Experience driven innovation

Carl is an experienced business leader and advisor with a track record of driving growth and digitisation of professional services organisations. Over his career he has advised Executives and Boards on delivering change and growth strategies to increase enterprise value. Prior to joining Wood Thilsted in June 2022, to support the Executive team further scale its Engineering and Software capabilities, he was a Senior Partner at Deloitte where he grew a number of Deloitte’s practices over a 12 year period. Roles over this period included, leading Deloitte’s Analytics practice and establishing the Deloitte Software business that drove efficiency and effectiveness through the digitisation of Deloitte’s services. Before re-joining Deloitte in 2009, he was the Managing Director of Detica, a specialised Analytics and Engineering business, where, as part of the leadership team he scaled the services and software business to over 2000 consultants, before a successful trade sale to BAE Systems.

Alastair is a chartered geotechnical engineer with experience in design, management and construction of a large variety of civil engineering projects both offshore and onshore. He is also one of the two founding partners of Wood Thilsted Partners Limited. Prior to starting WT Alastair was leading the geotechnical detailed design of monopile foundations for all DONG Energy (now Ørsted) offshore wind projects. This included development of in-house design tools, and implementation of quality control and assurance procedures on all projects. It has also included obtaining project certification and third party approvals a large number of projects. From 2012 to 2015, Alastair founded and provided the technical leadership for the international joint industry PISA project, which will develop new design guidance for offshore piles specifically for offshore wind turbine foundations. Alastair is chairman of the steering committee of the Imperial College and University of Oxford research project ALPACA.

Christian has held key positions in the Offshore Wind Industry for more than a decade and has expert knowledge in effective execution of site investigations through to detailed design and optimization of offshore structures ensuring a holistic overview of critical activities across all phases. He has an engineering specialist background with an excellent academic track record provides the ability to apply engineering efficiently to optimize value and minimize risks of offshore wind farm developments. He has developed engineering software applied for detailed design of wind turbine foundations widely applied in numerous offshore wind project projects and has been a central figure in the industry pushing forward the technical development and quality processes with respect to design, fabrication and installation of offshore structures and cables.

Alice is an Assistant Director responsible for evaluating and executing transactions as well as for supporting the origination of investment opportunities. Alice was part of the team investing in Ridgewall, Detectortesters, Systal, Wood Thilsted and CMSPI. She sits on the board of CMSPI, Wood Thilsted, ITM and Systal. Alice also worked on our investment into Halo. Prior to joining Inflexion in 2019, Alice spent four years working in the UK Investment Banking team at Citigroup in London, focusing on UK M&A across a variety of sectors as well as completing both equity and debt capital raises. Alice holds a first class honours degree in Economics at University College London. Outside work, she enjoys playing and watching netball, frequently attempts to climb mountains and on occasion can be found on the ski slopes.

Stuart is co-head of the Industrials sector at Inflexion. He is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and leading minority and majority investment opportunities across Europe in this sector. Stuart led our investments in Marley, Huws Gray and the subsequent bolt on of Ridgeons and originated Lane Clark & Peacock. Stuart has been a private equity investor for over 20 years. Before joining Inflexion in 2014 he was the Managing Director of the London office of US equity investor Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, and prior to that he was a Partner at 3i, investing in both private and publicly-traded companies. He has been involved in numerous transactions across a range of sectors including financial services, healthcare and education including Westminster Healthcare, Care Principles, Aspen Reinsurance, The Jelf Group and MPW. He holds a Law degree from Durham University. Stuart has a young family who keep him busy when away from the office. He enjoys gardening, getting out in the countryside and walking the dog.

Paula Thomas is Chief Financial Officer at Wood Thilsted and she is responsible for leading the company’s financial strategy, performance, reporting, and long-range business planning as well as stakeholder relations, treasury, tax planning, controlling, and audit. Paula is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with over 25 years experience in various companies in the Engineering and Manufacturing sectors. Her career has progressed in organsiations such as Stirling Dynamics, Specialist Aviation services, and Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems. Paula has worked in PE backed, Corporate and private businesses, through periods of rapid growth, complex changes and numerous global events. Paula has also been responsible for other areas such as purchasing, planning, supply chain, customer services, IT, legal and facilities

Andy has spent the majority of his career in the engineering consultancy sector with EC Harris/Arcadis where he held leadership positions both in the UK and Internationally. He developed and led both advisory services as well as engineering delivery services predominately for infrastructure clients. Latterly he has worked for RMD Kwikform where he was Strategy Director across 21 operating businesses across their international footprint in the temporary works sector.

Danny is a highly experienced structural engineer and manager, operating for more than 10 years within the offshore wind industry, and 25 years in the wider energy industry. He is very comfortable in a multi-disciplinary environment and has a broad appreciation energy client needs and drivers. He is the Director responsible for Offshore Structures within Wood Thilsted, and has focused recently on design for manufacture & installation and floating wind technology. Danny is working within Wood Thilsted to advance our thinking on sustainability, seeking ways to make our design output biodiversity positive, as well as managing embodied carbon down to below zero.

Ed is a chartered structural engineer with extensive delivery experience of major offshore projects. He has led a number of offshore projects from inception to installation, through a range of certification regimes within both the renewables and oil and gas sectors. Having led the Project Delivery division with WT, developing best practice regarding risk and schedule management, Ed currently supervises a range of different offshore wind project in order to achieve brilliant results for our clients. In addition to managing a series of challenging technical packages and project, Ed has a keen understanding of constructability and installation sequencing, and how they should be addressed within the design.

