DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS AEROSPACE WALES FORUM AEROSPACE WALES FORUM n behalf of the Aerospace Wales From the advertising content of this brochure, the Wales welcomes constructive feedback, whether Team, Directors, Ambassadors and aim is to give a sense of the depth and breadth you are a member or not. all our Forum members, I offer you a of products, services and capabilities offered by very warm welcome to this brochure. a selection of our Forum members. This brochure In the meantime, please enjoy the content and MAIN CONTACTS In here you will find more information would not achieve its aim without the support, information within this brochure. If you are not Oon what the Forum is involved with, what we strive to investment and involvement of our members and I a member of Aerospace Wales right now, why do for our members, the wider aerospace, defence am extremely grateful for their commitment to this not come along to one of our events and see for [email protected] and space community in Wales and a flavour of the initiative. yourself the value and opportunities that you and kind of benefits our members enjoy by being part of your business could enjoy regularly. Chief Executive the Forum. As a membership organisation, Aerospace Wales John Whalley is fully conscious that our value is measured by Wishing you all continued success in your business [email protected] The Aerospace Wales Forum is the trade what we deliver and achieve for our members. To and we hope we can be of service to you in the association for all companies and partner this end, we are committed to exploring new ideas near future. Operations Director organisations operating in the Aerospace, Defence and finding new clusters/collaborations that offer Rachael Blackburn and Space sectors in Wales, through access to even more value to the membership. Continuous Yours, [email protected] events, networking opportunities and industry Improvement has long been a vital cog in the John Whalley expertise. aerospace business ‘machine’ and Aerospace Chief Executive Officer would like to welcome you to the new trade At the time of writing we are seeing a great deal of civil airspace and in the South we have significant I am and remain very confident in the future of our directory and thank you for your current and uncertainty around the future course that the BREXIT maintenance and repair organisations based at sector generally and I believe that by having a ongoing support of the Aerospace Wales Forum. process will take and this is not helping add clarity Cardiff Airport and St Athan. This is all in addition dedicated forum where we can meet and discuss The past year has been another successful one for to our business environment. This said we have to the many local companies that provide a robust ideas and solve problems both with other industry the Forum, we have seen the number of member to continue to work through this until the position supply chain into these organisations. We should colleagues and members of the Welsh Assembly Icompanies grow by 50% since the last edition and becomes settled, it is worth noting that despite this not forget that with the 8 Universities based in Government can only make us more successful in the we look forward to welcoming our new member challenge, the aerospace sector in Wales remains Wales we are able to educate and train the next long run. companies at the various events and trade shows we strong and well established, it employs in excess generation of skilled staff that will be required to will be attending over the coming year. of 23,000 people undertaking aviation and high continue to grow and evolve the Aerospace sector Once again thank you for being a member of our precision engineering activities spread throughout and to take advantage of new technologies and organisation and I look forward to meeting with you In parallel we have been very mindful of how we Wales. materials that make aircraft and aviation more at our events and I wish you continued success. spend our members and sponsors funds, as a result efficient and produce a lower impact on the natural we have taken active steps to reduce our day to day In the North of the country we have centers of design environment. The recent UK announcement on a new David Morgan operating costs and we have achieved a 10% year and manufacturing, at Parc Aberporth in Mid Wales UK Space policy offers all of us a new opportunity Co-Chairman on year saving in these costs and will continue to the UK is developing technology and procedures for development and growth and which we all need keep our spending under review. that will allow UAV’s to seamlessly integrate into to position ourselves to take full advantage of. 2 3 AEROSPACE WALES FORUM AEROSPACE WALES FORUM BOARD / AMBASSADORS Aerospace Wales would like to thank our Co-Chairs, Directors and Ambassadors for their continued support of the Forum’s activities and for helping to shape the future strategy in our endeavours for the Aerospace, Defence and Space organisations operating in Wales. The group represent all sub-sectors of our industry from large organisations to SME’s, ensuring we get a representative view of the industry. John Whalley, CEO Rachael Blackburn Peter Greig, Co-Chairman David Morgan, Co-Chairman Mark Hughes, Director John has 50 Operations Director I have been A versatile and Mark Hughes has significant experience in leading and years’ experience Rachael has been with NORDAM enthusiastic was previously delivering change programmes and has in the aerospace, fortunate to have Europe since it business & a senior Airbus developed a strong track record for raising space and experienced a started in 1997 commercial Executive who Business performance. defence wide and varied initially joining executive with co-founded Agile industries. As career path which as the Finance a 25 year Business Solutions Mark’s particular strengths have part of his current has provided Leader and management in 2007. transformed the commercial performance portfolio he a wealth of then becoming pedigree gained Agile provide of the Agile group through the development has been Chief knowledge to the General within the a range of of additional value-adding services and Executive of deliver the aims Manager in Aerospace & services (such as business excellence programmes for their the Aerospace Wales Forum (an Industry and objectives of 2005. During this time I have played Defence, Information Technology, Services, strategic business planning, supply chain Customers. Wales company) since its foundation the Aerospace Wales Forum. a critical role in taking a start-up Joint and Research sectors. development and leadership development) in 2002. The Forum represents 180 Venture Company from its initial opening, to the Advanced Engineering sector Mark joined the Aerospace Wales companies in Wales including branches Prior to this role Rachael worked for the formulating the strategic direction and David has extensive experience of working and are a strategic service provider to forum as an observer in 2014 and was of seven of the world’s top ten aerospace, Welsh Government, responsible for the then forming and moulding the Business at within both commercial and government the SC21 Competitiveness and Growth appointed a Director in 2016. space and defence companies and aerospace sector in North East Wales an operating level to build a robust and organisations across a wide variety of programme. provides advice on strategy and industry which gave a valuable insight into how the sustainable Organisation with an Industry industry sectors. matters to the Welsh Government. In 2015 sector operates, what it aims to achieve acknowledged reputation to provide and Mark acquired a shareholding in the the Forum, working in partnership with and the challenges it faces. Through this perform aircraft nacelle, thrust reverser and David is a lateral thinker and pragmatic Redthorn MRP business in 2012 and Welsh Government, published a Space role Rachael also gained inside knowledge exhaust component maintenance, repair problem solver, having gained now co-owns the revamped Agile Group Strategy for Wales and established a of government agencies and funding and overhaul services at or above Industry experience in contract negotiation and Systems and Services business. AGSS specialist Space Group. Other key sector packages. benchmarks and successfully compete and dispute resolution within the UK and provide MRP solutions and additional groups include MRO, aircraft interiors and win in a global market. the US as well as internationally. David value added services to their 200+ global civil aircraft manufacturing. Rachael has an enviable list of contacts has successfully held various senior Customer base. with the key players in the sector, with Since 2004 I have also served as the commercial and business management During a 32-year career with British which she has built strong working Chair of the Aerospace Wales Forum posts within such diverse market sectors Mark has over 30 years’ experience in the Aerospace he spent 15 years as a relationships. Rachael also works closely (AWF) giving my commitment to work as space communications, Information Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Divisional Director with leadership roles with the other regional Aerospace forums, with the Forum and Welsh Assembly Technology hardware/software and Sector, particularly Aerospace which has in engineering, human resources, project Welsh Government, UK Government and Government to help contribute to creating internet security. been gained within change, operational, management and quality. He was involved the Devolved Administrations. a positive environment in Wales supporting supply chain and general managerial with a range of both civil and military and encouraging the growth and success David has held senior roles in Executive positions, both in the UK and abroad.