People
James Short
Chairman
BioGen Power’s co-founder is a successful property developer and benefits from a background in large-scale residential and commercial property development, with recent projects undertaken for a number of plc organisations. James has experience in all related aspects of property development, including land acquisition, local area planning, negotiating with local authorities, environmental organisations and other related licensing agencies. Having been an early pioneer within the pyrolysis and gasification sector since 2001, James has funded a number of R&D projects, focused on the thermal treatment of a wide variety of wastes types, including tyres, paper pulp and MSW.
Christian Reeve, BA. MSc
Chief Executive Officer
Christian boasts a successful business track record at both operational and plc board level, including taking Caffe Nero Group plc to the main London Stock market as Managing Director and previously holding a number of senior management posts within some of the UK’s fastest growing and most successful leisure retail organisations. Past Directorships include Director of Branded Retailing at W&DB plc, Managing Director of Pitcher & Piano and Retail Director at national pub operator JD Wetherspoon plc. Christian has a BA in Economics and an MSc in Strategic Marketing. Christian joined the board of BioGen Power in 2005, having co-founded the business with James Short. Growing companies and managing rapid roll out business strategies, are just two of the valuable skills that Christian has brought to the BioGen organisation.
Michael Darch
Finance Director
Michael joined BioGen in October 2007. Michael has a wealth of experience gained from senior positions with Unilever, BNFL, BAE Systems and, more recently, building a ‘big ticket’ leasing company in the Middle East, raising both equity and asset finance. Michael has a BSc in Economics and is an FCMA.
Peter Hughes
Non-Executive Director
Peter joined BioGen Power in 2006. Peter provides the business with valuable power sector expertise, having previously spent ten years as Managing Director of Powergen International, where he was responsible for Powergen's global operations. Peter is co-founder and a non-executive director of Broadview Energy Limited, a UK onshore wind power development business. He is also a director of two technology companies: Pera International and Ritec Limited.
Sir Dr James Bell
Chief Technical Officer
James Bell is the chief technical advisor, and is a leading Advanced Conversion Technology (ACT) researcher based in South of Scotland, specialising in gasification, pyrolysis, combustion and microwave pyrolysis technologies, holding patents for advanced bio-fuel and bio-mix burners, microwave pyrolysis and microwave secondary induction. James has been advising BioGen since 2005.