Ashley is a Chartered Engineer with experience in engineering consultancy projects including offshore wind integrity management, offshore substation design and offshore oil and gas integrity since 2007. He has a strong blend of Project Management and Technical skills and is experienced at leading teams across multiple locations and collaborating with our clients. In his role as Head of Engineering, he oversees WT’s Project Delivery Division of over 20 Project Managers and Administrators.

Ruth is a chartered Mechanical Engineer, with over 20 year experience in managing global energy projects. Experienced in multi-national projects, both from a Contractor and Company stance, Ruth is delivery focussed with a passion for improved collaboration. With a deep knowledge of offshore construction, Ruth brings added diversity of experience to the project management team. Ruth is married with 1 daughter, and lives in Surrey, UK.

Having joined Wood Thilsted in 2016 Robert has played a key role in embedding the One Team approach as Wood Thilsted grew from 5 people to where it is today. An experienced Chartered Accountant, Robert brought with him a diverse background of Governance, risk and control from his time with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte. Today Robert is responsible for the wellbeing of our people, from leading the Talent Strategy, the IT and Data teams as well as delivering our ambition to become recognised as a company for good with B Corp accreditation.

Paul has more than 20 years experience in offshore, urban and civil geotechnical projects including planning, site investigation, design, construction and project management. Paul has been leading the geotechnical development and design of offshore wind projects since 2009. He has considerable experience in client development strategy / support and risk management, geoscience desk studies and due diligence, offshore survey planning and execution, geotechnical interpretation and design and installation assessment of foundations, cables and jackups. Paul is experienced in software development and data management to assist with engineering design and processes.

Amir is a civil engineer with more than seven years of experience within offshore engineering. He has worked with structural analysis and design of offshore jacket structures for oil platforms and for more than 6 years he has been working as an offshore geotechnical and structural engineer performing geotechnical interpretative works of advanced laboratory tests and primary MP/TP design derivation. Amir holds a M.Sc. from Aalborg University where he extensively worked with the cyclic response of soils with emphasis on the design of suction caissons for wind turbines.

Vanrisch is a geophysicist with over 15 years of professional experience gained whilst working on oil and gas and renewable projects in the North Sea, West Africa, North America and mainland Europe. His main specialism is deep geophysical methods, including 3D modelling, seismic inversion and seismic processing. Vanrisch has a broad experience base and is particularly well suited to projects involving the integration of multi-disciplinary data in complex geological environments. He has been instrumental in the testing and application of novel geophysical methods aimed at greater overall efficiency, reduced project timelines and increased ground model robustness.

Brian is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ experience in offshore geotechnical engineering. His skills include site characterisation – ranging from regional reviews of geological conditions and associated risks and constraints for foundation installation and performance - to designing site-specific campaigns and leading subsequent detailed interpretation, all for a wide range of structure types and design environments.

Martin has more then 14 years’ experience in the Offshore Wind Industry and a very strong academic background within the field, as proven by an excellent academic and industrial track record. Prior to his current role as Technical Director responsible for maintaining and continuously improving the technical quality and competences in the structures department at WT, he has played a central role in R&D at Ramboll and held a tenue-track position as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He is an industry leading expert within design driving mechanisms, optimal clustering strategies and complex dynamic sensitivity for monopiles and jackets and has played a central role in pushing forward the industry practice for integrated load analysis (ILA) with all major turbine suppliers. His professional deliveries cover all design stages - from cost-efficient bids for competitive auctions through to certified detailed designs – from which he has gained a solid understanding of how to reach the perfect balance between technical excellence and time optimized, risk mitigated solutions to ensure a cost-optimal design for the Client.

A geotechnical engineer by training, Johan has spent the last 15 years working almost exclusively on offshore wind projects in various roles from detailed designer to site investigation specialist and to various project, line and commercial management roles. Johan has spent 10 years in developer organizations in interacting with decision makers, maturing sites and projects and taking them through all stages including early planning, maturation, construction and operation. Johan has a particular interests in geohazard identification and mitigation as well as geotechnical design optimizations and my expertise includes pile and cable installation, jack-up assessment, pile testing and design. He has recently returned to Europe following a 3 year expatriation to Taiwan setting up the WT branch in Taipei.

Zach is a Director and Country Manager USA for Wood Thilsted, responsible for growing the US business, developing the US team, and delivering the US projects. Zach is an experienced leader and licenced professional engineer, having led multiple WTG foundation design projects. He also has extensive field experience, from early project development through execution and into operations and maintenance.

Matthew is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with 15 years’ experience working on dynamic structural analysis, complex finite element modelling as well as a specialist in offshore wind substructure design. He has been working in offshore wind foundation analysis and design for 10 years, including design projects from concept through to detailed design as well as structural health monitoring and general engineering consultancy inputs to our clients. Throughout his career, Matthew has established and maintained key contacts within the industry and enjoys pushing the engineering boundaries and the industry norms. He has a good client manner and is always willing to take the time to explain technical topics to clients in a way that allows their full understanding of the issues.

Paul has over 15 years’ experience in urban and offshore geotechnical projects including planning, geo-environmental assessments, design, site investigation and project management. Paul has been responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of multi-disciplinary onshore and offshore projects. Project involvement has included desk studies, identification of development risks, site investigation scoping; supervision and management, laboratory analysis, preparation of detailed ground models, assessment of environmental contaminated land risk, derivation of geotechnical design parameters, foundation design and construction supervision. Paul also has a strong background in directors and team management.

Dennis has been working with offshore foundation design for several years and has extensive knowledge of the offshore substructure and foundation industry across multiple phases. A highly analytical professional, he has experience with different design methods to improve the cost-effectiveness and mitigate the critical parameters offshore foundations. He has been working with a wide range of technical aspects through various activities across the project phases as Lead Engineer for the primary steel foundation design and as Load Package Lead.