John is a director of ECOPIA Marine Ltd and MyOcean Resources Ltd and a partner in VECTis Environmental Consultants Team LLP. He is predominantly an observational physical oceanographer and has taken part in many research cruises (leading around a quarter of them). He has considerable experience in the application of fluid dynamic theory to the diagnosis of complex mesoscale flow in the upper ocean from directly observable variables such as temperature, salinity and current velocity. Most recently, he has spent a number of years investigating the biological consequences of the energetic mesoscale and sub-mesoscale fluid motion associated with unstable eddies and fronts. He was made a Fellow of the Challenger Society for Marine Science in 2004.John has a long track record of facilitating successful knowledge exchange between leading edge marine scientific research and the exploitation of this knowledge by both government bodies and industry. He has acted as a consultant to the Royal Navy and MOD, both directly and indirectly, and as a sub-contractor to the UK marine industry.John is a founding director of MyOcean Resources Ltd., a company setup to provide an employment trading marketplace for marine scientists and the marine industry, consultancies and research organisations. John has diversified the company portfolio to include novel technical and engineering ideas including YachtGOOS, bringing in the skills of other industries and SMEs where appropriate. John is one of three designated partners in VECTis Environmental Consultants Team LLP. VECTis provides a cost efficient, flexible, marine focussed environmental consultancy group with sufficient experience and critical mass to organise an optimal team of scientists, technicians, engineers and IT professionals for stakeholder, industry and/or policy-maker requirements.