Director - Electronics Development:

Grahame Gerrard (HNC CGLI)

Age: 46

On leaving school with 6 'O' levels, Grahame joined what is now British Telecom. During his 22 years stay, he gained technical qualifications in electronics and communications and reached a position as Technical Support Manager and subsequently Projects Manager, because of his creative skills. In the latter stages of his BT career, Grahame won a national "New Ideas" competition and nearly £40,000; his idea saved BT over £350,000 pa following his creation of a fault detection system.

The above competition win wet Grahame's creative appetite and this led to his leaving BT in 1993 to form his own electronics design consultancy on a full-time basis; he had previously done work on a limited part-time basis. This consultancy has proved very successful and some of his products have won awards for his clients; e.g.. Directional Ambulance Alarms. As well as his semi-executive role in Gorix Limited, Grahame is part-time Group Technical Director of Winterwarm Limited in Birmingham and Managing Director of Winterwarm (Hong Kong).