RCS - Good Energy Group - Zap-Map CEO appointment & Board update

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10/03/2022 07:00

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RNS Number : 2393E  Good Energy Group PLC  10 March 2022

  Good Energy Group PLC

 

("Good Energy" or the "Company")

 

Zap-Map CEO appointment & Board update

 

Good Energy Group PLC (AIM:  GOOD), the 100% renewable electricity supplier
and innovative energy services provider, announces Richard Bourne appointed
permanent CEO of Zap-Map to make charging simple for the next 10m  electric
vehicle (EV) drivers.

Summary

·    Bourne moves to permanent role after over 12 months as Interim CEO

·    Good Energy CEO Nigel Pocklington to take role of Zap-Map Chair as
Good Energy Founder Juliet Davenport steps down

Zap-Map, the UK's go-to app for EV charging and leading EV data platform, has
appointed Richard Bourne as permanent CEO. Bourne joined Zap-Map in January
2021 as Interim CEO, to work alongside the Zap-Map Board on the business'
long-term strategic plan. Following a successful year for the company, Bourne
will now take a permanent role leading the execution of Zap-Map's strategy,
including the on-going development of its core products as well as
international expansion, with an overarching mission to make charging simple
for the next 10 million EV drivers.

In addition, Nigel Pocklington, CEO of Zap-Map's majority shareholder Good
Energy, has been appointed Chair of Zap-Map. He takes over the role from Good
Energy Founder and Non-Executive Director Juliet Davenport, who now steps down
from the Zap-Map Board. Nigel bolsters the Board's expertise in building
successful online platform businesses, together he and existing independent
Non-Executive Director Tim Jones have a wealth of experience from leadership
roles at AutoTrader, Moneysupermarket.com Group and Hotels.com.

With over 660,000 downloads and hundreds of thousands actively engaged users
each month the Zap-Map app helps EV drivers search for public charge points,
plan journeys and pay for EV charging across multiple networks. In the past
twelve months Zap-Map has launched its Zap-Map Plus and Premium subscription
services, including support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Its leading
cross-network simple payment solution Zap-Pay now has nine networks signed up
with Osprey, ESB and char.gy live and new launches including MFG EV Power and
GeniePoint coming shortly. It also announced a commercial partnership with
worldwide leader in business payments Fleetcor for integration in its Allstar
fleet payment platform.

Zap-Map's five person Board now includes Nigel Pocklington, CEO of Good Energy
and Chair of Zap-Map, Tim Jones, independent Non-Executive Director from the
Good Energy Board, Charlie Parry, Good Energy's Director of Corporate
Strategy, in addition to Zap-Map co-founders Ben Lane, CTO, and Melanie
Shufflebotham, COO.

Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy, said:

"Zap-Map has built an incredible leading position in an exciting and rapidly
growing EV market in the UK. It plays a crucial role in Good Energy's
strategy, and it has a vital role to play in the wider decarbonisation of
transport. As I pick up the baton from Juliet as Chair, I would like to thank
her for her valuable time and expertise in the role. In the past year Richard
has done an excellent job working alongside the Zap-Map senior leadership team
to put in place a strategy for growth, as a Board we are now looking forward
to supporting the team in delivering it."

 

Richard Bourne, CEO, Zap-Map said:

"The past year has seen great progress in the adoption of electric vehicles
and as the EV revolution accelerates even faster, Zap-Map's core mission of
making charging an EV as simple as possible has never been more important.
From continuing to focus on the EV driver experience, delivering on our
commercial partnerships for payments and fleets through to international
expansion, the coming years will be very exciting for Zap-Map."

 

Juliet Davenport, Founder and Non-Executive Director, Good Energy and
out-going Chair of Zap-Map said:

"I am very proud of how Zap-Map has developed over the last two years,
expanding its offering to electric vehicle owners and into payment services.
The next stage of the company's development, with the support of Good Energy,
is an exciting one."

 

 

Enquiries

 Good Energy Group PLC                                                    Email: press@goodenergy.co.uk (mailto:press@goodenergy.co.uk)

 Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive

 Charlie Parry, Director of Corporate Strategy & Investor Relations

 Luke Bigwood, Director of External Affairs

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 Elisabeth Cowell                                                         Tel: +44 (0)7900 248213

 Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
 Sara Hale / Jeremy Ellis                                                 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7597 5970

 Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker)

 Henry Fitzgerald - O'Connor                                              Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 4617

 

About Good Energy www.goodenergy.co.uk (http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/)

 

Good Energy is a supplier of 100% renewable power and an innovator in energy
services. It has long term Power Purchase Agreements with a community of 1,900
independent UK generators.

 

Since it was founded 20 years ago, the company has been at the forefront of
the charge towards a cleaner, distributed energy system. Its mission is to
support UK households and businesses generate, store and share clean power.

Good Energy is recognised as a leader in this market, through our green kite
accreditation with the London Stock Exchange and as the only energy supplier
with Gold Standard Uswitch Green Tariff Accreditation for all tariffs.

 

About Zap-Map www.zap-map.com.

Launched in June 2014, with a mission to accelerate the shift to electric
vehicles (EV) and help the drive towards zero carbon mobility, Zap-Map is the
UK's leading EV mapping service. The charging point map, available on desktop
and iOS/Android apps, helps EV drivers to search for available charge points,
plan longer journeys, pay for charging on participating networks and share
updates with other drivers.

Zap-Map currently has more than 320,000 registered users and over 95% of the
UK's public points on its network, with around 70% being updated with live
availability status data. More than 180,000 EV drivers use Zap-Map each month
out of an EV parc of 410,000 (SMMT Jan 2022).

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