Hi everyone. I'm Owen, and I look after Sustainability at OVO. 

I studied Oceanography (Mostly plankton) and Climate (Mostly clouds), before going on to specialise in sustainability and renewable energy. I have spent 10 years in a few different industries, from retail to healthcare, and worked on projects like solar panels on warehouses, bug hotels in car parks, and responsible timber sourcing in for doors. 

These days my team and I keep an eye on all things climate, carbon, and nature in OVO. This includes managing our net zero pathways, doing all of our reporting and climate risk management, as well as supporting teams across the business to deliver decarbonisation projects. 

Outside of work I trudge the canals of east london, chasing that long overdue call up to the national athletics team, and try to stop my adopted sausage dog from significantly reducing London's squirrel population. 

I am Rebecca Otte, a Product Lead at Ovo. With a year and a half of experience within the product domain, I oversee collections, payments, and schemes, collaborating closely with engineering and other departments to deliver high-value solutions. 

Prior to joining OVO, I served as the sole product manager at Crowdfunder, Marie Curie, and NICCE, operating in fast-paced environments and tackling numerous challenges. My passion lies in crafting exceptional products, prioritising customer needs, and comprehensively understanding how various challenges and opportunities intersect. I have a passion for coaching and love to help people grow within their careers. 

I supported running the 2023 Aleto programme programme but this year wanted to take a more 1-2-1 approach to supporting our interns. 

I am Scott Duncan, Head of Solar and Storage at OVO. I lead the team who are working on scaling our solar and battery business with a mass market proposition for homeowners to make big savings on their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint. Our team spans Commercial, Sales and Technical experts and my day-to-day involves a huge variety of work including setting strategy, managing our profitability, our product roadmap, new marketing campaigns or contracts with partners. What I love about this job and working at OVO is seeing the direct impact you're having for customers and the energy transition, the (sometimes hectic) pace which makes every day different and challenging as well as the culture of OVO, which is very special and unique to anywhere else I've worked previously.

I have always worked in the energy industry. Prior to my current role, I worked at Kaluza, OVO's sister company, where I was marketing their software platform to energy companies globally. Prior to that I was at the UK's largest energy company - Centrica - for several years working on renewable energy propositions and before that I started my career at BP. I started out on BP's graduate programme before moving into marketing strategy there. The energy world absolutely fascinates me - it's at the forefront of technology and innovation, it's very interwoven with geopolitics and working in this space gives you the opportunity to work on what I would say is the single biggest long-term challenge facing humanity - climate change.

I'm originally from Scotland but now live in Brighton with my wife. Outside of work, I enjoy running, swimming in the sea, going to see live music and playing guitar.

Simon leads the security and internal IT teams at OVO. He has led the strategic development and operational execution of information security, infrastructure and intelligence programmes for government departments, financial institutions, global retail, and energy companies. He has coached boards, executive committees and engineering teams on cyber security risk and technology regulations and has lived and worked in Asia, mainland Europe, the Middle East and currently resides in the UK. 

Simon has implemented risk reduction operations and technologies for national security, security and privacy, financial crime, cloud and DevOps in both large and small enterprises. He co-authored the ISO Standard for DevOps (ISO32675) and is a Chartered Engineer.

Simon is a passionate advocate for security as a team sport, the need for allies for the diverse talent already in the information security and technology professions and the urgent need to recruit more diversity into those professions.

Alison is the Vice President Care for OVO. She has over 20 years’ experience in helping global companies improve their customer experience, reduce costs and be more agile.    She is passionate about about how technology, data and people interplay to provide exceptional customer experiences.   

As a leader, Alison passionately believes her role is support her team flourish - acknowledging that this will mean something different for each individual.  She has focused on creating a culture of recognition and belonging across care, creating career and development opportunities, support wellbeing and connection.  Alison also co-sponsors our Generations Network.

Alongside her role at OVO Alison is also a Vice President of the Institute of Customer Services, and an active member of the Customer Contact Management Association and regularly speaks across the UK on the subjects of Business Agility, Artificial Intelligence in Customer Experience, and Employee Engagement.

Her roots are in Scotland, but Alison has more than a little wanderlust and loves to travel - anywhere generally that the sun shines.   In her spare time she has been known to get just a little creative - in the kitchen, with her hands, and musically.

Hi, i’m Mat. I joined the leadership team at OVO as Chief Commercial Officer in late 2022. My role includes our Home Services, Zero Carbon Living (EVs, Heat Pumps + Solar) and Energy Solutions business lines and I also lead the Product, CLV and Growth functions across the enterprise. I love what we do at OVO and what could be more exciting than trying to decarbonise 4m homes by 2035 and at the same time create an awesome and commercially flourishing business. 

Over the last 18 years I've experienced and led across the full range of startups, corporate startups, scale-ups and corporate environments. I’m passionate about tech, with a deep interest and experience in digital platforms, marketplaces, classified and e-commerce business models. 

Before joining OVO I was the Group Chief Commercial Officer and UK CEO for heycar, operating across Europe and matching customers with the best used cars from selected dealers – all with quality checks, warranties and an easy to use site experience. heycar is backers include Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Renault and Allianz. 

This isn’t my first Energy role, earlier in my career I held a number of leadership roles at Centrica which is better known in the UK as its retail business - British Gas. My career started with a number of early-stage startups, moving into large scale corporate roles and then into corporate-funded startups backed by Centrica, Volkswagen, Daimler, Renault and Allianz.

I live in Tiptree in Essex (home of the famous Tiptree jam), married to Steph who works in the NHS and have two little boys, Lewis (6) and Casper (3).

Lauren Lewis is the VP of Operations for OVO. Her remit includes Metering, Field, PAYGO, Shared Services and MI and Insight. Lauren has been with OVO for over four years and has a background in strategy, transformation and operational excellence largely from >10 years as a management consultant. She's passionate about customer and people centric change at scale and has been at the centre of OVO's transformation and maturation. Outside of work Lauren is a qualified Coach, loves being outside, and is never happier than when she's able to get into the countryside with her husband Rob and their wonder whippet Lenny. 

Victoria Knight - Senior Operations Manager - Zero Carbon Living

We have an undeniable responsibility and opportunity to help customers on the transition to Zero Carbon Living and I am very proud to call that my daily grind. 

A bit about my role: 

As a Senior Operations Manager I’m responsible for overseeing Customer Support & Operations for all our Zero Carbon Living products and services. My team supports Energy Expert Visits, Smart Thermostat, EV Smart Charger, Solar & Battery and Heat Pump installations. We also support our industry first services (Charge Anytime & Heat Pump Plus) and innovation trials. If you’re interested in cool technology read up on Project Scurius - the world’s largest domestic Vehicle to Grid Trial.

A bit about me:

I graduated from Cardiff University in 2009 with a History & Sociology degree and I’m incredibly people centred. I’m green through and through, spending most of my spare time at my allotment growing fruit, veg and flowers.

I’ve been at OVO since October 2009…yes 1 month after we opened doors to our first customers! I’ve had 15 roles in that time, moving with the pace of a rapid start up, I have experience across Customer Care, Training, Field Services, Quality & Governance, Commercial and Operations.

That’s 14 years of keeping the customer in the room, testing, learning, solving problems and building teams from the ground up. 

Keeping it real, that's also 14 years battling imposter syndrome in an industry dominated by men, in a company of exceptional, high performing peers!

Zero Carbon Living Delivery Lead