Ray Gibbs

Commercial Director
Haydale Ltd.

Ray is a former Deloitte Partner specialising in Corporate Finance and cross border transactions. He moved into Industry as CFO of a UK Defence Engineering quoted group (sales of £100m). In his 17+ years in industry he has been heavily involved in technology start-ups, involving business turnaround, reorganisation and rationalisation situations. This often involved the formulation and implementation of corporate growth strategies through building commercial teams across a range of highly technical industries but latterly in the food and nano technology sectors specifically developing strategic partnerships and launching brands.

Some of the high technology industries include, 3D X-ray Scanning, Earth Station Satellite Antennas, Thermoplastic Composites and latterly Plasma Treatment of nano powders producing tailored functionalised materials such as Graphene Nano Platelets to homogeneously disperse for maximum effect.