About Hasgrove

Rod Hyde

In 2005, Rod joined with Godfrey Taylor and two other founders to provide the seed capital for Hasgrove plc, he was appointed Chief Executive in 2006. Hasgrove is now an AIM listed corporate communications, digital and design business with about four hundred employees in thirteen offices around Europe. Rod became the Chief Executive of Hasgrove in 2006 and has steered the company through a period of rapid growth including acquisition, integration, listing in November 2006 and subsequent further fund-raising.

Rod started his working life as a chemical engineer designing and managing chemical production plants for ICI plc. During his nine years as an engineer, he designed a plastics plant in Taiwan, was a plant manager at ICI's UK paraquat plant and gained his professional engineering qualifications.

In 1981, he left the chemical industry to teach physics, mathematics and economics. His teaching career was cut short by the advent of the microcomputer. For sixteen years, Rod built Rowan Software, a software development company, which was initially focussed on educational software and then specialised on flight simulation. As well as producing some of the well known flight simulation games of the 80's and 90's, the company also produced training and evaluation software for the RAF and research organisations.

Rowan was sold in 2000 and Rod was then invited into a couple of dotcom companies for technical and managerial roles. This era sparked an interest in fund-raising and venture capital markets. As a result Rod spent a two years in corporate finance consulting with companies getting ready for external capital investment.

Rod is also an active member of the community, specialising in assisting young people. He was Deputy Chairman of the North and Mid Cheshire Training and Enterprise Council and founding Chairman of a regional digital cluster initiative.

Rod lives in Cheshire with his wife Mary. Their two sons are now grown up and have left home.

Rod's current Directorships/Partnerships are with:

  • Amaze Plc
  • The Chase Creative Consultants Limited
  • Hasgrove Holdings Limited
  • Landmarks SA/NV
  • Amaze Communications Services (Holdings) Limited
  • Amaze (Holdings) Limited
  • Underwired Amaze Limited