Board Members

John Leggate joined VantagePoint as a Venture Partner in 2008 and has been a member of the firm’s CleanTech Advisory Council since 2005; he has been active professionally in the energy space for over 30 years.  His early career in the electric power utility business was in the design and construction of nuclear and fossil fired power plants. John had an extensive career at BP in large-scale oil field project management.  Additionally, John had a significant leadership role in the integration of the BP/Amoco/Arco/Veba mergers.  Finally, with BP, as Group CIO, John led the digital transformation of the “New BP” which involved significant investment in innovation, incubation and start-ups.  John is a graduate of Glasgow University where he earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical Engineering and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has served on the Ogin Board since 2009.