Executive Team

JENNY SHAW, CEO

BSc Hons, FCIM, MIET, CEng

Jenny focuses on the long-term commercial needs of the business and entrepreneurial opportunities for growth, enabling us to deliver the 10-year growth plan. Jenny’s proven background with P&L responsibility in both public and private sectors, and her engineering background ideally place her to exploit market opportunities whist maintaining profitability. Highly respected and with outstanding leadership skills, Jenny’s passion is valued in both defence and renewable energy sectors and her expertise is drawn on by stakeholders ranging from the Ministry of Defence, Department for International Trade, industry bodies, clients and supply chain. Jenny has reshaped the nature of our client relationships into collaborative partnerships referenced as exemplars by the major defence players. Managing a global team of business development and marketing professionals, Jenny is ensuring that customers seeking lifetime reliability for their critical systems routinely turn to SMI.

GLEN RICHARDSON, ENGINEERING DIRECTOR

MIET, CEng

Glen has more than 25 years’ experience in thermoplastic moulding, building theory and practice from shop floor expertise to bring a synergy of design concept, engineering principles and manufacturing practice to bear into the fit and forget ideology of the company.
Highly respected in the industry, with an impressive track record for bringing innovative products to market, Glen is using his expertise and vision to steward critical technology developments in both marine and aerospace sectors. He is a subject matter expert for naval defence cable infrastructure providing many pioneering solutions for future platforms above and below the waterline.

A commercially astute professional, Glen communicates comfortably with academics, engineering specialists and non-technical stakeholders alike and regularly leads customer discussions in support of projects.

Glen heads a team comprising both design engineers and manufacturing engineers, ensuring synergies are leveraged to deliver repeatable and efficient designs into the production team. Glen is also providing strategic direction for migrating SMI’s manufacturing technologies into Canada and Australia.

PENNY OWENS, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, FCAA

Penny is a strategic and commercially astute Chartered Accountant with a distinguished track record of driving sustainable growth and operational excellence across competitive global markets. She specializes in corporate governance, and high-impact financial stewardship having successfully navigated complex cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions transactions in the UK, Europe, and the US.

Throughout her career, Penny has demonstrated a hands-on leadership style, managing core financial functions while simultaneously executing long-term strategic plans.

Her expertise extends to securing funding, conducting due diligence, and implementing robust internal controls and ERP systems. She also oversees the IT function delivering high quality secure systems to the business.

CARL EVANS, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Carl leads, directs and monitors our operational teams with strong cross-functional leadership, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Compliance functions. He supervises manufacturing planning, scheduling, quality & security adherence, processing, materials management, testing and process control, purchasing and warehouse teams.

Executing the business strategies, Carl develops practices to constantly improve production capability, efficiency, quality and customer service goal; applying modern manufacturing practices and introducing automation where possible to successfully complete and smoothly integrate existing production stream.
Recruiting, and upskilling a fully engaged and talented workforce, Carl also drives performance management and succession planning in manufacturing.

Carl and his team also liaise closely with Engineering to ensure the smooth introduction of new products from R&D.

IOSH trained, Carl delivers strict Health and Safety Compliance in a complex manufacturing environment.

BRET WINCOTT, SALES & MARKETING DIRECTOR

Bret joined SMI in 2025 as Head of Commercial, bringing more than 30 years of experience in business development, sales strategy, and customer engagement. Since joining the company, he has played a key role in enhancing commercial processes, supporting customer relationships, and contributing to SMI’s long‑term growth strategy. His background includes senior roles within the defence and aerospace industries, where he has led business development initiatives across UK and international markets.

Bret leads SMI’s sales and marketing functions, working closely with the commercial team and external partners to deliver high‑quality support and service to customers worldwide.