The Team

Operators with scale-up history.

Axiom is led by founders with decades of experience building industrial businesses, taking companies public, and operating across UK, Australian and Asian markets.

Leadership

Founders and operators.

Gareth Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Gareth Jones

Operational executive with deep experience scaling industrial and project-finance businesses. Leads Axiom's commercial execution across the active project pipeline and counterparty engagement.

Ross James
Founder & Managing Director
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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Tom Selwood
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.

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Craig Fraser
Corporate Finance
Craig Fraser

30 years in institutional equity markets: Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Head of Special Situations at Lehman Brothers. Subsequently at Panmure Liberum. Founding partner, Baden Hill LLP — operator of the annual clean technology and ESG conference at Balliol College, Oxford. Deep experience across cleantech capital markets and institutional investor relationships. Shareholder; not a director of the Company.

John Wilson
Finance Director
John Wilson

Internal corporate finance team member supporting the group on capital structure, transaction documentation, and sponsor engagement. Shareholder.

Rishab Kumar Ojha
Head of India — Government & Commercial Affairs
Rishab Kumar Ojha

Axiom's senior point of contact across India — leading engagement with central and state governments, strategic corporate partners, and commercial counterparties. Manages ministerial-level liaison, partner negotiations, and on-the-ground execution across all five active project states. Not a director of the Company.

Critical Hire

Funded by seed capital.

A senior technical role is being recruited from the seed proceeds, unlocking the technical credibility narrative for institutional investors and the project finance lender community.

CTO
Chief Technology Officer
To be hired — seed round

Specialist in renewable fuels, hydrotreating and the leading upgrading and HTL technology stack. Owns the technical credibility narrative for institutional investors and the project finance lender community. Background in commercial-scale refinery operations preferred.

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We are hiring a critical role.

If you have relevant experience in catalytic upgrading, hydrotreating or commercial-scale refinery operations — we want to hear from you.

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