Kris Wadrop is the Managing Director of Materials at the UK’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Materials is a very broad market topic, from CPI’s perspective Materials means anything and everything from sustainable chemicals and formulations to battery components, engineering biology to produce biopesticides and biostimulants, new novel polymers for packaging and the alternative proteins and novel foods that could be packed in them. Kris has executive accountability for two of CPI’s operating sites, at Wilton, Redcar and the Coxon Building, NetPark, Sedgefield. Kris drives the development and execution of the company strategy in the Material market segments.
