The ETB Annual General Meeting (AGM) agreed changes to its Articles of Association, increasing the participation of key engineering organisations in the future direction of the company. For more information on the changes, click here.

 

Sir Anthony Cleaver

Chairman

Sir Anthony Cleaver is Chairman of the Engineering and Technology Board, SThree Plc, Working Links Ltd, Novia Holdings Ltd and Caithness & North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership. He is also a non-executive director of C-Questor Plc and Vice President of the Industrial Trust. 

Sir Anthony joined IBM in 1962, became General Manager in 1983, Chief Executive in 1986 and Chairman and Chief Executive in 1990.

He then became Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 1993. In 1996 he led the privatisation and subsequent flotation of UKAEA's commercial activities, becoming Chairman of AEA Technology plc - a position he held until the end of 2001. In 2004, he became the founding Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority from which he retired in 2007

During his career, Sir Anthony has been Chairman of a number of organisations, including IX Europe Plc, the Medical Research Council, UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited, General Cable Plc,The Strategic Partnership Limited, the Government's Industrial Development Advisory Board, and a non-executive director of General Accident, Smith & Nephew Plc and Lockheed Martin UK Ltd. He has been a member of the British Government Panel on Sustainable Development, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee), the Singapore British Business Council and the British Overseas Trade Board.

In the field of education and training, Sir Anthony was a founder member of the National Training Task Force and Chairman of its TEC Committee. He was also Chairman of the Independent Assessors of the TECs and a member of the NACETT. He chaired the RSA Inquiry into “Tomorrow’s Company” and was, from 1989 to 1999, Chairman of the Governors of Birkbeck College, London. From 1997 to 2002, he was President of the Involvement & Participation Association (IPA), and was, for several years, a member of the PPARC Appointments Committee. Sir Anthony was Chairman of the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership until May 2002 and President of the Chartered Management Institute for the year 1999/2000.

Sir Anthony is closely involved in the arts, having been Chairman of the Royal College of Music and Deputy Chairman of English National Opera.

 

Lynda Armstrong OBE

 

College C

Lynda is currently a Technical Vice President with Shell International. She leads Shell’s Exploration & Production Global Petroleum Engineering field development planning and study organisation, which has centres in the Netherlands, Houston, Aberdeen, India and Qatar. She has worked for Shell for more than 30 years in a variety of assignments around the world. These have included positions in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, Commercial and HR when she worked in recruitment and international staff planning.

Her most recent assignments prior to her current role were as New Business Development Director in Shell UK and Exploration Director in Petroleum Development Oman. She is experienced in managing large technical organisations and has lead several major business improvement programmes to enhance operating performance.

In 2003 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British Government for services to the Oil and Gas industry. She is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, a member of the Industry Board for the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology and on the Advisory Panel of Positive Energy, an organisation promoting networking for women in the Energy sector  
 

 

Professor William M Banks

IMechE Nominee

Professor Banks is currently Senior Deputy President (President Elect, May 2008) of the IMechE.  He has served on a large number of its committees including the Trustee Board, Council and the Trustee Board Awards Committee.  He has chaired a few specialist committees including the Schools and Students Working Group with the objective of interesting young people in engineering. He is also Editor–in-Chief of one of its Proceedings Journals.

Professor Banks is a past Chairman of the Engineering Professors’ Council.

He is also a former Research and Training Director of the Faraday Plastics Partnership having been brought in by the partnership to raise its profile.

His research work has spanned composite structures technology to seminal work on the NDE of adhesively bonded joints using dielectric spectroscopy.  He developed the composites research from its beginnings in his department to a position in which Strathclyde is now recognised as a Centre of Excellence in this field internationally.  He also acts as a consultant to many companies and transfers his wide ranging research findings through Directorship of the Centre for Advanced Structural Materials (CASM) and (formerly) the Scottish Polymer Technology Network (SPTN).

In addition to being a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and serves on their committees.  He has also served on the Council of the Institute of Materials Mining and Minerals as well as a number of its committees.

Professor Banks lectures internationally.

Professor Derek Bell

Board Appointee

Professor Derek Bell is Chief Executive of the Association for Science Education (ASE) and has extensive experience not only of teaching and learning in science but also of the wider range of education issues including teacher education, higher education, subject leadership in schools, research, project management and network development.

Professor Bell has taught in schools and higher education institutions and been involved in ground breaking science education research and development. In addition he has undertaken a wide range of consultancy work in the UK and overseas and is a member of several advisory / expert panels including the National Co-ordinators Group for the National Network of Science Learning Centres, the WISE National Co-ordinating Committee and the Astra-Zeneca Science Education Forum. He is a member of the Board of the Science Council and SETNET. From 2002 -2004 Derek was Chair of the Wellcome Trust Society Awards Panel.

Dick Elsy

College C

Dick Elsy is Chief Executive of Torotrak plc, the world leader in the design and development of Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT) of traction drive systems for the automotive sector.

Prior to joining Torotrak in January 2003 Mr Elsy was Product Development Director at Jaguar Cars Limited (part of Ford Motor Company). He previously spent 16 years at BMW AG/Rover Group where he held various senior engineering and commercial positions.

In 1998 he won an award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for outstanding contribution to British engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Professor Kel Fidler

Board Appointee

Professor Kel Fidler chairs the Engineering Council UK (ECuk), and is Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University, in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Professor Fidler is a career academic, holding the posts of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering Science at Essex University from 1969-84, Professor of Electronics and Head of the Electronics Discipline at the Open University from 1984-89, and Professor and Head of Electronics, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of York 1989-2001, before moving to Northumbria.

Professor Fidler's research and teaching interests include Computer-Aided Design, Circuit Theory and Design, and Filter Design, involving much interaction with industry.

Appointed IEE representative to the new ECuk in 2002, Professor Fidler was appointed Chairman of the Registration Standards Committee, 2002-5, and led the group that developed UK-SPEC, the new standard for engineering competence.

Tom Foulkes

ICE Nominee

Educated at Clifton College, RMA Sandhurst, RMCS Shrivenham, the Army Staff College, the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Open University, Tom Foulkes held senior UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) appointments in weapons development, equipment management and barracks construction before joining the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) as Director General and the board of Thomas Telford Ltd (TTL) as Deputy Chairman in 2002. 

After commissioning into the Royal Engineers in 1971, Tom worked in military road and airfield construction before joining the UK MOD Weapons Staff in 1982 and specialising in the design and procurement of military equipment.  On promotion to Brigadier in 1998, he returned to civil engineering with responsibility for the British Army Estate and its long-neglected barracks construction programme. Tom’s proudest achievement in this period was the Army Board’s adoption of his vision of garrisons where soldiers and their families would want to live. This enabled him to formulate a 30-year barracks´ recovery strategy and create the `Army Estates Organisation´ to deliver it.

In 2002, Tom left the Army to become Director General of the ICE.  He now leads a vibrant, global organisation focussed on people: ICE members, staff and the worldwide society that ICE serves.  More recently, he has guided the ICE Group’s growing commercial success through better marketing and increased integration of ICE and TTL operations, thus helping TTL to record profits in 2006.  Tom is also Secretary General of the Commonwealth Engineers Council and a member of the Construction Industry Council.  Tom is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Member of the Institution of Royal Engineer.

 

Iain Gray

College B

Iain Gray joined the Technology Strategy Board as Chief Executive in 2007, following its establishment as an executive non-departmental public body.

Prior to joining the Technology Strategy Board, Iain was Managing Director and General Manager of Airbus UK, whose Bristol operation he joined when it was still part of British Aerospace. He was appointed Director of Future Programmes in 1997, became Director of Strategy and External Affairs in 1999, and assumed the role of Managing Director and General Manager in 2004.

Iain Gray completed his early education in Aberdeen, culminating in an Engineering Science honours degree at Aberdeen University. In addition, he gained a Masters of Philosophy at Southampton University in 1989 and has received Honorary Doctorates from Bath, Bristol and Aberdeen Universities in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively.

Iain is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 2007 was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal. He is Chairman of the Business and Industry Panel of the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Governor of the University of the West of England, a Board Member of SEMTA and a Board Member of the Energy Technology Institute.

Philip Greenish CBE

RAEng Nominee

Philip Greenish assumed his role as Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering following retirement from the Royal Navy in July 2003. 

The Academy promotes excellence in engineering through a wide range of programmes across industry and academia. It works with partners to attract more people to a wider range of engineering careers and to enhance the UK’s innovation performance, and it is active in public policy formation.  It receives funding from government, industry and some charitable foundations. Its direct income is £14m pa and its gross turnover has more than doubled in the last three years to £45m pa. 

