Office: The Clocktower, Bestwood Village, Nottingham NG6 8TQ

Tel: 0115 979 7679

Mobile 07976 425 899

julian.ellis@ellisdevelopments.co.uk

Date of Birth: 3 October 1946 Age: 57

 CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

CHAIRMAN, Ellis Developments Ltd, since 1984. Research and Development company involved in both contract research and in-house product development in the field of textile material science for engineering and other applications, particularly composites and surgical implants. Winners of £37,500 in Department of Trade and Industry’s SMART competition, for weaving techniques in 1988 and again in 1999. Other projects include management of a £700,000 LINK collaborative research project developing fibre placement techniques for reinforced plastics, a £25,000 project to increase the life of artificial hip implants, and a £350,000 MedLink collaborative project, funded by the Department of Health, to improve textile vascular implants for minimally invasive surgery. Technology for CADCAM manufacture of surgical implants by embroidery methods now licensed, and Ellis Developments provides further research, development and technological support to the licensee. Involved in £2.4m NuTap project on Urological devices and the £700,000 NOTS project for the development of new approaches to aircraft wing component design with Airbus UK and others.

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT (SELF-EMPLOYED) in textile technology, since 1982. Providing specialist technical and technically related advice for manufacturing concerns in textiles. Department of Trade and Industry Quality Initiative listed consultant 1986-92, working with textile and garment manufacturers to initiate and develop their quality systems. Other assignments include provision of technical company assessments and advice for Eastern European textile manufacturing concerns. Investigating and reporting on textile matters in relation to litigation, and acting as an expert witness (with numerous court appearances and cases ranging from murder and rape to disputes over commercial contracts for fabric and garment manufacture.). Special interests include flammability of textiles, load-bearing textiles, stitching, embroidery, and patent matters.

Special Lecturer, School of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Nottingham, since 1992. Acting as an advisor to a number of departments of the University on matters relating to fibres and textile structures, particularly the Department of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery. Also advising and assisting on commercially related research. Contract manager for the LLIMP project, a £400,000 project to examine lower limb injuries in car accidents and advise on methods of prevention, and liaison officer with the parallel vehicle design project running within the vehicle industry.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1983-1984 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - W Ribbons Ltd, Tonypandy, Rhondda, South Wales. Reporting to the Group Managing Director, responsible for product development of high technology narrow fabrics for the aerospace and automotive industries.

1975-1982 QUALITY CONTROL AND FINISHED GOODS MANAGER - Jones Stroud Textiles, Long Eaton, Nottingham. Reporting to the Works Director. Recruited to implement and develop systematic quality control for the division, which manufactured elastics and narrow fabrics. Gradually assumed responsibilities for the dyehouse, laboratory services, product development, inspection, packaging stock and stock control of the 1500 product lines, order assembly, despatch and technical customer service, particularly technical customer complaints.

1973-75 QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER - Clutsom-Penn (UK). Ltd. COURTAULDS GROUP Reported to the Works Manager of the company, making elastomeric and stretch raschel and circular knitted fabrics, and dealing with customer complaints.

1972-73 PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Clutsom-Penn (UK). Ltd. COURTAULDS GROUP

1971-72 RESEARCH ASSISTANT - Courtaulds Research Division, Coventry. Developing nylon and polyester yarns in pilot plant, particularly carpet yarns and speciality hosiery yarns. Plant commissioning.

1969-1971 VICE-PRINCIPAL, Light College, Katikamu, Uganda, while on leave-of-absence from Courtaulds for Voluntary Service Overseas. Responsible for the day-to-day running of the school, a remote secondary boarding school with 400 pupils and 15 African staff, as well as teaching physics and biology.

1967-1969 RESEARCH ASSISTANT - Courtaulds Research Division, as above.

HONOURS

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) 2004 "For services to the technical textiles Industry and for services to the welfare of prisoners".

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

M.Phil. by thesis: Some Characteristics of Woven Narrow Elastic Fabrics, Nottingham Trent University, 1984

Fellow of the Textile Institute, (C.Text, FTI) 1985, following the demonstration of a body of work indicating a "major creative contribution to advancement in the field of textile technology" Previously an Associate Member by examination and exemption (Leicester De Montfort University) 1974. The Textile Institute is a body incorporated by Royal Charter, and its Fellowship is internationally recognised as the highest professional qualification in textile technology.

Licentiate of the Royal Society of Chemistry (M.R.S.C.) in Chemical Techniques (Warley College, Birmingham) specialising in analysis, 1973. The Royal Society of Chemistry is a body incorporated by Royal Charter. The award followed a course of study followed by examination and the submission of a dissertation on the flammability of acrylic textiles.

