Board

Michael Bretherton,
Non Executive Chairman

Michael Bretherton graduated in Economics from University of Leeds and then worked as an accountant and manager with Pricewaterhouse for 7 years in both London and the Middle East. Michael subsequently worked for the Plessey Company Plc before being appointed finance director of the fully listed Bridgend Group Plc in 1988 where he held the position for 12 years. More recently, he has worked at the property and services company, Mapeley Limited, and at the entertainment software games developer, Lionhead Studios Limited. Michael has a depth of business experience and has been involved in the strategic evaluation and commercial implementation of a broad range of business initiatives, including acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, company start-ups, venture capital fundings and IPO floatation listings. He is currently finance director of AIM listed ORA Capital Partners Limited which he joined at its inception in early 2006. In addition, Michael is Chairman of Oxeco Plc and is a director of Nanoco Group Plc, Obtala Resources Plc and Oxford Nutrascience Group Plc, all of which are also AIM listed.

Dr. Mike Eason,
Managing Director

Mike Eason has a decade of experience in R&D management delivering innovation and leading high performance R&D teams. He has a Ph.D. in the development and application of advanced polymer materials from Warwick University. His experience spans from product concept development, initial technology idea generation, technology partnering, licence deal brokering all the way through to final commercialisation and product launch. Mike worked for Unilever for 7 years where he set up and led their Polymer research group and ran product development for various brands including Comfort. Subsequently Mike worked for Reckitt Benckiser for 3 years, initially as an external technology scout/broker and latterly as product innovation manager for Veet. Mike joined Oxford Advanced Surfaces in December 2008 as Chief Technology Officer.

Philip Spinks
Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary

Philip joined the Board in February 2008. He worked as an accountant at Brooking, Knowles & Lawrence and Coopers & Lybrand before joining The BOC Group Plc in 1997. In his 10 years at BOC, Philip held a number of senior finance roles including corporate finance manager, treasury manager and divisional finance director before being appointed a global controller after the acquisition of BOC by The Linde Group AG. He is a Chartered Accountant and associate of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Non Executive Directors

Dr David Bott,
Non Executive Director

David started his career with British Petroleum and subsequently worked for Courtaulds with roles including Director of Strategic Research, Research Manager of Courtaulds Grafil and Vice President (Technology) for the Performance Films division. He then joined ICI Acrylics as Research Director before moving to National Starch & Chemical where he held the role of Vice President for Research and Development in the Speciality Synthetic Polymers Division, then moving back to ICI as a Director for Group Technology. David is presently a director of Oxford Biomaterials Limited, Apaclara Limited, Spineless Design Limited and EotR Solutions Limited. He is also Director of Innovation Programmes for the Technology Strategy Board, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills. He has considerable experience of many areas of the market place which OAS is targeting, specifically adhesion, coatings, cross-linkers and composites.