Nick Farrant

Nick has spent over 30 years in the field of Asset Performance Management, at the intersection of machinery, data, and the new business models formed to operate and service complex machinery at the highest levels of performance, reliability, and safety. Nick most recently spent time addressing the rapidly growing distributed energy market, building long-term services to underpin Energy as Service agreements for virtual utilities. Prior to this, Nick spent time leading service development and customer engagement in major asset-intensive industries, including Aerospace, Medical Devices, Automotive, Oil & Gas, and Nuclear.  

Benefiting from experiences gained from leading the development and commercialization of novel new digital services from the perspective of start-up ventures like Oxford Bio Signals (acquired by Rolls-Royce) and YASA Motors (acquired by Mercedes Benz), where Nick was CEO, to major OEMs like Rolls-Royce and Westinghouse and pure Technology providers like Uptake Technologies, Nick has a strong appreciation of cross-Industry practices and what successful adoption of digital technologies, including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, looks like.  

Nick completed a Rolls-Royce Engineering Apprenticeship and qualified as a Materials Scientist at Bristol in the UK. Nick has led extensive Engineering and Operations team and has held several Global Sales positions, with many years of experience in international markets, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.