Piers Corfield

My current role with Ballista centres on advising customers seeking to revolutionise management and operation of infrastructure and systems, in both conventional and renewable energy, and utility sectors. Our focus is to meet demands for greater mobility; electronic security; and the provision of intuitive systems, including digital twins. In a similar vein, I provide expertise to support organisations to realise a net zero target and decarbonise. I do so by applying digitisation approaches pioneered within aviation to transform legacy infrastructure, assets and processes, and developing self-sustaining sensing and instrumentation systems. Underpinning this is the optimisation of cost-effective and pragmatic system design to increase operational efficiency.

standard in compliance by directing development of the world's leading cyber-physical pipeline infrastructure solution. In practical terms, this involved overseeing research activity on proprietary IP and capability development, securing multi-million-pound investment, and establishing a global engineering partnership with a multi-billion-dollar multi-national. My role also involved overseeing the development of organisational strategy and branding, and establishing a world-class team of staff. I designed the technical architecture and engineering systems, and separately I supported customers to enhance security, safety and profitability, and achieve environmentally sustainable outcomes, by leveraging new technologies to apply the ethical use of knowledge and discovery from customer data. Finally, I directed the provision of bespoke continuous monitoring solutions relating to the acquisition and transmission of data; advanced and predictive analytics, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence; and presentation of data. Accountability also lay with me to embed environmental and social and corporate governance as a core organisational value across all aspects of Dashboard's activity.

Ballista is my consultancy vehicle for providing consultancy/interim services to a number of enterprises spanning multiple industrial sectors on challenges ranging from the strategic use of technology to change/turnaround and startup. My career has given me a broad-based perspective having worked with corporate entities ranging from PPP projects to SPVs and start-up enterprises. The availability of cloud/ mobile technologies is transforming all sectors and I am keen to work with any company/organisation or individuals seeking to adapt/leverage the opportunities to achieve creative innovation.