Management
Sarah Ellerby
Chief Executive
Over 19 years’ international experience from start-up, scale-up to Global 2000 companies. CEO roles across energy, natural resources, construction, and manufacturing sectors in North America. Associate Partner at Hanson Family Holdings (formerly Hanson, Plc) for over 12 years. Track record of creating exponential growth and transformation within high growth and turnaround situations and successfully led exit strategies more than >5X multiple. Led multiple strategic partnerships, M&A and cross border transactions of >£100m across North America and China. Leadership & Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from University of Bradford School of Mgmt.
Alison Calvert
Chief Financial Officer
Alison has over 25 years of international industry and transportation experience including Venator Materials, ARRIVA, Huntsman, and Uniqema (ICI/Croda). In addition to Alison’s international finance experience, she brings significant transformation and change management experience to NPT.
Neil Hindle
Chief Technical Officer
Neil has over 20 years’ experience in the chemical industry with ICI plc, Croda International, Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Applied Graphene Materials.
Neil started with ICI in 1995 following completion of his DPhil and Bachelor of Arts at the University of Oxford. He is a Chartered Chemist and Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
He has held a number of roles both in the UK and overseas; his primary focus has been the scale-up of the REFNOVA process from demonstration to commercial production.