Constitution of the board
The major aerospace companies Collins Aerospace, Meggitt, Moog Aircraft Group and Rolls-Royce are permanently represented on the MAA board of directors by senior managers. MAA members elect additional directors for two-year terms. Other directors are appointed to ensure that a variety of expert perspectives from across the Midlands aerospace cluster are brought to bear on board decision-making.
MAA board meeting
MAA chair and vice chair
Our chair and vice chair are David Danger and Peter Smith. David also chairs the MAA Finance Committee.
David Danger, Managing Director, Materials and Non-Destructive Testing, Intertek
Peter Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive, Nasmyth Group
Electing new directors
We announced the names of one newly elected director and two directors returned to the MAA board for two year terms of office at the MAA members meeting and AGM on 14 November 2018 kindly hosted by MAA member Solihull College.
The new director is David Whiffin. David Danger, Managing Director, Materials and Non-Destructive Testing, Intertek and Peter Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive, Nasmyth Group were re-elected.
Major company directors
Steve McMulkin
Group Quality Manager
Meggitt
Coventry, Birmingham, Shepshed
Stuart Mclachlan
Group Vice President & General Manager
Aircraft Control Components Sector
Moog Aircraft Group
Wolverhampton
Wendy Stopher (Chair, MAA Business Development Group)
Head of Group Purchasing
Rolls-Royce
Birmingham & Derby
Lisa Swan
Operations Director and Site Lead
Collins Aerospace - Actuation Systems
Wolverhampton
Elected directors from the supply chain
Stephen Cheetham
Managing Director
PK Engineering
Hereford
David Danger (MAA Chair)
Managing Director, Materials and Non-Destructive Testing
Intertek
Derby
Alan Duffield
General Manager, Winbro Advanced Machining
Winbro Group Technologies Limited
Coalville
Peter Bruch
Managing Director
AE Aerospace
Birmingham
Peter Smith (MAA Vice Chair)
Chairman and Chief Executive
Nasmyth Group
Coventry and Pinxton
David Whiffin
Appointed directors
Neil Holmes
Managing Director
Columbia Precision Ltd
Robin Hill (Chair, MAA Technology Development Group)
Head of Electronics
Rolls-Royce
Jay Patel
Head of Economic Development
Wolverhampton City Council
Neil Rawlinson
Director - Strategic Development
The Manufacturing Technology Centre
TBC
Councillor
Derby City Council
Annette Rothwell (Chair, MAA Supply Chain Performance Group)
Senior Vice President, Operations Excellence
Esterline Corporation
Tony Tinley
Regional Officer
Unite the Union
