Our Board
Phil Wrigley - Chairman
Phil Wrigley is Non-Executive Chairman of Majestic Wine Plc, Non-Executive Chairman of LXB Retail Properties Plc and a Non-Executive Director of Carluccios. He stepped down as Executive Chairman of Habitat in June 2011. In September 2009 he founded Madison Capital LLP to invest in and support emerging companies with significant opportunities to grow and create value.
He stepped down as Chairman of the New Look Group in January 2010. He has twenty five years experience in retail. He transformed New Look from a “small cap public company” into private ownership and to the third largest womenswear retailer in the UK with rapid global growth.
Phil has led change programmes in a number of retail businesses embracing all aspects of retail. He has led merger and acquisition activities in the UK and overseas whilst maintaining a particular focus on building strong and successful management teams.
In his retail career he has worked as a Director in the New Look Group, Bhs, Dorothy Perkins and Debenhams and held responsibility for all the primary roles in retail from Buying and Merchandising, logistics, retail operations and marketing to finance.
Phil is also a member of the Policy Exchange Education Committee, an honorary fellow of Harris Manchester College and participates in a number of retail/property advisory Boards.
Will Pike – Chief Executive Officer
Will was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1992 and then served in 2 and 3 PARA in a number of command and staff appointments in the British Army. He saw operational service through multiple tours of Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and twice in Afghanistan before retiring from the army at the end of 2007.
On leaving the army Will worked as a Director of a private investment company prior to joining Rolatube Technology as CEO in Nov 2010. He is a graduate of the UK Command and Staff College and holds a Cranfield University MBA.
Andrew Daton-Lovett – Inventor & Chief Technology Officer
With the exception of a four year period during which he worked establishing art and design led projects for children funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Gulbenkian Foundation, Andrew Daton-Lovett has worked as an Industrial and Engineering Designer for the past thirty seven years. He started his career in 1972, establishing Facade Design, where he was responsible for the development of some of the first animatronics in the world.
By 1997 he had a well-established practice with customers including Yamaha, The Perkins Group, The Vitec Group, ICI and a broad range of SME’s. He invented bi-stable reeled composites in response to a customer requirement and quickly realised its potential for a broad range of applications, since which he has worked mainly on bringing this technology to market.
He has received a number of industry awards for design including British Energy's Recognition Award, The Eureka Award for Innovation and the European Union Scientific Committee's Innovation Award. Co-author of a number of Academic Papers on Composite Technology and Space Science he has working relationships with a number of high-profile academic institutions in including Cambridge University's Engineering Department, The School of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Glasgow University and the Department of Space Science at the University of Seattle.
Geoff Capps BSc FCMA – Financial Director
Geoff has worked in the aerospace industry for almost whole of his career. Upon graduating he became an engineer for 10 years and then moved in to finance, becoming in 1988 Financial Controller of the Dowty Group.
In 1990 he moved to Dowty Aerospace Gloucester and was one of the directors who successfully split this company of over 3,000 employees in to 5 business units, being appointed Finance Director of Dowty Landing Gear Ltd upon completing this assignment.
TI Group took over the Dowty Group in 1992 and in expanding the landing gear capability decided to go in to a JV with the French company SNECMA and then became Finance Director of Messier-Dowty Ltd.
The company became wholly French owned in 1998 and prior to retiring worked in France for two years as Finance Controller of Messier-Dowty manufacturing operations.
He became Company Secretary of RolaTube Technology in January 2005 and more recently Finance Director.
