Bharath Ponnalagan linkedin.com/in/bharath-ponnalagan
Christopher Postlethwaite linkedin.com/in/christopher-postlethwaite
■ Career history: Engineering Manager, EnBW Ltd, UK Head of HVDC, Atkins Plc, UK Engineering Manager, SSE Plc, UK Project Lead, GE, UK
■ Career history: Business Transformation Consultant - Army Advanced Development Programme, British Army Headquarters, UK Senior Land Engineering Officer - Strategic Command, British Forces Cyprus, Cyprus Programme Manager - Future Wheeled Platforms, British Army Headquarters, UK Principal Personnel Officer - 1 Close Support Battalion REME, British Army, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Postgraduate Diploma, Battleship Technology, Cranfield University, UK Chartered Engineer, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, UK BEng (Hons), Materials Engineering, Loughborough University, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK B.E, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University, India
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
Tamil (native) English (fluent) Hindi (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Successfully bootstrapped HVDC business for Atkins by forming a team and developing a go-to-market strategy, bringing in US$2 million YTD revenue. Received a Bronze award in the ‘customer determines our success’ category whilst at GE and received the ‘Got Impact’ award for technical leadership and for achieving US$20 million in variation orders. Delivered several technical webinars and presentations at working groups, conferences, and events to disseminate knowledge amongst young engineers.
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Lead manager for one of the British Army’s top 10 equipment programmes. Conducted assurance and monitoring of time, cost and performance for the Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (worth more than £4 billion). Communicated financial risk and opportunity to the SRO and Executive Board. Senior Land Engineer for British Forces Cyprus, responsible for leading a team of 219 engineers to provide equipment support to a substantial fleet. Responsible for ensuring compliance with engineering policy and legislation, as well as holding and managing engineering risk. Identified a convergence of requirements in the British Army’s equipment portfolio. Developed and communicated a plan to the Executive Board which resulted in a single optimised equipment project, delivering an efficiency of over £21 million.
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