Chief Technology Officer

• Jun 2022 - Present

Head Of Product Development

• Aug 2020 - Jun 2022

Head of Product Development and member of the Stategic Executive Leadership Team. I am responsible for providing technical leadership to the Product Development Team, mentoring and coaching to junior members, capturing new IP and making sure all our activities are fully aligned with commercial activities.

Development Team Leader

• Feb 2018 - Aug 2020

Development of high energy density fast-charging carbon ion supercapacitorsResponsibilities*Team Leader responsible for strategic direction of R&D Team*Line manager to 5 colleagues*Preparation of project plans, monitoring of delivery and review*Ensuring team (10 members) have all the resources and information required to perform their activities Development of high energy density fast-charging carbon ion supercapacitorsResponsibilities*Team Leader responsible for strategic direction of R&D Team*Line manager to 5 colleagues*Preparation of project plans, monitoring of delivery and review*Ensuring team (10 members) have all the resources and information required to perform their activities

Project Leader

• Jan 2017 - Feb 2018

Project Leader of a strategic core business projectResponsibilities:* Project management and ensuring key milestones are met* Prioritisation of key activities for a multi-disciplinary team of 11 people* Resource management* Line Manager to 4 team members* Established and led external collaboration projects* Providing assistance to IP team with patent filings and freedom-to-operate analysis* Providing regular progress updates to Strategic Leadership Team and other key stake holders3 Patents filed:1 WO2018229515A1 – Electroactive Materials For Metal-Ion Batteries2 US2018331353A1 – Functionalised Electrochemically Active Material and Method of Functionalisation3 US20180331364A1 – Surface modification

Senior Scientist

• Oct 2016 - Feb 2018

Synthesis of silicon based anode materials for next generation lithium ion batteries

Scientist

• May 2013 - Sep 2016

Synthesis of silicon based anode materials for next generation lithium ion batteries

Scientist

• Mar 2010 - Mar 2013

Synthesis of materials at the inventor and world leader in the field of polymeric organic light emitting diodes (PLEDs) Synthesis of materials at the inventor and world leader in the field of polymeric organic light emitting diodes (PLEDs)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

• Sep 2006 - Sep 2009

* Contributed significant original input to research projects which resulted in the preparation of a new class of transition metal complexes with very large switchable second order non-linear optical responses* Improved synthetic routes and devised new synthetic pathways for the preparation of important organic ligands used in the research group* Prepared transition metal complexes with very large two-photon absorption cross-sections* 9 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallics)

Visiting Guest Scientist as part of a collaboration with University of Manchester

• Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

During the Summer months of 2007-2009 I worked at Caltech as part of a collaboration between Dr Ben Coe and Dr Bruce Brunschwig.Performed Stark (electroabsorption) measurements on transition metal complexes and organic compounds at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech). My academic collaborator was Dr Bruce Brunschwig (Director of the Molecular Materials Research Center). This required working under pressure and to tight deadlines in order to complete the work and significant liaison with people from different scientific backgrounds. During my time at Caltech I became an expert in using the Stark spectroscopy apparatus.

Postdoctoral Research Worker

• Oct 2003 - Aug 2006

Project title: Preparation of ruthenium bipyridyl complexes of the ligand tris(pyrazolyl)methane for binding to DNA - Supervisor: Professor Jim ThomasSynthesis of organic ligands. Preparation of monometallic ruthenium(II) complexes, bimetallic ruthenium(II) complexes and heterobimetallic ruthenium(II)/rhenium(I) complexes. Investigation of their binding properties to DNAHighlight: A Multifunctional Light Switch: DNA Binding and Cleavage Properties of a Heterobimetallic Ruthenium–Rhenium Dipyridophenazine Complex. This work was published in Angewandte Chemie. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2007, 46, 3686-8.

Postdoctoral Research Worker

• Jul 2002 - 2003

Project: Preparation of copper(I) complexes and investigation of their activation of dioxygenSupervisor: Professor Dr Siegfried SchindlerI designed and synthesised numerous polypyridyl ligands and their copper(I) complexes. The copper(I) complexes were prepared in a glove box.Further projects also looked at synthesising dicopper(II) complexes and investigating the magnetic interaction between the two metal centres.10 papers published in high impact peer reviewed journals

DAAD Research Fellow

• Oct 2000 - Jun 2002

PhD student

• 1996 - 2000