Speakers

 Geoff is a Mechanical Engineer who has spent more years than he cares to admit helping organisations improve the performance of their assets and to adopt better approaches to maintenance and asset management.

 Geoff has a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Cambridge and a Master’s Degree in Business gained in London.

 The initial part of his career was spent in the chemicals industry, gaining experience in all aspects of the asset lifecycle, from new product development and new manufacturing technology development through major capital project planning, design, construction and commissioning, to maintaining plants large and small, old and new, all the while ensuring safety whilst handling some extremely hazardous toxic, corrosive and explosive materials.

 He then moved into Management Consultancy, and was one of the founder members of PwC’s Physical Asset Management practice, where he ended up as Director responsible for Physical Asset Management right across Europe, Middle East and Africa.  In this role, he worked with a very wide range of organisations, helping them to improve performance by integrating improvements to processes, systems and people issues simultaneously, in industries ranging from Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Transport, Electricity, Water, General Manufacturing, and all three of the UK defence forces.  The touchstone at all times was being able to express engineering issues in terms of the commercial impact on the business.

 For the past few years, as a Director of Artesis LLP, he has been concentrating on the application of clever technologies to provide automated fault diagnosis linked to on-line condition monitoring, allowing organisations finally and successfully to adopt Condition Based Maintenance.  He says the key is to provide information in a manner appropriate to the iPod generation – using very clever technology inside the box, but providing very simple outputs to the user.