Experienced technical & commercial manager having held a variety of international engineering design, sales & marketing and senior management roles up to VP level. I am happiest at the intersection of complex engineering technology and customer needs, solving problems and building trusted relationships with end-users and growing and managing the teams to do so.Co-founder and Managing Director of green maritime technology company WingTek Ltd., developing wind auxiliary propulsion systems for commercial vessels to reduce fuel use, fuel costs and harmful emissions of both pollutants and greenhouse gases. Free, globally available and emissions-free, wind assistance has a huge and exciting role to play in the decarbonisation of maritime transport.Previously Technical lead and engineering delivery manager for a cloud/IoT based smart evacuation system at Apollo Fire Detectors.Technical/commercial manager at smart building/IoT start-up enModus Ltd, managing major smart lighting & asset monitoring projects from site survey & proposal through to installation, commissioning & handover. With our partners Volvo and CRT we won best UK industrial smart lighting project at LuxLive 2018. Previous VP-level positions held in silicon Design Engineering, Operations & Customer Engineering and leading semiconductor design teams in the UK and US. Engineering design experience in power-electronic systems, real-time hardware and software design, DSP, system-on-chip specification and system-on-chip silicon architecture development. Joint holder of 15 patents in broadband communications. Customer-oriented roles have included international programme management (STMicroelectronics project delivery award winner), field applications & technical support and international business development.Also... boats! Love sailing, mostly cruising with my family, and writing and performing music, especially with lots of low notes in it.