ABOUT US
VESTEMI
Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose. Founded in 2018, our vision is to create simple, effective consumer products that make energy savings easy and accessible to everyone. We believe that empowering our customers through the use of technology is the most effective way to sustain lasting action on climate change.
OUR STORY
Inspired by the need to do something about the amount of heat wasted in the domestic energy sector and by the lack of action by Government and heating control manufacturers, co-founders Damon Hart-Davis and Mark Hill set out to design a simple yet effective heating control system that could be adopted at scale and move the needle on climate change.
2012 50% of heating wasted
A Government review highlights as much as 50% of space heating in the UK is being wasted – equivalent to £5bn in domestic gas bills annually.
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2013 OpenTRV Project created
Inspired by a Government workshop on the role of smart heating controls, co-founder Damon Hart-Davis creates the OpenTRV open source project with the aim of bringing together the brightest and the best to address this problem.
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2014 Making it a reality
Committed to moving the needle on climate change, co-founders Damon Hart-Davis and Mark Hill join forces and founded OpenTRV, the company, with the aim of designing, testing and bringing to market a smart heating control device that will significantly improve space heating efficiency.
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2015 Radbot is born
The first Radbot prototype is produced and trialled extensively in UK homes. Results are very encouraging, demonstrating savings of 30% are achievable with no impact on comfort.
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2017 Commercialising Radbot
OpenTRV secures investment and expertise to commercialise Radbot.
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2018 Vestemi is created
In January 2018, Vestemi Limited is created and commercial production of Radbot begins.
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OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Stephane Blanc
CEO
Prior to joining Vestemi, Stephane was Vice President of International Development and Partnerships at Hive. His main focus is on strategy and driving commercial growth.
Jeremy Lock
COO
Jeremy is a former CIO of EDF Trading. He has over 35 years of energy industry experience in engineering and commercial roles and has spent the past 16 years running IT departments in energy trading and retail B2B.
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO, Co-founder and Inventor of the Radbot
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
Erin Ericson
CPO
Erin has deep commercial experience working for leading technology and product companies such as Samsung and Hive, the UK’s leader in smart thermostats. In her roles leading proposition development, she identified market opportunities and customer insights to bring to market consumer friendly products and services. Erin also has an MBA from University of Oxford.
Mark Hill
CIO and Co-founder
Mark has an engineering background with 15 years of experience managing complex IT systems in the City and 9 years in start-ups in a variety of leadership roles. He has taken multiple products through from the prototype stage, through manufacturing in China, to fulfilment in Europe.
Dan Look
Chairman
Dan has over 20 years of Energy Industry consulting experience and spent 15 years as part of the senior leadership team that took Baringa from a start-up to a 600 person global consulting organisation.
Matt Sheen
Commercial Manager
Former CEO of charity Energy Solutions, Matt has over 10 years experience in the energy efficiency sector managing and delivering affordable warmth retrofit programs.
JOIN THE RADBOT REVOLUTION!
Help to reduce CO2 emissions from space heating with Radbot... a simple way of cutting your gas consumption by up to 30%!