Higher National Certificate in Chemistry (Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry) 1970

Member, British Academy of Experts, 1991

Listed and Checked as an expert witness by The Law Society

MINISTERIAL and other APPOINTMENTS

CHAIRMAN of the Board of VISITORS (now Independent Monitoring Board), HM Prison, Nottingham Jan 1998- Dec 2000. Part of the official watchdog body for prisons in England and Wales, reporting directly to the Home Secretary. Vice Chairman 1997, 2001. Member since 1986.

Member of the Local Review Committee of the Parole Board from 1987 to 1994.

National Tutor, Independent Monitoring Boards 1999 - present

Member, Health Devices Technology Programme Management Committee, Department of Health

Assessor for research project proposals, Department of Trade and Industry Technology Programme.

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Chairman, East Midlands Technical Textiles Forum since its inception in 2000 until 2004. Promoting the research, development and commercial exploitation of technical textiles in the region.

PRESIDENT, Nottingham Textile Society 1996-98

Chairman, Association of Members of Boards of Visitors 1991 -1994. Specially appointed to raise the profile of the work of Members of Boards of Visitors, and to provide a focus for media requirements for an independent informed viewpoint on penal matters, as well as providing a central contact point for members of the Association. Raised finance for, organised and chaired three national training conferences. Developed considerable experience of radio, television and newspaper exposure. Executive Committee 1989 - 1997

Director, Technical Textiles Executive 2004 -  . A not-for-profit company promoting manufacturing in the technical textiles industry

Regional Board Member, Open Industry - East Midlands 2001 - present

Member, European Thematic Network on Medical Materials, MatMed 1998 - 2001

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Chairman of the Narrow Fabrics Group Committee, Textile Institute 1985-88, Committee Member 1976-1992

Chairman, Nottingham University Composites Club 1992-1994, a technical group involved in the development of collaborative research in the field of fibre reinforced materials.

Member, British Standards Institution Committee TCM7, (Narrow Fabrics) 1986-89, representing the Textile Institute

Many radio and television broadcasts and published articles on both textiles and penal affairs, in UK and abroad.

Formerly Vice-Chairman, Nottinghamshire Group, Voluntary Service Overseas. Committee member 1975 - 1995

Part-Time Tutor in Computing, Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham 1982 -1990

Some spoken French and German

Churchwarden of local Parish Church.

Trustee, All Hallows Gedling Church Trust and Gedling Parochial Charities.

Public speaking.

Adjudication Procedures, Home Office, 1988, 1990

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Nottingham University 1991

Single Joint Expert Training, Bond Solon Legal Training, 1999

Preforms for Composite Materials (also session speaker) Polytechnic South West 1989

Bones, Joints & Implants, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London 1990

Advanced Counselling Skills, Nottingham University 1990

Export Office Procedures 1982

Financial Management 1980-81

Team Performance Review Methods 1998

Presentation Techniques, PSTB, 1999

Recruitment and Selection, Industrial Society, 2000

Parole Procedures, Home Office, 1989

Regular courses and training in relation to the work of Boards of Visitors

Regular courses and training on computers, information technology and medical matters.

US Patent 4665951 Prosthetic Ligament

European Patent 0153831 Prosthetic Ligament and Instruments for the Surgical Replacement of Ligaments

UK Patent 2183682 Elastomer-free Stretch fabric

UK Patent 2203342 Radio-Opaque Tracer for Surgical Implants

US Patent 5990378 Textile Surgical Implants

UK Patent Application 8818614.3 Prosthetic Ligament

UK Patent Application 8907420.7A Prosthetic Ligament (Medial Collateral Ligament)

UK Patent Application 8909482.5 Tissue Repair System

UK Patent Application 9000774.1 Bone Replacement System

UK Patent Application 9110354.9 Soft Tissue Repair Tape

UK Patent Application 9115821.2 Reinforcement for Holes in Composite Materials

UK Patent 9218539.6 Device for the relief of strictures of the oesophagus

UK Patent 2270264 Palliative Stent and insertion device

UK Patent Application 9510637.3 Device for the repair of the rotator cuff of the shoulder

European Patent Application 96303741.1 Textile Surgical Implants

European Patent Application Device for the Reinforcement of the Rotator Cuff of the Shoulder

UK Patent 2322505B Components for Loudspeakers

PCT International Patent Application WO99/37242 Reinforced Graft

UK Patent Application 9816066.6 Method for manufacture of textile reinforced composite material

C D Rudd, N A Warrior and J Ellis Embroidered Reinforcements for Structural Composites Materials Technology Vol 12 No1 Jan/Feb 1997

J G Ellis Configuration of yarns within a woven narrow elastic fabric Band- und Flechtindustrie 2/1989 pp64-74.

