Industry Connections

Chris Isaac has held many positions in engineering/science marketing and communications here are just a few…

Operations Director
FESTOMANE LIMITED
Jan 2017 – Present
Location: Gloucestershire

Festomane is a charity that works to encourage more young people into engineering and manufacturing. I believe in supporting our UK manufacturing base and inspiring young people to enter the world of engineering and show them the variety of roles available.

This year we are running the following projects and events:
• The Apprenticeships & Careers Show for ages 14+
• The Engineer Your Futures event, aimed at Primary School children in year 6.
• STEM Workshops in Primary schools across the county
• Festomane’s Dragons Den Innovation Competition 2018
• Our new Apprenticeships online portal.

Chair
(EMNF) ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NETWORKING FORUM
May 2017 – Present
Location: Gloucestershire

The Free networking group for local Engineers & Manufacturers, based in Stroud and across Gloucestershire, meeting on the third Thursday of the month, every two months.

Or aim is to:
Unite – local engineers and manufacturers in one unique group
Support – with opportunities to collaborate and tender with other businesses
Share – knowledge, technology and experience with each other

EMNF is a not-for-profit networking group run by and for engineering and manufacturing professionals. EMNF is free to any person at management level working in either engineering or manufacturing within Gloucestershire.

Strategic Partner
Made In Britain
Jun 2016 – Present
Location: London, United Kingdom
Using my 22 years experience in working with the UK manufacturing sector to unite, support and promote products Made In Britain

Website Development, Design Consultant
MiT – TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – Science Office
Jun 2017 – Mar 2018
Location: USA
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is a space telescope for NASA’s Explorers program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. It was launched on April 18, 2018 atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

Chair
gFirst LEP Creative Industries Sector
Jun 2014 – 2016
Location: Gloucestershire

The Creative Sector Group aims to:

1. To help utilise the Growth Hub and support services offered by GfirstLEP
2. Retain more of the brightest art and design students in Gloucestershire
3. Create a countywide approach to art and design, from funding to promotion
4. To help support promotion of the creative sector outside the county
5. To close the gap between the arts & design sector and secondary schools in the county