Toby Read

Toby is the Commercial Project Manager at ion Ventures, an international energy transition specialist where he focuses on preparing BESS projects for financial close and into operations, with a keen eye on long-term market evolution, impact, and policy and regs.

He has held positions across the electricity industry, focusing on flexibility throughout. Starting at UKPN as an analyst then a project manager on the Low Carbon London programme gave a grounding in networks and flexibility. Markets, policy and regulation, and C&I customer needs came after that through product development at Orsted, then consultant and commercial roles at Veolia and GRIDSERVE respectively before joining ion.