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This list showcases the top Bristol based Founder operating in the Manufacturing space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
John Rudin
Founder, CTO, and COO of Folium Optics
John studied Engineering at Durham University, and Optics at Reading University. After working as a product design engineer he joined Hewlett Packard and helped found their UK based displays research group. In 2013 he and Steve Kitson set up Folium Optics to further the commercialisation of colourful, low power plastic displays.
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About Folium Optics: Folium Optics was founded in November 2013 by Steve Kitson and John Rudin.
Kostas Karachalios
Co-Founder and CEO of Perceptual Robotics
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Dimitris Nikolaidis
Co-Founder and COO of Perceptual Robotics
Dimitris Nikolaidis is the COO and co-founder at Perceptual Robotics.
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Mervyn Miles
Co-Founder & Director of NuNano
Mervyn is Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol. His research over the last 25 years has focused on the development and application of new scanning probe microscopes, including the invention of two new types of high-speed AFM and the use of nanotools controlled by holographic optical tweezers to act as a new type of AFM probe. Mervyn has also co-founded Infinitesima Ltd, to bring high-speed AFM to the semiconductor industry. He is also Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Institute of Physics Publishing and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 2011.
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About NuNano: NuNano is a UK manufacturer of AFM probes and bespoke cantilever sensors.
Heinrich Hoerber
Co-Founder and Director of NuNano
Heinrich is an Emeritus Professor of Nanobiophysics at the University of Bristol. His research interests are focussed on scanning probe microscopy and high resolution optical instrumentation. Previous posts have included working with Prof. G Binnig, the co-inventor of the AFM, in Munich, and working at the European Molecular Laboratory in Heidelberg.
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About NuNano: NuNano is a UK manufacturer of AFM probes and bespoke cantilever sensors.
James Vicary
Managing Director, Co-Founder of NuNano
James has 14 years of experience in AFM, of which 9 were spent designing and manufacturing unique cantilever sensors for various research projects at the University of Bristol. Seeing his microfabrication endeavours yielding new science led James to found NuNano, in order to bring novel AFM probes to the wider scientific community.
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About NuNano: NuNano is a UK manufacturer of AFM probes and bespoke cantilever sensors.
David Thomas
Founder of Hoxy Tronic
David Thomas, tuned and fixed engines for cars and motorbikes that his father raced. Later he studied engineering, then joined IBM in South Africa as a hardware engineer for thirteen years. He facilitated setting up a national co-operative for taxi operators in SA, and project managed setting up petrol stations for the taxi co-ops with an independent fuel company. He researched the HHO industry to find methods of improving the efficiency and performance of the design, knowing that the only way for HHO to advance was to build the product cheap enough so that it paid for itself very quickly and to solve the inherent problems. A meeting with Paul Mullen of Cubik Innovation sparked the electronic current-mode control of gas output which formed the basis of the new Hoxy Tronic technology. His tasks are to develop, research and test the new designs and provide sales technical support.
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About Hoxy Tronic: Hoxy Tronic specializes in developing fuel saving and emissions reduction technology.
