The Company
Bioganix plc operates in the waste management sector.  The Group’s principal activity is the processing of organic wastes such as the by-products from food processing and source separated domestic waste collected by local authorities.  The Bioganix process involves in-vessel composting of waste material to produce a nutrient rich fertiliser replacement product for use by farmers.  The compost is also used for soil conditioning and brown-field site reclamation.

The Bioganix business was established at Wharton Court, near Leominster in Herefordshire, in 2001.  The company came into being following an investment by the 7Y Group, a farmer owned organisation.  Between 2001 and 2004 the Bioganix in-vessel process was developed and the Company’s first composting plant was designed and built.  Following successful proving of the Bioganix composting process, in 2005 the Company bid for and won a ten year contract to process source separated kitchen waste for Suffolk County Council.  To deliver this contract, Bioganix purchased a former waste transfer station at Parham near Ipswich and started construction of the new factory in January 2006.  The Parham plant became fully operational in May 2006.

During 2005 the 7Y Group and the Bioganix Directors decided that the business needed access to further capital to develop and grow.

Thus a stock market floatation was pursued and on April 28th 2006, Bioganix was successfully listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange at an initial market capitalisation of £7.75 million.

In May 2008, the new Sharpness facility started processing waste. Based at Sharpness Docks, near Gloucester, this new Bioganix plant has the capacity to process up to 50,000 tonnes of green, kitchen and food material per year.

Bioganix plc’s strategy  is to build and operate further Bioganix in-vessel composting plants throughout the UK to compost a range of organic waste streams.

The People

Andrew Walker
Non Executive Chairman
Andrew Walker currently holds non-executive directorships at a number of quoted companies including Ultra Electronics Holdings plc, Manganese Bronze Holdings plc, Porvair plc, API Group plc and Delta Public Limited Company. He has also been Chief Executive of two officially-listed companies during his career, South Wales Electricity plc and McKechnie plc, prior to which he was managing director of a number of companies with the Dowty Group. He has been Chairman of Bioganix since October 2004 where he chairs both the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Board.

Nick Helme
Managing Director
Nicholas Helme, aged 47, having obtained an agricultural degree took on the responsibility for the family farming interests which were transferred into Wharton Farms Limited in 2005. He founded 7Y in 1991 and was its managing director from 1991 until March 2002 when he left to be a founder director of Bioganix.

Julian Morgan
Finance and Commercial Director
Julian Morgan, aged 46, having obtained an agricultural degree became a partner in the family farming business. He subsequently trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, where he was a partner in the firm's business consultancy pratice.
He joined Bioganix's parent company, 7Y, as managing director in 2002 and from that time he also acted as part-time finance director to Bioganix. In December 2005, he relinquished his executive responsibilities at 7Y to concentrate on Bioganix. He remains non-executive Chairman of 7Y Services Limited, the main operating company of the 7Y Group, and in a non-executive director of 7Y Holdings Limited.

Oliver O’Toole – Technical and Operations Director
Oliver O’Toole has worked for Bioganix since January 2006 as the Company’s Technical and Operations manager. Oliver graduated from Oxford University in 1983 with a degree in Engineering, Economics and Management. Prior to joining Bioganix, Oliver held a number of senior positions in engineering, manufacturing and consultancy businesses. Since joining Bioganix, Oliver has made a major contribution to the growth and development of the business, in particular the establishment of the Suffolk (Parham) operation. The Directors of Bioganix are delighted to welcome Oliver to the Board and look forward to his on-going contribution to the development of Bioganix.

Chris Curling
Non-Executive
Chris Curling was a specialist corporate lawyer and for 15 years oversaw the rapid growth of the law firm Osborne Clarke as its managing or senior partner. He now has a number of non-executive directorships, including officially- listed Bristol Water plc, AIM quoted Personal Group Holdings plc, commercial architects Atkins Walters Webster Limited and At-Bristol Limited, the leading hands-on science centre. He is a member of the governing body of Bristol University. He is a non-executive director of Bioganix plc on both the Audit and Remuneration Committees of the Board.

Professor Jeremy Tavaré – Non-Executive Director
Professor Jeremy Tavaré is the Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol. He is also a director of ProXara Biotechnology Ltd. Jeremy graduated from Bristol University in 1982 and was awarded a PhD by the same in 1986. Since then he has pursued an academic career at the University of Bristol with a one year Fellowship at the the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA. Through his work with ProXara (a biotechnology company) and committee work within Bristol University, Jeremy has amassed significant board and commercial experience. Bioganix are looking forward to Jeremy’s contribution to both the scientific and commercial aspects of the business.