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Norman Crowley is a serial entrepreneur, who founded and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before the age of forty.

He began his first business, a welding company at age 16, employing a team of 8 within a year, and sold that business when he was 20.

He then started a computer and internet business called Trinity Commerce, growing the company 170 employees by the time he was 28.

He went on to cofound Inspired Gaming Group (the world’s largest company in the server- based gaming domain), which was sold for €300 million ($500 million); and Europe’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot provider, The Cloud, which was bought by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB for £50 million ($77 million) in 2011.

Feeling his next venture needed to be about more than making money, he founded energy efficiency and decarbonisation company CoolPlanet (www.coolplanet.io), formerly Crowley Carbon, in 2010. He wanted to set up a business that made a real difference in addressing the global climate change issue.

The company combines in-house developed software ClarityTM, advanced engineering and world-leading expertise to help firms reduce consumption, optimise systems, lower emissions and achieve net zero. To date, the business has saved customers over $400 million in energy, and 2,597,963 tonnes of CO2. Its clients include Glanbia, GE Healthcare, Takeda, Owens-Illinois, Dairy Farmers of America and Hilton Food Group.

Norman founded AVA (www.studioava.com) in 2021, a company which transforms some of the world’s most desirable classic cars to electric.

AVA brings together a team of Formula 1-grade engineers who have led some of the biggest brands in the automotive industry, and whose combined credits include the prototype design of some of the world’s breakthrough supercars.

The company is on a mission to create cars that not only have the lowest carbon footprint on the road, but that are built in a way that has the least impact on the planet. Ava’s cars include the Croxford Defender – an electric take on the Land Rover Defender, named after soldier Stuart Croxford, a former Captain of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment.