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2018: Geoff Baker
Geoff Baker
133rd President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Baker is an entrepreneur and engineer with a distinguished international career, he has established business operations in Europe, America, the Middle East, Malaysia and Australia. He now works independently to establish and advise engineering and high-tech businesses at all stages of their development. Baker also continues to support the advancement of the engineering profession.
His early career was spent at SDRC Engineering Services Ltd, the National Nuclear Corporation and the British Aircraft Corporation. At the latter he served a 5-year Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship and graduated with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Baker has founded two successful engineering companies. The ATL Group is a leading technical services company in the industrial, defence, oil and gas markets. ATL was sold to Bureau Veritas and Plant Asset Management Ltd, which was subsequently acquired by Petrofac. Following both acquisitions, Baker was Chief Executive and Senior Vice President respectively within these organisations. He was also one of the founding Non-Executive Directors of The FSE Group formed by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) to provide sources of finance and advice to companies in the UK.
In addition to his personal business interests, Baker works hard to advance and promote the engineering profession through his three major passions: the encouragement of innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering; inspiring young people into engineering; and helping to instigate change in the engineering profession, which he believes is required to make it more relevant and responsive to needs of society. He is the Founder of Entrepreneurial Engineers, established to encourage entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing within engineering. He is an active supporter of Southampton University’s Future Worlds, created to help start-ups, spin-outs and projects at the University.
Baker has been an active Member of the Institution. He has served several terms on Council and sat on a variety boards and committees throughout his career.
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