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Dr Graham Edward Cooley FIMMM (Born March 24, 1964) is a British businessman and entrepreneur who has raised over £200m for British technology companies. With a strong background in Physics, material technology, electrochemical engineering, energy storage and technology development Graham has pioneered and developed many new energy technologies. Graham is currently the Chief Executive Officer at ITM Power Plc, focussed on the design and manufacture of Hydrogen Energy Systems for energy storage and Clean Fuel production. Including the development of rapid response electrolyser technology for grid balancing. Graham joined ITM Power as CEO in 2009. Prior to this Graham spent 11 years developing energy storage and generation technologies as Business Development Manager at National Power Plc.

Early life and Education
Born in Slough, UK, in 1985 Graham graduated from University if Wales (UWIST) with a BSc Honours in Physics, an MPhil and PhD in Materials Physics from Brunel University, London, 1989;  DSM, Managing Innovation, University of Oxford in 1995 and an MBA in 1995. Graham was one of eight technologists selected by National Power plc to be sponsored for an MBA at the University of Bradford Business School.

National Power and Regenesys Energy Storage
Graham was recruited by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) as Research Manager at Central Electricity Research Laboratory in Leatherhead in 1989. The CEGB was privatised in 1990 and Graham joined National Power and played a key role in the development of the Regenesys energy storage technology with Dr Stewart Male (Born in December 1950). The original series of patents were known in National Power as the “SG series” standing for Stewart and Graham (See example of patent). Graham was appointed Business Development Manager at National Power Plc in 1994 and then Business Development Manager at International Power Plc in 1998.

Antenova: Reinventing the Antenna
Graham left the Power Industry in 2000 and was appointed as the CEO of Antenova the smart antenna company by Pilgrim Beart the founder. In 2001 Graham raised 3.4 million first-round venture capital funding. The consortium of investors was led by Cambridge Gateway Fund, with Nippon, Quester and FNI (Nixdorf family fund). Graham then appointed Dr Peter Radley who accepted the position as chairman of Antenova in 2002 and six world-renowned authorities. Positions were also asigned to Ed Candy, Phil O'Donovan, Peter Duffett-Smith, Dennis Fielder, Stefan Stanislawski and Alan Stidwell as technical advisory board members.

Metalysis: Winning Metals
In 2003 Graham was appointed CEO at Metalysis a spin-off of Cambridge University by Sir Alastair Morton the first Chairman and the former CEO of Eurotunnel. Graham then appointed Lord Roger Freeman as the Chairman of Metalysis in November 2003. Originally called FFC ltd after the Fray, Farthing and Chen process the university spinout was renamed by Cooley, “Metalysis” a compound word of “Metals” and “Electrolysis”. In March 2005 Metalysis, a metals extraction pioneer, announces the completion of a £5m investment round co-led by Seven Spires Investments and new investors, 3i, along with a syndicate comprising Generics Asset Management, The Coalfields Enterprise Fund and Cambridge Capital Group. Together with national and European grant money, the round will be used to continue the scale-up and commercialisation of a unique metals extraction process. In Aug 2006 Metalysis received £2.75m from Yorkshire Forward and Objective One to establish a manufacturing facility in South Yorkshire to produce the metals allowing them to create over 130 jobs. In October 2006 Metalysis announced the acquisition of BHP Billiton’s (the world’s largest resources company) Polar process. The agreement will see BHP Billiton receive a minority stake in a new joint venture company provisionally to be called “Metalysis Titanium Inc”. Dr Graham Cooley, Metalysis’ chief executive said, “Combining the strengths of both Polar and FFC Cambridge technologies through the formation of MTi is expected to generate unprecedented progress in a range of high volume titanium products. This is indeed an exciting event for the titanium industry and the industries it serves”. In July 2007, Cooley completed a £13 million funding round backed by Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF), 3i, QinetiQ, Seven Spires, Chord Capital and Cambridge Capital Group. In Feb 2007 Graham negotiated a Joint Venture with Rolls Royce in Malaysia to set up one of the largest tantalum plants outside Britain.

Sensortec: Universal Sensors and Cawood plc
In 2007 Graham was appointed CEO at Sensortec, Universal Sensors and Cawood plc by the then Chairman David Willetts, now Lord Willetts. Sensortec specialises in industrial diagnostics; developing ground breaking new technology and operating a highly successful analytical services business. who currently owns Universal Sensors and Cawood plc. Universal Sensors Ltd and Cambridge Design Partnership (of Cambridge, UK) and Nottingham Trent University entered into a strategic alliance to develop a hand-held system to detect the hospital superbugs, C.difficile and MRSA.

ITM Power: Energy Storage | Clean Fuel
In 2009 Graham was appointed CEO at ITM Power Plc by the Chairman Prof Roger Putnam CBE. Graham has led ITM Power from a technology development company through to a world leader in the area of hydrogen energy storage and clean fuel production with an order book that stands at £40m (August 2017). In 2011 ITM Power initiated Hydrogen On-Site Trials (HOST) the largest trial of hydrogen refuelling in the UK at the time. Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) was a project which utilised ITM Power’s transportable high pressure refuelling unit (HFuel) which was built with support from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and was launched at Stansted Airport in March 2011. 21 commercial partners joined the HOST trials from seven different industrial sectors including: Amey, Autoglass, Center Parcs, Commercial Group, DHL Supply Chain, Enterprise, Isle of Man Government, London Borough of Camden, London Stansted Airport, May Gurney, RAC, Scottish & Southern Energy Plc, Scottish Police Services Authority, Scottish Water, Sheffield City Council, Southampton City Council, Tarmac, The Forestry Commission, UPS, Vestas Wind Systems and VolkerHighways. Membership of HOST provided each partner with a one week trial of HFuel and the two Revolve Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (HICE) transit vehicles. UKH2Mobility was launched in January 2012 with Graham as a founding board member. The ground breaking project to ensure the UK is well positioned for the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles was launched by the then Business Minister Mark Prisk on 18th January 2012. In 2015 JCB acquired a strategic shareholding in ITM Power by way of a subscription for new ordinary shares making them ITM Power’s largest shareholder. In September 2015 ITM Power signed a strategic siting partnership with Shell for the delivery of Hydrogen Refuelling Stations (HRS) on three Shell retail forecourts in the UK. These three HRS deployments will be the first to be integrated onto forecourts in the UK. In October 2015 ITM Power signed its first fuel contract with Toyota, covering the green hydrogen fuel dispensed from the three London HyFive refuelling stations. This ensured that the UK is among the first wave of national markets in Europe for the Toyota Mirai.

Awards and Recognition
Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. In 1995 appointed Chairman of the TWI Polymer Research Board. In 2010 appointed to the Executive Committee of the US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC). 2012 appointed Board Member of UKH2Mobility launched by Mark Prisk. In 2015 appointed Board Member of the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst advisory board chaired by David Gummer (Lord Deben). 2016 appointed Board Member of the Sheffield University Energy2050 Advisory Board chaired by Tim Yeo.

Personal Life
Lives in Oxfordshire and Barnsley. Married; one daughter. Twentieth Century art and design collector.