Mark Simmers

Mark is an entrepreneur and commercialisation specialist with over 30 years of international experience in sales, marketing and business development. In 2011 Mark graduated from the highly prestigious Saltire Foundation Fellowship Programme, which included a fast-track MBA programme at Babson College, Boston USA.

Mark co-founded Celtic Renewables in late 2011, and has been the CEO since its inception leading the company’s initial stages of growth, including raising almost £50m in early-stage funding to prove its patented technology at pilot commercial scale and the development of the company’s first industrial scale plant, which is complete and will be operational in early-2023. Mark has won numerous investment pitching and business presentation awards on behalf of Celtic Renewables, and has built a strong and dynamic team at the company.