Key Skills & Services: |
Working with people to achieve improved business profitability
and growth through more effective general, project and technical management.
Action learning and mentoring. Assessment and improvement of a company’s
new product development capability. Assessment of technical staff
and job candidates. Technology transfer to businesses from universities.
Technical audits and due diligence. Practical involvement as non-executive
director.
Trained and approved as an ibd Principal Mentor, supporting Advisers
and clients. |
Career Background: |
Currently running business consultancy company and non-executive
director of ETB Ltd (microsystems engineering).
Previously 17 years senior management at Smiths Group plc (formerly
Smiths Industries plc). Director, Technology & Innovation. Director,
Engineering Division - military/aerospace/telecoms components, microwave
products, electro-hydraulics, Vent-Axia ventilation systems. Managing
Director, Marine Systems Division (Kelvin Hughes Ltd). Developed
innovative radar and electronic navigation systems for naval vessels
and merchant ships.
9 years Technical Director, Rupert Neve & Co Ltd, leading UK
sound studio electronics manufacturer (broadcast & recording).
Developed world’s first digital audio studios
9 years University Lecturer at UMIST in physics, electronics, acoustics
& instrumentation. Created novel electronics teaching laboratory.
Adviser to ICI and British Gas. Licensed designs for manufacture. |
Industry sectors: |
Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and
Manufacturing, Acoustics and Vibration Engineering, Aerospace and
Defence, Marine Electronics, Professional Audio. |
Qualifications: |
B.Sc. (Tech), M.Sc., Ph.D. Chartered Physicist. Member, Institute
of Physics, Institute of Acoustics, Audio Engineering Society.
Languages: rusty French and a little German. |
Comments: |
My career so far has involved a variety of both small
and big businesses. In recent years particularly, I’ve spent
a lot of time with SMEs through the Innovation Society of the East
of England (http://www.isee.co.uk),
a business-to-business network set up to help members with the many
issues faced by a growing company. I enjoy working directly with
people to solve the practical challenges of making money from innovative
products. |
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