Board of STS

It is an important strength of STS that it has a highly experienced Board with a strong blend of industrial, entrepreneurial and technical experience. The successful development of the technology to date coupled with broad patent protection has been driven by this Board through its regular monthly meetings.

Dr Maurice Dixson: Chairman

Maurice is a widely experienced company director and manager of businesses.

For BAe he was Managing Director of the Commercial Aircraft Company leaving to join the main Board of GEC plc. Later he was CEO of Simon Engineering plc., a FTSE mid-cap company. He rescued Simon Engineering ...

Dr Jörg P. Feist: Managing Director

Jörg was promoted to MD in Nov 2008. He is responsible for general management, project management and R&D at Southside Thermal Sciences.

He is a founder and co-inventor of the sensor  technology. Jörg has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering...

Barry Shaw: Non-Executive Director

Barry Shaw has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from King's College London.

He is an IT entrepreneur. Working in South Africa for many years he returned to the UK in 1987 and set-up his own business continuity company in a joint venture with SEMA group.

Dr Andy Heyes: Non-Executive Director

Andy is a founder of STS and co-inventor of the sensor technology.He is reader at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College, and has experience in optical measurement techniques and research interests in gas turbines. Before coming to Imperial College he spent six years with Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems.

Professor John R Nicholls: Non-Executive Director

Professor of Coating Technology at Cranfield University, John has an established international reputation for his work on high temperature environmental and thermal protection coatings for gas turbines engines...