Meet the Orchard team
Our board has been steering Orchard Community Energy since 2015. We are a team of volunteers with relevant experience who live in Kent. All elected board members are also Orchard investors.
Our board has been steering Orchard Community Energy since 2015. We are a team of volunteers with relevant experience who live in Kent. All elected board members are also Orchard investors.
Janet has worked in local government for the last twenty years and is currently the climate change officer at Swale Borough Council. In addition to her work at Swale, Janet sits on South East Water’s Environmental Scrutiny Group and on their Helping Hands grant panel. Janet has been a parish councillor for several years and currently chairs Oare Parish Council. Prior to working in Kent, Janet spent several years working in East Africa with VSO and Save the Children.
After studying physics and petroleum engineering Francis worked for over 25 years in the upstream sector of oil and gas industry, in the technical design and operational management of exploration and production wells around the world. During the past seven years Francis has steered his career into consultancy promoting high efficiency and renewable energy technologies. Francis lives in Kent.