A PASSION FOR THE HIGHEST PERFORMANCE

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:

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.

Experience:

Oliver has been successfully contributing his wide-ranging expertise to the Freudenberg Group in various management and key positions since 2006. At Freudenberg Performance Materials, among other things, he was General Manager for the British business with solutions for the ostomy and hygiene market as well as for the global business with components for the hygiene and medical market. He also lead the European clothing business as General Manager.

Before Oliver took over the management of the Coated Technical Textiles Division, he was Director Global Business Development and Strategic Marketing in the Freudenberg Performance Materials holding company. In this position he played a key role in the takeover of Low & Bonar in 2020. Oliver holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Mannheim and a Ph.D. from the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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.