Enabling Advanced Energy Storage and Delivery with Nanoporous Materials (Electric Vehicles Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011)

Rob has extensive experience in business management, supported by an academic background in electrical engineering, ideally positioning him to drive the company's growth in new markets. Rob's experience includes four years as Chief Executive Officer of Patterning Technologies, a developer of inkjet processes used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards, during which he re-focussed the company from a consultancy to a product-led organisation.

 

Other senior management positions include Managing Director of Global Communications, a privately-held supplier of satellite communications accessories for the consumer market. In this role Rob grew the business rapidly, overseeing outsourced manufacturing in China and implementing a company-wide structure, underpinned by reliable systems and procedures, to improve efficiency. From 1995 to 2004, Rob was European Managing Director, of OK International, a global supplier of soldering equipment to the electronics industry. Here Rob spearheaded the integration of two companies following an acquisition and developed new pan-European distribution channels.

Nanotecture specialises in the production of nanoporous materials and the development of highly efficient electrical storage devices based on those materials. The company's proprietary material production process enables the precise engineering of nano-scale architectures within materials. A primary focus is asymmetric supercapacitors that combine the benefits of supercapacitors and batteries.