Robin Williams
Non-Executive Director
Nanoco technologies
Korea
Biography
Robin Williams was appointed to the Board on 9 July 2014. Robin has an engineering science degree from Oxford University and qualified as ACA. He spent the early part of his career in financial advisory, before co-founding Britton Group plc as CEO. He built this to a successful international packaging group which was sold to a US trade buyer in 1998. He then became an executive director of Hepworth plc, a substantial building products group, as managing director of one division, also as group director for strategy and rationalisation. After leading a non-core business disposal programme, he played a key part in the sale of the group to a German trade buyer. For the past ten years, he has been a non-executive director or chairman in a wide variety of public, public sector and private companies and has been chairman of three plc audit committees. Robin is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees.
Research Interest
Robin Williams was appointed to the Board on 9 July 2014. Robin has an engineering science degree from Oxford University and qualified as ACA. He spent the early part of his career in financial advisory, before co-founding Britton Group plc as CEO. He built this to a successful international packaging group which was sold to a US trade buyer in 1998. He then became an executive director of Hepworth plc, a substantial building products group, as managing director of one division, also as group director for strategy and rationalisation. After leading a non-core business disposal programme, he played a key part in the sale of the group to a German trade buyer. For the past ten years, he has been a non-executive director or chairman in a wide variety of public, public sector and private companies and has been chairman of three plc audit committees. Robin is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees.
