Chris Powley
Chris is a longstanding Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers who began his career as an engineer apprentice with Vickers. He subsequently joined the design departments of GEC (Process Engineering), BICC and Reed Paper Group before entering publishing with Morgan Grampian (Publishers), working on Process Engineering and The Engineer before becoming editor of Control and Instrumentation. He joined the fledgling Findlay Publications as editor of Works Management; before becoming editor of Machinery and production engineering in 1980. His role expanded to take in various other titles, including Machinery Classified and Machinery Buyers Guide, and subsequently editorial director of Findlay's Machpress group.
Nigel Jones
Nigel's career in manufacturing began in 1976 with Halifax-based machine tool manufacturer Warner & Swasey, where he was promoted to a management position immediately upon completion of his apprenticeship. He held similar positions within several manufacturing and sub-contracting companies before joining cutting tool manufacturer, G R Booth, where he was sales and marketing manager with responsibility for advertising, exhibitions and promotional material. During his time with G R Booth, the company’s sales doubled and it gained entry to the lucrative US market. He joined Findlay Publications in 1998, shortly afterwards being appointed deputy editor of Machinery and editor of Sheet Metal Industries as well as taking editorial responsibility for various contract publishing ventures, including the MACH and Tooling exhibition catalogues.
Simon Simmons
Fresh from college, Simon joined Sony as a graduate engineer, and after completing a one-year induction programme assumed the role of mechanical engineer at the company's CRT plant in Bridgend. After four years he moved into the automotive industry, working as a project engineer for Lucas SEI Wiring Systems. Another role in the automotive industry was taken up with an aperture sealing company, before taking up the position of project engineer at Chubb Fire Extinguishers.
He was then tempted away from mainstream engineering into the world of business-to-business publishing, when he became associate editor on Machinery & Production Engineering. After two years he became editor of Production Engineering Solutions and subsequently editorial director for MIT Publishing.