Alan John Aubrey Non Executive Chairman

Alan is the Chief Executive Officer of IP Group plc, a FTSE 500 company that specializes in investing in and building technology businesses based on intellectual property originating from Universities and other research intensive institutions.

Previously Alan was the founder and CEO of Techtran Group Limited, a business that was sold to IP Group plc in 2005. From 1995-200 Alan was a partner in KPMG where he specialised in providing corporate finance to and raising money for fast growing technology businesses.

Alan holds a BA in Economics and a MBA with Distinction from the University of Bradford and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.      

Adrian Charles Hutchings Chief Executive Officer

Adrian has a degree in Chemical Engineering. Prior to founding Energetix Group in 1997, he was the Managing Director of International Energy Systems Ltd (“IES”), a subsidiary of BNFL which developed, manufactured, and marketed a high technology flywheel for storing electrical energy, for the UPS and distributed generation markets. Before this, Adrian was a Commercial Manager with BNFL New Business Ventures.

His role was identifying technologies and business opportunities based on internal intellectual property, for non-nuclear applications, as part of a diversification program.

Prior to this he was the BNFL Project Manager for a £50m capital, £500m life cycle, design and construction project for a major facility at the Sellafield Site.    

Richard Henry Smith Chief Financial Officer

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants with an MBA from Warwick University, he was previously Finance Director for Ultraframe (UK) Limited (2001-2004). Ultraframe is the UK’s leading manufacturer of conservatory roofing systems.

Before joining Ultraframe, Rick was the Finance Director for Norcros Adhesives Limited (1997-2001) which comprised subsidiary, joint venture and licensee operations in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India. Rick was involved in a number of corporate transactions.

From 1995 to 1997 Rick worked with Adrian Hutchings as the Finance Director for IES and prior to this was the Financial Controller for Robinson Healthcare, a division of Robinson Limited that manufactured consumables for the healthcare industry.    

Neil Bright Group Operations Director

Neil Bright joined the Energetix Group from Exide Technologies, one of the world’s largest producers of lead-acid batteries, where he was the President of the Group’s global Industrial Energy Division from 2000 to 2006.

He was responsible for an $800m turnover division, managing industrial battery sales, manufacturing and logistics operations throughout Europe, the Middle East & Asia Pacific within a global telecommunications, UPS, and materials handling market worth $3bn.

Neil has lived and worked in Singapore, Cairo, Paris and Madrid in this industry, and is an acknowledged global expert on industrial batteries and stored power systems and their applications.

Neil has an honours degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and a post graduate Diploma in Marketing.

Dr. H J Cialone Non-Executive Director

Dr. Henry Cialone is President and CEO of Edison Welding Institute (EWI), North America’s leading independent materials joining technology organisation and an Ohio Edison Centre. Henry became a non-executive director on 14 March 2008.  

Prior to joining EWI in 2005, Henry was an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute, where he led the commercial energy business and served on the governing board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 

Henry is a member of the National Coal Council and the Miami University Research Advisory Council; a Trustee of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; and a Non-Executive Director of the NanoSteel Company, a venture-backed spinout from Idaho National Laboratory.  

Henry received his BS degree in materials engineering from Brown University, and his MS and PhD degrees in materials science, also from Brown, where his area of specialisation was hydrogen enhanced fracture.