Mike Hinton
Consultant, High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Prof Mike Hinton’s career spans 40 years of R&D conducted for the UK Ministry of Defence (and latterly QinetiQ) followed by 11 years (so far !) in support of the UK High Value Manufacturing Catapult. He is an experienced Director, Chief Technology Officer and Special Merit expert with a unique breadth of expertise, coupled with an extensive track record of creating / leading high performance capability groups that deliver a diverse and complex range of solutions to meet customer and business needs.
In addition, Mike is the CEO of a micro-SME which develops, manufactures and sells innovative structural health monitoring systems for the management of capital assets.
Mike’s experience encompasses the full TRL 1-9 and MRL 1-9 spectrum, together with an understanding of the associated business drivers across a wide variety of industrial sectors, academia and Government. He has personal experience of working on leading edge research (co-author of a book and many highly cited publications), major defence procurement programs, international defence collaboration, and many industrially focused development programs. He is currently working closely with senior industrial specialists, academia and the UK Gov’t to catalyse a national activity aimed at placing the UK at the forefront of engineering transformation.
Mike was elected as a World Fellow by the International Committee on Composite Materials.