Applied Graphene Materials announced the appointment of Gareth Hywel Jones (aged 48) to the Board as Chief Financial Officer of the company, with effect from April 2017.  Gareth is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years's financial experience. Gareth joins from the Emco Wheaton Division of private equity owned Gardner Denver Inc. where he has been Finance Director since 2013.  The appointment of Gareth comes at a period of significant planned development for the company with two key operational appointments in the UK: William Weaver, as Technical Director, who joins from Nuplex industries, where he led the advanced coating collaborations with a large range of multi-nationals; Helen Hatcher, as the new Global Coatings Director who joins from Sudarshan Europe, where she was Head of Sales Marketing and Operations.  The company is also announced that as part of its continued development within the American markets, Kevin Jackson joined the team in December 2016 as the new United States Business Development Manager.  Kevin joins from Ribbon Technology Corp.

where he managed a team developing manufacturing and selling speciality chemicals/coatings into North and South America.