Ellis JG The Effect of Dyeing and Finishing on Narrow Elastic Fabrics Band-und Flecht Industrie , Melliand 2/1981 p 50-54

McLeod ARM, Neumann, L, Ellis JG, Butcher P. The Nottingham Rotator Cuff Augmentation Device Comrades in Arms - Engineers and Surgeons, I MechE April 2001

Ellis JG Technical Textiles in the East Midlands, Technical Textiles 2001, Galasheils, February 2001

Ellis JG Embroidery - a new approach to Implant Manufacture Medilink East Midlands Launch January 2001

Ellis JG Engineering and Surgical Textiles by Embroidery, Textile Institute 80^th World Conference, Manchester, April 2000

Ellis JG Surgical Implants using Embroidery Techniques UK Liaison Committee for Sciences Allied to Medicine and Biology, Medical and Biological new Technology, Fourth International Conference, Brunel, 1999

Ellis JG A Fire Hazard of Polyester Cotton fabric Covers of Moses Baskets. Textile Flammability: Current and Future Issues, The Textile Institute, Salford 30 March 1999

Ellis JG and Hopkinson BR The Endoscopic repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms using embroidered textiles. Link Medical Implants Seminar, Meriden, 1998

Ellis JG, Wallace WA, Neumann L, Textiles for the Repair of The Rotator Cuff of the Shoulder Medical Textiles ‘96, Bolton UK

Ellis JG Narrow Fabrics and Orthopaedic Surgery Narrow Fabrics Group Conference June 1995, The Textile Institute

Ellis JG and Warrior NA Design and Manufacture of Stressed Components using Embroidery LINK Structural Composites Open Day, University of Nottingham, July 1996

Warrior NA and Ellis JG Manufacture of Structural Components using Embroidery Techniques LINK Structural Composites Awareness Workshop, DRA Farnborough, 23 Oct. 1996

Ellis JG Knots for Surgeons Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham 17 July 1995

JG Ellis What can Recent Textile Technology contribute to the Composites Engineer? invited lecture, Verbundwerk ‘92, Wiesbaden, Germany, October 1993.

Ellis JG Development of textiles for the production of ligament prostheses Textiles in Medicine and Surgery (TIMS) UMIST, Manchester, 10 November 1992

JG Ellis Fibres, Yarns and Textile Structures for Surgical Implants, keynote lecture, Conference on Textiles in Medicine and Surgery, UMIST, 1991

JG Ellis A Perspective on Textile Artificial Ligaments Textile Institute World Conference 1989

JG Ellis Textiles for Surgical Implants, keynote lecture, Conference on Textiles in Medicine and Surgery, UMIST, 1989

JG Ellis The Physics of the Brassiere Strap, Institute of Physics, Dec 1986

JG Ellis Textile Dyeing and Drying. Invited lecture, Narrow Fabric Textile Conference, Clemson University, USA, December 1984

New web weaved for composite materials Innovators Notebook, Eureka Engineering Materials and Design, Jan 1997 p 48

The Manufacture of Structural Composites using the Techniques of Embroidery. LINK Project report on behalf of the collaborators, June 1997.

JG Ellis Science of The Brassiere, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - September 87

JG Ellis Knitting for the Surgeon Knitting International August 1986

JG Ellis I’m Not Buying anything from there ever again (Textile quality control) Knitting International October 1986

JG Ellis Anything but this must make more money (The industrial textiles market) Knitting International November 1987

JG Ellis A Bonus for the Knitwear Industry Knitting International April 1988

JG Ellis Smaller and better than anyone (narrow fabrics) Textile Horizons April 1986

JG Ellis A new stretch fabric Textile Month 1988

Novel Textile Structure for repairing human tissue or torn upholstery Medical Textiles 1991

The range of work includes:

Cotton blending

Yarn selection

Yarn faults

Yarn lustre variations

Elastomeric yarns

Weft knitting faults

Warp knitting faults

Label manufacture

Dyeing faults

Stone washing

Fabric finishing problems

Fabric faults

Garment sizing

Seaming faults

Carpet faults

Fabric storage

Lace trim

Garment alterations

Dermatological problems

Repetitive strain injury in textile working

Children’s dresses

Carpet damage

Embroidery

Fabric soiling

Garment finishing

Swimsuit transparency

Flammability

Upholstery covers

Patient lifting slings

Patents

Trademark registration

Passing off

Personal injury (buckles)

Fire loss

Murder – fibre identification, clothing damage, strangulation by textiles

Suspicious death – clothing examination

Rape, stabbing, assault– damage to clothing

Counterfeiting

Armed robbery – identification of clothing

Other cases have involved the Social Services Court, and VAT tribunals as well as mediations and arbitrations.