History

April 2004
Proof of concept activities begin, based on Professor Mino Green’s work in the Dept of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College, funded by Imperial Innovations and supervised by Dr Paul Atherton

February 2006
Nexeon founded as a spin-out company

February 2006
Dr Rob Neat (former AEA Technology Batteries MD) joins as CEO

April 2006
£500,000 invested by Dr Paul Atherton and Imperial Innovations in seed funding. Dr Atherton becomes Executive Chairman

July 2007
Nexeon demonstrates continued performance increases from the technology and secures £4.25M investment

September 2007
Nexeon commences scale-up and demonstration phase, moving to former AEA Technology Battery Research & Development facility near Oxford

March 2008
Dr Rob Neat passes away suddenly

October 2008
Dr Bill Macklin joins as CTO

February 2009
Fully operational pilot plant, producing sufficient material to make high volumes of cells per day

February 2009
Announced significant technical progress in proving the viability of silicon anode technology in terms of capacity and cycle life

February 2009
£10m funding secured for B funding round

June 2009
Dr Scott Brown appointed as new CEO