ESR Technology announces formation of Advisory Panel to aid growth plans

27/07/2007

ESR Technology, one of the UK's leading engineering, safety and risk consultancies, has announced the formation of an Advisory Panel that it believes, through its guidance and expertise, will help the company to implement its development plans and support its many clients.

The Advisory Panel is a highly experienced and well-connected group who will contribute views, ideas and contacts. The panel will also help to forge close relations between ESR Technology and professional technical bodies and the academic world as the company continues to develop new technologies and solutions that will add value to its clients' operations.

Several meetings have already taken place in London and will continue to be held every quarter. The panel consists of:

• Derek Bernard, a Chartered Engineer and invention licensing and IP specialist, trained as an engineer with De Havilland Aircraft Company and was then with Lotus Cars. He has been involved with innovation development, patenting and licensing on a wide range of projects since 1970. He was a key part of the team that invented and licensed the 'Workmate' to Black & Decker. He is now Director of NexxtDrive Ltd and continues to specialise in IP and international licensing.
• Rod Hoare was Chief Executive of Metronet in the late 1990s. Immediately prior to this he was Group Rail Director for BAA plc and Chairman of Heathrow Express, which he developed from its early concept stages in 1994 to its operating business. He has spent over 30 years in the transport industry with BOAC, P&O, Sally Ferries, British Caledonia and British Airways. He was awarded the MBE in 1976.
• Michael Pambos is the Founder and Managing Director of XETA, a firm of Management Consultants, IMAGIMAX, a firm of market strategists, and of XTEST®, which provides a new generation of analytical psychometrics. He has held senior management positions in major oil and gas companies and led numerous highly successful research projects for international companies and the public sector investigating highly complex problems. He holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business, and is a Vice President of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.
• Fyfe Saddler has spent over 25 years in the oil and chemical industries in the Far East, the Middle East and East Africa. He has extensive experience of directing and managing sales and marketing operations in product commercialisation and plant operation – most recently in Central and South America. As a specialist in strategy and new business development, he is currently working with a number of organisations in Europe, North Africa and the Caribbean.
• Roderick Smith is currently Royal Academy of Engineering Research Professor of Railway Engineering, Imperial College; Chair of the Future Railway Research Centre; Honorary Professor at Central Queensland Univerity, Australia and of the Academy of Railway Science in China. He was previously a lecturer in the Cambridge University Engineering Department (1980-88), Professor of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the University of Sheffield (1988-2000) and Head of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College (2000-2005). Professor Smith has undertaken consultancy work for British Steel plc, was involved in crowd safety research with the HSE and has done consultancy work for the Board of British Rail.
• David Weaver, a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a founder member of the Institute of Petroleum Engineers, has spent his professional career in the energy industry. He was latterly at BP where he was Managing Director (Europe) of BP Gas, Power and Renewables and previously President and CEO Europe of Duke Energy International, one of the USA's largest gas and power enterprises. He is currently Chairman of EnviroResource Group, a company developing and promoting new environmental solutions for waste and energy in the industrial and municipal sectors worldwide.

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