A PASSION FOR THE HIGHEST PERFORMANCE

Appointed to the board: October 2017.

Experience:

Previously Chief Financial Officer of Flybe from 2014 to 2017. Philip has held a number of other senior financial positions including Global Head of Financial Planning and Analysis at SABMiller and Chief Financial Officer of INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe. He spent 16 years at Unilever in a range of finance roles, working in a number of countries including Benelux and Switzerland. Philip has Masters degrees in Business Economics (Rotterdam) and Law (Heerlen).

Experience:

Previously Ian was Chief Financial Officer of Labviva LLC, a US-based technology company. Ian worked for twenty years at Smith & Nephew plc until December 2017, undertaking various financial roles of increasing seniority in the UK, the US and China. His last role was Chief Financial Officer, Global Operations, and prior to that Ian served as Chief Financial Officer of their Advance surgical Devices Division. Ian is qualified as a chartered accountant and began his career at Ernst & Young.

Experience:

Alex joined Low & Bonar as the China Country Manager in 2014. Prior to that he worked in various senior management roles including general manager. Over the past 16 years he has worked for BlueSCope Steel, Berker GmbH & Co. KG and Alcan Group in China. Alex has significant experience in sales & marketing and new business development. He also has experience of procurement, customer service and logistic.

Since joining Low & Bonar Alex has established a very capable organisation and manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China and is the senior executive representative of Low & Bonar in the APAC region. He also oversees activities in APAC including maintaining and improving key relationships in the region, driving business growth and developing and optimising resources in line with company strategy.

Alex holds a degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from Tongji University, China.

Experience:

Gavin joined Low & Bonar in May 2019 having gained extensive HR, Executive and Remuneration Committee experience across a variety of major manufacturing environments.  Gavin has developed expertise in talent management, reward and benefits and organisational development prior to taking on overall HR responsibility. Gavin has formerly undertaken roles at GEC-Marconi Ltd (now BAE Systems), Chloride Group PLC, Emerson Network Power and for the last 5 years at Essentra PLC.  

Among Gavin’s qualifications he possesses an MSc in Human Resources Management, is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development as well as holding a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel. 

Experience:

Jan is a graduate of Business Administration at the Free University of Amsterdam and is also a qualified accountant. He joined Low and Bonar in October 2016. He has more than 25 years of experience in Finance, gained in a variety of different companies. Previously Jan spent seven years at Akzo Nobel and held various financial positions both in the Netherlands and Germany. Prior to joining Low and Bonar Jan spent 9 years as CFO at Verosol, a manufacturer of interior blinds, where he amongst other things was responsible for the delisting from the Dutch stock exchange.

Johann joined Low & Bonar in November 2017 from Rollepaal, a Dutch capital goods manufacturer, where he was Chief Commercial Officer focusing on the plastic pipe industry.

Experience:

He has extensive international commercial leadership experience in B2B markets having worked in Fokker Aviation and the railway industry before moving to the global fibre business with both Diolen Industrial Fibers (formerly Acordis/Akzo Nobel Fibers) and Performance Fibers (Luxemburg).

He is a graduate of University of Hertfordshire (MBA, 2002) and INSEAD.

Experience:

Monique is a graduate of Industrial Management & Engineering at the University of Twente and joined Low & Bonar in January 2019 from her role as Director Operations Glass Reinforcements EU at Owens Corning Inc, a NYSE listed company in the building sector. Monique spent 14 years at Owens Corning Inc in various senior international positions in which she led teams and gained manufacturing sector experience. Prior to this Monique worked for Kendrion N.V, a Dutch multinational listed on the Amsterdam stock exchange.