Our team

Andy Cox is a strategic advisor and board leader focused on the global energy transition. He currently serves as Head of Energy Transition at Howden Group Holdings, where he leads financing solutions across energy and infrastructure. Formerly Executive Chair at Zoa, an AI-powered platform for home electrification, Andy has deep experience in energy tech and business transformation.

For 17 years, Andy was a senior partner at KPMG where he held various leadership roles in both energy and deal advisory. As UK Head of Energy & Natural Resources he worked extensively across international markets including Japan and advised on many major cross-boarder transactions in the sector. He is passionate about the intersection of leadership, innovation and psychological safety, mentoring emerging leaders and building high-performing teams to address complex challenges.

Andy brings a global network combined with extensive leadership experience and commercial foresight, helping Kaluza to scale into new markets.

Travers has over 25 years of experience in scaling technology businesses at the forefront of innovation and on a mission to transform critical sectors. 

Prior to joining advanced energy platform Kaluza, Travers served as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Fintech pioneer Thought Machine where he spearheaded its growth from seed to unicorn status enabling the digital transformation of world-leading banks. He has deep roots in energy having launched EDF Energy in the UK where he led the acquisition of over 1 million new customers per year as Sales and Marketing Director.

Neel Gulhar is Kaluza’s Chief Product Officer and is responsible for leading the productization of the business’ pioneering SaaS solutions. Neel has over twenty years’ experience in product development, B2B SaaS marketing and utility platforms. 

He has a particular interest and depth in the burgeoning demand response market and decarbonising global energy needs. Previous to Kaluza, Neel was Vice President of Product at Oracle and Senior Director of Product Marketing at Opower where he helped lead the high-growth SaaS company to IPO and acquisition. Neel has extensive knowledge of the utility sector having spent over a decade working for US majors Exelon and Baltimore Gas & Electric. 

Matt joined Kaluza in July 2021, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge from the retail and supply markets following his role as Deputy CFO at OVO Energy, the UK’s third largest energy supplier. 

With over 10 years of experience in the energy sector working in both the UK and Australia, Matt qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC in 2006 and holds a BSc from the University of Bristol in Economics and Economic History.

Rich has over 20 years of energy retail experience across all market segments. As Chief Delivery Officer, Rich leads Kaluza's client delivery function overseeing large-scale implementation programmes, driving governance and accountability across delivery teams, and ensuring Kaluza's ways of working integrate seamlessly with each client's own methodologies.

Prior to Kaluza, Rich was Retail Director at EDF Energy, where he led the end-to-end transformation serving 5.5 million residential and small business accounts - including operating model redesign, system migration, and ongoing operations - while improving customer satisfaction, colleague engagement, and cost to serve. During this period, EDF achieved a 4.8 Trustpilot rating and a top 10 ranking in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

He has a proven track record of building high-performing teams, driving cultural change at pace, and deploying data, digital, and AI capabilities to create enterprise value - experience he now brings directly to Kaluza's clients.

Barbara Wong is VP of Product at Kaluza, where she has spent nearly two years driving product strategy for the company. With experience spanning tech startups, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and consulting, she is focused on using technology and strategy to achieve growth. Barbara is passionate about how technology, businesses, and consumers can come together to drive a more sustainable future.

Kari Beasley is Kaluza's VP Product Operations, responsible for how the organisation runs, stays trusted, and delivers at scale.Kari has over 17 years' experience driving operational excellence across critical industries in the United States and Europe, from transportation to mail processing, energy utilities, and food manufacturing. Prior to joining Kaluza, she served as Chief Operating Officer at a clean-label food startup. Before that, the bulk of her career was spent at Opower and then Oracle Energy and Water, where she ran platform operations for Opower before standing up and scaling the combined R&D Program Management Office post-acquisition, standardising process and embedding consistent delivery practices across five global development centres.

Conor has almost 15 years of experience in energy technology. He joined OVO Energy in 2013 prior to the Kaluza spin out. Starting in trading, he built machine-learning forecasting models to price and hedge OVO's energy positions, before working on and leading a number of flexibility programmes at Kaluza including the world's largest vehicle-to-grid deployment. As Regional Director he drove the company's expansion into Australia, building the local team and the partnership with AGL Energy.

As VP of Commercial Operations, Conor and his team work with energy companies at the start of their transformation, helping them shape a solution that delivers. He led the negotiation behind Kaluza's global agreement with ENGIE.