Board

John Patrick

Chairman

"John's keen eye gleaned from years of CEM experience quickly identifies areas of opportunity and risk"

FermionX through its predecessor C-Tech Electronics, has always been a company based on family values and ethics. No one has driven that more than John Patrick, whose parents started the original PCB manufacturing plant that led to the incorporation of C-Tech Electronics. With extensive experience in electronic manufacturing, John now tunes his entrepreneurial business approach to ensure the continued success of the business.

Dan Crothers

Managing Director

"Dan is the steady pair of hands at the tiller who has overseen the merger of our three companies and steady growth"

As a leader, Dan’s greatest strength is his approachability. He listens to his team, so he hears when relationships or operations could be improved and works holistically with the whole team to keep FermionX advancing and staff retention rates high.

Dan’s down to earth nature sees him working collaboratively with customers to deliver long term relationships.

Stephen Markham

Finance Director

"The voice of reason, Steve provides seasoned financial control to ensure the continued success of the company"

The numbers man. Steve provides the background sanity checks to ensure the company is running smoothly. Steve manages to balance between commercial objectives and financial realities to ensure any wild ideas from the sales team or new equipment requests are passed through the voice of reason.

More recently Steve has become an expert in R&D tax credits, allowing the company to continue its drive as a product innovator.

Helen Donnelly

"Helen is force of nature, always driving the team to achieve perfection and provide the best service for our customers"

There is very little that Helen doesn't know about electronics manufacturing. Coming through the 'School of hard knocks', Helen has had various roles within production and sales in her 30 year career, running her own her PCB manufacturing plant through to Sales and Managing Director of C-Tech Electronics.

Helen has continued to develop long term relationships with customers and is using her wealth of experience training the next wave of FermionX personnel.

Stuart Ray

Head of Research and Design

"Stuart thrives on challenging innovation, his commercial acumen ensure products are developed to add value. He's also a wealth of random information and the perfect pub quiz team member"

Stuart has been with FermionX for 20 Years, and is responsible for research and development. His knowledge and commitment to product innovation and development has delivered new and exciting products and opportunities for our brands as well as our customers.

Outside of the office, Stuart enjoys sailing and hiking in the South Downs.

Stuart is the person we call upon when we need laboratory experience or legal expertise.

Brett Tolhurst

Operations Director

"Brett is a perfectionist, with a do or die attitude who holds us all to the highest standard throughout our operations"

In his first decade with the company, he carried out every job role in manufacturing and administration. Always forward-thinking, he worked tirelessly with Surestead to introduce the eMacs product and stock control system, which has transformed our ability to leverage our supply chain risk and buy better.

In his second decade Brett with his Managers, Kenny and Neil selected and commissioned all equipment and staff training resulting in FermionX now being among the best equipped and staffed CEM in Sussex.