Versarien plc announced the appointment of Dr. Stephen Hodge, currently the Company's Chief Technology Officer, as the Company's Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Dr. Stephen Hodge joined Versarien in 2017 and was appointed Head of Research in July 2018, before being appointed to the Board as Chief Technology Officer in January 2021. Prior to this, he was employed as a Principal Engineer at Cambridge Graphene Limited, a supplier of graphene inks and other graphene materials, and a subsidiary of Versarien.

He has also held post-doctoral research associate positions at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, a research center attached to the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, where he also completed a PhD in Nanomaterial Chemistry. Stephen is a member of a number of advisory boards including holding the role of Chairman of the Technical Working Group within the Graphene REACH registration consortium. Last year Dr. Hodge was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Rising Star in Industry Award 'for strategic leadership in developing greener solutions and advocating for global regulations related to the physical and toxicological testing of graphene'.