Andrew is a Business Strategy, Business Development and sales professional with a current focus on business intelligence and business winning. He has a longstanding technical background and extensive experience in OEM, design services and technology start-up company environments. He is widely networked and has helped to drive thought leadership in the automotive and transport sectors in the areas of hybrid and electric, connected and autonomous vehicles, vehicle systems cyber resilience and vehicle systems infrastructure.Andrew is a founder of the Automotive Trade body AESIN and having taken a lead role in its early work-streams, now continues to support the growth and success of AESIN, as its industry chair. He has been instrumental in creating the environment where AESIN fosters collaborative working relationships for its members, across multiple industry sectors, government organisations, policy makers and standards bodies.He has proven successes throughout his thirty-five years in business development, consulting, global sales, OEM account management, contract negotiation, Field Applications, Design and Development Engineering.Prior to his Business Development and Business Winning roles in BAE Systems Electronic Systems Division, Andrew was Technical Business Manager - Ricardo, Business Development Manager, Automotive & Transport - Plextek Consulting and Sales Director - Cambridge based Nujira Ltd.Andrew has also worked at Blue Chip semiconductor manufacturers - ST Micro, IBM Technology Group and in a global role at Lucent Technologies.Specialties: Business Development. Business Strategy, Global Sales & Account Management.A strong technical backgroundand a determination to never give up....