Directors
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Alan Bond Managing Director Ex-Rolls Royce and British Aircraft Corporation with wide experience in gas turbines and rockets. Employed at the Atomic Energy Authority in 70’s - 80’s on the JET and RFX nuclear research projects. As a consultant engineer to BAe during the HOTOL project, invented and patented the RB545 engine design. Since forming Reaction Engines in 1989, managed evolution of HOTOL into SKYLON. |
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John Scott-Scott Engineering Director Extensive experience in gas turbines, rockets and marine engineering. Chief Hydrodynamics Engineer with Bristol Siddeley/Rolls Royce responsible for advanced turbopump technologies. Project Manager for the HOTOL RB545 engine and led experimental frost control program. Founding Director of Reaction Engines and Chairman of the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust (Coventry Branch). |
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Richard Varvill Technical Director and Chief Designer 10-year career with Rolls Royce, Military Engine Division working on advanced gas turbine concepts (EJ200, Hybrid Fan Vectored Thrust Engine and ACME). Responsible for design work on HOTOL’s RB545 engines and winged launcher studies for European Space Agency. Founding Director of Reaction Engines. |
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Anthony Evans Non-executive Director Corporate Strategy Ex-Coldstream Guards with several tours in Northern Ireland. MSc (RMCS Shrivenham) in Guided Weapon (GW) Systems. Latterly in MOD Procurement Executive, managed aspects of tri-national GW project. Joined Reaction Engines in 1995 and is responsible for strategy, sources of funding and Secretary to the Board. |
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Dr John Garrod Non-executive Director of Business Development. Ex-AEA Technology with extensive background in nuclear research and fusion technology. Responsible for 300 staff as General Manager and grew sales in US and Europe as Head of Physics Technology Department. Finally New Ventures Manager before retiring in 2004. PhD in Thermodynamics. Joined Reaction Engines in 1996. |
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Paul William Portelli (1943-2007)
It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Paul Portelli who was Non-executive Director of Communications. Paul graduated from City of Coventry College of Art and in 1972 founded World’s End Tiles, a London-based manufacturer and importer of ceramic tiles which became a national brand. He sold the business in 2001 to St Gobain. Paul was an aviation enthusiast with a collection of several historic aircraft and a Co-Director of Classic Aero Engineering Ltd, a Company involved in the renovation of classic aircraft. He was a Fellow of the IOD and invested in Reaction Engines in 2001, which enabled the Company to move into its present premises at the Culham site. |
