Engineering
Richard Atkinson
Richard Atkinson is an experienced technology entrepreneur based in the West Midlands. Richard spent his early career in product development at Ford and has led start-ups in the cleantech, automotive, communications, defence and software sectors.
Richard is a chartered Mechanical Engineer and has an MBA from IESE business school in Barcelona. He is also a Sainsbury’s Management Fellow.
David Falzani
David has extensive executive and strategic business development experience in various industries. David began a consultancy career with LEK Consulting who recruited him from the prestigious Wharton School in Pennsylvania. David subsequently gained strong entrepreneurial credentials having founded several start up businesses in UK, Italy and USA, raising over £4m from venture capitalists, and achieving trade sales.
David has worked with a wide variety of blue chip and start up companies, particularly focusing on market structure and sales decision making processes.
David is a chartered engineer, and holds both the Certificate and Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.
John Moore
John has over 25 years industrial experience from a range of industries including renewables, healthcare and engineering. His early career was spent in multinational corporations, focusing on process and product development and subsequently sales and marketing. John then moved into SME business leadership and has successfully grown and sold two firms.
He is an experienced leader, able to provide pragmatic strategic direction and operational support to all functions within a business. He has strong expertise in building companies towards profitable acquisition.
John is a Chartered Director and a Chartered Engineer. He holds an MBA from IMD Switzerland and is a Non Executive Director on a large hospital trust.
David Battye
David has over 20 years experience in business and product development. He has worked in a variety of industries including engineering, mobile and web development, manufacturing and supply chain.
His management experience ranges from strategic analysis and marketing set up, through systems design and operations management. He is thorough in analysis but is driven by pragmatic business building of valuable ideas.
He holds an MBA from London Business School. He actively works with business students to pass his knowledge on. David is part of Second Mile’s Fellowship programme to develop skilled entrepreneurs.