John Hannaford
Director

John served on the main board of London based M.W.Marshall & Co Ltd, formerly one of the world’s largest wholesale money market brokers. Having joined the company in Dublin in 1979, John moved to Asia Pacific in 1982 and progressed his career to become responsible for all of the Group’s activities in the region. In 1989, John and the other senior partners orchestrated a leveraged buyout of the company from its then parent for £120 million, which was the largest MBO in the city that year. Following the sales of the company in 1998 John retired to the Channel Islands but returned to Ireland in early 2000, where he became a non-exec director in a number of diverse companies. Having been introduced to énergie’s Chief Executive in mid 2006, and having immediately been impressed with the company and its offerings, John became a significant investor and a full time Director in early 2007.