Pineapple Power Corporation PLC announced that, conditional upon the completion of the RTO and the successful raising of the required financing to complete the transaction with Ilios Hydrogen, it has reached agreement with Barry Cunliffe to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer. Barry Cunliffe FCA, a Chartered Accountant since 1994 and Fellow of the ICAEW since 2004 holds a BA (Hons) degree in Accounting and Management. After qualifying Barry became UK Financial Controller and Company Secretary with Insituform Technologies Inc. a NASDAQ listed Civil Engineering company, then International Financial Controller with Kvaerner plc Mining and Tunnelling and, then, Group Finance & HR Director and Company Secretary with the SOGEPAR SA Group Europe's largest independent stainless-steel processor and trader.

Barry joined ITM Power as CFO & Company Secretary in 2009 for over 4 years, before becoming Group Finance & HR Director and Company Secretary at the Tinsley Bridge Group in Sheffield. Barry then re-joined ITM Power in 2021 becoming Managing Director of Motive Fuels Ltd. and head of Aftersales. Barry was the President of the ICAEW for the South Yorkshire area in 2019 and is a Freeman of The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire.

Barry is currently Interim Finance Director for an £80m T/O privately owned specialist retailer.