Team

Nikolay is an experienced researcher and entrepreneur. He has extensive knowledge in heterogeneous catalysis having 50 scientific publications and securing £2.5M grant funding from various sources. He is a member of IchemE, a graduate of Innovate UK’s ICURe programme and won an Enterprise Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He leads the company day-to-day operations and business development.

Quentin Compton-Bishop is an experienced CEO, board director and entrepreneur.  Prior to joining Stoli Catalysts, he was CEO of Warwick Ventures, responsible for research commercialisation at the University of Warwick.

Prior to Warwick Ventures, he was a co-founder and CEO of a number of technology start-ups, including P2i, a global leader in protective nano-coatings, and RolaTube Technology.  Quentin has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, a Cranfield MBA and a Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma. 

Other senior roles have been with renewable energy, software and mobile phone businesses. Quentin has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, a Cranfield MBA and Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma. He was also a director of the Sustainable Energy Academy and a co-developer of its SuperHomes programme.

William obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and then spent a year as a postdoc in the laboratory of Professor Noyori, Nagoya, Japan working on asymmetric hydrogenation.  Since then, he has worked for a number of chemical companies, engaged in the use of catalysis for the manufacture of pharmaceutical intermediates. At Stoli Chm, he is looking at the expanding the scope of Organic reactions carried out using the SABRe reactors.

Jonty received a MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sheffield. He also has
experience in unique manufacturing environments. At Stoli Jonty is an application scientist responsible for
demonstrating performance of SABRe reactors.

Freddy is a Lancaster University graduate, first-class with MEng and experience in equipment design for the petrochemical industry and extensive experience in CAD, 3D printing and conventional manufacturing techniques.

Sofia is a PhD student at the University of Oxford, with experience in inorganic chemistry and process optimisation. Her research is focused on flow chemistry and improving biocatalysis using inorganic supports. She uses her analytical skills to carry out research activities for Stoli Chem.

Martin has over 40 years’ experience in industrial catalysis, mostly heterogeneous, in a variety of areas like biorenewables, hydrogenation, gas-to-liquids, catalyst preparation. He is an expert on process scale-up from to production. He has more than 30 patents, 70 scientific papers and several book chapters. Martin advises Stoli on process scale-up.​

Fred heads the Technology Advisory Board. He retired in 2015 from the role of technical director for Johnson Matthey for Catalysts & Chiral technologies Business’s Global R&D group, managing 5 sites globally and 50 people. The business was centred within the Pharmaceutical/Fine Chemical Market. He has more than 30 years of experience in heterogeneous catalysis and fine chemical synthesis.