Team

Technical depth.
Commercial discipline.

Enleashed is led by a founding team spanning formal market design, electricity system architecture, capital strategy, and commercial execution. Building a new coordination layer for the grid requires all four.

Leadership
Shaun Sweeney
Shaun Sweeney
Founder & CEO
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Building the coordination architecture from first principles.

Shaun is the founder of Enleashed and the architect of its core mechanism design. His work combines electricity market theory, cyber-physical control, and fairness-constrained allocation to define a new coordination layer for electricity systems.

At Imperial College London, Shaun developed the formal mathematical foundations for a real-time coordination mechanism for electricity markets, including convergence results, fairness guarantees, and prototype implementation. Before founding Enleashed, he worked across energy technology, digital platforms, and infrastructure-facing commercial environments.

Market design

AMM mechanism design, scarcity allocation, service differentiation, fairness rules

Control theory

Closed-loop coordination, convergence analysis, cyber-physical systems

Energy systems

Wholesale-market interface, DER integration, local network coordination

Commercial grounding

Energy SaaS, infrastructure context, product strategy, regulated market entry

Blake Penney
Blake Penney
Co-Founder & CFO
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Turning deep technical advantage into commercially credible execution.

Blake leads finance, capital strategy, and commercial structuring at Enleashed. He brings experience across infrastructure investment, financial analysis, and energy-adjacent commercial environments, helping translate novel system architecture into something fundable, deployable, and legible to customers and investors.

His role is central to shaping how Enleashed enters the market: how the company frames value, structures partnerships, prioritises near-term deployment pathways, and builds a capital plan consistent with long-horizon infrastructure software. At Enleashed, Blake ensures the commercial model is as rigorous as the technical one.

Finance

Capital strategy, financial modelling, infrastructure investment logic, fundraising support

Commercial strategy

Business model design, customer positioning, go-to-market discipline, investor narrative

Energy markets

Commercial implications of market reform, regulated infrastructure pathways, deployment economics

Execution

Operating cadence, strategic prioritisation, diligence readiness, commercial decision support

Research & credentials

A company grounded in formal research and practical finance.

→A Programmable Coordination Layer for Electricity Allocation — PhD thesis, Imperial College London (2026)
→Human-in-the-loop cyber-physical control for pollution exposure reduction — Automatica (2022)
→AMM-based electricity market design — IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation (submitted 2026)
→Leadership spanning market mechanism design, infrastructure-facing commercial strategy, and finance-led company building.
Advisory network

Supported by practitioners across the stack.

Informal advisory support spanning electricity market design, UK energy regulation, infrastructure finance, and distributed energy systems.

Market design
Domain

Support from experts working at the intersection of electricity markets, system operation, and protocol-level coordination.

Markets
Regulation
Domain

Perspective from practitioners familiar with regulated energy systems, network incentives, and routes to institutional adoption.

Regulation
Infrastructure finance
Domain

Input on financing pathways, investment readiness, and how new coordination models can translate into defensible commercial value.

Finance
Now hiring

We're building the engineering team.

Following our first funding round, we're looking for engineers who want to build critical infrastructure for the electricity system. If you care about climate and want to work on a technically demanding, genuinely unsolved problem — we want to hear from you.

Backend / Systems

Coordination kernel engineer

Build the core allocation engine — real-time scarcity inference, constraint solver, and signal distribution. Python or Julia preferred. Experience with time-series data and optimisation.

Data / Integration

DNSP integration engineer

Build the data ingestion layer — DNSP adapters, feeder topology processing, and real-time telemetry pipelines. Experience with energy data formats and API design.

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