Meet Jon, Executive Director
What’s your role at YnNi Teg?
As the Executive Director, I help our voluntary board members to develop and manage our resources and activities to meet the aims of the society and, externally, seek to further the broader development of the community energy sector.
Tell us a bit about you
After an uncertain few years drifting around the country from job to job, I trained to become a landscape architect, which married my interests in the natural environment and planning and designing the man-made world. My first professional job brought me to Cardiff for what I thought would be a few years, but 30 plus years later I’m still happily settled here with my family. During that time, I’ve worked in the public, not-for-profit and commercial sectors and been a part owner and director in several successful and unsuccessful businesses, including a solar farm development company and an energy supply company. I’m also a volunteer director with TrydaNi-Chargeplace Wales Ltd, a social enterprise aiming to establish a network of EV car-sharing clubs across Wales.
And when you aren’t at work?
I’m reading a lot – mostly history books and science fiction or spy novels. I also enjoy bimbling along the byways and back roads of Wales – on foot or motor bike – and doing the occasional DIY project, though not very good at it.