QLM Technology Announces New CEO as Paul Hughes Succeeds Murray Reed

QLM Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Hughes as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Murray Reed, who has announced his retirement after more than six years of transformative leadership at the company.Lidar measurement of methane with complex expensive lasers was pioneered by scientists 50 years ago and is still commonly applied from airplanes and large installations. But complex and expensive means these systems only monitor sites and facilities for methane emissions very occasionally, sometimes only for a few seconds every few months. The science has shown that that means most leaks get missed. Finding and stopping the majority of methane emissions will require low-cost simple systems that can be deployed continuously and without expensive operators and data interpreters. That is what QLM have developed our patented single diode laser lidar to do, find every leak every day everywhere. Paul, who has served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at QLM for the past two and a half years, will assume the CEO role effective immediately. He will work closely with Murray to ensure a seamless leadership transition.QLM Chairman Bernie Bulkin said Murray, who joined QLM in 2018, had transformed QLM from a research idea into a deep tech quantum innovation company poised to scale globally. Dr Bulkin said that “Murray has helped create at QLM a company with a bold ambition for greenhouse gas continuous monitoring. It has the industry leading technology, integrated team, and global partnerships to deliver that ambition across multiple sectors, including upstream and downstream gas, refining, wastewater, landfills and farming”.Paul joined QLM in 2023 as CFO and has been a Board Director since March 2025. Since joining QLM Paul has been integral to transforming QLM’s go-to-market strategy from product sales to recurring service delivery and is well placed to lead the company through its next scale-up phase. He has extensive executive leadership experience in energy and digital services companies in the UK having worked for organisations including Puma Energy, Vistra and RM.  He holds a degree in economics and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Chartered Corporate Treasurer.In addition to incoming CEO Paul Hughes, the QLM leadership team includes founder Dr Xiao Ai and Chief Manufacturing Officer Chris Wardle.About QLM TechnologyQLM Technology develops cutting-edge quantum laser imaging solutions for greenhouse gas detection and monitoring. The company’s mission is to provide accurate, scalable, and cost-effective tools to help industries measure, manage, and mitigate methane emissions—enabling a cleaner, more sustainable future.

October 21, 2025