Alan was appointed as a non-executive director on 21 July 2022.
He is an experienced experienced executive and non-executive director, having been CEO of IP Group plc from 2006 to 2021 and having served as non-executive chair of Ceres Power Holdings plc and Proactis Holdings plc and non-executive director of Avacta Group plc. Alan currently serves as non-executive chair of DeepMatter Group plc and OxCCU Limited, and on the board of Trellix Limited and Rio AI Limited. Alan has also formerly served on the boards of several large private companies, including Oxford Nanopore and Oxford Sciences Innovation plc, and served as a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of the Department of Business, Innovation, University and Skills (‘DIUS’, now the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, ‘BEIS’) of the UK government.