Simon Turek
Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Carter
Chief Financial Officer
Gareth Kaminski-Cook
Non-Executive Chairman
Theresa Wallis
Independent Non-Executive Director & Chair of the Audit Committee
Gareth Kaminski-Cook
Non-Executive Chairman
Gareth Kaminski-Cook has a breadth of relevant experience in international businesses including currently as Chief Executive Officer of Autins Group plc, a UK and continental Europe based industrial materials technology business. Gareth joined Autins from Low & Bonar plc, the fully listed international performance materials group, where he was Group Director of Strategy, Sales and Marketing and Global Business Director, Interiors and Transportation (a global business supplying specialist materials to the Automotive and Flooring industries).
Gareth has 30 years' experience in market-leading industrial organisations across several business sectors, having worked previously for Saint Gobain, Rexam, BPB and Danaher. He has lived and worked in Asia, the US and Europe, and has a deep understanding of the manufacture and application of specialist thermal materials across relevant industrial markets such as Automotive and Building Products. Gareth is a former Officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers and a Civil Engineering graduate from Birmingham University.
Patrick Carter
Chief Financial Officer
Patrick joined Haydale in June 2023 and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Barrister. Having started his career at Deloitte, he was appointed Group Finance Director of AIM listed Aukett Fitzroy Robinson Group Plc (now Aukett Swanke Plc) in 2002, one of the UK's leading international commercial architectural practices. Between 2007 and 2012, he was CFO of Charteris Plc, an AIM listed consultancy and IT systems integrator (now part of Sword Group). Between 2012 and 2022, he was CFO of several related private equity backed, UK and Asia based renewable energy companies.
Simon Turek
Chief Executive Officer
Simon was appointed as Chief Executive on January 1, 2025, having joined the Board following the fundraise in November 2024. He serves as a Board representative of Quidos Technologies Limited (which holds 19.07 per cent. of the Company's shares). As a result, he is not classified as an independent Director under the Company’s Corporate Governance policies.
In Q4 2024, Simon led a comprehensive review of all aspects of the business. The aim was to reprioritise areas with near-term profit potential and positive cash generation, whilst continuing to pursue commercially viable long-term strategic opportunities. The findings of the Review announced on December 23, 2024.
Having played a key role in leading that review, upon appointment to the position of CEO, Simon was tasked with implementing an accelerated turnaround plan, reducing costs, and fundamentally reshaping the business.
With over 15 years of experience in environmental and financial markets, Simon has built a career at the intersection of sustainability, regulation, and investment. He was previously the Chair, and formerly the Managing Director, of PNZ Carbon, a leading carbon market project developer. His expertise extends to international financial markets, having served as an Executive Director at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, where he led global government relations.
Simon held key roles in financial regulation across the UK and EU. He originally trained as a lawyer in New Zealand and has been a Chair and Non-Executive Director on several boards, in financial services and the social housing sector, and a trustee of several charities.
Theresa Wallis
Independent Non-Executive Director & Chair of the Audit Committee
Theresa Wallis worked most of her executive career in financial services, moving into technology commercialisation in 2001. She was with the London Stock Exchange for 13 years, where from 1995 to 2001 she was chief operating officer of AIM, the market for smaller growing companies, having managed the market’s development and launch. From 2001 to end 2006 she was a principal executive of ANGLE plc, a venture management and consulting business focusing on the commercialisation of technology.
Since 2001 she has held a number of non-executive directorships, including LiDCO Group plc where she was non-executive chairman, Veriton Pharma Ltd and the Quoted Companies Alliance. Prior to joining the London Stock Exchange she worked for Hambros Bank and then Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in London. Theresa has a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford and a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors. Theresa brings a range of corporate governance, business development, financial and commercial skills and experience.
