Kamran Iqbal Founder and CEO EAG

ex Airbus ex Bombardier Transportation

Kamran Iqbal is the Founder and CEO of Electric Aviation Group (EAG) Ltd which was formed and established in August 2017, located in Bristol (UK), the heartland and hub of aerospace industry in the UK. He completed his undergraduate/postgraduate degrees in Aeronautical engineering with distinctions from UK Universities and Executive MBA Programme from Warwick Business School (UK).

He has significant (18+ years) experience in the aerospace industry through his multiple appointments in Airbus Industry, Bombardier Transportation and EAG. During his employment at Airbus, he worked on several Airbus Aircraft programmes (A380, A330 and A340) providing design, certification and in-service support on Landing Gear Systems. He spent last 4 years of his career in Airbus working on Landing Gear R&D projects aligned with Airbus Future Product development strategy. Kamran is co-inventor of first ever in-house Landing Gear Design produced by Airbus for its future aircraft products.​

Before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey as a Founder and CEO of EAG, he also had a stint of 16 months at Bombardier Transportation (Trains Business) as a Global Engineering Lead, Strategist and Director of Climatization Systems.​

Kamran’s career in R&D has earned him 25+ patents (granted and pending) including EAG’s proprietary Urban Air Mobility Aircraft concept ‘Silene’. He also received multiple industrial awards and recognitions working for Airbus. He received a Local Airbus Recognition Award in 2009 for solving a Major In-Service Problem on Airbus A380 Aircraft. He is a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and he also received a centennial scholarship award from the Royal Aeronautical Society.​

Kamran brings along a very strong team with hundreds of years of combined practical experience with a proven track record in launching, executing, implementing and commercialising several aircraft development programmes.​

Prof. Richard Parker Independent Advisor

CBE FREng ex CTO Rolls-Royce

Professor Ric Parker CBE FREng is Chairman, Singapore Low Carbon Energy Research, Technical Committee; Chairman of the Singapore Aerospace Programme and President, International Society for Air-Breathing Engines (ISABE).

He was Chairman of the European Clean Sky programme (€4.4bn) until 2019. Ric is a visiting Professor in Aerospace and Transport Technology at Loughborough University, in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College and in Materials Engineering at Birmingham University, UK.

He has seven Doctorates from various universities worldwide. Ric was appointed Director of Research & Technology, Rolls-Royce Group in January 2001 and retired in April 2016. Ric gained the CBE for Services to Engineering (2013); European CTO of the Year (2014); Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal (2015); Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS) Gold medal (2019).​

Prof. Nigel Brandon Non-Executive Director

OBE FREng FRS Founder Ceres Power and RFC Power​Director of the H2FC SUPERGEN Hub​Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London ​ex Rolls Royce

Professor Nigel Brandon OBE FREng FRS is Dean of Engineering at Imperial College London, Chair of Imperials Sustainable Gas Institute and Director of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell SUPERGEN Hub. He has a track record in developing technology companies in the hydrogen sector.

He joined Imperial College in 1998 following a 14 year research career with BP and Rolls-Royce. He is a founder of the UK AIM listed fuel cell and electrolyser developer Ceres Power, and of the UK flow battery company, RFC Power.​

Niall Olver Independent Advisor

CEO Axis Simulation ex CEO and Chairman ExecuJet Aviation Group

Niall Olver was the founding CEO and Chairman of ExecuJet Aviation Group, and major international corporate aviation player, with aircraft management, operations and maintenance businesses on five continents, operating circa 200 aircraft.

He also is the major shareholder and CEO of Axis Simulation, a player in the level-D flight simulation development and manufacturing market internationally.

Additionally, Niall was a non-executive director of Piper Aircraft Ltd, as well as a consultant to major corporate aircraft OEMs.

Niall is currently the principle of EJ Capital AG, and the shareholder and chairman of Optimus AG, that develops and manufactures the leading integrated surgical environments (ISE), worldwide. These comprise of the most technologically advanced hospital operating theatres, addressing sterility, safety and efficiency by design.

Jerry Stokes Independent Advisor

Executive Chairman Gridserve

Jerry Stokes is the Executive Chairman at Gridserve. Jerry is a proven business leader with over 25 years’ international experience primarily in taking new technology to market and covering the disciplines of sales, marketing, strategy and business development.​

He has over 10 years of C-level management experience leading, managing and growing companies (from being 1st employee to joining a mature team), across a range of ownership structures (listed, private, VC) scale (start-up to P/L responsibility greater than £1.5 billion) and cultures (British, European, American, Japanese, Chinese).

Jerry is a very competitive, determined and results driven business leader. He is confident to ‘lead from the front’ as a member of the team rather than shouting from the sidelines. He prefers a hands-on inclusive management style through which to encourage, coach and motivate his teams to achieve exceptional performance with low voluntary staff turnover. He believes in People, Process and Product to drive Performance.​

He is a trusted, credible and persuasive presenter with strong interpersonal and networking skills proven at the highest levels of Business, Government, NGO’s, Investor Relations and at all levels within several organisations. He had the honour and pleasure to work with the great and the good as well as the good who are well on track to becoming great!

Jerry is a strategic leader who combines an entrepreneurial open minded spirit with more structured and formal corporate thinking having gained extensive knowledge and experience with aligning and optimising multiple location operating entities.​

His passion is to be involved with leveraging technology to increase renewable energy generation, improve energy efficiency and to provide reliable affordable energy access to all. He is excited to learn about new technologies and businesses with whom to contribute his knowledge and experience in an executive or non-executive capacity to achieve business success aligned to his passion.