J. Keith Lomas.
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BEDFORDSHIRE, U.K.—UltraVision CLPL, a leading international contact lens manufacturer, reported Tuesday that group chief executive officer J. Keith Lomas will step down in early 2017 and will turn over day-to-day management responsibilities to an executive management team led by John Clamp, a partner with Lomas in building the company.

Lomas will remain on the company’s board as a non-executive director and co-owner, according to an UltraVision statement.

Lomas and Clamp, working in what UltraVision described as an “equal partnership, together since 1996,” successfully turned what was a small specialist contact lens lab in Cambridge “into the UK’s leading and most profitable” contact lens company. UltraVision sells contact lenses in more than 70 countries, and also supplies software and designs to major contact lens manufacturers globally, the company said in its statement.

“I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved so far,” Lomas said. “Our successes include life-changing benefits for many thousands of people with lenses such as KeraSoft and having our lens designs and software running in virtually all of the major U.S. labs plus in Europe, South America, Asia, Australasia, [and] indeed all round the world.”

He added, “We’ve got a fantastic pipeline of new products and exciting patents to build further on both directly and with partners.”

Following a transition period, Clamp and UltraVision’s executive management team will take on the additional day-to-day responsibilities from early 2017. There are no other changes to the board of directors.