Smart and Emerging Materials

Ray is a Chartered Accountant, and former Deloitte audit and corporate finance partner for 9 years. He has over 20 years’ experience in high technology and fast moving consumer goods businesses and is a former CFO of Chemring Group Plc. Ray was part of Haydale Graphene Industries’ management team that acquired Haydale Limited in 2010, became CEO in 2013 and successfully took the business through to IPO in April 2014, defined the strategy and driven for globalization and now sales. Since IPO the company has doubled its market value, currently at over £35m and grown from 6 to over 65 staff. He has been immersed into the graphene and nano world for 7 years. An accomplished international speaker now seen at many Graphene conferences and seen as a leader in the industry, Ray offers a rare insight into industry and the ability to make the bridge with the academic world.