Hardide plc (LON:HDD), the provider of advanced surface treatment solutions, has announced the appointment of Dr. Bryan Allcock to the Board today as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Bryan will succeed Tim Rice as Hardide’s Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee with effect from 1 January 2025, as Tim will be stepping down from the Board on 31 December 2024.
Bryan has career long experience working in the advanced materials, surface engineering and coatings industry.
He is currently CEO of his own business, TRL9 Limited, which runs a portfolio of research, development and deployment projects, including the use of high entropy alloys. Bryan acts as a subject matter expert to the Ministry of Defence and BAE Systems for the coating of flight decks for Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers and has collaborative research contracts with Jaguar Land Rover, the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and the European Space Agency.
