Name
Karl Anders
Job Title
Managing Director
Company
Mer UK
Speaker Bio
Karl Anders is the Managing Director of the Mer group of companies in the UK, the EV charging infrastructure businesses of the leading European renewable energy leader Statkraft, from Norway.
Mer has two companies in the UK, Mer Charging UK, a national public CPO based in London, and Mer Fleet Services based in Consett. Karl’s mission is to scale up the UK operations and build first class, sustainable EV charging for the UK market to drive the rapidly burgeoning EV sector.

Anders previous board director role was as Chief Executive of innogy eMobility UK, the EV charging hardware and software technology subsidiary of German energy giants RWE, then E.ON until the business was sold to Compleo.

Prior to innogy, Karl was the National EV Manager within the corporate unit of Nissan GB for 4 pivotal years as a leader in the EV industry as it evolved from niche through rapid mainstream expansion. He also spent 7 years in transport strategy at the Energy Saving Trust consulting on sustainable and zero emission transport to industry on behalf of government bodies OZEV and DfT after a long career in the automotive sector in strategy, sales, marketing, fleet and dealer operations in the UK and overseas for companies like General Motors and Hyundai.