Our team
Who we are
Upside is based in Manchester and London. Founded in 2013 as part of the Nesta Dynamic Demand Challenge, we have developed relationships with major equipment manufacturers, energy suppliers, National Grid and universities.
Our team has a healthy mix of visionary ambition and commercial rigour – scientists, technicians, business people and industry veterans working towards a shared vision of a better future.
Management team
DEVRIM CELAL
CEO
Yale University (MBA)
Sapient and A.T. Kearney
IAIN TOBIN
COFO
Oxford Brookes
Reevoo, i2O Water,
Arthur D Little, KPMG
ANTHONY WAITE
VP OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Imperial College MEng.
E.On, RWE and
EDF Trading
MATTHEW WAPPLES
DIRECTOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Nottingham University, Imperial College eMBA
Ion
REBECCA MAHONEY
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMME DELIVERY
University of Cambridge
BAE Systems
DR ANDY MOLINEUX
DIRECTOR OF INTEGRATION
Lancaster University (PhD).
Lancaster University, Tripod
Board of Directors
DEVRIM CELAL
Sapient and A.T. Kearney
IAIN TOBIN
Reevoo, i2O Water,
Arthur D Little, KPMG
Arthur D Little, KPMG
IRENA SPAZZAPAN
Systemiq, Goldman Sachs
CHRIS JOLY
Former Shell, Amoco, Petrobras and Vitol
RALPH BAXTER
Former Cluster Seven, Sapient, National Grid, BG Group
Sector leading advisors
IAN MARCHANT
Former CEO of SSE
PROF GORAN STRBAC
Imperial College
NEIL HUGHES
Former CTO National Grid
CHRIS JOLY
Former Shell, Amoco, Petrobras and Vitol
ANDY BARTLETT
Helios Investment Partners, Former Global Head of Energy Standard Chartered
IVAN BERKES
Former Director of Business Development Emerson Electric