Education
BSc Engineering, London University, 1961
MA Cambridge University, 1966

Professional Associations
Fellow Institution of Electrical Engineers FIEE, CEng
Fellow Institute of Physics FInstP, CPhys, CSci
Visiting Fellow  University of Cranfield

Publications
Numerous papers on electronics, radar, microwaves, astronomy (winning an IEE prize for the best paper of the year), quartz crystals, process control, project management, mapping, and GIS.  See Publications.

Capabilities
Bill Metcalf has wide experience of industrial practices and management.  The strong ties he has established with academic research, together with running a cost-conscious, high-technology electronics company, form a sound basis for managing complex, inter-disciplinary contracts and projects.  During the past few years he has managed software projects for the CAD industry (60 man-years), for meteorological instrumentation, computer networking, mapping systems (a fully integrated data-capture and electronic map-production system for flight simulators), a space mission (on behalf of ESA), and robotic manufacturing systems.

He set up Cambridge Strategic Management in 1986 to provide a range of professional consultancy and training - mainly to British industry.  He also set up Geo Strategies (both Ltd in the UK, and SA in Romania) to produce digital mapping and related services for the GIS and e-commerce industries

Background and Experience

1993 - Pres		Founded Geo Strategies Ltd, a Joint Venture Company with Geo Strategies SA in Romania, specialising in data capture, digital mapping, GIS and image processing.
1991 -1992		Temporary Managing Director of Laser-Scan Limited, a £10M company.
1986 - Pres		Set up own company (Cambridge Strategic Management) supplying a project management and consultancy service.
1978 -1986		Philips Group. Appointed Managing Director of Cathodeon Crystals with full commercial and profit responsibility - employing 420 people.
1969 -1977		Cathodeon Crystals. Initially as Chief Engineer and latterly as Technical Director responsible for the design and manufacture of high precision quartz for the electronics industry.
1968		Sabbatical leave as a consultant to Hewlett Packard in California working on thin-film microwave devices (patented).
1963 -1969		Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University as an electronics consultant to the department of physics. Although this was a teaching post, the majority of the work was in support of radio astronomy and arctic exploration (through-ice radar).
1961 -1963		Metropolitan Vickers as a radar engineer working on the design of low noise receivers, ECM and ECCM systems.