Key People

Chief Finance Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Dave is the Chief Technology Officer of EA Technology’s VisNet Monitoring business, where he drives the execution of it’s rapidly growing hardware and data insights portfolio for Low Voltage grids. 

With over 24 years of experience in the power sector, Dave’s career has covered innovation, energy decarbonisation, and the implementation of cutting-edge technology. As a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET, he has a proven track record in international business development and successfully delivered major sales and innovative projects, including the UK's largest grid/electric vehicle trials.

Outside of work, he is a surfer, snowboarder, and reluctant runner, living with his wife and two sons in North Wales.

Chief of Staff

Chair

Amanda Mesler is an experienced chair and board director with a strong track record in fintech, payments and regulated infrastructure. She brings more than 25 years of senior leadership experience, including CEO roles, board positions at National Grid and Amadeus, and leadership at Minna Technologies, which was acquired by Mastercard in 2024. Her background combines commercial growth, governance and successful exit experience, making her well placed to support EA Technology’s next phase of strategic expansion.  

Gisle Gluck is a partner at Summa Equity and leads the work of the individual investment teams. Earlier in his career he worked in a variety of sectors at the intersection between technology and commerce. Gisle believes strongly in Summa’s purpose driven investment philosophy. Companies are the cornerstone of society and by ensuring that capital is directed towards those with a positive impact, Summa contributes positively to the many challenges faced today. He has an analytical and open-minded approach to complex challenges and an innovative spirit that fosters creativity and opportunities to work with technology companies. He has broad experience from McKinsey, Head of M&A in Schibsted Media Group, working with government ownership for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and from setting up a corporate venture investment unit for AF Gruppen. 

Gustav Lindberg is an investment director at Summa Equity. He believes solving the global challenges of today will require the biggest capital reallocation of our generation and joined Summa to be part of the solution. He firmly believes in Summa’s vision and strategy and is excited to contribute to the journey as part of an amazing team. 

Prior to joining Summa, he was a Principal at Blackstone in London. Before Blackstone, he worked at Antin Infrastructure Partners and J.P. Morgan. 

Cecilia Qvist is an accomplished international executive and board leader with broad experience across telecoms, digital platforms, consumer technology and listed-company governance. She has held senior roles at Spotify, Ericsson and Swedbank, and has also served on major Nordic boards including Kinnevik, with additional public-company and chair experience. She brings a strong global perspective to EA Technology, particularly in scaling international businesses, digital growth and governance in fast-evolving markets. 
 

Lionel Paillet brings strong international scale-up and commercial leadership experience from some of the world’s best-known technology businesses. His career includes senior roles at Apple, Google’s Nest business and travel-tech scale-up Impala, giving him first-hand experience of growth from launch through to major expansion. He adds particular value in software monetisation, international go-to-market and helping technology businesses translate innovation into scalable commercial success.