Having recorded 10x revenue growth to £25m in 2024 Deloitte named Manchester-based UrbanChain as the UK’s third fastest growing technology company
UrbanChain have today announced the launch of a new sales division to drive further UK growth.
Having recorded 10x revenue growth to £25m in 2024 Deloitte recently named Manchester-based UrbanChain as the UK’s third fastest growing technology company.
The new sales division, led by Kelly-Marie Lovesy, will play a pivotal role in expanding UrbanChain’s customer base.
Keith Hayhoe, Head of Direct Sales, Joe Wadsworth, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Indi Burton, Senior Direct Sales Manager and Indirect Sales Managers Nick Evans and Val Horrocks, have also been recruited.
UrbanChain have also expanded their Corporate Development team with the appointment of Aisling Wright-Goff as Corporate Development Manager – Partnerships.
Aisling will drive the growth of UrbanChain’s partnership ecosystem by turning strategic collaborations into scalable sales channels. Her focus will include market education, fostering collaboration among aligned groups, and developing repeatable frameworks for success.
Having previously worked at BecomingX and Accenture Group Plc, Aisling will work closely with the sales partnerships team.
Director of Sales Kelly-Marie Lovesy, previously of Opus Energy, said: “UrbanChain’s clean energy matching platform has proved that creating local renewable energy markets across the UK is not just the future – but the now.
“To be leading UrbanChain’s sales division is something I’m very excited about as the individuals within it have vast industry experience and are passionate about bringing positive and necessary change to the UK’s energy landscape.
“Our immediate focus as a new sales division is to further strengthen UrbanChain’s market presence by honing in on key market segments, including TPIs (Third Party Intermediaries), commercial and industrial clients, local authorities, community energy groups, while also targeting prosumers (clean energy producers and consumers) with energy management capabilities.”
Backed by investors including leading European investment group Eurazeo, UrbanChain creates local energy markets where participants buy and sell renewable energy amongst themselves – without being exposed to wholesale market prices.
The CleanTech company’s AI driven platform matches renewable generation and consumption on a half hourly basis and settles transactions via private blockchain.
Just last month UrbanChain appointed KPMG to lead their current £50+ million Series B fundraise, which the company say will deliver further exponential growth in the UK and enable their proven model to be rolled out internationally, including the US and Europe.
Headcount at the CleanTech firm has increased from 10 to 75 while their leadership team boasts over 300 years of energy and technology business experience, scaling fast growth companies to exit.
Founder CEO Somayeh Taheri leads UrbanChain from BASE in Manchester Science Park.
She said: “Sales at UrbanChain is about customer training, and a safe onboarding journey to the local markets. This needs an expert team who knows how to communicate a foundationally new model to our customers. They also need to have agility in the sales process and continuously learn from their journey.
“Kelly has already provided innovative contributions to the discussions around how to improve our markets. I am particularly pleased that we have added a talented director who can be a female role model to our diverse team too. The sales team developed under Kelly’s supervision can cover different segments of the market for our model to be accessible to all.”
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