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Taking Over From a Founder CEO: Ian Temperton on Scaling Plastic Energy
Ian Temperton became CEO of Plastic Energy in 2021 after five years as Chief Investment Officer.
He stepped in as the company moved from pilot to industrial scale – executing multi‑million euro projects with SABIC and TotalEnergies.
This is what happens when the external CEO works.
Ian spent five years learning the business before taking over. The shift came mid-deployment, when execution discipline and governance became critical.
The team stayed. The focus changed: from raising capital to deploying it.
The core challenge: delivering complex projects on petrochemical sites while scaling the…
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