Graeme was appointed to head-up the Company from the beginning of May 2004, just before completion of the company's seed round of funding.

Prior to joining Ilika, Graeme was Chief Operating Officer of a high-technology company in the Netherlands and before that worked internationally in a variety of technical and commercial roles for Shell. Graeme holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD business school in France

Mr Boyer joined Ilika as Chairman in 2004 and chairs subsidiary Altrika Ltd. He previously founded and was the CEO of pan-European engineering group TCG, an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and a management consultant at Bain & Co.

Mr Boyer was educated at Stanford University (B.A. Hons), the London School of Economics (M.Sc.) and INSEAD (MBA). He currently leads the University of Southampton's corporate spin-out and intellectual property exploitation activities as Chair of Southampton Asset Management and is Chairman of two biotechnology companies.

Mr Boyer is a Council member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Research Excellence Framework main panel for physical sciences, a Trustee of sustainable development charity Forum for the Future and deputy Chairman of Godolphin & Latymer school in London.

Brian is currently on secondment to Ilika from the University of Southampton, where he is professor of Physical Chemistry. He is a pioneer of surface science and has a strong track record in running successful industrial collaborations.

Brian has published in excess of 100 papers in the fields of surface science, surface electrochemistry and fundamental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and regular speaker at conferences.

Having received a PhD in plasma and laser physics from the Technical University in Munich for research work performed at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Dr Braun initially worked for Messer Griesheim before joining Biotronik as VP of Marketing and Sales.

Over a period of fourteen years, Dr Braun played a key role in growing Biotronik from an early stage company to a global provider of medical devices for use in cardiology and cardiosurgery.

Following spells as General Manager of Chiron Adatomed and VP of Marketing and Sales for Medtronic Europe, Middle East and Africa, Dr Braun returned to Biotronik in 2001 to become Managing Director, further developing the company's market expansion to become Europe's largest privately-held medical device company in the cardiovascular arena.

Stephen qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloittes in 1996, he held a number of positions at Hays plc and then AGI Media before becoming Finance Director of a successful Guernsey based group of companies. He was instrumental in the restructuring of that group and the subsequent successful sale to a competitor.

Stephen studied Economics at Nottingham University.

Ms Spottiswoode's career started as an economist with the Treasury before establishing her own software company.

She is perhaps best known for her role as Director General of Ofgas between 1993 and 1998 where she oversaw the transformation of the gas industry from a monopoly, which controlled the whole gas supply chain, into a deregulated, competitive industry. In November 2006 she was appointed as the Policyholder Advocate for Aviva, and is responsible for ensuring that around 1 million With-Profits policyholders receive a fair share of the £5-6bn inherited estate. The deal has now been completed and policyholders received around 70% of the estate, which was more than double the only previous reattribution settlement.

Ms Spottiswoode currently chairs Gas Strategies Limited which has done a recent management buy-out from Standard and Poors, and is a non-executive director of Energy Solutions, a US Nuclear waste company and Tullow Oil, a FTSE50 Company. Awarded a CBE for services to industry in 1999, she holds degrees from Cambridge and Yale Universities in Maths and Economics and has an honorary doctorate from Brunel.

Professor Sir William Wakeham retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton in September 2009 after eight years in that position. He studied Physics at Exeter University at both undergraduate and doctoral level. In 1971 he took up a lectureship in the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London and became Head of Department in 1988.

By 1999 he was Pro-Rector (Research), Deputy Rector and Pro-Rector (Resources) at Imperial College. He oversaw the College's merger with a series of medical schools and stimulated its entrepreneurial activities.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and its International Secretary, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Physics. He holds a higher doctorate from Exeter University, and honorary degrees from Lisbon University, Exeter and Southampton Solent University and is a Fellow of Imperial College London. He is a Council Member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Chair of Its Audit Committee. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2009 for services to Chemical Engineering and Higher Education.