Our mission is to harness innovative surface chemistry to radically transform the way products and technologies work, enabling net-zero to become a fully accessible reality.

Our team brings together the scientific experience and innovation mindset to develop products and materials for the future

Vassilis Ragoussis

Jon-Paul Griffiths

Nikki Cooper

Carl Tydd

Oxford Advanced Surfaces is now a subsidiary of OXECO, the new brand for the patented ONTO™ technology platform. OXECO is a chemtech company focused on commercialising and extracting value out of the ONTO™ technology platform by developing and manufacturing products for upcoming breakthrough innovations.
OXECO is situated within Oxford University’s wholly-owned innovation hub, at Begbroke Science Park.

Vass is the CEO of OXECO, and serves on its Board of Directors. Vass studied at Boston University for his undergraduate and during his studies at Oxford University, he started a medical device company and won The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, as stroke. He was the President of the Oxford University Biotech Society and completed the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative Programme. Prior to OXECO, Vass was an early employee at Ochre Bio, a pioneering RNA medicines company. He interned at Oxford University Innovation and McGill University where he published papers on genomics, law and policy.

Jon-Paul is the founder of OXECO, and serves on its Board of Directors. As a Postdoc at Oxford University’s Department of Chemistry, he led the development of the ONTO™ technology platform and was instrumental in spinning the company out. Jon-Paul graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a PhD in organic electronic materials. Jon-Paul is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and won the Young Industrialist of the Year award in 2010.

Nikki is the Head of Legal and Company Secretary for OXECO. Nikki has over 15 years of corporate and financial experience as general counsel to an AIM-listed company and in a corporate finance team at an investment bank. Nikki is a qualified solicitor and chartered company secretary. Nikki was the Founder and Director of Inner Me and is a NED at Voyager.

Carl is the Head of Partnering of OXECO. Carl has over 20 years of sales experience in the composites, adhesives and specialist solvents industry. Most recently, he was a Business Development Manager at Scott Bader. Carl has also worked at Caldic UK as a Sales Manager distributing DOW, Shell, and Henkel products.

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Our science is built on over 20 years of R&D work, originating from the University of Oxford's Department of Chemistry. Now, our chemical surface treatments are reinventing how technologies and products work.