1.15pm – 1.45pm, 29 November 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Session four: Power to Capability – meeting power, thermal management and integration requirements of emerging tech including DE, Rail Gun and GW technology.
Executive: Global Systems Product and Technology Leader, GE Power Conversion
Executive: Global Systems Product and Technology Leader, GE Power Conversion
Responsible for proposing, developing, and executing Advanced System and Product Solutions, as well as managing system NPIs to support system offerings.
Nick has more than 30 years’ technical leadership experience with the Marine & Power Conversion Business, including more than 25 years in commercial, offshore and Military Marine solutions.
Responsible for the Design, build and setting to work of Many Naval Power and Propulsion Systems including Type 23 Frigates, Type 45 Destroyers, Albion Class LPDs, Zumwalt Class Destroyers, the Electric Ship Technology Demonstrator, and the Queen Elizabeth Class Power System, as well as numerous commercial marine platforms.
Has also spent significant periods of time in Mining Systems, and in Power Electronics and system engineering for onshore and offshore wind applications around the world.
He has significant experience of customer technical solution development, project execution, site work, commissioning and after sales support, both onshore and offshore, in Africa, Asia, US and Europe. Nick has also held significant technical leadership roles in volume power electronics manufacturing and global software production.
Nick has an Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, sits on the Lloyds Register Technical Committee for Naval and Offshore, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology