in partnership with Borealis
About us
Creating opportunities through innovation
We are a growth company providing our patented EcoCore® technology, for foam plastic injection moulding, under license.
EcoCore is helping some of the world’s leading food service and FMCG brands to create more sustainable high-performance thin-wall and reusable packaging that is cost-effective.
Our innovative technology gives brands and converters a competitive edge in a wide range of sectors and applications. These include retail food, caps / closures, food service, paint / industrial pails and healthcare.
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EcoCore is used for food service reusables in cities around the world and was trusted for the cups used by world leaders at the COP 26 United Nations climate change conference.
The technology has also been awarded the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label for its potential to help businesses and governments meet their environmental commitments. And, it was recognised by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as a pioneering solution for reuse.
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Some of our awards
Who we are
Our board and team have helped some of the world's best-known businesses grow by successfully developing, implementing and protecting innovation.
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The board
Chris Bocking
Founder & IP specialist
Chris specialises in protecting, defending and releasing value from IP. He has been successfully protecting and commercialising foam plastic innovations for over 10 years. Chris also has extensive experience of B2B enterprise solution sales and a Mech Eng first degree.
Nicolas Mathias
Finance Director
Nicolas has a background in strategy and management consulting with large corporates. About 10 years ago, Nicolas repositioned himself as operations and finance executive, relying on his strong data acumen and leveraging his consultant methodologies to help start-ups and SMEs solve their strategic and operational challenges. Nicolas holds a Master’s degree in International Strategic Management and Consulting.
Christopher McArdleamie
Non-executive Director (Borealis director role)
Vice President Strategy at Borealis with extensive experience in steering growth across $500MM+ global businesses within the chemicals and materials industry and supporting start-up and scale-up of new technologies.
Henri Gaskjenn
Chief Executive Officer
Henri is a seasoned entrepreneur and business leader with over 25 years of experience driving innovation across global corporations and startups. Henri's diverse background includes experience from PwC, BearingPoint, Arthur Andersen, and Electronic Arts, as well as co-founding Sanity.io, a content infrastructure platform. Henri holds a Master's degree in International Marketing and Strategy.
Jamie Tinsley
Non-executive Director & Chair of the Board of Directors
Jamie brings many years of valuable business experience and an extensive network from across our industry.
Jamie has led businesses in complimentary sectors, as a trusted Chairman, CEO, Senior Leader, Advisor, Investor and Mentor.
His focus on M&A, business turnaround, value creation, engagement and enabling senior teams and the wider business to explore new opportunities, has already had a positive impact.
David Ovenden
Non-executive Director
After a 25-year career in Investment Banking, David has spent the last 12 years investing and working with a wide range of start-up or early-stage companies. He has undergraduate and post graduate Economics degrees.
The team
Phill Gall
Technical Director
Phil has over twenty years experience in plastic injection moulding and packaging. He has worked in senior roles in product development, mould development and project management for some of the world's best known converters including AGBarr, RPC/Berry and Aptar Group. Phil holds a Master's degree in Materials Science from the University of Manchester.
Tony Den Braber
Head of Application Deployment
Tony has over 30 years’ experience of helping world leading FMCG brands to successfully mass produce plastic mouldings as an injection moulding trouble shooter and production engineer.
Lewis Wood
Head of Product Management
As an experienced design engineer for one of Europe's leading product design consultancies Lewis helped famous brands from Coca-Cola to Unilever and Kohler create innovative engineering solutions to meet business and consumer needs. Lewis holds a first degree in Product Design Technology.
Mark Hall
Head of Technical Development
Mark started his career in project coordination with Husky injection moulding systems, having first qualified as a toolmaker. He was one of the management team that joined Microsystems at the start. Over 18 years, he helped the company grow into one of the world’s most advanced micro mould design, manufacturing and validation businesses producing mouldings for leading medical brands.
Martin Blacher
Research and QA
Martin has designed products for leading brands including BA and BMW, has a first as well as a master's degree in engineering design and has lectured at Imperial College / RCA. He is a member of the IMechE and Chartered Institute of Marketing with 25 years B2B marketing experience.
