Abstract
Nick started with BAE Systems (then British Aerospace) in 1990 as a technical apprentice. Over the
past 26 years a large proportion of Nick’s career has been within a research and development engineering environment where he has been instrumental in the research, development and demonstration of a number of state-of-the-art technologies achieving company, UK and World firsts.
Within his current BAE Systems role, Nick provides strategy and planning for Future Capabilities and is also a Technologist for Disruptive Capabilities. This latter part of his role involves horizon scanning to identify and nurture technologies that could be disruptive or transformative to defence. To this end he is collaborating with a number of UK Universities including the University of Oxford, (Quantum Computing), Cranfield University (Autonomous Systems), and the University of Glasgow
(Chemputing).
Nick is a BAE Systems Global Engineering Fellow, a Chartered Engineer with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Fellow of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange. Nick is principally an engineering innovator and to this end he has filed circa 40 patents in the past two years including; cyber resilient system architectures, mixed and augmented reality, a
novel multi-function laser system for defence, and a revolutionary new class of air vehicle.
In his spare time he reads about the latest developments in Science, Technology and Engineering and
advises his younger brother, a developer and founder of some of the World’s first and most
innovative applications of the “Bitcoin” ‘blockchain’ technology.
