Our Team

Our Executive Team

Karthik Velayutham

Founder/CTO

BEng, MSc Sustainable Engineering: Offshore Renewable Energy

An accomplished renewable engineer, sustainable engineering researcher, scientist, and marine engineering expert. Karthik has experience working in construction and marine engineering sectors with a proven record of solving complex problems. He developed our innovative patented UDSM/TVB technologies based off ten years of research, which established the foundation of our core technologies.

Vijay Madlani

CEO

BA (Hons) – Business

A senior executive with 15 years of experience across the global end-to-end supply chain in multiple sectors covering both FTSE-100 and privately owned environments. His experience covers mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and business turnaround.

Since joining Katrick Technologies, Vijay has been instrumental in the progression of the company through establishing crucial partnership agreements, and fund raising. Prior to his time at Katrick, Vijay was the international group director of Uniserve Group and worked with Sainsbury’s for 10+ years in their logistics and supply chain management.

John Strong

Non-Executive Director

BA Political Science

A seasoned executive with 30 years' experience mentoring startups as an advisor, co-founder, and investor with international public company experience. John has a passion for investment with emphasis on climate with a deep understanding of climate change, energy issues, and offset credit markets.

At Katrick, John is helping to support the company for US set up, US market entry, and investment.

Colin Hutchison

Non-Exectuive Director

MA

Colin is a Business Advisor and Angel investor with interest in innovative new businesses with potential for high growth. Previously he served as Chief Operating Officer of Edgewell Personal Care, a multibillion-dollar Global Consumer Goods business, based in Connecticut USA. This role encompassed responsibility for Manufacturing, Supply Chain, R&D, Sales & Marketing across International markets.

At Katrick, Colin is supporting the board and management with support across business strategy and international market expansion.

Our Senior Operations Team

Neil Midgley

Commercial Director

HND Mechanical Engineering, MBA

A senior executive with 18 years' experience working for a global NYSE 100 organisation specializing in business leadership and global OEM business development in multiple sectors. Neil has a wealth of experience in operations, engineering and OEM dealer development.

At Katrick, Neil helps to bring our innovative technologies to market working with both our engineers and executive team.

Rakesh Rathinavelu

Senior Project Manager

Chemical & Bio Engineering, MBA

An seasoned project manager with 14 years of experience managing programs and project delivery in the renewable energy sectors and automotive industry, notably at Jaguar Land Rover and Ford. He has overseen intricate new product development projects from inception to market launch.

At Katrick, Rakesh is responsible for planning and delivering our technology development programs alongside our business plan and strategy.

Alexandra Basso

Partnership Engagement & Marketing Manager

BA (Hons), MLitt

Withover 4 years experience, Alexandra is an effective multi-channel communicator with a strong science background. Her key focus areas across technical marketing include product launch, branding, strategy, inbound client acquisition, and content creation.

At Katrick, Alexandra helps to develop key investor and partnership relations while bringing our technology to life to drive value into the company.

Lorraine Paterson

Financial Controller & Office Manager

An experienced Financial Controller with 27 years’ under her belt. Lorraine began her career with contstruction retail merchants before moving to an R&D start up. Her skills cover management accounts, procurement, supply chain, all aspects of finance.

A ever-growing role at Katrick Lorraine is responsible for Finance, office Management, and HR Management.

Our Engineering Team

  • Katrina Calautit

    CFD Engineer

  • Matthew Hughes

    Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Alexander Elliott

    Mechanical Engineer