Fluorotechnics appoints James Walker CEO

Duncan Veal appointed to key role of chief technology officer

06-Mar-2009 - Australia

Fluorotechnics Limited has appointed James Walker as its new chief executive officer. The appointment is effective immediately and has been made to coincide with the company’s shift to major sales growth.

Dr Duncan Veal will step down as CEO and as a director to take over the role of chief technology officer. His key responsibility will be to drive the pipeline of new products to the market from the company’s manufacturing and R&D facility in Germany.

Fluorotechnics’ prime business focus since its inception in 2002 has been on product development. The successful commercialisation of these products sees the company’s emphasis now move strongly to sales and operations.

James Walker has been the company’s chief financial and operations officer since July 2002. James moved to Germany 9 months ago and has shown his operations skills in leading the scale up of our production facilities and fostering teamwork within our Germany subsidiary. Prior to joining Fluorotechnics, James was the CFO at the Hotel Dynamics Group and had been the CFO of another ASX listed biotechnology company.

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