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Nick Bradshaw has built a successful track record over 11 years in the management, marketing and sale of complex technology and software based products and services to a variety of large commercial and government clients.  He has lead multidisciplinary teams to secure multimillion dollar strategic business and has fostered long term relationships with these key clients.   His own company, Sales-vision.net Ltd offers technology, sales consultancy and training business and supports European and North American companies wishing to grow market share or improve the way they sell in a B2B environment. He has a solid background in project / bid management, complex technology sales, selling techniques, market strategy, new business development and commercial contract negotiations.

John McKinlay has an extensive experience in the operation and support of underwater acoustic trials. He is an expert in electronics and acoustic systems.  His specialisation is the development, calibration, operation and maintenance of submarine trials instrumentation, and calibration of acoustic sensors. He has carried out deep sea calibration trials for the MOD, and also the calibration of targets for trials. He has worked in the private sector  during his career and eventually set up his own company in 2003 B J Marine Tech Ltd, providing instrumentation for reconnaissance ROVs. He is experienced in Visual Basic programming and also PIC firmware programming.

Martin Renilson has 30 years experience in ship hydrodynamics, and has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.  He has led a number of major national and international hydrodynamics projects, has served as expert witness for numerous cases, and has conducted peer reviews and independent assessments for a wide range of marine related projects.  He currently holds a part time chair at the Australian Maritime College (part of the University of Tasmania) and is a visiting professor at the Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

Pat Thomson is a practical and innovative problem solver, highly experienced in sonars and medical acoustics.  A good team worker with strong analytical skills, she organises sea trials for both commercial and RN vessels including planning and logistics and negotiation with appropriate authorities. She uses her wide ranging computer skills (which include Visual Basic to C++) in software design and development for data acquisition and analysis systems and for supporting theoretical modelling and simulation studies. She has written and contributed to several open literature papers and given technical presentations at international conferences, as well as contributing to patent applications.  She is a Chartered Physicist.