Dr. Cameron Davies - Independent Clean-tech Advisor

Cameron the former CEO and Executive Chairman of Alkane Energy moved to the part time post of non-executive director of the company in November 2009. He is also an independent advisor in the renewable energy and clean technology sectors. He founded Alkane, a profitable AIM listed gas to power company, in 1994 to capture methane (CMM) from abandoned coal mines for electricity generation. As Executive Chairman, he oversaw Alkane’s IPO on the LSE in 2000 and brought the group back to  profitability when he took over again as CEO in 2004. Alkane now has around 35MW of gas to power plants installed on disused coal mines in the UK and also has a large onshore coal bed methane (CBM) licence position. Cameron was a Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust environmental award winner and has twice been a finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year awards.  He is currently a vice-Chairman of the UNECE’s Geneva based Bureau of Experts on coal mine methane emissions.  He has presented many science and engineering based papers on renewables and alternative energy technology worldwide and recently chaired the Global Biogas Congress in Brussels. He previously had a successful career in the international upstream oil industry as operations manager with Premier Oil and general manager of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company in Tunisia.

Cameron was a panelist at Green in the City 27.05.10 - discussing 'Financing Early Stage Clean Technology: Is Venture Capital Enough?'