Ken Cheyne.

Ken has been in the electrical controls industry for over 25 years.

As a serial entrepreneur he has owned and operated several successful businesses including what is now called Grand Rapids Industrial Partners or The GRIP Group based out of the US.

Prior to forming The GRIP Group, he held various roles in engineering, design, and sales of technologies related to energy conservation and sustainability.  This included active patented technology.

In 1998, Ken began to focus on technologies and best practices related to energy savings and conservation. He has become recognized as an expert on issues related to power quality, metering and analysis.  This background in power analysis has afforded him to work with several leading technology companies throughout the world with client/partners on every continent.

He began collaborating with like-minded energy professionals across the country for the sharing of ideas and best practices.  During his travels, Ken met up with Ian Wrigley (a founding director of Enigin PLC) who was developing and marketed unique energy saving technologies suited to the global market.  The first of these products were implemented in Europe so Ken helped to guide and adapt the products for North America.

Today, Ken continues to collaborate with Ian and his team to develop business partners, new energy saving products and strategies.  This has developed into a valued relationship as Ken and Ian realize the importance of sharing their mutual passion for bridging energy conservation and technology.

Currently, Ken offers seminars and training on energy conservation (best practices), power monitoring and power quality.

Ian Wrigley

Ian Wrigley FRSA is a serial entrepreneur and inventor best known for his innovations within the Energy Saving Business; he is currently a director and shareholder of three successful companies, including the energy saving company Enigin PLC,  in addition to managing his own property portfolio in both the UK and overseas.

In 1982 Ian established a distribution outlet in the North of England, and commissioned the first installations for the Digistat electronic domestic heating controller.

Ian then jointly developed a range of electronic Building Management Systems which were subsequently installed and commissioned in hundreds of factories, offices and nursing homes throughout the UK.

In 1987 Ian was introduced to the potential of intelligent motor control by the late Colin Rowe. NASA had already licensed the use of its patented motor controller to several North American companies, which led to various incarnations of ‘reactive’ fixed speed single phase torque controllers, that in most cases had to be pre-set by an engineer which all too often proved problematic.

However, the principle of controlled voltage and improving power factor as a means of saving energy was now irrefutably proved. Over the next five years Ian, and his team, jointly developed the world’s first truly intelligent, fixed speed, dynamic motor controller.

In 1992 his company manufactured and distributed their intelligent, fixed speed, dynamic motor controller to a waiting global market, which has been successfully sold in over 70 different countries.

During this period Ian struck up a fine working relationship with Ken Cheyne to progress his ideas and products, not just in North America but worldwide and that collaboration has continued down to this day.

In 2006 Ian divested himself of his interest in his previous company (although still a director and shareholder of the parent company) thus enabling him to concentrate on developing the real-time energy monitor Eniscope and related products with his new company Enigin Plc, who have dramatically improved their trading figures each year despite recession.