Our leadership team

Ian Hunter is Chief Executive Officer of Green Lizard Group, the landholding and estate management company that wholly owns the industrial land in Teesside where the Green Lizard power-to-liquids hub will be built.

His foresight led him to purchase the 500 acre site on the northern banks of the River Tees some twenty years ago with the vision of creating a sustainable green fuels and chemical hub. He began a complex programme of continuous land development that means the site is now perfectly placed to provide tenants with net-zero energy sources in a future-proofed, world-class green energy hub.

Ian has extensive experience in waste management, land development, reclamation and remediation, as a director and leader in several successful and profitable companies.

Over the decades to come, Ian’s overall vision and plan for a fully integrated green fuel and chemical hub will help reindustrialise his native North East, while addressing some of the UK’s most pressing energy priorities such as the mass production of sustainable aviation fuel.

Prof. Martin Atkins FRSC, is CEO of Green Lizard Technologies, a spin-out company initiated at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is highly regarded in the oil, gas and chemical industries globally, working throughout the world in senior leadership positions, including almost three decades with BP to develop innovative clean-energy and sustainable technologies.

His multi-award-winning work has created a wealth of intellectual property and successful commercial investment opportunities for some of the world’s leading oil & petrochemical companies.

Several of Martin’s many patents are now in commercial production, and his research is widely published. He is connected with several academic institutes internationally, holding roles such as Emeritus Professor at The Queen’s University, Belfast; Honorary Professor in clean energy technologies at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China; and member of the International Advisory Board at Peking University, Beijing.

Paul Foster CBE is Chief Executive Officer of Community Nuclear Power, and a highly experienced nuclear and industrial leader.

As CEO at Sellafield he was responsible for a multi-billion pound budget and a team of c.14,000 people, driving unprecedented progress in one of the world’s most complex nuclear sites. More recently he was MD of Devonport Royal Dockyard, the UK’s sole licensed site for the refit and refuel/defuel of nuclear-powered submarines.

Paul’s global industry leadership includes several years on the Paris regional Governing Board of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO).

Paul was awarded a CBE in 2020 for services to business.