About Tri-Air Developments

Lorraine Baldry is Chairman of Tri-Air Developments Ltd and Inventa Partners Ltd. She is a Board Member of the Olympic Delivery Authority, where she chairs their Planning Committee, and a Governor at the University of the Arts London, where she chairs their Estates Committee.

Previously Lorraine was Chairman of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation and before that Chief Executive of Chesterton International plc. Prior to that she was a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, where she worked specifically with the European Real Estate Group, Investment Banking Division. Lorraine has also been a Managing Director at Regus, where she was heavily involved in their pre-float.

Lorraine moved in to property when she joined Prudential Portfolio Managers’ (PPM) Property Division in 1990. By 1992 she was Managing Director and subsequently became Chief Operating Officer of PPM, before spending a short time as Managing Director of Prudential Corporate Pensions.

Having started her career in Information Technology in the late 1960s, she became a director and shareholder of a medium sized software house at the age of 24, subsequently sold out and formed her own company and sold out of that before moving back to mainstream IT when she joined the BBC.

Lorraine is an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a past President of the British Property Federation. She is a Freeman of the Company of Information Technologists and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Gideon Davenport is Chief Executive Officer and a Board Director of Tri-Air Developments Ltd, as well as a Board Director of Inventa Partners Ltd. Gideon was instrumental in the identification of the technology upon which Tri-Air Developments Ltd was formed. During 2005 he identified both the technology’s latent potential and the possible commercial opportunity, and brought together interested organizations, individuals, investors and the technology inventor forming Tri-Air Developments in January 2006. Since the formation of the company Gideon has taken an ongoing role leading commercial activities including marketing, sales, investor liaison, licence negotiation and overall company strategic direction. Gideon’s tenacity and unwavering belief in the vision of the opportunity has inspired the development and production of the first Tri-Air products, the achievement of the first licence deal, and further licence deals to be announced in 2010.

Gideon has over 17 years’ experience in marketing, business development, innovation and strategy consultancy for a wide variety of industries. He has significant experience in assisting R&D institutes and corporate clients in exploring technology commercialisation opportunities.

Upon graduation he joined Thames Water Plc, one of the UK’s leading utility companies, entering their graduate business development programme, where he undertook a variety of roles across operations, marketing, PR and internal consultancy. In the year before leaving Thames Water he was responsible for the creation and launch of a ‘home emergency’ insurance product to the 13 million customer base.

At Maritz (the US marketing agency) he was the Account Director responsible for a number of high profile electronics and telecommunication clients. He then spent a number of years as a Strategy Consultant with the Stanford Research Institute Consultancy (SRIC), where he led and developed a number of ‘over-the-horizon’ innovation projects, focused on new products and markets for a number of blue-chip clients. This experience led him with a select group of colleagues to establish Atomic Tangerine UK, Stanford Research Institute’s technology transfer company. The experience, learning and industry insights gained during his time with Atomic led to Gideon and his co-founders creating Inventa Partners Ltd in 2001 – a technology innovation consultancy focused on the art of successful technology transfer.

Gideon has a BSc. (Hons) degree from the University of Nottingham and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Guy is Chief Operating Officer and Board Director of Tri-Air Developments Ltd, where he has taken a lead role in the management of the product development activity, pulling the necessary resources together against a very aggressive timescale in order to meet the company’s Product objectives. Guy also manages the scientific and air quality testing consulting expertise provided to Tri-Air Developments Ltd by BRE, an extensive and constant testing regime, allowing Tri-Air to gather 24/7 testing data on an ongoing basis within a number of chamber sizes.

As Chief Executive of BRE Ventures Ltd Guy Hammersley is responsible for leading the BRE Group’s newest company, Tri-Air Developments Ltd, with its mission to successfully exploit new green and clean technologies. BRE Ventures’ innovation portfolio already includes three new joint ventures and has a rapidly growing pipeline.

Guy is also an Executive Director of BRE Group Ltd and in this capacity led the successful establishment of BRE Training and the creation of the BRE Ireland joint venture, of which he is Executive Chairman.

Guy came to BRE (Building Research Establishment) in 1998 as Managing Director of the Construction Division, joining the BRE Board as an Executive Director in 1999 and becoming Chief Operating Officer of BRE in 2003. During this time he played a key role in building networks with industry and Government, directing a large portfolio of collaborative research and driving forward innovation across the built environment sector.

Immediately prior to joining BRE, Guy took on the challenge of Associate Dean at the newly created University of Luton to build commercial links with industry in science, technology and design. In this role he created a diverse and successful programme of collaborations, working mostly in the construction and manufacturing sectors, from multinationals to SMEs.

Guy’s career started with the John Laing Group in 1977, initially as a Geologist with Ground Engineering Ltd and then as a Geomaterials specialist with the Laing Technology Group (LTG). He became a leading expert in the field of concrete durability and aggregates where he was involved in major projects in many countries.

Guy went on to become General Manager of LTG Technical Services responsible for a multidisciplinary team of research scientists and construction professionals, supporting the parent company on construction projects world wide. He was also the Laing Group R&D manager responsible for a diverse research portfolio ranging from novel construction materials to process improvement, IT and robotics.

Alan Mole is Chief Technical Officer and a Board Director of Tri-Air Developments Ltd. He has over 40 years’ experience in microbiology and anti-microbial research and development. He has several patents in this field.

Following 18 years with the State Veterinary Service as an Ologist, Alan developed several successful businesses in food analysis and food product development.

In 1985 he formed RESTEC Laboratories, testing food for basic analysis and pesticide residues. He was Chairman of RESTEC from 1987 to 2000.

In 1992 he also set up Newtec Laboratories, where he commenced research into aerobiology. The company became UKAS accredited in 1993, the same year in which Alan’s initial process for the decontamination of air was granted a patent.

Between 1997 and 2001 he was Technical Director of a food ingredients business, where he continued with antimicrobial and aerobiological research and was granted a further patent for his decontamination technologies.

From 2001 to date Alan has run Promanade Ltd, a pioneer in advanced processes for decontaminating air and surfaces.

In 2006 he became a founding Director of Tri-Air Developments Ltd.

A number of Alan’s ideas have been transformed into products, including the patented technologies being commercialised for various market sectors by Tri-Air.

For further information on Alan’s developments, see Timeline of a unique breakthrough.

Dr Martin Wyatt is a Board Director of Tri-Air Developments Ltd and BRE Ventures Ltd, and also Chief Executive of the BRE Group Ltd and of the BRE Trust. He was previously Chief Executive of Associated British Consultants plc, a Director of the WSP Group and a non-Executive Director at BT Redcare.

Martin studied Structural Engineering at Nottingham University where he went on to obtain a PhD on the design of large- span bridges. From 1974 to 1993 he worked for Kenchington Little plc, Building and Environmental Consulting Engineers.

In 1997 he led an MBO of the then 'Building Research Establishment' from Government and has successfully led it as CEO since that time. With over 600 staff BRE has grown to become one of the world's leading research- led consultancies on innovation, risk and sustainability with business world-wide. Whilst run strictly as a business, BRE is wholly- owned by a Charitable Trust for the Public Good.

As a Director of BRE Ventures and Tri-Air Developments he is now closely involved with the development of technology- led business including solutions in the I.T and healthcare sectors. At the core of his business philosophy is the concept of 'sustainability' as a key driver for maximising shareholder value over the long term.