Simon is CEO of Paragraf, the company he founded in 2018. With a diverse background in physics, engineering and materials science, he spent nearly 20 years in the fields of compound semiconductor materials, devices, and applications. Working in multiple scientific and technology disciplines led to the innovation of a novel manufacturing technique for graphene fabrication and subsequently Paragraf.

Today Paragraf is the only company in the world capable of producing graphene-based electronics at scale, the company’s products are transforming the worlds of magnetic sensing and biosensing in application spaces ranging across electrification of vehicles, quantum computing, medical diagnostics and renewable energy to name a few. In the next 5 years the company will make graphene a standard material in the semiconductor world, enabling industries to reap the high performance, low power consumption benefits of this extraordinary material.

Simon is passionate about developing technologies that can solve today’s enduring challenges and beneficially affect global society. He believes that new materials hold the key to transformational products that will deliver a brighter more sustainable future.