Our Leadership Team
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Mayuri Lakhani BA (hons) ACA
Mayuri began her professional career at KPMG, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. After qualification, Mayuri worked in financial, legal, and commercial management roles in the Education and Professional Service sectors. In 2011, Mayuri joined Hydrotec, a water treatment services company, in which she now has an ownership stake and operates as the Commercial Managing Director.
Mayuri’s focus on exceptional client service, coupled with acute strategic vision, has enabled her to grow Hydrotec from being one company focusing on UK product sales to a multinational group of companies which include dedicated maintenance and export arms. Mayuri has more than doubled revenue and employee headcount since joining Hydrotec, and despite facing challenging market conditions has continued the growth of the Group throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mayuri brings financial and commercial expertise to Copper Cover. She is also a Lay Member of the University of Kent, sits on the university's audit committee, and is a trustee of ACT Asia.
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Adrian Aylett BSc (hons) MWMSoc
Since graduating as a Chemical Engineer, Adrian has gained 35 years of experience in the water treatment sector, during which he has gained expert knowledge in bacterial control. Adrian became a regular contributor to the Combatting Legionella Conferences, during which he incorporated Copper Silver Ionisation, a method for the control of waterborne bacteria, into his arsenal. This method ultimately led to the recognition and use of copper as an antimicrobial agent for the continuous disinfection of solid surfaces.
Today, Adrian is the Technical Managing Director of the Hydrotec Group, and is seated on the BSRIA council (Building Services Research and Information Association). Adrian shares the BRSIA’s passion of ‘Making Buildings Better’, and strongly believes in the true value and benefits that Copper Cover can bring not only to our management of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic, but also to our emergence therefrom.
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Akshay Lakhani BSc (hons) ACA
Akshay graduated with a BSc in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He subsequently went on to have a successful career in finance at Deloitte LLP, London.
In October 2020, Akshay fell gravely ill with an infectious lung disease, the onset of which was near-fatal. In February 2021, this was diagnosed to be active tuberculosis, and Akshay was discharged in November 2021. Understanding, first-hand, the ramifications of the spread of infectious disease, Akshay left the world of corporate finance during the illness to enable him to focus on Copper Cover.
Akshay leads business development at Copper Cover, and endeavours to realise his vision of a world in which infectious disease is minimised. Akshay is also currently completing a part-time Masters in Health Policy at Imperial College London and working with a pharmaceutical company developing tuberculosis drugs in Switzerland.
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Amar Lakhani BEng (hons)
Whilst attaining his BEng in Computing from Imperial College London, Amar co-founded Faceident, a Berlin-based startup which develops software for the photography industry. At Faceident, Amar worked with and managed a multinational team of software developers and UX designers, leading software engineering and product design.
After graduating, and whilst continuing to drive the success of Faceident, Amar gained experience in finance at EY LLP, London. Amar continued to develop upon the skills he gained at Imperial and Faceident, and focused primarily on clients in the media and technology sectors.
Amar now leads marketing and IT at Copper Cover and is a strong advocate for the use of innovation to improve public health.
Behind The Technology
Professor Bill Keevil BSc PhD CBiol FRSB FRSPH FAAM
Professor of Environmental Healthcare, Principal Investigator (Microbiology & Environmental Health), Director of the Environmental Healthcare Unit, Chair of the University Genetic Modification & Bio-Safety Committee, Chair of the Advisory Committee on theMicrobiological Safety of Food
Professor Bill Keevil is Professor of Environmental Healthcare within School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. Professor Keevil is the researcher behind the study: ‘Rapid inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 on copper touch surfaces determined using a cell culture infectivity assay’. This research included evaluation of Copper Cover surfaces and found SARS-CoV-2 was inactivated in 1-10 minutes subject to viral load. Professor Keevil has also published research papers which demonstrate the benefits of copper in relation to the destruction of viruses and bacteria: norovirus, influenza virus, MRSA, E. coli etc.
*Note: Professor Keevil is not a Director or shareholder of the company and has no financial interest or responsibility in the running of the company.
Michael McGrath
Michael is the owner of Necon Technologies Ltd, an Irish company specializing in manufacture and sale of infection control equipment to hospitals and the healthcare sector. He is the founder and Chairman of the European Biocidal Copper Taskforce and represents the industry at Commission level.
Michael developed the Copper Cover technology, which he distributes in Ireland. We, Copper Cover Limited, distribute the technology developed by our Irish Partners across the UK and the Middle East.