About Instrumentel

Stewart Wallace, Chairman

Stewart has a proven track record in working with venture capital backed technology start-ups, undertaking interim CEO roles and closing investment rounds. Stewart sold his own manufacturing company in 2006 after 10 successful years and devotes most of his time running his own management consultancy business, Kip Point Consultancy Ltd. He has an honours degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics from The University of Strathclyde.

Stewart is Chairman of the Board of Directors and plays an active role in strategy and corporate governance.

Dr Neil Loxley, Chief Executive Officer

Neil is an experienced business leader with significant technology and product development experience. Neil was previously CEO of Bede plc, a technology business, which he led from a university spin-out to a main list IPO on the London Stock Exchange, achieving a 10x return on investment for the venture capital investors. Since leaving his full-time CEO role in January 2006, Neil has built a portfolio of board level positions, predominantly in the venture-backed early-stage technology sector. Neil is also a director of White Rose Technology Limited which runs the White Rose Technology Seedcorn Fund.

Neil acts as CEO and is responsible for management of the business with a particular focus on identifying and exploiting scaleable commercial opportunities.

Dr Greg Horler, Chief Scientific Officer

Greg started his career in electronics at Inmos Ltd., (1981) as a failure analysis technician. He holds a BSc Combined Honours Degree in Physics and Electronics (Sheffield 1988) and an MSc in Advanced Microelectronic Design (Durham 1989). In 1999 he was awarded a PhD in "The Design and Use of a Digital Radio Telemetry System for Measuring Internal Combustion Engine Piston Parameters". An accomplished embedded systems engineer, he holds a number of patents. Greg Founded Instrumentel Ltd in 2001.

Greg acts as CSO and is responsible for driving the development of the underlying science and technology behind Instrumentel’s products.

Dr David McGorman, Chief Operating Officer

David holds a BEng combined Honours degree in Computer and Electronic communications from The University of Leeds. He was sponsored by Marconi Communications for 6 years, where he gained substantial commercial experience in many areas ranging from Strategic Networks, to Hardware design to manufacturing techniques and Hardware bring-up. His technical areas of expertise include VHDL programming, circuit and ASIC design, and network solutions. Prior to becoming COO, David worked as Project Manager, successfully delivering many projects within time and budget. David also has a PhD from the University of Leeds which was sponsored by Instrumentel and completed in 2007.

As COO, David is responsible for the day-to-day execution of the business strategy, with a particular emphasis on product delivery to meet customer requirements, sales and product marketing.

Neil Curry, Senior Product Engineer

Neil holds a MEng degree in Electronic and Photonic Communications from the University of Leeds. Neil was sponsored by Filtronic PLC throughout his degree, where he gained experience in a wide range of commercial manufacturing processes, RF circuit design and design for manufacturing. During his time at Filtronic he had the unique opportunity to be involved in the installation, staff training and ramp-up of a new manufacturing line in a class 100 clean room. In 2006 Instrumentel sponsored Neil to study a PhD to improve and automate ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. During this time, Neil has been involved in a range of projects with Instrumentel; most notably Neil designed the digital core (controller) of the Instrumentel XT01 (ASIC).

Neil supports the COO on Sales, Product Marketing and support; to ensure a successful delivery to our customers.

Jonathan Birch, Senior Project Engineer

Jonathan holds a first class honours degree in Electronic and communications engineering from the University of Leeds.  Jonathan has spent time working in a hardware role at Pace micro ltd where he was able to learn important work ethics and engineering skills. There he was working with some of Pace's top engineers in the new technologies department working on some of the cutting edge projects of the time. In 2006 Jonathan was sponsored by Instrumentel Ltd to do a PhD and was challenged to improve, through research, the hardware aspects of their RFID systems. This included significant design work on Instrumentel’s augmented reader system; which is now at the production stage.

Jonathan is responsible for internal systems and supplier relationships.

Tim Fish, Software Engineer

Tim holds a BEng with Honours degree in Electronic and Embedded Systems Engineering from the University of Leeds. Throughout his studies and since graduating Tim worked for Instrumentel where he has worked on many projects. During Tim’s employment he has had the unique opportunity of working on Richard Nobles latest endeavour; the ‘Bloodhound’ Supersonic land speed record attempt. Tim’s contribution to this project included the design and manufacture of an electronic control unit used in testing the V12 race engine and hybrid rocket engine.

Today Tim primarily works as a software engineer and is responsible for writing PC interfaces for many of our projects, whilst actively contributing to much of the firmware that is written.

Robin Taylor, Systems Engineer

Robin holds a BEng with Honours degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering, from the University of Leeds. Robin spent time before and during his studies working for Foxtons estate agents, in the IT infrastructure team. Where he gained knowledge of TCP/IP, WAN’s and Voice Over IP (VOIP) technologies and also had the opportunity to work on planning and implementing large deployments of new network infrastructures. Robin spent time after completing his studies, in the live entertainment industry working on temporary power and lighting systems. In 2008 Robin was sponsored by Instrumentel to study for a PhD to research Electronic Control Unit (ECU) control systems for LPG fumigation of Diesel engines.

Robin is responsible for our automotive hardware along with managing our network and assisting with the back end networks of our products.

Professor Roger Pollard – Non Executive Director

Roger currently is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Leeds University from where he holds both a BSc and a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has sat on the boards of a number of university spin-out companies and has acted as a consultant to many others, most notably Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa CA.

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (SEEE), Leeds University

The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Leeds University is the top School for Electronics in the United Kingdom, as determined by the government 2009 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The School has specific strengths in embedded systems and communications engineering. Instrumentel retains a close and ongoing relationship with the University, through sponsored research, industrial liaison and access to specialist testing facilities.

Chrome Angel Solutions (CAS), UK

CAS provides an expert and highly experienced team supporting the successful implementation of technology solutions for the European Rail Industry. Their goal is to implement transformational technology: solutions that make a real and measurable difference to performance on railways.

Instrumentel has developed in partnership with CAS a novel non-intrusive train Door Diagnostics system that is now being rolled out Europewide. CAS act as sole distributors for Instrumentel’s products for rail applications in Europe.

National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), UK

The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory is a leading nuclear technology services provider, specialising in providing customers with tailored solutions by applying the right level of technical innovation and intellectual support.

Instrumentel is working with NNL to develop wireless sensing systems for the long-term monitoring of intermediate-level nuclear waste containers and other in-process monitoring systems.

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), USA

The Defense Threat Reduction Agaency is a quasi government/military organisation whose purpose is to identify and deploy new technologies capable of thwarting threats to the United States and its citizens. Instrumentel were commissioned by DTRA to establish a more reliable technology for sampling data from the target within an explosion.

South West Research Institue (SwRI), USA

The South West Research Institute is a National Laboratory located in San Antonio, Texas. The laboratory houses a vast array of technology centres and expertise. Instrumentel worked with SwRI to independently verify the effectiveness of their explosion metrology system using their ballistics range and expertise. This initiative is ongoing so as to provide SwRI with the next generation of explosion metrology instrumentation.