Philip Greenish read Engineering Science at Durham University, graduating in 1972.  His early naval career was spent as an engineer in frigates and destroyers and in shore appointments in engineering training, front-line support and naval plans.  He served for two years with the Canadian Navy in Halifax Nova Scotia.

Senior Navy appointments included: as a Rear Admiral, responsibility for engineering, personnel and logistic support for the front line of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines including leadership of a major reorganisation of the Fleet Headquarters; Director of Operational Requirements for sea systems; two years as military assistant to the MOD’s Chief of Defence Procurement; and responsibility for the conduct of naval weapon trials and acceptance.  He is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies.

He is a Council Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, a Trustee of the Daphne Jackson Trust and a member of the WISE Board (Women into Science and Engineering).

 

Sir Alan Jones

Board Appointee

Alan joined Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited at its inception in 1990 as Manufacturing Director and became Toyota’s first local Managing Director in April 2001.

In June 2003, Alan was named Chairman of Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, Executive Vice-President at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing Europe and Managing Officer of Toyota Motor Corporation Japan.

Following the legal merger of Toyota Motor Europe, Toyota Motor Marketing Europe and Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing in October 2005, Alan assumed the position of Executive Vice-President, Manufacturing Group, Toyota Motor Europe.

Currently he is Senior Executive advisor to Toyota Motor Europe and Chairman Emeritus of Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited.

In April 2006 he took responsibility for the Chairmanship of Semta (Science, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technologies Alliance). Sir Alan is also the Employer Champion for 14-19 Diplomas.

Alan is focused on encouraging UK industry and its total supply base to improve their worldwide competitiveness from a platform of shop floor excellence and technical development, based on progressive education and training with a strong science engineering focus.

 

Stephen Matthews

College A

Stephen Matthews was educated at Welbeck College, RMA Sandhurst and RMCS Shrivenham where he read mechanical engineering.  In 1973 he was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).  As a young officer he served predominately in Germany with armoured units; as well as Cyprus in 1974 and the Falklands in 1982-3

He attended the Army Staff College as both a student and instructor.  In his latter military years he saw service in Bosnia and Kosovo, was responsible for technical training (aeronautical, electro-mechanical and mechanical) – training some 5.500 students pa, from basic to 1st degree and beyond.  He left the military aged 50 having enjoyed two demanding 1-star jobs.

He joined Raytheon Systems Ltd in March 2003 to lead a Defence Training Review £25Bn PP/PFI  Bid Team but this post ended when the company withdrew.  In February 2004 he took control of an ailing 155 year old security/access control company and after 18 months it was back into profit and sold in the spring of 2006.  In July 2006 he joined CIBSE as the Chief Executive with a passion to develop the Institution and make an informed contribution to the climate change debate.

 

Robin McGill

IET Nominee
 
Robin graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc, 1st Class Honours, Engineering Science (1977). He began his successful international career in 1977, working for BP Chemicals in Scotland as an Engineer before taking a series of operational roles ultimately becoming Polythene Operations Manager for the whole site.

Between 1988 and 1992, Robin worked for Carborundum inc., as a Business Manager for Boron Nitride in Buffalo, New York.

In 1992 he returned to BP plc and held a number of senior positions including Strategy and Projects Manager, BP Chemicals; Distribution Senior Business Advisor, BP Oil International; Marketing Division Manager Pittsburgh Pa, BP America Inc; M&A Project Manager, BP Chemicals Ltd; Business Unit Leader Plastic Fabrications Group, BP Amoco Ltd; and Business Unit Leader European Polymers, BP Chemicals.

In 2001 Robin was appointed Chief Executive Officer of BP Solvay HDPE a market leading joint venture, which was a large merger involving a successful change and culture change programme.

In 2004 Robin became the Managing Director BP Grangemouth, where he was responsible for the Forties Pipeline System, Kinneil gas terminal, the Petrochemical and Refining assets at Grangemouth - in total a strategic piece of UK infrastructure transporting a third of UK oil production with a value of $15bn and one of the top five petrochemical sites in Europe; with 1800 full time employees.

He became a full member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer in 1981.

