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Mr Wilks is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is currently Chief Financial Officer at ECO Animal Health Group plc, a leader in the development, registration and marketing of pharmaceutical and biological products for global animal health markets. He qualified with Ernst & Young and has over 30 years’ experience as Chief Financial Officer in technology and science-based companies. For over 10 years, he was the Chief Financial officer of Sondex plc, which makes advanced instruments used in the Energy Industry. During Mr Wilks’ tenure, Sondex grew from a small sole trader to a fully listed plc and was acquired by GE in 2007. Immediately prior to joining ECO Animal Health Group, Chris was the CFO at Signum Technology Limited, a PE-backed buy-out vehicle formed for the acquisition of a number of oilfield technology businesses. Signum was successfully sold during 2019. His intimate understanding of the physics and financial worlds adds valuable insight and expertise to Kromek.

Mr Beumer is a technology business executive with extensive experience of delivering revenue growth in analytical instruments, high-frequency communications equipment, and optoelectronic and semiconductor materials industries. He has held several senior roles while working both in Europe and the US with AkzoNobel and Allied Signal and was Division President and General Manager of Taconic’s US, Europe, and Asia operations. Prior to joining Kromek, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at XOS, Inc., a Danaher Company. During his tenure at XOS Inc., Mr Beumer was responsible for driving the strategic direction of their x-ray elemental technology business, positioning the company as a global leader in application specific elemental analysis solutions for the petroleum and consumer products industries.

Claire Burgess is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  She is a seasoned CFO with over 18 years in senior finance positions.  Most recently, Claire was Financial Director of Advanced Electric Machines Group Ltd (“AEM”), a designer and manufacturer of magnet-free electric powertrain technologies. Her career began as an auditor at Ernst & Young before joining KPMG Corporate Finance in lead advisory.  She then spent a decade in corporate banking working with businesses in both the public and private sectors.  Over the past 12 years she has been in senior industry finance roles in high growth businesses, primarily in the engineering and technology sectors across the UK and US. Claire has a proven track record in strategic and operational leadership having led finance functions through complex transformations supporting rapid business growth. Claire brings a hands-on yet strategic approach, well suited to the Kromek of today.

Dr Basu has a PhD in physics from Durham University, specialising in semiconducting sensor materials, and started his career in technology businesses in India and the UK. A prominent figure within the business community, Dr Basu is former Chair of Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and an Export Champion for the Department of International Trade. Dr Basu was awarded EY ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ (2009) and received an MBE for services to regional development and international trade in 2014.


Mr Sharma is a former FTSE 250 CEO with 30 years’ experience in running international hi-tech engineering and manufacturing businesses. He was instrumental in the growth of Ultra Electronics Holdings plc, the previously LSE-listed group that specialised in providing engineering solutions for mission-critical systems in the defence, security, critical detection and control markets, latterly serving for six years as CEO. He also sits on the Board of LSE-listed PayPoint plc and Mony Group plc. As part of his pro bono activities, he is a lay council member at The University of Nottingham, and supports a range of small businesses and entrepreneurs in a non-executive or advisory capacity, and has been appointed as a Director of the Sidney Stringer Multi Academy Trust. Mr Sharma was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016 and was honoured in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an OBE for services to defence capability. In 2018 he was given the Freedom of the City of London by redemption and became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers. He brings extensive expertise in the security and defence sector, a key market for Kromek.

Matt Boyle OBE is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He brings a wealth of industrial experience having worked for and grown, engineering companies for more than 30 years. He joined NASDAQ-listed Sevcon Inc in 1996 as Chief Operating Officer shortly before becoming President & Chief Executive Officer until the sale of the business to BorgWarner in 2017. During his time, Gateshead-based Sevcon was transformed from a low-growth industrial company to a high-growth electrification company, expanding into new sectors and establishing a presence in eight countries worldwide. Since then, Matt has served in several leadership roles and was a Special Adviser on the National Semiconductor Centre of the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Currently, Matt holds a number of positions, including being Director of Electrification at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland where he has established the National Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Integration Centre, a Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde, a Visiting Professor of Engineering at Newcastle University and Chair of the North East Automotive Alliance. He is also a trustee of Common Room of the Great North and Azure Charitable Foundation.