An experienced entrepreneur and innovator with key skills in research and development, engineering and manufacturing. Michael has strong project and team management skills and is highly motivated to deliver an end product.

Michael was co-inventor of the Compact Mixed Reactant fuel cell and co-founder of CMR Fuel Cells plc. CMR started up with assistance from the Carbon Trust and secured two rounds of VC funding before floatation on AIM at a valuation of £50M in December 2005. Under the founder’s management, CMR were elected ‘Innovators of the year 2005’ by the Carbon Trust and Daily Telegraph, ‘One of the top 25 companies to change the World by 2010’ by RedHerring and Harvard Business School and ‘Technology Pioneers 2006’ by the World Economic Forum. Michael has a Master of Arts in Industrial Design and a BSc(hons) in Production Engineering and 20 years project management experience.