Davide Migliorini: Senior Lead EngineerSteering Committee Chair, Evolito Ltd and IMechE Design Challenge Steering Committee Chair

Davide has 21 years of experience in automotive, starting from racing into volume production passenger cars, and 4 in aerospace, on mechanical design of electric motors and controllers.

The early years spent as industrial consulting, designer and support engineer in motorcycle Superbike, Super Sport, Endurance and finally in F1 were instrumental to gain pace, weight reduction and simple design skills. While working on passenger cars for series production as Principal Engineer, Davide was main originator of 3 patents.

Davide’s vision is that people come first, by building their confidence through professional development and new technologies explorations. With a cultural background in Italy, UK and Spain, Davide could be agile in a multicultural environment.

Matt Lister: Head of the UK Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator, UK Ministry of Defence and IMechE Design Challenge Head Judge

Matt Lister grew up in Ulverston, South Cumbria and completed an Admiralty Interview Board in 1998 at the tender age of 15.  He studied Mechanical Engineering at Southampton University as a Naval Bursar, before joining BRNC as a Direct Graduate Entrant in 2004.  Although Young Officer time was spent with ALBION and ILLUSTRIOUS, he streamed early as a Submariner and has remained within the SSN force throughout his career, serving as Assistant Engineer Officer in SWIFTSURE Class and then as Head of Department with ASTUTE Class.

Away from Sea Appointments, Matt has worked within the DREADNOUGHT Next Generation Nuclear Propulsion Programme and within the Submarine Flotilla as Staff Marine Engineer Officer to COMSUBFLOT.  More recently he has served in the Submarine Delivery Agency as Military Assistant to Director Submarine Acquisition, before moving across to lead the Safety Team within the Nuclear Propulsion Directorate.  A grateful beneficiary of military education, he attended sponsored degrees with UCL (Marine Engineering) and KCL (Defence Studies) and continues to support academia as Head Judge for the IMechE University Design Challenge.

A Royal Navy D&I Advocate and Parent Governor with Sir John Barrow Primary School, Matt still lives in Ulverston with wife Kim and children Isabelle, William and Jack – who are all immensely proud their dad is “one of the good pirates”.

Dave Terry FIMechE BSc MSc: Senior Engineer, Coleman Milne – Woodal Nicholson Group and IMechE North Western Region Chair

Dave is a chartered Mechanical Engineer and a Fellow of the IMechE. He was awarded a degree by Silsoe College Cranfield and an MSc from Bolton University. Dave’s specialism is the design, manufacture, testing and approval of specialist vehicles including Trucks, Buses, Coaches, Minibuses, WAV’s, vehicles for the Emergency Services and for the Funeral Industry, rising to Director of Engineering. Dave also enjoyed the opportunity to work in the Oil and Gas Industry before returning to Automotive as a consultant and employee. Dave has been involved with a number of design and make challenges including STEM events and Formula Student as well as the Design Challenge, the latter is probably nearest aligned to his day job in that an engineering challenge is set, budget and time are restricted a detail design is completed and some manufacturing and assembly completed before proving and sign off. Nothing gives Dave greater joy than seeing a design through from concept to production.