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Good Energy Group PLC
10 March 2022
Good Energy Group PLC
("Good Energy" or the "Company")
Zap-Map CEO appointment & Board update
Good Energy Group PLC (AIM: GOOD), the 100% renewable
electricity supplier and innovative energy services provider,
announces Richard Bourne appointed permanent CEO of Zap-Map to make
charging simple for the next 10m electric vehicle (EV) drivers.
Summary
-- Bourne moves to permanent role after over 12 months as Interim CEO
-- Good Energy CEO Nigel Pocklington to take role of Zap-Map
Chair as Good Energy Founder Juliet Davenport steps down
Zap-Map, the UK's go-to app for EV charging and leading EV data
platform, has appointed Richard Bourne as permanent CEO. Bourne
joined Zap-Map in January 2021 as Interim CEO, to work alongside
the Zap-Map Board on the business' long-term strategic plan.
Following a successful year for the company, Bourne will now take a
permanent role leading the execution of Zap-Map's strategy,
including the on-going development of its core products as well as
international expansion, with an overarching mission to make
charging simple for the next 10 million EV drivers.
In addition, Nigel Pocklington, CEO of Zap-Map's majority
shareholder Good Energy, has been appointed Chair of Zap-Map. He
takes over the role from Good Energy Founder and Non-Executive
Director Juliet Davenport, who now steps down from the Zap-Map
Board. Nigel bolsters the Board's expertise in building successful
online platform businesses, together he and existing independent
Non-Executive Director Tim Jones have a wealth of experience from
leadership roles at AutoTrader, Moneysupermarket.com Group and
Hotels.com.
With over 660,000 downloads and hundreds of thousands actively
engaged users each month the Zap-Map app helps EV drivers search
for public charge points, plan journeys and pay for EV charging
across multiple networks. In the past twelve months Zap-Map has
launched its Zap-Map Plus and Premium subscription services,
including support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Its leading
cross-network simple payment solution Zap-Pay now has nine networks
signed up with Osprey, ESB and char.gy live and new launches
including MFG EV Power and GeniePoint coming shortly. It also
announced a commercial partnership with worldwide leader in
business payments Fleetcor for integration in its Allstar fleet
payment platform.
Zap-Map's five person Board now includes Nigel Pocklington, CEO
of Good Energy and Chair of Zap-Map, Tim Jones, independent
Non-Executive Director from the Good Energy Board, Charlie Parry,
Good Energy's Director of Corporate Strategy, in addition to
Zap-Map co-founders Ben Lane, CTO, and Melanie Shufflebotham,
COO.
Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy,
said:
"Zap-Map has built an incredible leading position in an exciting
and rapidly growing EV market in the UK. It plays a crucial role in
Good Energy's strategy, and it has a vital role to play in the
wider decarbonisation of transport. As I pick up the baton from
Juliet as Chair, I would like to thank her for her valuable time
and expertise in the role. In the past year Richard has done an
excellent job working alongside the Zap-Map senior leadership team
to put in place a strategy for growth, as a Board we are now
looking forward to supporting the team in delivering it."
Richard Bourne, CEO, Zap-Map said:
"The past year has seen great progress in the adoption of
electric vehicles and as the EV revolution accelerates even faster,
Zap-Map's core mission of making charging an EV as simple as
possible has never been more important. From continuing to focus on
the EV driver experience, delivering on our commercial partnerships
for payments and fleets through to international expansion, the
coming years will be very exciting for Zap-Map."
Juliet Davenport, Founder and Non-Executive Director, Good
Energy and out-going Chair of Zap-Map said:
"I am very proud of how Zap-Map has developed over the last two
years, expanding its offering to electric vehicle owners and into
payment services. The next stage of the company's development, with
the support of Good Energy, is an exciting one."
Enquiries
Good Energy Group PLC
Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive
Charlie Parry, Director of Corporate Strategy
& Investor Relations
Luke Bigwood, Director of External Affairs Email: press@goodenergy.co.uk
SEC Newgate UK Email: GoodEnergy@secnewgate.co.uk
Elisabeth Cowell Tel: +44 (0)7900 248213
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and
Joint Broker)
Sara Hale / Jeremy Ellis Tel: +44 (0) 20 7597 5970
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker)
Henry Fitzgerald - O'Connor Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 4617
About Good Energy www.goodenergy.co.uk
Good Energy is a supplier of 100% renewable power and an
innovator in energy services. It has long term Power Purchase
Agreements with a community of 1,900 independent UK generators.
Since it was founded 20 years ago, the company has been at the
forefront of the charge towards a cleaner, distributed energy
system. Its mission is to support UK households and businesses
generate, store and share clean power.
Good Energy is recognised as a leader in this market, through
our green kite accreditation with the London Stock Exchange and as
the only energy supplier with Gold Standard Uswitch Green Tariff
Accreditation for all tariffs.
About Zap-Map www.zap-map.com.
Launched in June 2014, with a mission to accelerate the shift to
electric vehicles (EV) and help the drive towards zero carbon
mobility, Zap-Map is the UK's leading EV mapping service. The
charging point map, available on desktop and iOS/Android apps,
helps EV drivers to search for available charge points, plan longer
journeys, pay for charging on participating networks and share
updates with other drivers.
Zap-Map currently has more than 320,000 registered users and
over 95% of the UK's public points on its network, with around 70%
being updated with live availability status data. More than 180,000
EV drivers use Zap-Map each month out of an EV parc of 410,000
(SMMT Jan 2022).
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