Chairman and chief executive Peter Smith, 70, founded this engineering group in 2003. It makes components for the aerospace, defence and energy sectors and counts BAE Systems, Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce among its customers. The Coventry-based company has 14 manufacturing operations in the UK, India and America, where it opened its new regional headquarters in California in 2018. International sales reached £23.9m last year, boosted by work that included a satellite transport system and an acoustic minesweeping project.