Founder Director @ Zenobe Energy | EV Fleet Solutions & 2nd life batteries. Steven is one of the Founders of EV fleet and grid-scale battery storage specialist, Zenobē. Co-founded in 2017 by Steven, Nicholas Beatty and James Basden, the company has over the past 6 years increased its staff from three to over 240 full time employees with industry leading skills including electrical engineering, software development, computer sciences and financing. Steven leads Zenobe's Global EV fleet team which aims to make the ecologically sustainable option also the financially sustainable one for fleet operators. In addition, he’s responsible for Delivery, Operations and Product teams. Prior to Zenobē, Steven spent nearly two decades between battery and traded energy commodity markets. He was a Global Head of Deals Desk at Trafigura where he led the commercial optimisation and market risk management teams for 2 refineries and >30 terminals cross Africa and Central America. Before this role, he was part of Oliver Wyman where he supported trading houses and utilities on optimising asset-backed trading strategies as well as investment & disposals of energy related infrastructure. He started his career in batteries as part of the team that set up AES Energy Storage (now Fluence) and supported the EOS Energy Storage early private fundraise.