Dr Ruth L. Mallors

Director Aerospace & Defence KTN

Ruth brings with her a wealth of experience across multiple sectors in providing strategic input, facilitation and guidance to enable business change and improvement through effective Knowledge Management and Knowledge Transfer.

Before joining the KTN, Ruth has worked for Ernst & Young, Sainsbury’s and AMEC all in senior roles leading organisational transformation through Knowledge Management programmes as well working as a freelance management consultant.

Ruth holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in addition to her first degree from University College London.

Ruth is responsible for developing and broadening the strategic agenda of the KTN, which includes maintaining and creating relationships with senior stakeholders from Industry, Academia and Government, across multiple Departments and Sectors as appropriate.

Pierre Nelkin
Vice President of the Extended Enterprise Business Unit
AIRBUS - CIMPA SAS

“Pierre Nelkin joined CIMPA, a 100% owned subsidiary of Airbus, to manage and develop the Extended Enterprise business unit. The aim of CIMPA’s Extended Enterprise is to support companies in developing and implementing collaboration concepts with their supply chain. Currently, CIMPA’s Extended Enterprise business is providing various services on the Airbus A350 project.

Before joining CIMPA, Pierre Nelkin had worked for Airbus for 20 years. He spent his first 10 years in different roles in the IT/IS function. As part of his responsibilities he developed and managed the Transnational Network, Telecommunication and Security Competence Center, in the context of the Airbus national companies’ Information System Integration. He then joined Airbus Procurement and over 5 years lead a transnational IT improvement programme. Following this he was appointed Head of Engineering Procurement at Airbus for all Aircraft Structure activities and in addition he also represented Airbus in EADS committees on several occasions.”

Chris Wilkinson
Engineering and Business Assurance Director
Spirit Aerosystems

Chris Wilkinson is the Engineering Director for Spirit AeroSystems (Europe) Ltd. He is responsible for the development of capability. This spans R&D and new product development. He is a non-executive director of a number of Charity Based organisations including the Manufacturing Institute that implemented the UK’s first Fab Lab in Manchester earlier this year.

John Ellis - Chief Executive Officer
Middle East Aerospace Consortium.

The Consortium which boasts more than 100 member companies was founded in November last year and helps companies to do business in the Middle East

He has spent more than 30 years in the Aviation Industry based in the UK and the Middle East .During the last several years prior to forming Middle East Aerospace Consortium, John, under his role with Regional Development Agencies, has been helping UK Aerospace and Aviation companies .He has helped them do business in the region by analysing potential clients and then helping companies to be introduced to clients to win business.

His early career experience includes Air Accident Investigation including the Manchester Air Disaster and the MI Kegworth Air Disaster. John is also an expert in Safety and Emergency Procedures. Procedures produced by John have been implemented by Airlines worldwide. He is well known as being the founder of Aviationjobsearch which became the largest recruitment web site in the world for Pilots, Cabin Crew and Engineers.

Contact details
John.Ellis@MiddleEastAerospace.com
Tel 0044 (0) 1293 817 74

Mr. Steve Truswell
Kinetic Cubed

Steve Truswell has over 20 years experience of the Russian market. He served originally as a Russia specialist in the Foreign Office but in recent years has focused on the UK’s trading relationship with Russia and the problems and issues facing UK companies in the Russian market. Steve has been working closely with specialist consultancy Kinetic Cubed (www.kinetic3.co.uk) on trade, investment and business development projects in the Russian market with a focus on Advanced Engineering.

Steve gained an MBA from Imperial College, London, in 1993 and thereafter his career took him to Manchester where he was responsible for promoting foreign inward investment into the North West of England. Then in Moscow he headed the Commercial Department of the British Embassy for three years. Subsequently he was responsible for a number of international nuclear projects which included the dismantling of surplus Soviet nuclear submarines, the construction of a spent nuclear fuel storage facility and the remediation of a naval nuclear fuel depot.

He now provides international trade and Russia market research to a range of UK Government trade and investment agencies, covering subjects as diverse as banking and insurance, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, aerospace and automotive engineering. Most recently he has provided a series of in-depth studies of the Russian advanced engineering industry for UK Trade and Investment, based on one to one discussions with top managers at Russian engineering plants in the Volga Basin, the Ural mountains as well as St Petersburg and, of course, Moscow.

He is a fluent Russian speaker. His reports are based on discussions with senior people who provide considered views from a position of responsibility; his programs of meetings are carefully chosen and tailored to meet the specific needs of each client. 

Lambert Dopping Hepestal

Programme Director of
ASTRAEA,
(National Unmanned Aircraft System Certification Research Programme)

Engineering Director Systems & Strategy & ASTRAEA Programme Director
BAE Systems

Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal, BSc, FREng, CEng, FIET, FRAeS is Engineering Director Systems and Strategy at BAE Systems Military Air Solutions.

He graduated from the University of Surrey in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1972. He has worked for BAE Systems and its predecessor companies for the past 37 years, starting with Avionic Systems Design on Harrier, Sea Harrier and Hawk.

Subsequently he has been involved in the systems development of Tornado and Typhoon before running the Military Aircraft research programmes. Following the formation of BAE Systems, he moved to the centre as corporate Technology Director and also as Dean of Engineering of the BAE Systems Virtual University. In 2007, he returned to the Military Aircraft business unit as Science & Technology Director. He is now responsible for Engineering strategy and also is the Programme Director of ASTRAEA, a consortium of UK companies developing the capabilities and processes for the certification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He has been a key player in developing the UK National Aerospace Technology Strategy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007.

Feature Lunchtime Presentation

12.30 - 14.00 - BREAK/NETWORKING - Exhibits Hall

Breaking into NADCAP

Performance Review Institute (PRI)