Dr. Simon Davies, CTO, Senior Vice President at Bristol Myers Squibb
Over Simon’s 25-year career in healthcare, Simon has worked for other top 10 pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AbbVie. Simon has built his experience and expertise around quantitative and model-informed drug development, creating evidence-based medicine rooted in the rigor and discipline of quantitative decision-making to bring new medicines to patients.
Steven Esom, Chair’s membership and private company boards
Steven’s current directorships include Advantage Travel Partnership, Sedex Information Exchange Ltd, Wynnstay Plc, and the British Wrestling Association, responsible for developing community participation and Olympic athletes. His retail career board experience included being Executive Director at Marks & Spencer, Executive Director at John Lewis Partnership plc and Waitrose Managing Director.
Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes, A leading expert in computational mechanics
Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes is a leading expert in computational mechanics, holding the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin. A founder of USACM and IACM, he is a member of the U.S. National Academies and a Foreign Member of The Royal Society.
Robin James, Operations Director, Temporary Works Forum
After more than 20 years as Managing Director of the NASC, and before that several years of involvement in the UK stonemasonry sector, Robin accepted the challenge of taking on the role of UK Operations Director for the Temporary Works forum (TWf) in May 2023.
Dr. Royston Jones, CTO, Altair Product Design & Senior Vice President
Dr Jones leads Altair’s strategic efforts, overseeing Altair’s decades-long legacy of excellence in automotive innovation. He has specialized in the application of engineering simulation to produce design innovation for over forty years. And he has served as an honorary professor in the School of Engineering at Swansea University.
Duncan Nicholson, Arup Fellow
Duncan has international foundation design experience. He joined Arup Geotechnics in 1977 and became an Arup Director in 2000 and an Arup Fellow for technical work in 2012. Duncan has served on many technical committees and is currently chairman of the ISSMGE TC206 on the Observational Method.