High-level hires at kite power firm aiming to hit new heights
A Glasgow-based company developing kite power generation technology has revealed top-level hires, saying this completes the recruitment of its senior management team.
Kite Power Systems (KPS), which describes itself as the only company in the UK active in the high-altitude wind pow- er sector, said it has appointed Simon Heyes as chief executive and Andrew Tyler as nonexecutive chair.
Heyes joins from Infinis Energy Holdings, where he was wind energy development and construction director, and has also held roles at Sse/scottish Hydro-electric, GEC Alstom and Rolls-royce.
He will work closely with Tyler, who since 2013 has been chief executive of global aerospace and defence company Northrop Grumman Europe and has been an advisor tokps for the past two years. Tyler has also held senior positions in the Ministry of Defence and was chief executive of Marine Current Turbines.
Sian George, a former chief executive of Ocean Energy Europe, will join the board as a non-executive director.
KPS said the new senior team will take forward and commercialise its “pioneering” wind power technology, and follows news of the Scottish Investment Bank’s £2 million investment in the firm.
He yes said kpsisw ell-placed to develop and commercialise its technology and within three to five years it aims to deploy its first 3 megawatt onshore and offshore kite systems.