Management Team

Paul Vlček Eur.Ing., FInst.CT         

Chairman

Paul is a British national of Czech origin and studied Electronics Engineering at the Technical University of Zilina, Czechoslovakia, which was followed by engineering posts with UK electronics companies in digital and computing technology. Paul is the author of patents in high power energy transfer circuitry and digital control. He has set up a number of his own UK and Czech Republic based engineering and manufacturing companies (e.g. Zlin Electronics Ltd., Euroelectronics, Cube Cz sro.) which were grown for a successful exit. He was chairman of the UK Electronics Manufacturers within the Printed Circuit Interconnection Federation in the early to mid-nineties and is a current Fellow of the Institute of Circuit Technology. Highly experienced in electronics manufacturing, management and business exit strategies, Paul is also Executive Producer of the music labels Cube-Metier and Cube-Bohemia.

Managing Director

Nigel brings financial and legal expertise to deltaDOT, and has many years experience in running and advising SMEs. He set up a medical company based at Saint Mary’s medical school in 2006 which performs a novel form of non-invasive surgery, and assisted with the re-launch of a medical technology company in 2007. Both of these companies are now robustly profitable. In addition to his MEng from Imperial College he also holds an MBA from the London Business School. He previously worked at deltaDOT from 2001 for 4 years as Company Secretary and Financial Controller before moving on in 2005.  He arranged the May 2010 funding round which saw a simplification of deltaDOT’s governance structures, and the strengthening of its balance sheet.

Dr Stuart Hassard PhD   

Chief Scientific Officer

Stuart co-founded deltaDOT contributing his molecular biology expertise. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Essex, UK. His post-doctoral position was at the United States Department of Agriculture in their Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York State, working on Foot-and-Mouth disease. He returned to the UK to work at the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge on the packaging signal of HIV-1. In 1999 he moved to the department of Biology in Imperial College London and subsequently to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering as a collaborating investigator. Stuart is also IP director for deltaDOT Ltd.

 John Hassard PhD      

Non-executive director and CEO deltaDOT-QSTP-LLC

John co-founded deltaDOT with technology originating in the Department of High Energy Physics.He joined Imperial College as a lecturer in 1986 and remains on the faculty. Before Imperial College, John was a research fellow at Harvard University and Cornell University researching heavy quark decays. He is a special advisor to the House of Commons select committee for Science and Technology, and he also founded other spin out companies from Imperial College on physics-based technologies.

John is Chief Executive Officer of deltaDOT's Qatar based proteomic service company deltaDOT-QSTP-LLC.