Renewable energy
PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focused on renewable energy generation from biomass, including biomass stress relaxation characterisation.
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Engineering and technology strategy for practical decarbonisation.
ORE brings together Dr. Aminu Owonikoko's experience in process engineering, renewable energy and life cycle assessment with Isabel Power's background in technology strategy and behavioural intelligence. Together, they lead ORE's work in practical decarbonisation and a UK grown renewable fuel pathway.
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Aminu Owonikoko
Co-Founder, Our Resources Emissions Limited
I founded ORE because manufacturers and fuel suppliers are drowning in carbon reports that do not reduce emissions. I want to build solutions that deliver real operational savings and develop a UK grown, non food renewable fuel pathway that reduces the country's dependence on imported ethanol.
Aminu holds UKRI endorsed Global Talent status.
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Isabel Power
Co-Founder, Our Resources Emissions Limited
Isabel Power is Co-Founder of ORE Ltd and brings 10+ years of experience in technology strategy, behavioural intelligence, AI governance, and risk management.
A Cambridge and UCL graduate, she founded Tesco Technology's Behavioural Intelligence function, developing AI-enabled tools and decision frameworks for complex systems.
At ORE, she leads product strategy, customer adoption, and commercial execution, ensuring the company's climate technologies are scalable, trusted, and market-ready.
Isabel's expertise perfectly complements Dr. Aminu Owonikoko's deep technical and climate-science leadership.
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John Cooke
Advisor / Coach
John is an entrepreneur and executive coach with a background at IBM and Microsoft. He co-founded InfoBasis, grew the business in the UK and US, and sold it in 2008.
As founder of Element-C and Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Birmingham, he works with founders on business strategy and bringing products to market. He also helps them prepare for investment, drawing on his own experience of building a business.
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Academic background of Dr. Aminu Owonikoko.
Mechanical and process engineering
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Greenwich, UK.
Manufacturing and business
Master of Science (MSc) in Process Technology and Business Management from Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick, UK.
Food engineering
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) with Honours in Food Engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Nigeria.
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Work that led to ORE.
At London South Bank University, Aminu worked on the EU Horizon ENOUGH project, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions across European food chains through to 2050. His experience also includes Minviro XYCLE modelling of a pizza supply chain, ingredients and cold chain simulations. This unpaid work provided practical LCA execution experience.
He works as a freelance consultant with LEC Partners in the United States and has carried out techno economic and life cycle comparison work on broomcorn, wheat straw and corn stover.
Aminu's research spans food engineering, biomass handling, renewable energy and emissions modelling. His publication record includes journal papers, conference contributions, technical reports and articles for industry readers.
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Selected research and publications.
Journal papers
Aminu published research on wheat flour storage and flow properties in the Journal of Food Measurement and Characterisation (2023), biomass and waste handling in the Journal of Bulk Solids Handling (2011), and a manually operated double face meat mincer in the Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology (2003).
Conference papers and presentations
His conference papers addressed biomass characterisation at Bulk Solid Europe in Glasgow (2010) and irregular particle storage and handling in Berlin (2012). He presented biomass TEA at ANAGRAM in Australia (2020) and biomass confinement and handling at the Sustainable Food Future Conference in Australia (2021).
Technical reports
Reports cover biomass nesting behaviour at Greenwich (2009), wheat straw TEA at Newcastle with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (2020), and LSBU investigations into Tempmate logger validation (2025) and refrigerator camera, temperature and humidity sensor performance (2026).
Poster presentations
Aminu contributed to a poster on Norwegian food sector GHG emissions at KU Leuven in Belgium (2024). Earlier posters covered material characterisation at Greenwich (2011), wheat flour flow and aerosol distribution at Kansas State University and the USDA (2019–2020), and work at the 29th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (2021).
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Writing for industry.
“Decarbonising the Food Supply Chain: From Measurement to Meaningful Emissions Reduction” appeared in Food and Drink Network UK Magazine in 2026. Aminu has also written “Renewable Energy – Wealth out of Waste” on ResearchGate and articles on biomass, Wealth Out of Waste and reverse innovation for manufacturing in Africa Agribusiness Magazine, Garki Gazette and BOSS Newspaper.
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