Helen has over 40 years’ experience in the energy industry and is an expert on gas purchasing, supply, shipping and regulation in the UK and Ireland.

Her roles in trading, gas shipping and pricing means she has a very commodity-centric view of energy markets. She founded Ceres Energy in 2008 with a former colleague with the intention of using the spare capacity in her company and his business contacts in Ireland.

In 2012, she moved the focus of the company to green gas.

She was managing director since inception and became chief executive officer in 2022. Previously, in 2000, she founded a company to provide consultancy and trading services to E&P companies; notable clients included Tullow Oil and Sterling Resources. That company effectively merged with Ceres in 2018. In the mid 90’s, she worked at Northern Electric where she was responsible for creating and managing the gas trading and shipping operation, a role which included negotiating and then operating major gas and power contracts as well as regulatory and policy matters. She gained her initial expertise in long term gas purchase contracts at British Gas in the early 1990’s.

She started her career as an oil refiner at Texaco Canada and then as a principle investigator at the Institute for Hydrogen Systems.

Graeme has been increasingly focussed on applying his expertise in fossil gas to green gas. 

Graeme has over 30 years’ experience in the energy sector, dealing with national and international gas portfolios for major companies. Graeme’s expertise is gas balancing, trading, shortfall risk mitigation, operations and the vast interactions within the gas commodity, green certificate and support scheme markets.

Graeme oversees the operational activities at Ceres Energy and its subsidiary Barrow Shipping, which entered the green gas markets in 2012. In 2002, Graeme and Helen set-up a jointly owned subsidiary of her company and provided consultancy and trading services for various E&P companies, including Tullow Oil and Nephin Energy. Graeme worked at Northern Electric from 1989 until 2001 in a variety of roles, lastly as the Gas Trading and Operations Manager.

Rosanna is taking on the responsibilities that Helen Edwards has carried out since 2008 to manage all areas of Ceres Energy.

Her special expertise is in project delivery and organisational improvements, and she has led several multi-organisational carbon reduction and sustainability projects and knowledge-sharing initiatives. At the UK Green Gas Day 2023 Rosanna gave a talk on ‘Turning Gas into Money: Optimised Routes to Market’ for delegates from the across the biomethane industry.

Rosanna joined Ceres in 2022 after spending seven years at Transport for London, where she was a senior project manager of multiple major engineering projects and TfL’s Sustainability Ambassador for the pan-industry Major Projects Association.

Jonny provides analytical support to existing and new green gas projects to ensure clients maximise their commercial value.

He works on a variety of projects ranging in specialisation, from researching industry schemes to financial modelling at different levels. Jonny also works in the gas operations team.