At Oxford Instruments NanoScience, Stuart Woods leads an incredibly talented team creating high-performance cryogenic and cryogen-free environments for ultra-low temperature and high magnetic field applications in physics, chemistry, and materials science research down to the quanta scale. Building on a 60-year heritage, Oxford Instruments NanoScience is at the forefront of the development and commercialisation of quantum computing around the world.

As an Oxford Instruments executive board member, Stuart leads the company’s environmental committee, focused on minimising the environmental footprint of Oxford Instruments’ operations, products, and services, alongside having a personal passion for sustainability and mindfulness about the impact we have on our planet.

Stuart has a track record for delivering substantive business impact to companies across the global tech sector by focusing on products both strategically and tactically. His approach takes the whole company into consideration, finding a company’s strength to then develop sales, manage to financials, and grow capable teams – around these strengths.

Throughout his career, Stuart has led a diverse mix of technology businesses – including high volume, high growth in-vitro medical devices; dense telecom multiplexing; optical cables; lasers for mobile phone display manufacturing; medical-grade fluorescent lighting; high-end consumer audio; and mobile mapping systems for reality capture and digital twin creation.