Executive management committee
Daniel Dayan
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel joined Fiberweb in June 2005 as its Chief Executive Officer and was appointed to the Board on 21 July 2006. During 2009 he was appointed a non-executive director of Stobart Group Limited and as a Trustee of the human rights charity Freedom from Torture. Between 1994 and 2005, he was employed by Novar plc in a variety of general management and functional positions, including Head of Corporate Development and Chief Executive Officer of Novar’s largest division, Intelligent Building Systems. He was a director of Novar plc from January 2004, until its acquisition by Honeywell in March 2005. Earlier in his career, he worked in manufacturing management with ICI plc and as a management consultant for Arthur D. Little. He is a chartered mechanical engineer.
Daniel Abrams
Chief Financial Officer
Daniel joined Fiberweb in February 2008 as Director and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Fiberweb he was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Cambridge Display Technology Inc until July 2006 and was Finance Director of Xenova Group plc between 1997 and 2005. He has also held senior finance roles with Diageo plc and PepsiCo Inc. He holds an MA in law from Cambridge and qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. He has been a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel since January 2007.
Alice Heezen
Head of HR and Change
Alice joined Fiberweb in January 2010 and is currently Head of Human Resources and Change. Prior to joining Fiberweb, she held various HR and business management roles with international companies such as BG Group, Rexam plc, Hay Group, Energis N.V. and Andersen Consulting and has worked in the USA, Asia, France, Benelux, Italy and the UK. Mrs Heezen-Dokianos has a masters degree in Social and Organisational Psychology.
Carsten Heldmann
Managing Director, Fiberweb Technical Fabrics
Carsten joined the Fiberweb Group in June 2005 as Head of Research and Development and since April 2009, is Fiberweb’s Chief Technical Officer. He has recently been appointed as Managing Director, Fiberweb Technical Fabrics. Mr Heldmann has a degree and doctorate in Polymer Chemistry and has studied at Kiel University, at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research/Mainz and Cambridge University. He has 10 years of post-doctoral experience in technical development and strategic marketing roles at Hoechst AG, Clariant AG and Celanese AG.
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John Warner
Managing Director, Fiberweb Geosynthetics
John joined Fiberweb in January 2011 as President of Fiberweb Geosynthetics. Mr Warner has almost 20 years experience in the plastics industry having worked in business development and strategic planning. In 2000, as Chief Executive, he led the management buyout team at Boddingtons Limited, a position he held until it was acquired by Fiberweb plc in January 2011. Earlier in his career he served in HM Army. He is a Chartered Director.