Renishaw has introduced the appointment of Professor Karen Holford CBE FREng as Non-executive Director.
The UK-founded engineering agency welcomed Professor Holford to its Board of Administrators in September, along with its Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees.
Professor Holford at present serves as Chief Government and Vice-Chancellor at Cranfield College and brings over 4 a long time of expertise within the sector together with engineering, technical administration and governance. Professor Holford has additionally beforehand helped to handle a scarcity of variety in organisations by difficult perceptions and dealing with underrepresented teams.
“We’re delighted to welcome Karen to the Board,” mentioned Sir David McMurtry, Government Chairman at Renishaw. “She has a wealth of engineering and R&D expertise, bringing important abilities to the enterprise.”
Professor Holford started her engineering profession at Rolls Royce as an Undergraduate Apprentice, graduating from Cardiff College with a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering. She returned to academia to pursue a ardour for analysis, gaining a PhD in Supplies Science/Acoustic Emission. She continued her curiosity in analysis and growth in {industry} at AB Digital Merchandise, finally changing into a senior engineer main a big mechanical design workforce.
Professor Holford then returned to academia, specialising in industry-led educating, analysis and growth and progressing to Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She served in management roles reminiscent of Head of College of Engineering, Professional Vice-Chancellor of Bodily Sciences and Engineering, and spent 5 years as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff College. Holford is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2017, obtained a CBE for providers to engineering and the development of ladies in engineering.
Earlier this 12 months, Renishaw celebrated its 50-year anniversary, relationship again to the creation of a prototype touch-trigger probe for co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs), by to the corporate’s funding in metallic additive manufacturing in 2011, to as we speak the place the corporate is gearing up for the following era of AM applied sciences. Chatting with TCT in regards to the firm’s imaginative and prescient for what’s subsequent, Louise Callanan, Director of Additive Manufacturing at Renishaw mentioned: “Our strap line is ‘apply innovation’ and I feel it is positively greater than only a strap line. It is one thing that is fully embedded throughout the firm and it provides us that potential to problem the established order, to all the time be pushing expertise improvements ahead and actually wanting on the future by way of the long run.”
