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Our People

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Murray Reed
Chief Executive Officer

Over 30 years in commercial photonics development

PhD Applied Physics, Stanford

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Xiao Ai
Chief Technology Officer

Founder QLM, Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre fellow, senior engineer QinetiQ, post-doctoral fellow University of Bristol. Expert in photonics and electronics.

PhD Electronic Engineering, Bristol

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Chris Wardle
Chief Manufacturing Officer

Over 25 years in operations, manufacturing and engineering

MSc Instrumentation & Applied Physics, Glasgow Caledonian University

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Paul Hughes
Chief Financial Officer

Over 15 years in Finance and Treasury roles

BSc Economics, Cardiff University

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Gavin Lindsay
Head of Business Development

Over 30 years in commercial and technology introduction

BSc Applied Geology, University of Glasgow

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Robby Vaughn
Head of Business Development, Energy, Americas

20+ years of technology, software, utilities, and oil and gas experience

MBA (Hons), Quantic School of Business and Technology

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Andrew Weld
Head of Research & Development

Over 20 years in optical sensing R&D

PhD Optoelectronics, Southampton

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Puneet Chhabra
Head of Software Development

Technology innovator with 16 years in systems, sensing & engineering

PhD Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University

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Alex Dunning
Head of Engineering

15 years in optical technology development

PhD Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, University of Southampton

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John Bennett
Head of Electronics

20 years in electronics development

BEng Electronic Engineering, Cardiff

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David Batten
Financial Controller

Experience in audit and deal advisory practices, financial strategy, finance transformation

ACA, Masters in Chemistry, Cardiff University

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John Powell
Head of Supply Chain

20 years in freight, planning and supply chain

BA, Business & Economics, The Open University

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David Lowndes
Senior Lidar Engineer

14 years in designing, building & testing quantum optical devices

PhD Electronic Engineering, Bristol

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Marc Forrester
NPI Manufacturing Engineer

Experience in reliability testing of photonic devices & manufacturing complex systems

BSc Physics, Aberystwyth University

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Gavin Squibb
Senior Software Engineer

8 years in software engineering

Bsc, Computer Science, University of London

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Konstantin Mikhaylov
Senior Software QA Engineer

Over 30 years in commercial software development and testing

MSc Optoelectronics, St. Petersburg

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Cayo Silva
Senior Software Engineer

10 years in control & automation

MS, Robotics & Computation, UCL

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Sara Carver
Optical Systems Research Engineer

15 years in optics, sensing and systems engineering

BSc Physics and Planetary Space Science, Aberystwyth

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Joshua Berry
IT Support Engineer

Experience in IT systems, networking & infrastructure

BSc in Marine Technologies, University of Plymouth

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Sophia Martin
Lidar System Technician

Experience in environmental monitoring and CFD studies

MEng Mechanical Engineering, University of Exeter

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Sarah Rawlins
Finance Manager

Finance professional for over 15 years

City of Bath College, Accountancy

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Sergio Tamburrini
Principal Software Engineer

10+ years experience in embedded software for audio and IoT markets

MSc Control Systems, Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)

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Josh Clayton
Product Engineering Manager

10 years of experience in product development, including NPI and CM transfer

BSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Plymouth University

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Kelvin Adams
Assembly/Test Technician

18 years electro-mechanical assembly and test experience in Aerospace and MOD environments

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Nilcéia Anchieta
Field Applications Engineer

7 years in field engineering and project management

BS, Petroleum Engineering

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Richard Kirk
Lead Applications Engineer

24 years in product engineering and engineering management

BEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Portsmouth

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Zara Willicott
Production Technician

3 years manufacturing experience in hi-tech & photonics organizations

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Jack Gould
Finance Assistant

BSc Mathematics with Economics, Loughborough University

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Board & Advisors

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Bernie Bulkin OBE
Chairman

Professor CUNY, BP executive and Chief Scientist, Emeritus Professorial Fellow of the University of Cambridge, venture capitalist, board member, government advisor, and author.

PhD Physical Chemistry, Purdue

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Murray Reed
Chief Executive Officer

Founder QLM, CTO G&H, VP Engineering Coherent, GM New Focus. Product and business development leader, expert in semiconductor and fibre laser technology.

PhD Applied Physics, Stanford

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Paul Hughes
Chief Financial Officer

Over 15 years in Finance and Treasury roles

BSc Economics, Cardiff University

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John McCallion
Investor Director (E100)

CEO with 25 years commercial experience developing technology businesses

PGDipM University of Westminster and LBS Executive Development Programme

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Debashis Gupta
Investor Director (SLB)

More than 27 years of oil and gas industry experience with SLB. Senior corporate leadership roles spread across Sales and Commercial, Investor Relations and Finance.

MBA, London Business School & B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering (IIT, Bombay)

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Richard Male
Board Observer

Operator & Investor with 20+ year’s experience in pre seed – series A stage technology businesses.

Visiting Fellow – Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

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John Rarity
Scientific Advisor

World renowned expert in quantum optics

FRS, Professor University of Bristol & QuantIC