Stephen Bennington – CEO
When the company started Steve’s role was to do everything that no-one else was doing, from HR to bookkeeping. But now the business has grown he focuses on the fundraising and relationships with investors, and leading and setting the goals for the company’s talented management team. Steve has been running and advising technology businesses for over a decade. Prior to that he was a scientist, designing and building some of the UK’s national science infrastructure and running a research team [...]
Charles Haythornthwaite
Charlie joined Chrysalix in 2008. He is responsible for leading the opportunity recognition and investment selection process in the Chrysalix RoboValley Fund. Charlie has a strong technology, sales and marketing background and prior to joining Chrysalix worked as a product manager and in business development for several start-ups. Charlie has a PhD in optoelectronics and materials science from the University of Southampton. He also has an MBA from Berkeley where he was a Haas Venture Capital Fellow and a Sainsbury [...]
Chris Elsworthy – CTO
Chris is the CTO of Q5D. Prior to this he set up and ran CEL-UK, an innovative additive manufacturing business for 11 years. He built the company into a successful company that manufactures the highly regarded 3D printers sold under the brand Robox®. Chris trained as an industrial product design engineer and has a broad spectrum of experience in both large corporations and SMEs.
Scott White – Chair
Scott White is an accomplished serial entrepreneur focused on the commercialisation of innovative new technologies. His expertise spans telecommunications, photonics, semiconductors, and machine learning, earning him recognition as Deep Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2022 and a Lifetime Fellow of the Bessemer Society in 2023. His career includes founding Pragmatic Semiconductor, where he led the development of a unique flexible semiconductor platform able to connect everyday objects to the Internet of Everything. He is also an advisor at venture [...]