I am refrigeration engineer by background and achieved my Chartered Engineer status in 2020 after evidencing my technical and professional competence via a professional competence review panel.
I was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration in 2012.
As Director of Technical at the BESA Group my role is to ensure industry standards are kept updated, to provide members with advice and guidance to help them comply with legislation and regulations, and to advise Government departments and assist them in keeping legislation effective and workable. I am also currently a Director at ACRIB (UK industry Board) and President of the IOR (Institute of Refrigeration), and Past President of European contractors’ association AREA.
With over 30 years’ experience in the HVAC sector, mainly in building services refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC), I have been the driving force in helping the United Nations Environment Programme to develop minimum competency levels globally to assist developing countries with their transition to more environmentally sustainable refrigerants to meet their Montreal Protocol Kigali Amendment requirements.
I ran my own family contracting company for over 20 years and gave hundreds of hours a year on a voluntary basis in performing most of the roles outlined above before selling up in 2016 and taking a paid role at the BESA Group running REFCOM – the UK’s registration body for companies working in the RAC sector before being promoted in 2022 to Technical Director for the whole group.