ENODA Appoints Aniela Foster-Turner As First General Counsel

ENODA Appoints Aniela Foster-Turner As First General Counsel

She served at Siemens Gamesa for 11 years

The Edinburgh, UK-based energy transition tech start-up, ENODA has appointed Aniela Foster-Turner as its first general counsel. She will lead and provide support on legal matters.

Foster-Turner has over two decades of international legal and compliance experience advising on complex transactions within the renewable energy industry.

Commenting on the appointment, Jennifer Urquhart, the chief operating officer of ENODA remarked, "I am thrilled to have Poster-Turner join the firm at this pivotal moment. Her experience and expertise will undoubtedly play an important part in driving the business forward.”

Foster-Turner added, “I am excited about joining ENODA and being part of the team that delivers a transformative technology, which will play a crucial role in the energy transition."

Educated in law in Romania and the UK, Foster-Turner has promoted and supported various diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Previously, for two years, she was legal director at renewable energy and private equity investment manager Gore Street Capital in London. She advised on a flagship construction-ready energy-storage project and the procurement and contracting activities of a near -1.2-gigawatt portfolio.

Before that, she was principal legal counsel at the Spanish-German wind engineering company Siemens Gamesa, a role she took on after becoming the company’s first woman GC in Europe.

Foster-Turner is an ambassador of Powerful Women, a mentor with the InterLaw Diversity Forum, and a member of the board of trustees of the Women in Engineering Society.

ENODA was launched in 2021 and closed its A series funding of over £20m in June last. Its technology increases grid capacity for renewable electricity generation.