Jim Godman

Served in the RAF and now Chair of Frome RAFA Branch, employed in senior roles at AgustaWestland (now Leonardo) including as Head of R&T, in GKN as Head of Engineering Integration leading the Fokker Integration of Engineering and then as Director of Engineering Services and at Safran as Test Centre Director at Seats GB Cwmbran and now in the UK National Executive Office as lead for Strategy and External Relations. Also runs two companies, a festival and was instrumental in creating three national centres the National Composite Centre (NCC), the GKN Global Technology Centre and the EPIC Centre for Photonics in Torbay