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Ian WrigleyAbout Ian Wrigley
By Stephen Hill

As Media Manager for Enigin I guess I am responsible for PR so if anyone is going to write an article about our Managing Director that’s being posted on the interweb is should be me…

Well, what can I say about Ian – to provide an initial summary of my friend I would say he is enthusiastic, fun, witty, adventurous, unpretentious, inspirational and decisive, a decent bloke.

What, I can hear your thoughts whirring away asking: “Is this guy perfect?” Far from it, he is driven and ambitious, which some would point to as a fault, he is at times difficult to tie down. It can be like herding cats as he goes pell-mell into a new project. He needs to remember at times that he has sped ahead of those around him and he needs to pull on those reigns and let others catch up.

He was born in July 1955, making him older than myself, by a couple months and it shows, and has rightly been described as a serial entrepreneur and inventor.

He has become well known for his innovations within the Energy Saving Business; and is currently a director and shareholder of three successful companies, in addition to managing his own property portfolio in both the UK and overseas.

Most of his working week is spent hands-on as Managing Director of Enigin Plc. His success as a businessman has been recognised as he has been listed in the 2008 “Who’s Who” of Britain’s most successful business owners, making me feel very proud for him and of him. The lad’s done well.

I didn’t know Ian in 1982 but I know what he was doing – he started his own business from scratch as a distributor for energy saving products in the North of England, long before terms like ‘Climate Change’ and Carbon Footprint’ were even in the dictionary. So, he’s been around this industry longer than most.

Those first steps in energy management and the energy saving business led Ian to where he is today. Following on his early success he jointly developed the FuelBoss electronic building-management system, alongside the late Colin Rowe who also introduced him to the world of intelligent motor control.

Through the work at NASA the principle of controlled voltage and improving Power Factor as a means of saving energy was now irrefutably proven, so Ian and his team developed a world-first – a truly intelligent fixed speed dynamic controller under the Electromiser trade mark. This collaboration led to the formation of Somar Environmental Systems Ltd In 1992 – I told you he was driven and ambitious.

Somar were to manufacture and distribute the Electromiser to the global market but under the trade-mark of PowerBoss – (FuelBoss, PowerBoss? I think he has a complex!). More success followed and PowerBoss has been successfully sold in over 70 countries. This all lead to Somar winning several International innovation awards, including the 2004 Queens Award for International Trade. To sum up Ian, he didn’t go to collect the award from Her Royal Highness, he sent members of the team who helped develop the products, like I said unpretentious.

Ian could see a gaping hole in the energy saving business and he saw how to fill it. He soon realised the solution did not fit in with the success he had developed at Somar, so in 2006 he divested his interest in Somar, although still a director and shareholder of Somar’s parent company, and focused on the EnergyMaps solution and Enigin Plc. To keep the record straight – Somar and Enigin are completely independent companies. They are not commercially or legally linked and all their products are distinct. The only relevant connection being…that Ian started them both.

Ian, as no stranger to business success, again saw his experience and drive lead Enigin to profit within their first year and since they have continued to become ever more profitable and influential in the energy saving business, although he will readily attribute most of the success to the people around him.

My background is not in the energy saving business but I recognise success when I see it, and success is Ian’s middle name, well it is better than his real middle name – Bramwell!

I knew Ian before I started working with him professionally and I liked the guy. I didn’t know he was such a success, he didn’t brag or strut around like he was something special. I have known many very successful businessmen and entrepreneurs and I have to admit that most of them are obnoxious individuals, to say the least. Ian is far from that. He is a good friend, genuine and honest, a pleasure to know and is also a pleasure and an inspiration to work with.

As I started getting more and more involved in the launch of Enigin, from a multi-media side, I became ever more aware of what a great ethos the Enigin Team had, how successful Ian had been in the past and I was assured of the success he would continue to have. I wanted a piece of the action. Hence, here I am now sat at a desk in the Enigin offices working in this dynamic company, alongside the best management team in the energy saving business.

In life you meet individuals that spark your humour, intellectual abilities, attune to you and help you realise what you can do – Ian is such a person. Why is Ian, as a successful entrepreneur, still such a “nice guy”? The answer is simple – family. Ian’s wife Polly keeps his feet on the ground, although I think she would admit at times it is a struggle to direct his focus away from work. His children Troy, Lana and Phoebe have over the years kept his focus on the more important things in life – which again breaks the mould of the average successful business person and I guess that’s it, he isn’t the “average” business person.

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As climate changes surpass some of the most pessimistic predictions 
made back in 1997 (Kyoto Protocol ratification), energy saving 
solutions provide a sustainable hope for a brighter future. 


Mountain glaciers are shrinking in Europe, South America and Africa, while the Arctic's once frozen seas have melted, creating new ship passages. Oceans have risen, droughts are more severe worldwide, species (such as the iconic polar bear) are becoming extinct at an alarming rate, and carbon sinks are no longer able to soak up as much CO2 as they used to. Not to mention the Alaska-sized summer ice sea mass that has shrunk in the Arctic...

All these dramatic events lead governments all over the world to 
energetically encourage a change in consumer behaviour, promoting 
energy saving products, like those available from Enigin, as a reliable solution to climate change.

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the 1990's, when forecasts were more optimistic than today's reality.

Since the target to reduce emissions was made, sealed by the 1997 
agreement, there has been an increase of 6.5% in CO2 levels in the 
atmosphere. This means the anticipated results were not achieved, 
mostly due to the fact that the 3 most polluting countries - the US, 
China and India - were not included in the accord.

Where in 1997 only climatologists and environmentalists were working 
on climate change issues, all sectors and specialists are active about 
it today: biologists, lawyers, engineers, insurance analysts, 
economists, psychologists, and leading edge energy saving companies like Enigin PLC. But the flip side (the positive upside) is that Global Warming, and the need to 
implement energy efficient solutions to 
counterattack it, concern all business owners, who are given the 
opportunity to react profitably.

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No longer a simple option, energy efficiency has become an obligation.
 But this presents a challenge for new emerging green technologies. How can their products be accurately evaluated by client companies in an open and honest way, “no scam here please”, just full disclosure on the efficacy of technology is what we all need! There is so much ‘fudge factor’ surrounding this industry and decision makers are keenly aware of the need to avoid scam products and bogus scam energy switching “incentives”. There is understandably a great deal of distrust at large presently since millions of people have been adversely affected by financial scam products for example within the one time respected banking corporations. Client companies need hard facts, the real numbers so as to be able to make informed decisions about energy saving initiatives, and that’s one of the main drivers behind the new initiative from Enigin Plc, the Enigin Scam Busters Best Practice Code of Conduct. All of us involved need to create a healthy environment wherein both developers of ethically proven Energy Saving Solutions like those provided by Enigin Plc can be installed and customers feel reassured confidently knowing that all benefits are measurable and quantifiable.

Governments are pressing business owners to take the lead and switch to energy efficient 
products with both a “carrot and stick” approach; by instating energy efficient policies and regulations, 
implementing new taxes for inefficient structures, and providing 
funding aids for the installation of energy saving methods.

 These initiatives also provide a serious business opportunity for 
entrepreneurs or experienced businessmen and women who wish to become 
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indicators, are melting 3 times faster than in the 1970s. The oceans' 
acidity level is also rising, due to excess carbon dioxide being 
absorbed into the water, which harms corals, oysters and plankton, and 
threatens the oceanic food chain.

 Warmer winters also entail the prevailing of certain insect species, 
which continue their activity all year around. A good example is 
beetles, that have destroyed millions of acres of pine forests in 
Canada and the US.



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