Management

Dewi (David) Hitchcock OBE has been a director of several UK Companies in the Financial Services and Precision Engineering Sectors, most recently as Chairman of States Bridge Capital which lists private companies onto the UK Stock Market and also acts a financial advisor.

He has spent over 30 years in finance including 17 years as a Managing Director at JPMorgan and Chairman of Grant Thornton’s UK Banking and Securities Group. He served as a Captain in the Brigade of Gurkhas and is a graduate of The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Paul is a Chartered Materials Engineer and Chartered Environmental Engineer with over Twenty years engineering and operational management experience both in the UK and overseas. He holds an MBA in Engineering Management.

His experience encompasses work in the oil, gas, energy-from-waste and chemical industries as well as periods with major international companies, in the UK and overseas, at levels from Engineer to Director. In all sectors he has been a designer as well as a project and HSE manager. Paul is the founder and Managing Director of Engsolve.

He has considerable knowledge of both energy-from-waste technology and markets. Paul is currently involved in the development of a number of EfW projects utilising a range of existing and emerging technologies. He has been part of the development of the DMG® process from the building and operation of the demonstration unit through to the current position.

Hugh McAlister began his career in the City and now has over 40 years’ stockbroking experience. Most recently he has been the Executive Chairman of Novum Securities Limited since 2018, having been its Chief Executive Officer for the previous nine years.

Prior to this, Hugh was a founding partner and head of trading a Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Capital Markets and Head of Pan European Equities at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

A Royal Navy trained Technician Engineer veteran, Tony Gale has over 30 years’ experience in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, primarily in power generation and transmission with 17 years at GE where he was the Corporate Director for enterprise projects and General Manager responsible for delivering GE’s Olympic sponsorship programme for London 2012.

Before moving into working with cleantech SMEs preparing for commercialisation and investment through his company, Tony Gale Cleantech Consultants Ltd. Tony is also Chair of Deploy Tech Ltd, a water tank manufacturer and a Board Observer at Urban Intelligence on behalf of the Development Bank of Wales.

Ben is a chartered accountant with over 25 years of experience in finance and commercial operations. He has a strong track record of enhancing operational efficiencies and providing cost saving solutions for high profile companies. Ben brings experience from numerous different industries including Utilities, Engineering, Financial Services and Construction.

He held a senior role representing GE in the South-East of England National Grid JV and most recently held a role as a Group Finance Director at a Construction Company. Ben has extensive Construction knowledge across Commercial, Industrial and Residential Construction and most recently in project recovery within another JV for a Sustainably focused PLC.

Prof. Kacprzak is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at Adam Mickiewiez
University in Poznan, Poland and has over 20 years’ of academic experience. He is also member of
the Polish Chemical Society. At Adam Mickiewiez University he was awarded a Phd with distinction
in Chemistry and other awards in science and education.
He is an expert in organic and medicinal chemistry with ca. 40 research papers, 12 international
patents and several patent applications. He is also actively collaborating as an advisor in the
chemical industry (AdvaChemLab, Bioten, Grace and others).