Mr Graham Penning, David Brown Gear Systems
Currently Group Technology Director of David Brown Gear Systems, Graham Penning has been a director and general manager of the David Brown Group of companies for the last 20 years. He was appointed to his current position in 2009 when he established the David Brown Gear Academy to retain and develop the core skills of the business. This innovative institution has now enrolled over 800 students on to its courses and in conjunction with the University of Huddersfield has launched a unique MSc in Gear Technology.
Always taking an active interest in the greater engineering and academic community his achievements have been recognised at the highest national level when he was awarded in 2005 the position of Officer of the Order of the British Empire by HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to the UK Defence Industry. In 2006 he accepted the award of the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the Senate and Council of the University of Huddersfield. He is Chairman of the British Gear Association, a fellow of the RSA, and in December 2011 was appointed visiting professor of practice at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
