Following the award of multiple Combined Heat and Power (CHP) contract wins, BasePower has appointed two highly experienced engineers to join its expanding team.

Serah Adegbenro is a Chartered Engineer with a 1st Class Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. She has over a decade of experience in the food and pharmaceutical industries and comes to BasePower from the energy sector. As Project Engineer, she is responsible for the growing portfolio of BasePower CHP energy centres across the UK, managing the construction process from design through to commissioning and full output.

Serah’s career includes eight years at Tate & Lyle where she was involved in the start-up and commissioning of a new cane sugar refinery in Egypt, was Technical Manager at a Liquid Sugar Plant in Israel, and managed engineering projects at Tate and Lyle sites within the UK. She was also a core part of a multi-million pound capacity expansion project at GlaxoSmithKline working on the manufacture of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient.

Cornerstoning BasePower’s engineering function is Dave Holden who joins the company as Operations Manager. Originally from the oil and gas industry, Dave trained as a Turbine Maintenance Engineer with GE. He comes to BasePower after 15 years’ experience of commissioning projects in the UK, Indonesia and offshore.

Dave will work alongside the BasePower team to manage the technical development and construction of new CHP energy centres on client industrial sites. As projects pass through construction into completion, he will play a key role in ensuring a smooth transition of the projects into full operation and compliance with Health and Safety and Environmental regulations.

“Serah and Dave bring a wealth of experience to the business and we welcome them to our rapidly expanding team,” said Robin Hardy, BasePower Projects Director.