Graham Oakes

Founder, Chair, Chief Scientist, Upside Energy

Graham Oakes is a systems engineer with over 30 years experience.  He formed Upside Energy in late 2013 in response to a challenge prize sponsored by National Grid. Upside has since raised £2.4m of grants and £6.7m of equity finance, enabling it to take its cloud platform to deliver flexibility to the energy system to market in the UK.

Prior to forming Upside, Graham helped firms such as Cisco, Intel, Skype, Oxfam and Greenpeace to define and deliver software intensive systems.  He holds a first degree in Geophysics from the University of Queensland, a PhD from Imperial College, and is a CEng, CITP, FBCS and FRSA.