Dave joined KGAL as a Director in April 2006 and was appointed CEO, with full responsibility for P&L across the Company, in 2016. With over 40 years' experience in the design, manufacture and construction of large capital equipment, along with a vast and varied back catalogue of projects under his belt, he's well-qualified to lead the team. Having started out in gate design and with a number of years on and around heavy contruction sites, he provides a very practical contribution to the deisgn process, risk reduction and site supervision activites.

Russ joined KGAL as an Engineer in 1998 and was appointed Regional Managing Director, with full responsibility for the Poole office, in 2015. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1984, became a Chartered Engineer in 1992 and a Fellow of the IMechE in 2010. Russ has been designing hydraulic steel structures for over 20 years and has been instrumental in implementing 3D CAD modelling and Finite Element Analysis within the company. He is the UK’s co-opted representative on the ICOLD (International Conference on Large Dams) Hydromechanical Committee, where he advises on international best practice in gate design, and he now specialises in the application of Reliability Engineering to moving steel structures.

Tim (BSc Hons) joined KGAL in 2011 to help the Company expand its operations in the hydro field. Following the successful completion of several hydro specific projects, he was appointed Projects Director in 2018. His background is heavily based on hydropower, which has generated extensive mechanical engineering knowledge on large rotating equipment, and he has held senior positions on major overseas hydro construction sites, working at board level for his previous multi-national employers in both engineering and commecial roles.

Stewart (CEng MIMechE) has over 50 years’ experience of gate related design under his belt. Previous employment includes Newton Chambers, Boving, Kvaerner and GE hydro all in a gate design related role.

After gaining a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Gustavo worked for 11 years exclusively in engineering for large scale hydroelectric projects in Venezuela, most significantly on projects related to Guri Dam projects, the fifth largest power station worldwide. Focusing mainly on hydraulic gates equipment, covering structural design and FE structural analysis, he also has experience working in engineering for turbines, generators and cranes. Gustavo joined KGAL in 2018 as part of the structural design team.

Mark joined KGAL in 2018 as a Design Draughtsman. He has a wealth of experience across many engineering disciplines having initially serving an apprenticeship and then working as a Contract Draughtsman. He spent 25 years in the oil & gas industry, crossing over from the drawing board to 2D, 3D CAD draughting, and is now applying his knowledge and expertise on a number of gate and bridge projects.

James (BSc CEng MIMechE) joined us in early 2021. His career in mechanical engineering began over 40 years ago with Rolls Royce, followed by roles with GE Energy (previously Kvaerner Boving) in the UK and India, where developed his knowledge and skills in design, procurement and installation of mechanical hydropower equipment. After broadening his expertise in the oil & gas, rail, electricty and nuclear industries, he's now joined our highly experienced team of Project/Contract Managers.

Nick (FIMechE) joined KGAL in 2016 as a Hydro Engineer and was subsequently appointed as an Associate Director. With more than 20 years experience in water turbine and hydraulics, transient anaylsis and overseas project management, he aslo spent 14 years as the Chief M&E Engineer of Britiah waterways, owners of the largest number of moving bridges in the UK. Nick brings some unique water hydraulic and broad project-based engineering expertise to our team.

Julie (AAT) joined KGAL in 2016 having worked previously in the finance departments of a range of commercial and industrial enterprises serving diverse markets, from medical equipment to industrial HVAC engineering to construction. A change in circumstances took her to Cornwall, where she joined a leading property development builder where the fiscal processes prepared her well for a move to KGAL when she returned to Hampshire.

Paul (CEng MIMechE) joined us in 2021. Paul has worked for several blue chip companies, including Johnson Matthey (Davy Process Technology), Honeywell (UOP) and Meggitt (Heatric). His career in mechanical engineering has spanned the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Nuclear, Offshore and Marine industries and he has designed heat exchangers, static equipment, reactor internals, piping and electromechanical skid equipment. Paul has extensive experience with full PLM, R&D, NPI and product certification and compliance with ASME BPVC, MED, CE & ATEx.

Ken undertook a technical apprenticeship in a large Southampton base ship yard. He is the founder of what is now KGAL Consulting Engineers, which he formed out of a partnership that was started in 1991. He did so after a successful career with a specialist design and build contractor making water control gates and turbines, where he was Technical Director and later Managing Director. He has played a number of roles within KGAL, initially being intimately involved in the design process and later as Project Manager and Project Director for ever-increasing value and complex projects. In April 2016 Ken stood down as Executive Chairman to become Consultant - Technical Director, officially retiring in 2021.

Yue (MEng (Hons) CEng MIMechE) joined KGAL as a graduate engineer in 2012 after graduating from University of Bristol with a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering and, in 2023, was promoted to Senior Engineer. She has diverse experience from general M&E design to more specialised areas, such as hydraulic steel structures and moving bridges and is now a key member of the team carrying out structural and mechanical design, hydraulic simulations and leading HAZOP studies.

Brent has more than 30 years gate design experience having started as an apprectice technician at Newton Chambers before joining their design office as a draughtsman. Working his way up, he achieved an HNC in mechanical engineering and gained experience on a number of large hydro projects, including Nathpa Jhakri, India, whilst working for Kvaerner Boving. this was then taken over by GE, for whom he worked on the Esti hydropower project, Panama, designing wheel gates and stoplogs and working in a sub-contractor’s offices in Thailand, supervising the production of detail drawings to his design. Brent joined KGAL in 2005 and has worked on numerous Environment Agency projects since then, including carrying out CDM Site Supervision of the Hull Tidal Barrier refurbishment, as well as the Xayaburi HPP in Laos and the Maris Hydro Project in The Philippines.

