Associate Members

I started my career with an electrical, electronic and management degree from the University of Manchester. Early career jobs in the Ferranti Calibration labs, followed by 3 years in the nuclear industry started a path in instrumentation and control. By the early 90’s, I’d joined Predictive Control, designing and commissioning Model Predictive Control systems in many “exotic” locations worldwide, enjoying a wide variety of control engineering problems in Food, Pulp & Paper, Oil and Gas and Power sectors. Post acquisition by Invensys I managed the 40 strong APC Engineering team covering EMEA and APAC.

In 2002, I co-founded Perceptive Engineering with a team from industry and academia to further the capabilities of “Integrated Monitoring and Control systems”. The ethos behind Perceptive fostered strong collaborations between academic centres of excellence and industrial partners, which naturally gelled with CPACT and other non profit communities of practice, striving to bring new ideas, and create innovative practical solutions to the commercial market. For 15 years Perceptive steadily built its reputation in the Pharmaceutical, FMCG and Environmental sectors, working with over 30 multinational companies, helping develop innovative solutions, by “designing in" process analytics, control and machine learning methods around novel process equipment.

In 2020 Perceptive was acquired by Applied Materials multinational semiconductor business and integrated into the Smart Factory Rx Pharmaceutical platform. During the past 3 years, as Chief Strategy Officer within the SF Rx group I have sought to identify cross fertilisation synergies across the Applied business units and assisted the Applied Ventures with due diligence activities. In parallel with this I have provided consultative support to a variety of early stage companies within the UK, accelerating market growth, providing technical advice, business governance and assisting with VC investment.

Throughout my career I have remained passionate about engineering, encouraging others to build on the shoulders of the knowledge base which has been hard earned and, more than ever, is shared amongst a team rather than one individual. As an Associate Member of CPACT I aim to contribute to the community of experts, nuture ideas from the rich knowledge base, interface with academic and industrial practitioners and hopefully bring a mixture of new generation companies into the CPACT community, supporting the next generation of engineers push the boundaries just a little bit further. With a regular presence in SE Asia I’d hope to assist reaching out to provide the CPACT members with an SE Asian hub.