Energy company Innogy appoints three new venture developers

Innogy’s UK Innovation Hub, which creates a sustainable culture for people and collaborates with Britain’s brightest entrepreneurial talent, has bolstered its offering for entrepreneurs and startups with the appointment of three venture developers.

Odysseaas Bassioukas, Alban Bressand and Tomas Ivan have all joined Innovation Hub’s outpost to lead the company’s UK venture development operations, and will take responsibility for identifying, on-boarding and mentoring startups through its founder programme.

To nurture entrepreneurial talent, the developers will combine the best practice of venture capital investing and business mentoring.

Kate Jack, country lead for UK Innovation Hub, said: “Venture developers are a key part of our business in supporting the identification and partner opportunities with disruptive new business models in the energy space.

“Their role as experts and mentors is central to our ethos of harnessing ideas, innovations and technologies to propel the UK’s energy transition movement. These hires will enable us to better discover and target potential founders and support them in their global ambitions.”

Mr Bassioukas has joined UK Innovation Hub following a career co-founding and leading startups in the energy industry, and has held senior management positions in the aerospace sector.

Along with him, Mr Bressand has a background in utility scale renewables and distributed demand response aggregation. Mr Ivan previously founded a startup within the retail and digital sectors, and has worked on various entrepreneurial development projects for global corporations including P&G and HP.