Team

Operators with scale-up history.

ABGL is led by founders with decades of experience building industrial businesses across the UK, Australia, and Asia — supported by a senior corporate finance team and an experienced advisory board.

Board of Directors

The directors of Agri-Biofuels Global Plc.

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Founder & Chief Executive
Ross James

Industrialist and serial founder with prior public-market experience. Three decades building cross-border industrial businesses spanning IT manufacturing, software, and motorsport equipment, with operational presence in the UK, Australia, India, and Taiwan.

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Non-Executive Chairman
Tom Selwood

Former CFO of Aker Offshore Wind and Head of Treasury and Structured Finance at Aker Horizons, the Aker group's renewables platform. Former Chairman of the Board of Freja Offshore. Over a decade of senior financial leadership across the Nordic energy and renewables sector. Chartered Accountant, trained at EY.

Senior Executive

Operational lead for commercial execution and project delivery.

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Senior Executive
Gareth Jones

Senior executive with deep operational experience scaling industrial and project-finance businesses. Drives ABGL's commercial execution across the project pipeline and sponsor engagement. Shareholder; not a director of the Company.

Corporate Finance Team

Internal corporate finance specialists supporting ABGL's capital markets execution.

Both members of the corporate finance team are also shareholders in ABGL. They are senior team members but not directors of the Company.

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Corporate Finance
John Wilson

Internal corporate finance team member supporting ABGL on capital structure, transaction documentation, and sponsor engagement ahead of the planned LSE Main Market admission. Shareholder.

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Corporate Finance
Craig Fraser

Internal corporate finance team member with deep institutional capital markets relationships, supporting ABGL's sponsor selection and pre-IPO investor engagement programme. Shareholder.

Advisory Board

Senior strategic counsel for policy, regulatory and operational matters.

ABGL's Advisory Board provides senior strategic guidance on policy, regulatory, and operational matters across the company's markets.

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Chair · Advisory Board
RVS Mani — Padma Shri

Chair of ABGL's Advisory Board. Recipient of the Padma Shri — one of the highest civilian honours conferred by the Government of India — with extensive senior government and policy experience underpinning ABGL's state-level engagement.

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India Representative
Rishab Kumar Ojha

ABGL's India-based representative, supporting state-level engagement, project liaison, and on-ground execution across the active project pipeline.

Technology Partner

Licella Holdings.

Licella is the inventor and developer of the Cat-HTR™ hydrothermal liquefaction platform. ABGL operates Cat-HTR™ under licence from Licella, with the commercial relationship structured through a joint venture between the two companies.

Joint venture
Agri-Biofuels Licence Company Ltd
UK Companies House No. 16693418
Partners
Agri-Biofuels Global Plc and Licella Holdings.
Purpose
Commercial deployment of Cat-HTR™ technology.

Want to meet the team?

We host briefings for qualified investors, industrial counterparties, and strategic partners on request.