Oxsensis Ltd, the UK pioneer of high temperature instrumentation for efficiency improvement in gas turbines in power generation and aero engines has named Martin Jay CBE as its new Chairman.
Martin Jay CBE served as the Chairman of Invensys PLC from July 2003 to July 2009 and was Chairman of EADS U.K. until October 2006. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of VT Group PLC (Formerly Vosper Thornycroft Holdings PLC) for thirteen years from 1989 to 2002 and then as Chairman until July, 2005. Mr. Jay served as Group Managing Director of GEC Electronic Components and held a range of leadership positions at GEC.
Oxsensis is working with the majority of worldwide producers of gas turbines for electricity generation and aero engines and is developing the Wave-Phire™ series of sensors and i-Phire™ systems to improve efficiency and lower emissions. The company was recently recognized as one of the leading European CleanTech companies in the GP Bullhound top 30 and was the 2009 winner of the Carbon Trust Innovation Award in the Industry sector. The extreme environment sensors also have applicability to energy intensive industries and to car engines. The sensors themselves must operate at temperatures up to 1000°C (while glowing yellow-hot) and have shown measurement capability, repeatability and survivability in major power station equipment, while the systems are capable of miniaturisation for an aircraft environment.
David Gahan, the CEO of Oxsensis declared, “We are delighted to welcome an industry leader of the calibre of Martin Jay to help guide us at this phase in our strategic development. Our position as a leader in new instrumentation capability for the power industry has led to an opportunity to take the technology into the Aerospace and Defense sectors. Martin’s strategic insight will be invaluable to guide us into this area.”
Martin Jay said, “I am very excited about the prospects of Oxsensis. There is a unique offering here in high temperature sensing capability which is attracting attention from the major worldwide energy players, and also a unique optical systems capability which could usher in a new era in avionics instrumentation and controls.”