unit.