Keith is a Chartered Engineer who began his career with British Gas in 1991 and has had a variety of roles within the industry throughout his career.

He led the NGN H21 programme until mid-2019 and sits on the HyDeploy programme steering board. Keith also represented NGN on the UK Hydrogen Programme Development Group, which seeks to develop a nationally aligned strategy and research delivery programme, that will deliver the critical evidence necessary to underpin future government and regulatory decisions and deliver a future hydrogen economy for the UK.

Keith is the project manager for InTEGReL, the whole energy systems research and development centre launched in 2017 by NGN in partnership with Northern Powergrid, Newcastle University, Northumbrian Water and Siemens, which aims to demonstrate at scale the benefits of a whole energy systems approach.