Gareth Kaminski-Cook
Executive Chair
Patrick Carter
Chief Financial Officer
Simon Turek
Non-Executive Director
Theresa Wallis
Independent Non-Executive Director & Chair of the Audit Committee
Gareth Kaminski-Cook
Executive Chair
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
Non-Executive Director
Simon will serve as a Board representative of Quidos Technologies Limited (which holds 19.07 per cent. of the Company's shares) and will accordingly not be deemed to be an independent Director for the purposes of the Company's Corporate Governance policies. Simon will join the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees.
Simon brings over 15 years of experience in environmental and financial markets. He is currently the Chair, and previously served as Managing Director of PNZ Carbon, a leading carbon market project developer. His background includes being Executive Director at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, where he managed international government relations, as well as roles in financial regulation within the UK and EU. He began his career as a lawyer in New Zealand. Simon 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.
