Graeme Purdy
Friday, 28 February 2025
Appointed in May 2004, Graeme is the founding CEO of Ilika. He has led the company through two rounds of venture funding, floated it on AIM in 2010 and supported its development through growth placings with high quality institutional investors.
Prior to joining Ilika, Graeme was Chief Operating Officer of a high-technology company in the Netherlands and before that worked internationally in a variety of technical and commercial roles for Shell. Graeme holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD business school in France. Graeme is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Sainsbury Management Fellow.
He has also held non-executive positions at Southampton Asset Management and at lithium miner Bacanora plc.