Profile

I live in Manchester with my wife, who is a psychologist. I love sport, particularly football, ruby union, cricket and formula 1. I love cars and aircraft, and love plane spotting! I listen to a lot of music, particularly rock, and Indian music.

I love food, pretty much most cuisines from all over the world. I also love working out and swimming.

I am a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and started my career, following my Masters Degree working on engineering analysis in the structural and fluid mechanics domains. During my career so far, I have successfully executed and played a vital role in projects for clients operating in various industry sectors such as oil & gas, offshore & marine, health care & biomedical devices, nuclear and heavy machinery to name a few.

My next opportunity found me working on gear systems and renewable energy. I was the lead stress engineer with the project team tasked with certifying what was then the UK’s biggest wind turbine gearbox (7MW) with Samsung Heavy Industries as the end client. My work here gave me valuable exposure to the offshore, marine and renewables energy sector and reintroduced me to the world of mechanical power transmission and gear systems.

I then moved to the nuclear sector where I was part of the team responsible for being awarded a multi-million pound contract from Sellafield Limited in the civil nuclear decommissioning sector, with my area of focus being engineering, technical and delivery. I was also the lead engineer with the project team that undertook the delivery of a spent fuel transportation module for Rolls-Royce.

I’ve always had an entrepreneurial desire which was the driving force behind my founding of Equitus Engineering Limited in May 2015.

My work day involves looking after the day to day activities of Equitus Engineering Limited. I am either doing technical work or spend time at events talking about the work we do to people and explain ourselves to them. The thing is, there is no such thing as a typical working day for me.

I went to a few schools in Greater Manchester as a STEM Ambassador, earlier this year and was amazed by the commitment of the students, and staff. The money I win will be used to fund their STEM activities.