The Leadership Team
Founded by Adam Kingdon, Utonomy has become the leading partner to gas network operators for their transition to a Smart Gas Grid. The Utonomy solution drives operational efficiencies, increased feed-in of green gases and reduced methane leakage through a combination of digitalisation, proven AI machine learning software and patented hardware products.
Utonomy’s team of talented and experienced engineers bring extensive expertise from a range of disciplines, including gas networks, data science, software, artificial intelligence, hardware, and fluid mechanics – to deliver a solution fit for your network.
Management Team
Steve Dawson
CEO
Steve brings a wealth of experience gained in utility, regulated, and industrial sectors in start-ups, consultancy, and multinational corporates. Previously serving as CEO delivering digitisation and water-network optimisation solutions to the global water industry, prior to this he held a number of significant leadership positions from which he delivered growth in product, service, and technology businesses, as well as board roles at a number of start-ups; delivering growth and achieving multiple exits.
Adam Kingdon
Founder and Strategic Relationship Director
Prior to founding Utonomy, Adam was the founder and CEO of i2O Water, the leader in intelligent control of water distribution systems. He was previously CEO of a number of technology and engineering businesses in the UK, Germany and France. Adam has an MBA from INSEAD and a mechanical engineering degree from Imperial College London.
Steve Lewis
CTO
Previously a Product Development Director at Amdocs, one of the world’ s top 20 software companies, Steve led the development of their network inventory management software (used by major telecom operators across the globe). Before that, he held engineering management roles with Evolving Systems, Kennedy Carter and Westinghouse. Steve graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Portsmouth.
Mark Wilson
CFO
Previously Director of Finance at Hotjar, the leading provider of website heatmaps and behaviour analytics tools. Before that, he was Director of Finance at CloudPay, having begun his career at Deloitte. Mark is an FCA chartered accountant and graduated in Physics at Oxford University.
Brian Croal
SALES DIRECTOR
After graduating in Electronic Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University Brian went on to have 15 years working as a Controls and Automation engineer specialising in optimisation projects. He moved into management with Valmet Automation, ultimately being their Head of Services in the UK & Benelux, before joining Honeywell's industrial software division as Service Business Leader for Europe and North Africa. Brian joined Utonomy in 2022 as Head of Customer Operations, before taking up his current position in 2025.
Graham Newell
HEAD OF SUPPLY CHAIN AND COMPLIANCE
Graham brings many years of experience in high quality, precision manufacturing. He was previously manufacturing manager at Cambridge scientific instrument manufacturer Owlstone Medical, supplier of novel gas detection instrumentation. Prior to that, he was Process Engineering Manager at Plasmon Data Systems manufacturers of optical disks. Graham has a first class honours in Engineering Science from Oxford.
Tom Jeffries
HEAD OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Prior to joining Utonomy, Tom held a number of senior product management roles at AIRCOM International and TEOCO Corporation where he was responsible for cellular radio network planning and optimisation software products used by hundreds of communication service providers around the world. Tom has a Master's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol.
Ed Parker
HEAD OF SOFTWARE & SYSTEM ENGINEERING
Ed has 25 years experience delivering mission critical systems to a wide range of applications. As Automation Engineering Manager for Rolls-Royce his projects included ship-wide automation, gas turbine condition monitoring and self-learning yacht stabilisation. During his time as Principle Engineer and Chief Technologist (global engineering group of 400) at Cisco his teams developed software for pay TV consumer devices deployed to over 25 million subscriber homes. Ed has an MEng (first class) in Marine Technology from Newcastle University.
Board
Steve Dawson
CEO
Steve brings a wealth of experience gained in utility, regulated, and industrial sectors in start-ups, consultancy, and multinational corporates. Previously serving as CEO delivering digitisation and water-network optimisation solutions to the global water industry, prior to this he held a number of significant leadership positions from which he delivered growth in product, service, and technology businesses, as well as board roles at a number of start-ups; delivering growth and achieving multiple exits.
Adam Kingdon
Founder and Strategic Relationship Director
Prior to founding Utonomy, Adam was the founder and CEO of i2O Water, the leader in intelligent control of water distribution systems. He was previously CEO of a number of technology and engineering businesses in the UK, Germany and France. Adam has an MBA from INSEAD and a mechanical engineering degree from Imperial College London.
Steve Lewis
CTO
Previously a Product Development Director at Amdocs, one of the world’ s top 20 software companies, Steve led the development of their network inventory management software (used by major telecom operators across the globe). Before that, he held engineering management roles with Evolving Systems, Kennedy Carter and Westinghouse. Steve graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Portsmouth.
Mark Wilson
CFO
Previously Director of Finance at Hotjar, the leading provider of website heatmaps and behaviour analytics tools. Before that, he was Director of Finance at CloudPay, having begun his career at Deloitte. Mark is an FCA chartered accountant and graduated in Physics at Oxford University.
Malcolm Fallen
Non-Executive Chairman
Malcolm has extensive board experience in quoted and private equity backed companies. He is currently Chairman of Kent, a global provider of technical services to the oil and gas industry with revenues of $1.2billion. He was previously Chairman of Innovia Group, a supplier of substrate for polymer bank notes. During his executive career, Malcolm worked in the technology and communications sectors, both in financial and general management roles. Malcolm has an economics degree from Cambridge and is a Chartered Accountant.
Peter Massey
Non-Executive Director
Peter has had a 30-year career in the UK gas distribution and transmission industry. He has held numerous senior leadership roles at National Grid plc in both the UK and US, including Director Transformation – Global Gas Distribution, Director Distribution Support and Head of UK Network Services. Peter is currently Non-Executive Director of 1Spatial plc the Aim-listed, global leader in providing Location Master Data Management (LMDM) software, solutions and business applications to Government, Utilities and Transport sectors. He is a Chartered Engineer with a BSc (Hons) in Natural Gas Engineering from the University of Salford.