Tom Brown
Chairman
Tom brings to Eight19 the experience of 25 years on the boards of 7 London stock market quoted Groups, mainly as Chairman or CEO. He has also chaired 11 private and venture capital backed companies and current roles include Chairman of Chamberlin plc and senior independent director of Northgate plc. He is also a member of the Economics Committee of the EEF.
Simon Bransfield-Garth
CEO
Simon has 25 years global experience building rapid growth, technology-based businesses in sectors including Semiconductor, Automotive and Mobile Phones. His career includes 7 years at Symbian, the phone OS maker, where he was a member of the Leadership Team and VP Global Marketing. Simon was founder of Myriad Solutions Ltd and was previously a Fellow at Cambridge University. He holds a BA and Ph.D in Engineering from St John’s College, Cambridge UK.
Stephane Roussel
Non Executive Director
Stéphane is responsible for Rhodia Ventures platform, coordinating initiatives of Rhodia in the Venture Capital domain. In this position Stéphane seeks at promoting breakthrough projects and cooperative approaches between Rhodia and the start-up world. He manages the interests Rhodia has acquired in several venture funds and start-ups.
Stéphane joined Rhodia in 1997, where he held various management positions, always strongly connected with development projects. Recently Stéphane was leading business development initiatives at Rhodia Polyamide, a business at the heart of Rhodia portfolio. Stéphane was a fellow at MIT and holds an Engineer's degree from the Ecole Polytechnique France.
Professor Sir Richard Friend, FRS, FREng
Non Executive Director
Richard is the Cavendish Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge, since 1980. He has pioneered the study of organic polymers as semiconductors, and his research group has demonstrated that these materials can be used in wide range of semiconductor devices, including light-emitting diodes and transistors. He co-founded Cambridge Display Technology Ltd in 1992 to develop light-emitting diode displays and Plastic Logic Ltd in 2000, to develop polymer transistor circuits that are now being developed as flexible active-matrix backplanes for e-paper displays. His current research programme within the University is directed towards the physics of organic thin-film solar cells.
James Sun
Non Executive Director
James manages a variety of technology commercialisation activities at the Carbon Trust through new ventures, corporate partnerships and the provision of commercial support to technology start-ups. He has a chemical engineering PhD from Imperial College, and has previous industry experience working at Johnson Matthey developing novel products relating to automotive catalysts, fuel cells and hydrogen technologies. Before joining the Carbon Trust, he managed early-stage investments at Imprimatur Capital, where he focused on the clean tech, engineering and materials sectors.