Jon Sankey

Responsible for driving the growth of Vattenfall’s Heat Network in Bristol. Jon sits within a dedicated Vattenfall Bristol team with extensive experience of developing city-scale heat networks in Bristol, elsewhere in the UK and abroad. In January 2023, Vattenfall Heat UK acquired Bristol Heat Networks Ltd and is working with Bristol City Leap to expand the existing heat network, develop new networks, and ultimately interconnect them to create a single Bristol Heat Network – serving the local community with reliable, low-carbon heat. Working with developers, local authorities, and housing associations, Vattenfall Heat UK is driving the transition towards low-carbon heating. We bring investment, unrivalled know-how, and a track record of experience to design and deliver large-scale, resilient district heating networks that achieve low-carbon heat, create jobs and boost the local economy while delivering heat to customers at an affordable price. Serving more than two million customers on heat networks across Europe, we're bringing the Vattenfall Heat experience to the UK, enabling fossil-free living within one generation.

Leading on Clean Energy Sector Exports in the Great South West Area. Being the expert in the Clean Energy Sector and the ‘go to’ person for all matters relating to Clean Energy Sector companies exporting from the Great South West area. • Running a campaign of events to provide insight, skills and planning for businesses looking to export for the first time or increase their exports. • Connecting companies with new opportunities and partnerships both in new markets and within the UK for pre-export capability building. • Working in partnership with colleagues across DIT and regional LEPs to put in place long term plans to increase clean energy exports.

Responsible for Bristol Energy's decarbonisation of transport and electric vehicle offering, innovation in energy services and engagement with community groups. • Instrumental in development of overall energy services and innovation strategy with segmented focus on Mobility, Heat, Energy Efficiency and Local Energy Markets & Flexibility. Personal focus on Mobility (electric vehicles), an area I have become expert in. • Mobility proposition development included domestic tariffs; domestic, public and commercial charge-point installation; energy supply to public access charge-points; back-office and fleet offering. Working closely with local authorities, technology and industry innovators and research bodies. • Brought together and took part in several consortium bids for BEIS funding for the Beyond Off Street EV charging project – outcome pending. • Selected to work on critical, highly confidential senior level projects where discretion, tact and self-led problem solving is required. In particular, the management of the information flow in the company sale process between the company, lawyers, consultants and interested parties/bidders. • Acted as ‘internal consultant’ when needed: Rationalised energy metering contract management process with inventory and accompanying financial model to track obligations and costs; devised tactical solutions to customer-care back-log issues. • Co-lead on redesign of CSR strategy and governance structure including funding allocation and alignment with UN SDGs and city initiatives. • Leading relationships with local community energy groups and local financing partners on behalf of the company. Well-connected across the city business and green networks. • Responsible for liaising with and assessing bidders for our ‘Fuel Good Fund’ which provides grant funding to charities taking action on fuel poverty. Reshaping and gaining buy-in for the most recent successful grant offer to ensure it dealt with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

• Top ranked as ‘Outstanding’ for 5 years in a row. Highly respected and resigned on excellent terms due to decision to change career direction. • Working primarily with the Head of Investment Banking for EMEA and APAC and other business heads (on an ad-hoc basis) in a strategy and internal consulting capacity. Driving strategic projects as part of the growth agenda of this expanding franchise as well as BAU tasks. • Wide range of responsibilities including solving problems for business heads, driving strategic initiatives, workforce and resource analysis, planning and management, managing internal resource/revenue disputes, analyzing performance, prospects and targets, running committees, providing strategic advice on business direction and organization and maintaining strong governance and compliance. Close coordination with the wider IBD leadership team and being the key business stakeholder for interaction with functional partners such as HR, IT, Audit, Compliance and Controls. • Delivered strategic, client centered responses to major regulatory developments which constrained business activity in certain jurisdictions. • Driving commercial decision making from informative, detailed and innovative strategic analysis of various forms of qualitative and quantitative information including processes, workforce/resourcing requirements, market/competitor data and client interaction and sales metrics. • Divisional restructuring of coverage matrix, tactical response to Brexit challenge and TOM authoring guided by informative, detailed and innovative strategic analysis, market/competitor analysis, client targeting and gap analysis combined with regulatory, HR and local market considerations. • Key business stakeholder for several major external partners and suppliers, building strong long-term relationships. Optimization of the market data cost-base; closely managing deployment and usage and liaising with vendors on contract negotiation, often involving RFPs.

As the Business Manager for several businesses; including Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Institutions and Private Equity teams and Capital Markets origination teams; using analytical skills to educate management about their business performance, prospects and market positioning. Authored risk and control assessment; analysing the risk profile of the business, recommending and deploying risk mitigating processes. Became highly adept at Excel, Powerpoint, Project and other management information tools (SAP Business Objects, Dealogic, QlikView etc) and easily adapt to new products and systems. Known for my ability to manipulate numbers and data and to use these to streamline processes.

Studied Mandarin Chinese to a high standard. As top of my class I averaged 93% overall for the semester and took additional courses in Chinese Culture and Business Chinese. Whilst studying here I also took the Chinese Government led HSK test and passed level 4 which is "Designed for learners who can discuss a relatively wide range of topics in Chinese and are capable of communicating with Chinese speakers at a high standard." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi Additionally my reading abilities far outstrip these levels as I am able to read a newspaper and can, given time, translate most documents. I continue to study Chinese daily after my graduation.

English teacher. I spent one semester teaching English in a state run primary school prior to my Mandarin course. Employed through a company contracted to provide teachers to the state sector, I was required to provide a rigorous record of all lesson plans and was assessed on a regular basis. I was awarded the ‘New Teacher Award’ over 60 others for my hard work, dedication and teaching style. I used this time to prepare for my semester at Jiao Tong University by getting my Chinese up to as high a standard as possible and by familiarising myself with life in China.

Working as a business management analyst, I had a wide range of responsibilities. These included project management, working with senior staff to produce strategy reports and reporting the performance of the division on a weekly basis. I became an expert user of excel and the various MIS reporting and data analysis tools that are used in IBD. I was the “go to” analyst for other members of the team and the wider division for any issues around data analysis and frequently liaised with data providers about new products, developments and accuracy. I was responsible for providing a weekly update document to senior management that detailed the activity, performance and revenue projections of the M&A business. I was well known for my ability to streamline processes and for using my IT skills to do this. Adopting the task of defining and monitoring the operational risks of the division, I ensured the various stakeholders had signed off on their responsibilities. I won a great deal of praise for having streamlined this process and met and built relationships with a huge range of people from across the firm in the process. As such, I am very familiar with compliance issues around Investment Banking and the methods by which adherence can be ensured.

Imperialism and Culture