In January 2007 Robin was appointed Chief Executive and Secretary of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

 

Dr John Morton

ETB Chief Executive

Dr John Morton is Chief Executive of the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB) having joined the company on 1 July 2005.  He was previously Strategy Director of the Future Systems and Technology Division of QinetiQ plc.  He is also a Visiting Professor in the Aeronautics Department at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

He obtained his first degree in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and DPhil in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials from the University of Oxford.  He is also a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (SEP).

Following research and teaching appointments at Oxford, Imperial College, NASA and Virginia Tech he joined the Defence Research Agency (DRA) as the Director of the Structural Materials Centre.  As DRA grew to become the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, his responsibilities broadened with his appointment as the Director of the Mechanical Sciences Business Sector.  With the formation of QinetiQ he became Chief Operating Officer of the Future Systems Technology Division.

Dr Morton has been internationally recognised for his pioneering research on the mechanics of composite materials and structures.  A Chartered Engineer, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and of the Royal Aeronautical Society.  He has held visiting academic appointments in Spain (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Belgium (ULB) and Switzerland (EPFL).  He is also the recipient of the Donald Julius Groen and the William Sweet Smith Prizes of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 

 

Nelson Ogunshakin

College B

Nelson Ogunshakin is the Chief Executive of ACE, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering. ACE represents the business interests of the consultancy and engineering industry in the UK. It is the leading business association in this field, counting over 800 firms – large and small, operating across many different disciplines – as members. Nelson is a civil engineer with over 25 years extensive industry experience in the construction and property sector.

Before joining ACE, Nelson was Managing Director of the consultancy AEO Group. He has previously worked in a number of executive director level positions with multidisciplinary consultancies, WSP (Building) Group and High Point Rendel Group. He started his career as an engineer working on various building and civil engineering projects for Carillion Group (previously known as Tarmac Construction Ltd).

Nelson has extensive UK and international experience in the construction and infrastructure development sectors where he has been involved in project development and delivery, financial management, PFI advisory, corporate restructuring, investment planning and business development.

He also has a wide technical, business and management experience, holds an MSc in construction management, an MBA in strategic management and project finance and is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Royal Society for the Arts, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Directors. Nelson is also an executive board director of the Construction Industry Council, the representative forum for professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the UK construction industry.

 

Keith Read, CBE

College A

Keith Read served as an engineer in the Royal Navy for thirty three years.  His appointments included Senior Engineer of the Polaris Submarine HMS REPULSE.  Executive Officer of the Clyde Submarine Base, Deputy Director of Logistic Plans, Captain Surface Ship Acceptance and British Naval Attaché in Italy and Defence Attaché in Albania throughout the Bosnia crisis.  He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1990 and was appointed CBE in 1997.

On leaving the Royal Navy in 1996 he managed the development of investment opportunities in Croatia and Albania for a small finance company, and then set up an engineering consultancy.
He was appointed Director General (now Chief Executive) of the Institution of Marine Engineers in January 1999 and has driven through the Institution’s move to its new headquarters and emergence as the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) with a revised Royal Charter. 

Keith Read was a founding Member of the ETB; sits on the Science Council and is a member of the Technical Committee of the RNLI.  He chairs the Engineering Institutions Chief Executives’ Committee (G15).  He is a Member of The US Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, the IET and the Royal Society of Arts.

 

Professor Christopher Snowden

Board Appointee

Professor Snowden is Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK and a distinguished engineer with wide experience of the international microwave and semiconductor industry.

He is currently a non-executive Director of Intense Ltd, which designs and manufactures photonic products; such as laser arrays for the professional printing industry. He has previous experience as a Non-Executive of several other technology companies.  Professor Snowden is a Member of the Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, a Member of the Engineering and Technology Board, the Defence Scientific Advisory Council, a Member of the Board of Universities UK and Deputy-President of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Professor Snowden is a Non-Executive Director of Intense Ltd.  He also Chairs the Daphne Jackson Trust, HERO Ltd (Higher Education Research Opportunities), and the Universities UK (UUK) Employability, Business and Industry Policy Committee. Prior to his appointment at Surrey Professor Snowden was Chief Executive Officer of Filtronic ICS.  He joined Filtronic plc in 1998 as Director of Technology before being promoted to Joint Chief Executive Officer in 1999.

Professor Snowden is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET and a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute.  He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal in 2004 for his ‘outstanding contributions to the UK microwave semiconductor industry’.  He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Society fro seven years until 2005.  He was awarded the 1999 Microwave Prize of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society – only the second UK citizen in 55 years to receive this accolade.