Russell brings extensive international experience from a number of management roles in manufacturing, construction and architectural products, as well as process engineering.

He was Commercial Director at Croda Universal Ltd, before joining GKD Group where he rose to UK Managing Director. After 16 years at GKD he joined Lansinoh Laboratories where he was Head of Global Corporate Planning for two and a half years before founding Inosus Facades Ltd, an ethical start up focussed on sustainable architectural cladding products.  

He holds a Dip. Pharm in Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacy from Natal Technical College (RSA), and an MBA in Finance and Strategy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. More recently he completed his MA in Leading Innovation and Change from York St John University.

Gabriel has 10 years of experience in commercial lending and investments with a focus on renewables, waste and cleantech opportunities. He supports Binding Solutions’ fundraising activity and investor relations. Gabriel studied Finance, Accounting and Management at the University of Nottingham.

Tom has been with Binding Solutions since its inception and works with a number of the world’s largest mining and steel companies as BSL looks to scale its technology. He has experience with venture capital in the technology sector and investment in the natural resource sector. Tom previously worked for African Resource Capital, an Africa-focused mining investment company. Tom studied Economics at the University of Manchester and has a Masters in Economics and a Masters in Finance from the Sorbonne, Paris.

Razvan is a qualified mechanical engineer, experienced in heavy manufacturing and engineering with supervisory and management roles in iron and steel making, float glass manufacturing and automotive. His primary focus at BSL is supporting the transition of Cold Agglomerated Pellets (CAP) technology from laboratory level to large commercial scalability, Razvan is leading the engineering development programs to establish the design and commissioning of multiple manufacturing CAP plants worldwide.

Before joining Binding Solutions, Razvan was Production Supervisor at Nissan responsible for high-volume production and engineering targets and he also spent 12 years at Teesside Steelworks under Corus, Tata Steel and SSI UK where his role covered multiple areas including operation, engineering and technical engineering planning.

Prior to that, Razvan was float line manager for Guardian Industries, responsible for overall plant operation, hot and cold end areas, incoming material distribution, furnace major relines,technical QC, engineering and operation management.

Razvan holds a BSc in engineering science from Lincoln University and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute.

Richard is an experienced technical innovator and founder technologist of Binding Solutions and has been involved in all areas of the business during its growth.

As Head of Research and Development, Richard supports the short and long term development of BSL’s decarbonisation technologies and leads the Intellectual Property Department.

Prior to Binding Solutions, he held the position of Technical Product Support Manager at Lafarge Aggregates, responsible for Carbonates for Steel and Chemical Industries, Slag processing and all types of construction materials.

Richard studied Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam University and Mine/ Quarrying Operations at the Institute of Quarrying

David has more than 25 years of international experience in different industries from high-tech electronics to materials processing equipment. David’s role is to identify and assess upscaling technologies for each step of the BSL technological process and keep up to date on the latest process technology developments that could add value to BSL’s technology. He has been heavily involved in the design and implementation of BSL’s pilot plant and BSL’s technological process and is currently involved in the design and assessment of technologies for BSL’s full-scale demonstration plant with capacity of 350,000 metric tons of Cold Agglomerated Pellets a year.

Prior to joining BSL, David successfully led the process to diversify the activity of a manufacturer of crushing, milling, mixing and pressure agglomeration technologies from clays processing into pelletisation of coal fines, mineral fines and iron and steel waste.

David holds an MSC, in Barcelona, with an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Polytechnical University of Catalonia and Degree Project at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany.

Peter is a highly experienced technology manager specialised in the blast furnace process. As Head of Iron Making Technology at BSL, Peter is responsible for providing technical and operational solutions. Peter previously held the roles of Development Metallurgist, Blast Furnaces at British Steel Scunthorpe, investigating CO2 reduction options for blast furnaces, and of technical manager of Redcar Blast Furnace under SSI. Here he introduced procedures for the introduction of coal injection, and for the restart of operations, and oversaw a complete review of the technical operating procedures to enable the process to handle a wider variety of raw materials.

Peter was also Research Group Manager at Materials Processing Institute (MPI), leading projects on optimisation of coal injection and responsible for managing a team of research staff to deliver projects in the steelmaking industry, and associated sectors.

He holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Paul leads the Applications team at BSL and directly develops Customer Solutions for cold bonded pelletisation, including developing & implementing new technologies into upscale manufacturing plants. He drives the implementation ISO accredited systems at BSL and is accountable for the Middlesbrough site as HSE lead. Paul previously was at British Sugar, in which over 6 years he was the Senior Science Manager, alongside secondments as Refinery Process Lead and Continuous Improvements Manager.

He has implemented numerous Projects from integrating and developing new technology and automation, to improving existing systems and plant operations across multiple chemical plants.

Paul has experience as Head of Technology at a start-up Water Treatment company, CatalySystems, taking a lab scale technology to a full commercial opportunity, overcoming scale up challenges and driving value through product development and patent portfolio developments.

Paul holds a BSC in Chemistry from Durham University and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.