Jonathan Wood leads all commercial matters relating to Nova Pangaea, including the global business development and scale up of its unique carbon negative biofuel production technology. The technology uses agricultural and forestry residues to produce advanced cellulosic bioethanol for Sustainable Aviation Fuel and other market applications, as well as biochar and carbon dioxide removal credits. 

Jonathan Bean is the Co-Founder & CEO of MatNex, an AI-driven materials discovery company accelerating the design and deployment of next-generation materials for energy, infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing. They help partners shorten R&D cycles, reduce development risk and bring lower-impact materials to market faster. He’s raised £10M+ in Seed funding, secured commercial contracts with global industrial partners, and led deployments focused on real-world decarbonisation.

Caroline Longman is a Director of Equilibrion, a company leading the delivery of Eq.flight, the UK’s first nuclear-enabled SAF solution, funded by the Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund. Eq.flight converts nuclear-derived heat and electricity into fully compliant Power-to-Liquids SAF, offering long-term production certainty, lowest lifecycle emissions, and a scalable pathway to net-zero aviation. Caroline brings practical programme leadership across policy, engineering and commercial development as the project moves from pre-FEED toward FEED and demonstration.

Rachel Gardner-Poole OBE is a senior aviation leader with extensive experience across sustainability, innovation and transformation. She has held leadership roles at the UK Civil Aviation Authority, the UK Space Agency and Connected Places Catapult, and previously chaired the UK Jet Zero Council Zero Emission Flight Delivery Group. As Director of Aviascia, Rachel works with major organisations to shape strategy, chair stakeholder groups and lead collaborative programmes that deliver meaningful change. She is also a Board member of the British Aviation Group, Board Advisor to Astroscale and Chief Sustainability & Growth Officer at EmPower Flight. 

Rachel co-founded and is now the Chair of Aviation for Good, a charity focused on harnessing the power of aviation for humanitarian impact. As a Chartered Mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, she previously held a commercial pilot licence and was awarded an OBE in 2025 for services to aviation.

Ash Owen is Head of Future Technology at Rolls-Royce. This team is focused on accelerating disruptive technology into the RR business and owns the RR-University research network. His secondary role is as SVP Composites where he coordinates Rolls-Royce’s composites strategy. His previous roles include Chief Engineer – Civil Technology Programmes where his team delivered many technology demonstrators including the electric world speed record. Chief Engineer Trent 700, Engineering Executive Compressor Engineering and Managing Director for a composite R&D centre.

Jonathan Chestney has been Technical Director at Dowty, a GE Aerospace company since 2017, responsible for the team that invents, develops, certificates, and supports its range of civil and military products. Over recent years this has increasingly included input to the CFM RISE programme, where Dowty is providing its vast experience to support the safety, reliability, and performance of the Open Fan configuration.