Company information

Management

Huw W. Hampson Jones
BA(Hons) - Chief Executive Officer
Fellow of the University of Wales
Graduated with a degree in Political Theory and Government from the
University of Wales, College Swansea.

Huw began his career as a Graduate Personnel Management Trainee at Port Sunlight with the Unilever Group. Worked in Personnel Management roles with European responsibilities, at both, Philips Industries and Harris Corporation of the US.

Transferred to sales management with Harris, and moved to work with McDonnell Douglas Information Systems in a European new business development role.

In 1990 moved to join Siemens, and eventually held the role of Senior Vice President, Line of Business Telecommunication for Siemens Business Services AG. Having worked for Siemens for 10 years, moved to work in Sweden (1999-2009) specialising in high technology company development for European venture capitalists. Successfully involved and led the trade sales of both iD2 Technologies AB and Mobeon AB for $250m and 350m SEK, respectively.

Joined OXIS Energy in January 2010.

Chris Murray
BSc - Chief Financial Officer
Chris Murray joined OXIS in the Autumn of 2010. With over 20 years of international experience, Chris  has worked as a CFO/COO for major blue chip companies such as Siemens AG and private equity/venture capital backed SMEs within the IT, internet, and mobile telecommunication industries. Chris is originally from Boston, gained his BA in Accounting and Computer Services from Salem State College, MA USA and has lived in Germany and the UK since 1994.

Professor Vladimir Kolosnitsyn
Chief Technology Officer
Since 2005 Professor Kolosnitsyn has been the Chief Technology Officer responsible for the design, development and now the move towards commercial production of the Polymer Lithium Sulphur (Li-S) cells for use in rechargeable lithium batteries.

Trained at the Ufa Petrochemical University in Russia, he gained his Master’s degree in Chemistry. In 1979 he gained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, and his Professorial degree in Electrochemistry for his doctoral thesis “Novel Liquid and Polymer Electrolyte Systems for Lithium Power Sources in 1992.

His responsibilities entail the coordination of Research & Development in Lithium Sulphur electrochemistry, implementation of Li-S prototype development plans, and theoretical expertise in advanced electrochemical energy storage technologies.

He has over 210 scientific publications, and is the author of OXIS’s 16 patents granted, with over 45 patents pending.

Dr Elena Karaseva
PhD - Senior Scientist
Dr Elena Karaseva has been working in the research and Development centre at OXIS since 2005. Educated at the Bashkir State University, located in Ufa, Russia. She gained her Master’s Degree in Chemistry in 1999, and in 2002 a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry for the paper entitled “Electrochemical processes in systems based on Lithium Sulphur, (Li-S) lithium cobalt oxide Li-Ion and their mixtures.”

In 2001, Elena spent some time in Korea working at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, devoting her time to investigations into Lithium Sulphur electrochemistry.

She has 24 publications to her name, and is the co-author of the OXIS patents.

Gleb Ivanov
PhD - Chief Operating Officer
Gleb is a material scientist with over 12 years experience in licensing and innovation management. He has been involved in establishing and running a Moscow based technology consultancy and licensing company providing services to multinationals like Daimler-Chrysler, Samsung and DASA (Deutsche Aerospace). Having completed management training, he further co-founded three UK companies successfully developing their businesses around Russian technologies including recently floated Hardide plc. Gleb has BSc physics and PhD in materials science from Moscow State University.

Dr Mark Crittenden
Customer Brand Manager
Mark is responsible for the Customer Programme Management, ensuring the successful integration of OXIS technology into customer products.

He holds a first-class Masters degree and PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham. He then joined Nanometrics, managing the development of several materials characterisation and metrology tools for the semiconductor industry, from inception through to full production. He later worked at Research Machines, an IT software and hardware manufacturer, in the roles of New Product Introduction Manager and Programme Manager. He joined OXIS Energy in January 2012.

Madeline Seymour
HR Services Manager
Madeline has been with OXIS for over seven years. She is the HR Services Manager with responsibility for all HR issues, health and safety and property. She is also the contact for day-to- day shareholder transactions. Madeline has a background in marketing, market research and financial services and has qualifications in business studies, marketing and finance.