In 2007, 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  
 

Stephen Tetlow

IMechE Nominee

Stephen Tetlow joined the IMechE in February 2009. He began his career in 1972 as an engineering apprentice with Smiths Industries Ltd, working as a design engineer in the motor and aerospace divisions. Moving on to spend 25 years in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) he pursued a career involving a variety of operational engineering and logistic appointments around the world working on vehicle fleet engineering and maintenance support operations. He also ran an international Defence team of engineers and scientists to inform NATO’s agenda for scientific research.

After a spell as Director of Operations at the Defence Logistic Organisation, he rose to become the head of REME and Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the Army, running one of the major engineering organizations and professional engineering training schemes in Britain, delivering and contracting global engineering support for military vehicles and weapon systems.

In 2004 he took a new appointment in the Transport Industry to become Chief Executive of the Vehicle Operator Services Agency (VOSA), responsible for the licensing and testing of commercial passenger and haulage vehicles in Great Britain, as well as running the national MoT Scheme. At VOSA, he campaigned to transform its customer services, winning national awards for innovative Business-to-Business web-based services and the 2008 National Government Award for Operational Delivery.
 

Stephen holds an MSc and an MBA. He was educated at Carlton-le-Willows Grammar School in Nottingham, The City University London and The Royal Military College of Science. He lives in Devon on a County Wildlife Site and recently led an expedition to South Georgia across the Southern Ocean to retrace Shackleton’s famous Antarctic rescue.

Professor Derek Bell

Board Appointee

Professor Derek Bell is Head of Education at Wellcome Trust 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. Prior to his current role, he was Chief Executive of the Association for Science Education (ASE).

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).  Amongst his previous positions he held the posts of Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University, in Newcastle Upon Tyne until September 2008.

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).

Paul Jackson

Chief Executive

Paul Jackson CENG, FIET has held a variety of roles in technology based business, encompassing contract R&D,
the media, the charity sector and local government. Trained as an engineer, Paul spent the early part of his career at ERA Technology before moving in to the technology media. After a series of progressive roles within United Business Media, Paul moved to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, now the Institution of Engineering and Technology, later becoming Director of Professional Operations.

Most recently, Paul has been the Executive Director of Jasia, the company he established to support membership and media organisations in their strategic development. Paul’s wider contribution to the technology community has also been extensive: member of the International Broadcasting Convention Partnership Board, CIRED, the Advisory Committee for the Electricity Distribution Community, and Technical Director of EUREL. Paul is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

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). 

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. 
 

Sandi Rhys Jones

Board Appointee

Sandi Rhys Jones has more than thirty years experience in strategic marketing and management, communications and training for technical, professional and business to business organisations in the engineering and construction sectors. Since co-founding RhysJones Consultants in 1976, she has worked for a wide range of clients, including consultants, contractors, suppliers, representative organisations, local and national government.

Sandi is a non-executive director of Simons Group, a construction, design and property company employing some 600 people with a turnover of £188 million. A member of the Audit Committee and of the Strategic Marketing Group, she has helped to establish innovative training and capacity building programmes. Prior to this, she was a non executive director of Docklands Light Railway Ltd from February 1998 to October 2000, when it became part of Transport for London

An passionate advocate for engineering and construction, Sandi believes that performance would improve if more women were involved and has campaigned for many years for changes that would attract and retain them. She is Vice Chair of the Governing Body of the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology, set up in 2004 and funded by DIUS to address the underrepresentation of women in these sectors following the Set Fair report by Baroness Susan Greenfield.

Sandi was appointed OBE in 1998 for her work promoting women in construction, became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building in 2002 and awarded an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University in 2005.

Trustees Appointed with effect from 19th June 2009:

Christine Braddock CBE

Board Appointee

Christine has nearly 20 years' experience in senior roles in FE colleges and is currently
principal and chief executive of Sutton Coldfield College and Matthew Boulton College of
Further and Higher Education. The colleges are based in Birmingham and Sutton
Coldfield and currently developing a proposal to merge.
During her ten years as a principal, Christine has managed major change, including
restructuring and relocating into a £40 million new building in the centre of Birmingham
which is now viewed as a benchmark for new colleges. It won the RIBA and LSC Further
Education Design Award for 2008.

Before moving into FE leadership, Christine worked as a senior adviser for the Home
Office, managing and coordinating education policy and provision in 43 Midland prison
establishments, in collaboration with local authorities and FE providers.
She worked at Dudley College as deputy principal prior to which she ran the faculty of
art and design, community and special education needs where she gained experience of
developing successful international links between the world of education and business.
She also has experience of lecturing, youth work and running her own business.

Christine has acted as specialist adviser to the Education and Skills Select Committee
and as a board member of the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA).

David Brown

College A

Louise Kingham

College A