Neil Warnernon-executive Director

Biography

  Appointment to the board Neil Warner was appointed to the Board of Vectura as a Non-Executive Director in February 2011. Experience and expertise Neil holds an economics degree from the University of Leeds and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Neil brings significant financial and leadership experience in multinational listed companies. He was finance director at Chloride Group plc, a position he held for 14 years until the company’s acquisition by Emerson Electric. Prior to this, Neil spent six years at Exel plc (formerly Ocean Group plc and acquired by DHL/Deutsche Post in December 2005), where he held a number of senior posts in financial planning, treasury and control. He has also held senior positions in Balfour Beatty plc (formerly BICC Group plc), Alcoa and PricewaterhouseCoopers and was a non-executive director of Dechra Pharmaceuticals plc, where he was the senior independent director and chair of the audit committee. External appointments Neil is senior independent director and audit committee chair of Trifast plc, a global leader in design, technology and manufacturing of industrial fasteners for the automotive and technology sectors. He is also a non-executive director, chair of the audit committee and member of the remuneration committee of Directa Plus plc which floated on AIM in May 2016. Directa Plus is one of the world’s largest producers of graphene-based materials – marketed under its “Graphene Plus” (G+) brand, which can be used by third parties in a wide variety of industrial and commercial applications. Neil was formerly the non-executive chairman of Enteq Upstream plc, a specialist reach and recovery products and technologies provider to the upstream oil and gas services market.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology