Seb has a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in experimental fluid mechanics from the University of Oxford. His undergraduate internship was at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio, USA, and focused on wind-tunnel analysis methods for optimizing heat transfer in jet and rocket engines. While post-graduate, he held a lectureship at Oxford.Seb has worked over the last 30 years in the software industry, initially in the application of Computational Fluid Mechanics in the Aerospace, Automotive, and Power Generation industries. Seb also developed and patented the concept for a new software product (EASA) designed to facilitate the deployment of engineering and scientific models within an enterprise. Since then, EASA's capabilities have grown to include the deployment and management of Excel-based pricing models, especially for the insurance, financial services, and manufacturing industries. EASA serves a diverse manufacturing customers such as Borg-Warner, Caterpillar, Eli Lilly, Hewlett-Packard, John Deere, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, and Schneider Electric. After the EASA product was updated to handle Excel spreadsheet models, new vertical markets opened up, including product pricing in the insurance market. AIG, Zurich, Marsh, Guardian and many other insurance companies have now licensed EASA.In 2022, Seb and the management team oversaw the sale of the EASA business to Volaris, itself a division of Constellation Software, Inc. CSI buys and permanently holds vertical software companies and has a market cap of approximately $60 billion. Seb currently serves as General Manager for the EASA business unit. Seb learned to fly with the Royal Air Force and remains an active pilot, with instrument, multi-engine, seaplane, and helicopter ratings. He is also an active SCUBA diver and mountain biker.Seb serves on the University of South Florida’s Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board, and in the past served on the board of USF’s Research Foundation, dedicated to commercializing technologies emerging from university research.
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