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With proven expertise across IT, finance, engineering, and sales, the Aplomb Digital Founders deliver a uniquely precise and highly efficient service model that elevates performance, reduces cost and compresses schedules across a wide range of engineering and manufacturing disciplines.​

John Vadino

CEO

Has led companies from just an idea to market. Through 35 years with brands in the Technology, Aerospace and Manufacturing markets he has helped bring new products to life. As The Production Network Inc. founder, he has created technologies and systems to build creative solutions for his team’s client’s products. As a lead investor he has driven TPN.Odyssey toward satisfying the need of industry to build the single source of truth for complex engineering and manufacturing projects. His strength is bringing together the right partners to create something larger than what they can do separately. ​

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Steve Evans

Head of Sales

Worked for 18 years for SCC one of Europe’s largest IT resellers. A lead account, CSC (Now DXC Technologies) gave him access to the Aerospace and Defence sector with clients like BAE Systems, Siemens and Dassault. Then working with Oracle and other 3rd parties through his company GemDT “The Engineering Hub” was architected to build future Digital Twin solutions.​

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Pat Needham

COO

Has spent the last 28 years in aerospace with Boeing in their Commercial Airplane, customer finance, and Global Services divisions. He is viewed as an innovative senior leader with a proven trackrecord in marketing, customer relations, financial analysis, strategic market engagement, and sustainableaerospace circular economies. Known for driving operational efficiency and delivering measurable resultsthrough strategic brand-focused engagements and large-scale event marketing.​

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Steve Fletcher

Chief Standards Officer

(BEng DipM) Has over 40 years’ experience within manufacturing engineering metrology. He started his career at Rolls-Royce Aerospace in 1976 within the Precision Casting Facilities. Fletch as he is called, received a Mechanical Engineering Degree and achieving the Lord Hives Award. He moved into RB 211 524 and early Trent engine development team working on development civil engines Turbine and combustion modules. Steve then went back to Rolls-Royce Aerospace, as the Global Process Ownerfor Contact and Non-contact measurement solution across all businesses and supply chain, introducing new measurement solution and analysis application with the manufacturing space.​​

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Mike Phillips

Chief Technology and Solutions Architect

And his team are systems integration specialists with extensive experience designing, installing, and commissioning advanced inspection solutions for modern manufacturing environments. His work focuses on translating complex inspection requirements into practical, high performance systems that integrate seamlessly into existing production lines. Through Envisage Systems,he brings a vendor independent approach, selecting best in class hardware and technologies from a widerange of suppliers to ensure each solution is optimized for the application rather than constrained by proprietary limitations. Through careful planning and close collaboration, I help manufacturers implement inspection systems with minimal disruption and maximum operational impact.​​​

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Professor Andrew Sherlock

Chief Data Architect

And also is CEO of the Arrol Gibb Innovation Campus (AGIC) at Rosyth, Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde, and founder and CEO of ShapeSpace Ltd. His career spans advanced manufacturing, digital engineering, artificial intelligence and technology commercialisation. At ShapeSpace, a University of Edinburgh spin-out, he has led the development and deployment of engineering analytics, product data intelligence and 3D CAD search technologies in industry. He has also held senior roles at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, leading data-driven manufacturing and industry facing innovation programmes. His work focuses on translating research and emerging technologies into practical deployment across defence, maritime, aerospace, nuclear and advanced manufacturing, and he is now leading AGIC’s development as a collaborative innovation environment for industry, government, academia and skills partners.

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Paul Garrish

Chief PLM Specialist

Has spent the last 25 years architecting and supporting PLM deployments on some of the largest programs in the UK including Typhoon, Astute, Dreadnought, Type 26 and latterly on Hinkley Point C.  He has worked with Teamcenter, Windchill and 3DX as well as integrations with Baan, IFS and SAP.

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