Alumni profiles

Ian Joesbury

Ian Joesbury

MEng 1986
Ian Joesbury spent twenty years working in the aerospace industry. Until recently, he was president at Meggitt PLC, a 180 million pound aerospace and defence company...
Dr Dan Plant

Dr Dan Plant

MEng 1997, MA 1999, PhD 2015
Dr Plant is creator of Armourgel, a revolutionary material that has been used in a range of products from space ships to bike helmets. Recently he returned to Imperial College...

John Bigley

John Bigley

BEng 1985, MBA 1991, CEng 1992
Currently John Bigley is managing director of Jamestrong Packaging in Australasia which has a 180 million Australian dollar turnover and global partners including Heinz and Unilever.

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Professor Bruce Drinkwater

Professor Bruce Drinkwater

BEng 1991, PhD 1995
Sound can be used to levitate objects against gravity, and Professor Bruce Drinkwater is using this attribute to develop tissue engineering in medicine and assemble composite materials.
Dr Peter Collins

Dr Peter Collins

PhD 1990
Dr Collins leads Permasense, the world leader in non-intrusive continuous integrity monitoring systems with a customer base on every continent.
Elias Sakellis

Elias Sakellis

MEng 1998, MSc in Finance 1999
Elias Sakellis has been in finance for the last fifteen years and currently works in a senior management role at Quantum Pacific.

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Dr Chris Guyott

Dr Chris Guyott

MEng 1982, PhD 1986
Chris Guyott is engineering director at Frazer-Nash which has eight UK offices and three in Australia.
Mark Willliams

Mark Williams

MEng 1980
After 33 years working for Formula One Mark Williams is now semi-retired and looks back on his long and fascinating career.

NImesh Thakrar

Nimesh Thakrar

MEng 2004
Nimesh Thakrar worked in Formula 1 racing before moving into e-commerce and an award winning start-up venture Banneya London 3D printing luxury jewellery.

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Dr Armel De Montgros

PhD 2010
Armel de Montgros is part of the Mercedes team behind Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg’s amazing performances on Formula 1 tracks.
Bhavin Radia

Bhavin Radia

MEng 2004
Bhavin Radia has worked at Rolls Royce for the last eleven years and is currently resource manager for twelve engineers.
Paul Dewen

Dr Paul Dewen

BEng 1988, PhD 1992
Paul Dewen has travelled around the world in numerous posts with Accenture. Now, he is in a leadership role in Accenture’s Technology Delivery organisation in North America.

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Daniel Beccera

Daniel Beccera

MSc 2008
Daniel Becerra has founded several companies since he graduated and is currently busy at BuffaloGrid providing electricity and internet connectivity across remote parts of Asia and Africa.

Dr Matthew Fleming

Dr Matthew Fleming

MSc 2003, PhD 2008
Dr Matthew Fleming is senior integrity engineer at Sonomatic Ltd, an international inspection and integrity services company.
Professor Pasa Yayla

Professor Pasa Yayla

PhD 1991
Dr Pasa Yayla left Imperial College to work as an academic in universities in Turkey and as an R&D Manager.

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Marco Morbidini

Dr Marco Morbidini

PhD 2007
Dr Marco Morbidini is a UK and European patent attorney and senior associate at Scott & York Intellectual Property Law where he serves a variety of clients in the automotive, aerospace and oil & gas sectors including large corporations, universities and SMEs.

Graham White

Graham White

BEng 1987
After a career in engineering and project management award winning Graham White now sets up social enterprises and currently works as commercial manager for Autism Plus.

David Alleyne

Dr David Alleyne

PhD 1992
David Alleyne formed a start-up company from Imperial called Guided Ultrasonics Ltd that is now the global leader in its field.

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Katharine Martin

Katharine Martin

MSc 1996
Katharine Martin combined work with study at Imperial and is now a contracts manager at MJM Marine Ltd, with years of engineering experience in the shipping industry behind her.
Jian Ma

Jian Ma

PhD 2007
Jian Ma has worked in finance since he left Imperial and is currently portfolio manager at Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance company.

Joachim Horn

Joachim Horn

MEng 2013
Joachim Horn, CEO of SAM Labs, aims to level the playing field in innovation development with SAMs, wireless electronic building blocks connected to an app and to the internet with an intuitive interface, enabling kids, young designers, start-ups and small businesses to create smart products and hardware apps in a matter of minutes.

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Karl Drage

Karl Drage

MENG 1995
Karl Drage has mastered many things both as Chief Executive of Coefficeint Renewable Heating Solutions and in his earlier career and personal life, including receiving a mention from Bill Gates and traversing the Sahara Desert.

Rachel Sumeray

Rachel Sumeray

BEng 1990
Rachel Sumeray has been a nuclear engineer and a physics teacher and now hopes to move into educational policy.

Mark Cordner

MEng 2009
Mark Cordner first worked with electric cars through Imperial’s Racing Green project and built this passion into a career with GKN driveline where he now works as a mechanical engineer.

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Garry Chow

MEng Mechanical Engineering 2007
Garry Chow went straight to Formula 1 on graduating from Imperial College working for Mclaren as a design engineer. He tells us about his work and his memories of Imperial.

Samantha Patterson

Samantha Patterson

MEng 2005
Samantha Patterson has applied her learning from Imperial to design and manufacture medical products and currently project manages as a group leader at Cambridge Consultants.

Parth Patel

MEng 2005
Parth Patel is a a Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry with experience in the aerospace industry.

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Dr Robert Morgan

PhD 1994
Dr Morgan has recently been promoted to the role of Reader at Brighton University and is leading a number of research projects.

Hender Blewett

MEng 2003
Hender Blewett runs a successful consultancy Future Energy Engineering Ltd after a decade working on offshore and subsea engineering projects. He recalls his time at Imperial and how it shaped his career

Jonathan Page

MEng 2005
Jonathan Page followed his passion for motor sports and has won the manufacturers’ championship in the US equivalent of Formula One for four years running. Now he works at Mercedes in some spin off projects.