Mixon on course to bank new standard

By NASSIR SHIRKHANI London

 26 July 2012 22:59 GMT

CONNIE Mixon, chief executive of London-listed water treatment company MyCelx, left a high-profile investment banking job with Deutsche Bank in 2004 to devote herself to a radically different field.

Mixon appears to relish every moment of the challenge, despite uncertainties in nurturing a small outfit seeking a toehold in the cut-throat oil industry business.

She took the helm because MyCelx needed a business-savvy individual to make a success of an oil removal technique the company had pioneered.

“I worked 18 years as a banker. I had done everything that I wanted to do,” Mixon explains.



Fledgling company She was persuaded by her father and MyCelx co-founder, John Mansfield, to join and help find a niche for the fledgling company.

“They (MyCelx) were…

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