Dearman Engine Company was founded in 2011 (as a spin-out of Highview Power Storage) to develop and exploit IP relating to the Dearman engine technology. Its staff and advisors have significant experience in liquid air, the low carbon economy, clean tech / disruptive technologies, business and commercial development. Peter Dearman, inventor, contiues to be actively involved in the work of the Dearman Engine Company and technology.
Toby Peters (founder/CEO) Since 2005, Toby has been developing and advocating liquid air as an energy storage solution. Core to this has been initiating and coalescing academic and industry research and development, and promoting it into the policy debate. He was one of the co-inventors of Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES), and co-founded Highview Power Storage, a company building the world's first grid scale LAES demonstrator. Earlier this year, Toby founded The Liquid Air Energy Network - a technology agnostic forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative way to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport.
Jeremy North (Chairman/co-founder). After qualifying as a chartered accountant in the mid-1980s, Jeremy was CFO of one of the UK's most successful publishing houses through to its IPO in 1991. Since then, he has held a number of CFO and business development roles across a broad spectrum of media, property and technology businesses in Europe, Asia and US.
Michael Ayres (COO/co-founder) worked at Highview Power Storage as Head of Development where he established the UK's first cryogenic energy storage test facility and was a programme manager for a variety of development projects around cryogenic power systems in the UK, US and China.
Dr Henry Clarke (Lead Engineer - Core Technology) in 2011 completed a 4 year PhD at Queen Mary University of London focused on theoretical aspects and practical testing of the Dearman Engine technology.
Michael Dearman (Projects Engineer) - A highly practical engineer trained in CAD and experienced in supply chain development, he previously worked in the Highview cryoenergy lab, testing Dearman engines and Highview's turbine technology. He also played a major role in the build of their grid connected liquid air energy storage system at Slough Heat and Power.