Building the operating layer for the digital energy economy.
QGEMS Energy is a software company building the system that coordinates, settles and underwrites distributed energy at scale. Headquartered in New York. Innovation Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. Operating in the UK; building globally.
The energy transition is not a hardware problem. The hardware exists.
What was missing was the operating layer that makes the hardware work as a system — coordinating millions of assets in real time, producing the record that lets capital flow, providing the trust architecture the whole edifice depends on. We are building that layer.
One mandate. One category.
QGEMS is building the operating layer for the energy infrastructure of the next decade — the federated coordinating, settling, underwriting layer that lets sovereigns, utilities and capital turn distributed energy into financeable, governable, dispatchable infrastructure. Bankability as architecture, not afterthought. Sovereignty as a peer axis to intelligence. Megawatts under management as the unit of value. Built to strengthen incumbent authority, not displace it.
The team building the layer.
Electrical engineer; three decades of executive technology leadership including senior roles at Bloomberg, Reuters and chip-level work on classified defense systems. Co-inventor on multiple patents.
Thirty years in the energy sector. Vice Chair of the U.S. Department of Energy GridWise Architecture Council. Long history in interoperability and blockchain-for-energy standards work.
Former Microsoft engineer and US Patent and Trademark Office examiner specialising in cryptography, cybersecurity and distributed systems.
Thirty years building advanced energy, data and software systems at scale. Previously VP Software & Telematics at Ideanomics.
Twenty-five years across software, energy, encryption and finance. Prior work on cybersecurity systems used by NATO and US military. Lectures on quantum computing at UK universities.
Twenty-five years across financial services, fintech and sustainability — including senior roles at Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank and Citibank.
Enterprise transformation, M&A integration and large-channel operations across Fortune 500 clients including Boeing, Motorola, State Farm and NRG Energy.
The institutional bench.
Former UK Minister for Energy and Clean Growth. Signed the UK's Net Zero commitment into law. Authored the Independent Net Zero Review. Chairs the Transition Finance Council's pathways working group.
Thirty years across institutional banking, DARPA-backed tech commercialisation at Bell Labs and impact investing for Alphabet's initiatives.
National Medal of Technology and Innovation. National Inventors Hall of Fame. Decades of foundational work at Bell Labs.
CEO of the National Space Society. Chairman Emeritus of the CMMC Accreditation Body. 36+ years across strategic operations and national security.
CEO Europe at Persado. 25+ years scaling technology businesses across 50+ countries. Senior roles at Nokia, Thales, Alcatel-Lucent.
Chief Commercial Officer of Lumin8. Advises global family offices on investment curation and portfolio company development.