Paul Martin – Executive Director

Paul is the director of Kabin, Cornwall’s Co-operative Development body, and has a wealth of experience supporting many co-operatives, social enterprises, traditional charities and mainstream business. Over the past 29 years Paul has acted as company secretary for a number of organisations and has served on the board of a number of local and regional social enterprises. Paul is a SFEDI accredited business adviser with specific knowledge and experience of community enterprise and community development finance. Paul has helped communities to own, operate and benefit from land, buildings, food enterprises, financial services, low carbon technologies and renewable energy technologies.

Edward Martin Sheard – Non executive board member 

Edward have been a Chartered Surveyor for nearly 50 years, including 35+ years as an equity partner and business manager in national consultancies. He has undertaken a wide range of commercial property valuation / management, and advised regarding leases, compulsory purchase and compensation, property taxation, and town planning. Edward has been a regular member of national policy panels of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, responding to and negotiating with Government on compulsory purchase, town planning and taxation issues, and formerly of the RICS arbitration and independent expert panels, determining property disputes. He has published various technical property papers.Edward has long been a keen advocate of renewable energy / CO2 reduction programmes, and local energy production. He is directly involved in assisting the Diocese of Truro with co-ordinating energy
consumption returns and data collection and analysis from all its properties including churches and church schools.

Jonah Kinross – Non executive board member 

Jonah studied Renewable Energy Engineering here in Cornwall from 2005 to 2008 and has had a varied career in renewables since. He has worked for several companies and co-ops in the renewables industry with diverse funding mechanisms as both a director, project manager and technician. Jonah has several years experience helping to manage the installation of large (1-500Kw) solar installations in the UK and abroad and on-site experience which will be helpful in providing board oversight of the planning and implementation of new CPC projects as a non-executive board member. He would like to see increased uptake of renewable energy and is excited by its mission. Jonah shares our goal to see the revenue from renewables projects benefiting local communities.