Paul (MIET, HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering) joined KGAL as a Senior Engineer in 2007 and was appointed Associate Director in 2015. As an apprentice trained electrical engineer with over 35 years' experience in deisgn, installation and maintenance of industrial control systems, he has gained the skills and knowledge required to identify fundamental control issues and produce original conceptual and detailed design solutions. Having spent most of his working life on and around safety critical installations, he has a thorough understanding of the engineering principles and techniques used to evaluate reliability of an installation and pinpoint potential areas for improvement.

Dawn joined KGAL in 2013 as an Accounts Assistant, moving up to Office Manager in 2016. She plays a pivotal role helping to ensure that projects are invoiced in a timely manner, bills get settled and staff get paid, as well as running our Poole office. Prior to joining KGAL, she spent 12 years providing administrative and accounting support to a leading national building society. After broadening her accounting skills, she joined our team and has since passed with Merit her BTEC Advanced Certificate in Payroll techniques.

Jacqui joined KGAL in 2007. As our Compliance Manager, Jacqui ensures that the Company provides a consistent level of service that meets both external and internal requirements in the UK and overseas. Establishing compliance procedures and controls, overseeing quality standards and monitoring perfirmance, she gathers data and statistics and prepares the relevant reports. Jacqui makes sure that our management system is functioning properly, keeping up to date and implementing changes, along with organising the training, tools and processes to enable others to meet and exceed compliance standards.

Billy joined KGAL as an apprentice Mechanical Engineer and Junor CAD Technician in 2014. Since joining us he has achieved his HNC in Mechanical Engineering and has gained invaluable experience in 2D & 3D detail drawings and modelling, along with site surveying experience at some of our overseas projects. In 2023 Billy was promoted to Engineer.

Rob joined KGAL as an Associate in 2008 and has more than 30 years' experience as a mechanical design engineer and project engineer within several heavy engineering industries, inlcuding metals processing and marine/water related projects. His focus since joining us has been on water control projects and the design of various types of gate/barrage installations, together with condistion assessments and reports. He's been heavily involved with various projects for the Environment Agency for major flood defence structures, river level management and drainage schemes, and more recently has been appointed Project Manager for aspects of the Thames Estuary Asset Management (TEAM2100) scheme.

Shaun joined KGAL in 2021 as Senior Electrical Engineer. He is a Chartered Engineer BEng (Hons) CEng MIET CMSE with over 30 years' industrial experience in FMCG, water, rail, chemical, automotive and heavy industry. Shaun has dropped seamlessly into the KGAL organisation, supplementing our existing Controls and Reliability resource and quickly becoming an established member of the team.

Darryl joined KGAL in 2015 with over 30 years' experience in the construction industry under his belt having worked from the bottom up, from site through to management, giving him a thorough understanding of the multfaceted requirements of large projects. Joining us as an Engineer working predominantly with our moving bridges team undertaking roles such as Client's Supervisor and Site Management, he achieved a Price2 Practitioner qualification in 2019 and became a Project Manager working primarily on a multi-million-pound canal restoration project for local government in the southwest of England.

Angela (BSc Hons CEng FIMechE) joined KGAL in 2012. She has been in the engineering industry for almost 50 years and a professionally qualified Mechanical Engineer for over 40 years. Beginning her career with Markham and Company Ltd in heavy engineering, her experience spans most branches of engineering, including hydropower plant manufacture, tunnelling machine design, moving bridge design, high speed newspaper printing machinery and tidal stream turbines. With a number of notable achievements, incduing leading the engineering team to design, manufacture, install and commission the World's first commercial scale tidal turbine in Northern Ireland, she is today recognised as one of the country’s leading authorities on moving bridge design.

George (MEng EngTech MIMeche) joined KGAL in 2017 as a graduate engineer and was promoted in 2023 to Engineer. He graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining KGAL, he spent four years working as an assistant fitter at Southern Locomotives, including an industrial placement year as part of his degree, which involved assisting with the overhaul of one of the company’s steam locomotives, ‘257 Squadron’. He has gained experience with us on both moving bridges and hydraulic steel structures, becomng a very versatile member of the team providing structural and mechanical design, FEA and HAZOP studies. George is currently working twoards becoming a Chartered Engineer.

Jasper (BEng CEng MIMechE) joined KGAL in 2007, prior to which he worked in the oil & gas industry as a Contracts Engineer at Heatric and as a boat builder of luxury super yachts at Sunseeker International. Now a Project Manager and Senior Mechanical Engineer, since joining the team he has worked on projects such as the design of a lifeboat tipping cradle for the RNLI;  mitre gates and lock design in Bristol; Al Khiran (Kuwait) tidal gates design; lock and gate design in Emerald bay (Malaysia); Carpenters Lock radial gates at Olympic Park in London; Polperro storm gate in Cornwall (which was awarded teh ICE South West Civil Engineering 2020 award for project under £3m); along with a variety of Scottish Power/ Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and UK Environment Agency (EA) projects.

Adam BSc (Hons) joined KGAL as a Mechanical Engineer in 2017 after graduating from Bournemouth University with a degree in Product Design. The bulk of Adam’s work involves carrying out the 3D modelling and drawing aspects of projects, integrating physically surveyed dimensions, and 3D laser scans of sites amongst other integration techniques. His responsibilities also include ensuring all employees’ software is operating as desired and is constantly striving for a high standard of all Computer Aided Design disciplines within the business.