Utilitywise appoints Jeremy Middleton and Jon Kempster as Non-Executive Directors

– UK, North Tyneside – Utilitywise PLC (AIM:UTW), a leading independent utility cost management consultancy, is pleased to announce the appointments to the Board of Jeremy Middleton, CBE and Jonathan ‘Jon’ Kempster as non-executive Directors, effective immediately.

Jeremy is an entrepreneur best known for having co-founded Homeserve PLC, the FTSE 250 international home emergency business where he remains on the executive committee.

Jon has held a number of PLC finance roles, most recently as Group Finance Director of Wincanton plc, the UK and Ireland logistics and distribution group with 16,000 employees and revenues of over £1 billion

Richard Feigen, Chairman of Utilitywise, commented: “We welcome Jeremy and Jon to the Board, both of whom bring to the Company a unique set of skills and expertise. Jeremy has a strong track record in advising companies in the North East, where he still lives and Jon has extensive public company experience. Since the executive appointments of Michael Dent and Simon Butterfield earlier in the year we have been looking for non-executives who can contribute during this exciting period in the Company’s development and we are delighted to have attracted such high calibre individuals. I look forward to working with them.”

About Utilitywise

Utilitywise is a leading independent utility cost management consultancy based in South Shields, Tyne and Wear with offices in Portsmouth, Redditch, Leicester and Bury St Edmunds. The company has established trading relationships with a number of major UK energy suppliers and provides services to its customers designed to assist them in achieving better value out of their energy contracts, reduced energy consumption and lower carbon footprint.

Businesses large and small rely on Utilitywise for their energy management needs. Clients range in size from single site SME’s to multinationals with thousands of sites and cover the whole of the UK. In total, Utilitywise manages over 67,000 energy meters which have an overall energy consumption of approaching 16 terra watt hours per annum.

Utilitywise is a UK company quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

For more information : www.utilitywise.com

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