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Paul is an entrepreneurial technologist with a substantial track record for applying innovation across multiple market sectors spanning academia, government, SMEs and international PLCs.
Paul’s early career was with UK MoD, then with QinetiQ where he held a number of leadership roles CEO of QinetiQ Inc. Subsequently, Paul has founded and ran an SME and then was the inaugural Executive Director Innovation and Investment at the UK Defence Solutions Centre. He joined CENSIS in 2019 where he has been pivotal in the development and implementation of digital solutions across the public and private sectors in Scotland.
Paul’s business skills include leadership, substantial international P&L experience, capital raising and realising value from technology.
Paul is a member of the Board at South of Scotland Enterprise, Scotland’s Scotland’s enterprise agency for Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders. Earlier in 2022 the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) appointed him to its Science Engineering and Technology Board (SETB). The SETB is responsible for identifying and championing new research challenges at the cutting edge of engineering and physical sciences for future investment.
Paul is a co-founder of the Smart Things Accelerator Centre, a dedicated Scottish IoT accelerator for SMEs, scale up and start up companies.
Dr Stephen Milne is experienced in designing, managing, and implementing international research projects for commercial product ideas with a hardware and software focus in the medical technology sector.
Stephen obtained the European MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and subsequently worked for Agilent Technologies and Freescale Semiconductor. Following this, he completed an Engineering Doctorate within the ESPRC funded Medical Devices Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Strathclyde. Subsequently, his doctoral research was awarded further international funding to test the sensor device he developed clinically and develop further clinical sensing markers. During his time as a Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde he collaborated with a range of businesses, from multinationals to university spin out companies, on a broad range of technological innovations.
Prior to joining CENSIS, Stephen attended Babson College, Boston, one of the top rated US business schools as part of Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Fellowship program. As part of the Fellowship he spent six months with the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre on a number of commercial orientated projects.
Based in Forres, Alistair (Ally) Longmuir focuses on opportunities and engagement in the North East of Scotland and the Highlands and Islands, with a particular focus on supporting companies developing health and wellbeing technologies.
Before joining CENSIS, Ally ran his own consultancy. Prior to that, he was previously R&D Director at LifeScan – subsequently Johnson & Johnson – and held engineering roles with Motorola and the Royal Air Force.
With a track record of delivering innovation and developing breakthrough technology solutions, Ally has been involved in the development of several medical devices and wireless connected health solutions – over 10 million patients and health care providers use products he has delivered on daily basis.
His recent consultancy work included supporting businesses with their strategic planning and development in Med Tech. He has also worked with a variety of product development companies from startups through to new product introduction and high volume manufacture.
Ally holds a BSc Hons (1st) degree in Electronics and Software Engineering from the Open University.
John has over 20 years’ experience in the entire product life cycle including R&D and New Product Development primarily within the Oil and Gas industry.
Starting out as an Electronic Design Engineer, John moved into System Design and Architecture before transitioning into Project Management. He has overseen multiple projects with multidisciplinary global teams covering proof of concept, prototyping, qualification and manufacturing to field deployment and support.
Before joining CENSIS, John worked with FMC Technologies (TechnipFMC) as a Programme Manager; Sercel France as a Lead Project Engineer; and Vibtech as a Principal Hardware Design Engineer where he was instrumental in growing the company from a university engaged start-up to a $60m company bought by Sercel.
John holds a BEng and MPhil in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde and a number of patents for his efforts across multiple projects and companies.
Dr Shrawan Jha is responsible for development projects related to sensor elements and transductance (pre-processing). An experienced semiconductor engineer and physicist, Shrawan has experience in developing sensors for application in engineering, IT, health, environmental monitoring and defence. He is also experienced in developing other electronic devices including LEDs, HFETs, and MEMS based on micro and nanotechnologies from concept to materials and devices development to applications.
Prior to joining CENSIS, Shrawan worked on a number of industrial as well as academic R&D projects. His research output in past 5 years has resulted in IP generation and contribution to ~50-research papers in top rated international journals and conferences, with a present h-factor of 10 and about 200 citations to his published work worldwide.
Shrawan has proposed, supervised and led a number of projects to success, including some that received innovation awards and interest from business. He has been a member of IEEE and Materials Research Society (MRS). Shrawan’s academic training includes Masters in Physics (Electronics and Nuclear Science), Masters in Technology (Solid-State Materials) and a PhD in Microelectronics (III-V device technology for application in telecommunication and bioelectronics). He has several awards and merits to his credit and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, City University of Hong Kong, and Imperial College London.
Mark Waters joined CENSIS from Mitsubishi Air Conditioning Europe where – as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Glasgow Caledonian University and Mitsubishi – he applied Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies to the company’s manufacturing facility in Livingston to deliver process and performance improvements that included utility efficiency and machine uptime. Making use of AI, the project was able to deliver anomaly detection in production data to provide early warning of machine faults to prevent online failure of the manufacturing equipment. He also has software and electronics experience in roles with Thales, Horiba and Scottish Power.
Mark holds an MEng (with Distinction) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde. During his time at university, Mark won a number of academic and industry scholarships and awards.
Susan is a qualified CIMA accountant with over 15 years’ post-qualified experience.
Before joining CENSIS, Susan worked for three years as an accountancy tutor for Kaplan Financial. Prior to this she worked for seven years at Barclays Wealth where she held roles as Finance Business Partner and Financial Controller.
Susan trained as an accountant with British Telecom in London having being recruited onto their finance graduate training programme.
Johan is an experienced administrator with more than 15 years’ office management expertise, and joins CENSIS from a training and professional development company based on the outskirts of Glasgow.
After several years in the same post, coupled with the her youngest son starting school, Johan felt that it was time for a fresh challenge professionally. She had developed an office support structure that enables maximum support mechanisms for those working within and out with the CENSIS office.
Elaine joined CENSIS from Booth Welsh Automation Ltd where she held the position of Senior Finance Assistant. Before that, she spent eight years at UPM Kymmene UK as Credit Control Assistant, then Local Country Finance Assistant. In her time there, she assisted in the company’s transition of services from UK to Finland.
Sandy joined CENSIS as a contractor directly from Monterrey, Mexico. After an MA in Spanish and Economics at the University of Glasgow, his first role in business was as a Brand Ambassador for Pernod Ricard in Mexico, promoting whisky, gin, rum, and other spirits. As an economist, his specialisation lies in impact assessment, environmental economics and natural resources. He has also worked as a teacher, mostly in English as a second language.
