Mark is a technical leader with 20 years’ experience in aerospace, EV automotive & infrastructure businesses. He joined 3ti as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in 2021 to maintain 3ti’s position as the UK’s leading solar car park company through innovative, scalable, market-leading & globally applicable technologies that use solar, battery & EV charge points to optimise existing site grid connections. Graduating in 2003 with a Masters in Electronic Engineering with Computing Science, Mark joined BAE Systems Defence Avionics, where he worked on numerous military & civil aerospace contracts. Moving into the automotive industry in 2008, Mark joined start-up Protean Electric, introducing in-wheel electric motors to the then, emerging EV sector. He gained technical expertise across battery, charging & control systems, international mains standards, safety design & global homologation. Today, Mark is heading up the exciting new Papilio3 V2X FastHub project, to demonstrate how electric vehicle batteries can be used to smooth out peaks in supply and demand to balance the UK's electricity grid. He remains passionately committed to sustainability and the environment, with customers at the heart of everything he does.