I am the Managing Director of family business, JCS Nuclear Solutions, who specialise in nuclear sensing and shielding solutions. I took over the leadership of the business in 2010 and have since overseen stable growth from £1m turnover to just under £2m.With roots firmly established in the SME landscape, I am a strong champion of entrepreneurship and positive collaboration. I am a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme; have recently headed a successful £1m government grant application in collaboration with the University of Liverpool to develop world-class nuclear reactor safeguards and operations technology; I am a member of a pan-European academic/commercial collaborative project - FINCODA- set-up to establish a global standard tool to define and identify innovative competencies in people for the benefit of post graduates and employers; am a participant in the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's SME mentor programme; was nominated as one of the North West Insider Magazine's 42 Under 42 (faces of the future) in 2012; was the best in class for Technology in the Made in Bury Business Awards 2013 and am now a judge for the 2015 awards; a member of the IoD99 (Institute of Directors 99 select entrepreneurs) and since 2014, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers in London.