09/04/2021
Here is your quarterly summary of some of the successes of Cranfield alumni:
- Samer Majali (MSc Air Transport Management 1983) has been appointed President/CEO at Royal Jordanian airlines
- Izidoro Vignola (Operations Strategy), Co-Founder of PGIFarma and Visus Integrate, has been named by Farmacore Biotecnologia as part of a consortium of partners working on the development of the Versamune®-CoV-2FC vaccine.
- Dr Dhanapala Jayakody Arachchige (PhD Air Transport) features in an article: ‘From apprentice to a commission in the royal air force’.
- Joanna Franco-Wheeler (MBA 2021), Director of Organisational Development and Diversity at Inmarsat, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Directory on Derbyshire County Cricket Club’s Supervisory Board.
- Broen Le Diodic (MSc Automotive Engineering 2016) features in an article discussing his business, Breizh Trax, and what led him to decide not to pursue a career in automotive engineering and put his skills to use creating sports equipment, street furniture and other products such as stairgates instead.
- Anatoly Silko (MBA 2019) features in an interview with Startup, discussing his business Rocking Tech.
- Robert Ledward-Smith (Finance Fundamentals for Growing Businesses, 2017; Talent Development Programme 2020)General Manager of Champneys Tring resort, features on Boutique Hotelier’s ‘Power List’. Robert attended Cranfield School of Management through a St Julian Scholarship in 2019.
- Karen Adie (MSc Management 2014), Director of Merchant Services at TradeDepot, features in an interview with Business Day Nigeria.
- Jeff Delaune (MSc Astronautics and Space Engineering 2009), an engineer working on the Mars Ingenuity drone project, features in a profile published by Maville.
- Dr Ava Patricia Avila (PhD Defence and Security 2010) features in an interview published by E-International Relations.
- Sanjay Kapoor (MBA 1997) features on a list of 35 candidates for membership on STC’s board of directors.
- Ander Iturri (MSc Astronautics and Space Engineering 2012) has been appointed as the new Director of Mobility.
- Ahmad Lawan (PhD Applied Remote Sensing 1991) has been conferred with an honorary fellowship award of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors.
- Siti Juita (PhD Aerospace 2016), the first woman in Malaysia to obtain a professional drone licence, is encouraging more women to engage with the field of drone technology.
- Sandra Façanha (MSc Logistics and Transportation 1997) features in an article discussing how Covid-19 has changed the logistics network.
- Mark Morley (MSc Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing 1992) has co-authored an article published by Industry Today discussing how investment in Internet of Things, AI and cloud technologies can help companies to gain the visibility and connectivity to adjust to crises.
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If you've been featured in the media, don't forget to share your successes with us so we can include them in our quarterly roundup. Email our Alumni Communications team including a link to the web site or press release.
Check out last quarter's summary (January - March 2021) here.