Arnab Basu MBE DL
Business Leader | Innovation Champion | Non-Executive Director
Arnab Basu is a business leader, scientist, and non-executive director, best known as the founding CEO of Kromek Group plc, a UK-based, AIM-listed technology company with global operations in radiation and biological pathogen detection. Over a career spanning more than 20 years, Arnab has earned a formidable reputation for leading innovation-driven enterprises from concept to global scale, while influencing economic and innovation policy at national and regional levels.
Since founding Kromek in 2003 as a university spin-out, Arnab has transformed it into a global enterprise with over 150 employees across the UK and US. Under his leadership, the company has developed a world-class portfolio of patented technologies, serving customers in more than 50 countries. He led the company’s IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2013, raising over £100 million to date for growth, R&D, and strategic expansion.
Arnab has successfully executed key acquisitions—including NOVA R&D Inc. (California) and eV Products (Pennsylvania)—and secured many major strategic licensing and partnership deals.
He has built enduring relationships with Tier 1 global medical and security OEMs and secured many high-value, multi-year contracts with the US Department of Defense (DARPA, DTRA), UK Ministry of Defence, and UK Home Office, cementing Kromek’s role in national security, defence, and medical imaging.
A passionate advocate for industrial innovation, Arnab has held senior non-executive and advisory roles with organisations such as Innovate UK and Russell Group Universities, Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria , North East Local Enterprise Partnership and Business Durham. He currently chairs the County Durham Culture Trust and serves on the North East Investment Zone Advisory Board. In recognition of his contributions, Arnab was appointed MBE in 2014 and Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham in 2020. Arnab is a dedicated member of the local community, currently the chair of the Durham City Cricket Club, one of the largest community cricket clubs in the region and was appointed as a Patron for St Margaret’s, a mental health Charity in Durham.
A physicist by training with a PhD from Durham University, Arnab is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by Northumbria University in 2016. He is also a regular media commentator on international trade, innovation, and technology policy.
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