About Us

Richard Knox is the founder and chief executive officer of Verlume. Since the company’s inception in 2013, Richard has provided the technology focus, customer service and value-based ethos which has served as the cornerstone to the company’s achievements.

Prior to setting up Verlume, Richard had a successful career at GE where he was responsible for concept and implementation of award-winning subsea tree systems, having also led GE’s first subsea FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) team.

Richard is passionate about the commercial adoption of renewable technology and leads the company’s overall business strategy and execution. A Chartered Engineer with over 20 years of industry experience, Richard is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and regularly contributes to energy industry events and conferences.

Since June 2022, Richard has been advising the Scottish Government as a representative of the energy sector, as well as previously being part of a Scottish Government strategic leadership group.

Jonny Moroney leads Verlume’s operations with overall accountability for project management and operations within the company. Jonny is an experienced project manager with an engineering background in the design, manufacture, and test of subsea equipment.

He started his career serving his time as an apprentice at ABB Vetco Gray and over the past 20 years has worked in the energy industry across a variety of roles, specialising in the project management of technology-focused projects.

Jonny has delivered research and development projects for a range of energy operators and has also successfully delivered several energy storage and power generation R&D and commercial projects.

Vivian Gunn is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience, managing finances for all sizes of business from small entrepreneurial businesses to private equity backed businesses as well as large organisations, across energy and finance sectors. Vivian has extensive experience holding financial accountability of entities in the UK and around the world, allowing her to develop a global perspective.

In the role of Finance Director, Vivian has overall responsibility for all finance related activity within Verlume, with a particular focus on strategic financial planning and reporting. Vivian is an experienced professional with refined skills in partnering with people across functions, seniority levels and work styles.

Gillian Thomson is a distinguished human resources professional with a proven record of accomplishment from several blue chip organisations such as Mars, Royal Bank of Scotland and Centrica, and across a number of technical and specialist sectors. Gillian has a background originally as an engineer, and more recently as a leadership development consultant and coach.

Within Verlume, Gillian is responsible for delivering effective and strategic planning around people, leadership and culture, nurturing talent and promoting employee wellbeing. Utilising Verlume’s core values of impactful, integrity, innovation and improvement, Gillian works to shape inclusive growth of the people behind Verlume’s industry-leading energy transition projects.

Having joined the business in August 2023, the newly created head of people role reflects Verlume’s aim of building the team at pace to support the ongoing scaling of the company, as well as further focusing on talent, leadership and culture as critical elements of delivering on Verlume’s strategy and mission.

With a strong background in engineering, Robert joined Verlume as one of the founding employees in 2013 and has since worked across a range of engineering and project management roles within the company.

As Head of Engineering and Product, Robert leads Verlume’s engineering team and has accountability for the Engineering and Technology activities across the business. With a three-pronged approach, Robert aligns Verlume’s expertise in intelligent energy management and power delivery with new innovations, client specifications and industry direction.

Robert has been influential in technology development within Verlume, having been the lead designer of Verlume’s first ever deployed system (the Subsea Powerhub). Now a legacy product, this system was crucial in shifting the company’s focus towards energy storage after identifying a gap in the market in 2017.

Robbie Majury is a Chartered quality professional and senior projects leader in the energy sector. With over 18 years of international experience, Robbie has a proven track record of delivering large, complex projects both in the United Kingdom and worldwide, with particular expertise in project and operational management, stakeholder relationship management and risk management.

Within the role of Head of Projects and Commercial at Verlume, Robbie is responsible for overseeing and driving performance in many areas of the business including project management, supply chain, quality, HSE and commercial.

Since his promotion to this role in November 2024, Robbie has been ensuring the seamless integration of strategic and operational objectives to deliver on-time and cost-effective subsea power delivery solutions to clients.

Utilising his strong background in the energy sector, Robbie is contributing to the continuous improvement of processes and operational excellence at Verlume.