Ed Lynch-Bell has spent his career advancing innovation, primarily in the energy sector. As an engineer educated at The university of Sheffield, the Politecnico di Torino and Carnegie Mellon University bridging technology, markets, customer needs, and policy to advance decarbonisation of the energy and transport sectors. 

On graduating Carnegie Mellon Ed was part of the founding team of Aquion Energy a Sodium Ion battery manufacturing startup, where he built the process and quality engineering functions, contributed to basic R&D and holds a share in patents relating to his contributions to the battery design. On coming to Australia he brought this expertise to AGL Energy, one of Australia’s largest utility companies. At AGL he led the energy storage function in the New Energy team, launching Australia’s first consumer battery proposition, developing a series of Virtual Power Plant projects and supporting AGL’s venture investing. 
  
On leaving AGL Ed consulted widely to the energy industry before jointing the founding team at Evie Networks which grew into Australia’s largest build own, operate EV charging network. Ed built the product function for Evie, leading it to many successes including the launch of the Evie app and a fleet services business. Latterly he took a more strategic role, in emerging technology, steering a course through technology selection for charging, developing an approach to cybersecurity and Plug & Charge and establishing a strategy to leave Evie as an agile and innovative technology leader. 

Since Leaving Evie, Ed has resumed consulting to the EV and energy industries; founding a successful series of networking events and advising clients across startup, utilities, investors, developers and policy makers. Ed remains passionate about innovation and believes that Australian energy tech can only be sucessful if it has a global strategic outlook. Ed is actively building links with innovation ecosystems across the Asia pacific region  to bring the best and brightest together to innovate solutions to our decarbonisation and sustainable development goals.