Chairman and Chief
Executive:
Sean Westrope. He is a Chartered Engineer with
international corporate and commercial experience in delivering complex asset
based capital investments. He has a strong background in commercial engineering, and has recently
been responsible for establishing the key commercial relationships for
Crossrail and for restructuring Westinghouse Nuclear for the DTI.
Commercial Director:
Peter Dixon. Peter is a Chartered Engineer and holds
an
Oxford degree in Engineering and Economics,
and an MBA from
London
Business
School. He has a background in
business strategy and development, and was previously Director of Strategy for
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the global professional services firm.
Technical Directors:
Professor Guy Houlsby. Guy is a graduate from
Cambridge
University
and has been Head of the Department of Engineering Science since July
2009. He has been Professor of Civil
Engineering for the last 18 years. Guy
has over 25 years experience of the energy industry specialising in offshore
civil and geotechnical engineering principally in the design of offshore
foundations with most of his recent work devoted to the renewable
industry. He has very extensive
experience of managing research programmes funded both by research councils and
industry.
Dr Malcolm McCulloch. Malcolm is a graduate from the
University
of
Witwatersrand and is the Head of
the Electrical Power Group in the Engineering Department at
Oxford His current research is focused on sustainable energy technologies and
Malcolm’s main contribution to THAWT will be in novel generator systems. He is
currently leading two successful ‘spin-outs’ on innovative electric machine
technology and on smart feedback metering.
Professor Martin Oldfield. Martin is a First Class Engineering and
Applied Maths graduate from
Sydney
University and is a
Senior Research Fellow in Engineering Science. He has 35 years experience in turbomachinery, aerodynamics and heat
transfer and has managed major research projects for Rolls Royce, QinetiQ and
the EU.
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