Who I am

Firstly I wont over play this. 

With RenewMarine Ltd you are working with me! 

(although I do have great access to an extensive world wide network)

Stephen Bolton CEng IMECHE MBA (Henley) LBS (SEP96).  

As the owner of RenewMarine Ltd I provide consultancy and fractional strategy focused services (CEO / COO / CCO / Strategy Dir / BD Director)primarily to offshore renewables and marine companies, however more recently further afield.  

My contributions are based on a blend of experience and training. My experience includes working in the coal power sector (5 yrs), then offshore renewables (25yrs) and most recently the marine sector (8yrs in parallel). This marine passion being dominated by the Offshore Wind focused Construction / Service Operation Service vessel sector yet including; aquaculture, O&G, vessel design and vessel electrification. My training includes an Engineering degree (Chartered Mechanical) and MBA and the highly impactful / life changing LBS Senior Executive Programme.  

The blend of my experience and training, along with a natural intuition to look forward identifying opportunity and risk has created a natural competence around strategy and strategy implementation. 

I choose to work with great people and great companies. Those I work with are great at what they do, I bring a challenge, and a process to add a strategic focus or simply a lending hand. 

And off course, being human, its all delivered with a good deal of common sense and transparency.

I blend my views and my experience with yours to drive strategy within your business. That's me! 

I believe in kindness and people above and beyond everything. 

Along with that honesty, integrity, and transparency. I am committed to conducting business in an responsible manner and strive to make a positive impact for those I support. Whilst having fun and finding time for family and friends alike. 

 Often I am not the expert in the room. Those that engage my services are. That is how it should be. 

Its the awareness of this, that allows me to bring my knowledge, challenge and strategic approach and blend it with the expertise and knowledge of the good people and companies I work with. 

Whether talking to financers, engineers, management or even vessel crews, this acknowledgement, of where I fit, makes the difference. 

And if that is not enough....

.....my passion, my approach and my sector wide knowledge is supported by one of the biggest networks in the sector.

 This allows me to be different and proud to be different. That's me!

A deep coal miner, turned power engineer, turned offshore wind expert, turned marine CEO and now a "fractional strategy consultant" looking to help others and give back.

Its been a journey, however the power of the journey has been to add it all together.

I was part of the team that delivered the UK's first Offshore Wind Farm and became the UK's first Offshore Wind Farm Asset Manager, negotiating several major across-wind-farm service and maintenance contract packages.

I built the team that developed the first strategies to move from near shore to far shore, from 90MW to 500MW plus, challenging and helping re-design the approach; contractually and asset wise. 

 This led directly to the concept of the C/SOV solution for the far Offshore Wind sector - a true passion for many years.

Unbeknown to me, this was the start of a major shift in my knowledge base that added the marine sector to my offshore wind sector background. A shift that has led me to my passion - the marine sector. 

I have since been the CEO/MD of two C/SOV companies, largely building the first (rev c€20m per year) from the base up as the vessels were built and one accommodation barge company (rev c€10m per year). As part of this, I have been critical to the ordering of 7 new build CSOV's and 1 long term SOV (that I also led and delivered the 10 year support charter). 

Analysing trends and driving thought leadership from a unique knowledge platform. That's me!