Directors
Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool KBE, FRS
Non-Executive Chairman, 73
Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool is a long-standing public advocate of the need to address climate change issues. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading plc from 2004 to 2005. As a UK Parliamentarian, he chaired the Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee from 2001 to 2004, and is Vice-Chairman of the Globe UK Group. Lord Oxburgh was Rector of Imperial College London from 1993 to 2001. He is a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence. Lord Oxburgh is also an adviser to Climate Change Capital. He is currently Chairman of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association and of Falck Renewables.
Elliott Mannis
Chief Executive Officer, 46
Elliott Mannis joined D1 in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in January 2006. Elliott was the Group Finance Director at AWG Plc, the parent company of Anglian Water, for six years prior to joining D1. He has also held senior positions, including Group Financial Controller, at Aegis Group plc, where he worked from 1993 to 1998. Before joining Aegis, Elliott spent nine years at Price Waterhouse, initially in Vancouver, Canada, and subsequently in London.
Ben Good
Finance and Commercial Director, 43
Ben Good has held a variety of senior positions in financial and commercial management, corporate finance and business development. Having started his career in strategy consulting, he joined AWG Plc, the parent company of Anglian Water, where at different times he held the roles of Director of Finance and Planning, Commercial Director and Projects Director. Ben was also Head of Projects at British Nuclear Group.
Dr Henk Joos
Plant Science Director, 49
Henk Joos joined D1 as Agronomy Director in September 2006 and now heads D1 Oils Plant Science Limited, the exclusive supplier of Jatropha curcas material to D1-BP Fuel Crops Limited. Henk has over twenty years of experience in commercial research and development and project management in the fields of plant breeding and genetics. He began his business career with Plant Genetic Systems in Belgium in 1986 and founded the global ‘In Vigor’ canola breeding programme in the early 1990’s, which formed the basis for Bayer CropScience’s global leadership in canola crop production. He became the Global Head of Breeding and Product Development at Aventis CropScience in 2000, supervising activities in corn, soybean, cotton, canola, rice and various tropical crops in 20 different temperate and tropical countries. In 2002, the year Bayer CropScience was formed through Bayer’s acquisition of Aventis, he was appointed Head of Molecular & Biochemical Analytical Services, and reorganised the analytical and quality control laboratories of Bayer CropScience worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in Biology (Genetics) from the University of Ghent.
