Keith of Cherry Clough Consultants

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Keith graduated from Imperial College London in 1972 with 2.1 Honours BSc in Electrical Engineering. He worked for others for 18 years, including on digital professional audio and microwave instruments, before starting Cherry Clough Consultants in 1990. At Cherry Clough, they use well-proven SI, PI, EMC engineering design and manufacturing to help manufacturers reduce project costs, timescales, warranty costs and risks.

Keith won the IEEE award in 2018 for “Excellence in Continuing EMC Engineering Education, for continuing education in EMC, signal integrity and power integrity from a practically based point of view”.

He is the UK’s representative on IEC 60601-1-2, IEC 61000-1-2 and IEC 61000-6-7, chaired IET’s 2017 Code of Practice on Electromagnetic Resilience in Support of Functional Safety and IEEE Std 1848-2020 “Techniques and Measures to Manage Functional Safety and Other Risks. 

He has been a member of the IEE/IET since 1977 and a Fellow since 2010, and a member the IEEE since 1997 and a Senior Member since2010. 

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Chris of Cherry Clough Consultants

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Chris Nicholas, an IEEE Member and Salford University graduate, has over 35 years of experience in RF design for military, aerospace, automotive, commercial, and retail electronics.

Chris spearheaded RF and EMC labs, drove high-volume design, secured a patent for antenna diversity, and later managed a Military EMC pre-compliance facility at Lockheed Martin UK.

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Prav of C-PRAV Group

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Praveen has more than 37 years' engineering experience, specialising in electrical/electronic product standards, regulations, testing and certifications for global markets. 

He started his career in satellite control earth stations, worked as Test Lab Manager for EMC Technologies and as Global Product Compliance Manager for Fujitsu, before founding C-PRAV Labs and Certifications in 2017. 

Praveen is the Chair of the Australian EMC National Committee, Technical Assessor for ISO 17025 for NATA and IANZ, a member of international standards committees for IEC and CISPR and member of the USA-FCC TCB Council and European REDCA. 

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Andy

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Andy holds a BS in Computer Science with honours and a MS in Electronics and Computer Engineering with honours from the KU Leuven, Belgium, where he was nominated for best master thesis by IE-NET engineering association in 2014. His fields of expertise are electromagnetic compatibility, immunity and functional safety in life or mission-critical situations, 3D Full-Wave simulations. 

From 2019–2020, he was the Technical and Product Manager at Schlegel Electronic Materials bv, a member of eMei group, in Belgium, with a focus on shielding, absorbing and thermal. He chaired IEEE Technical Session at joint IEEE and APEMC Symposium in Singapore. 

Andy is the author of 20-plus technical and scientific articles in international conferences. He is a member of EMCTLA (the EMC Test Labs Association) and member of IEEE, IEEE EMCS, and an upcoming Senior IEE. 

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Anup

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With more than 15 years of experience in IT operations, consulting, and product compliance, Anup thrives on challenges and believes that "nothing is impossible." 

His career spans roles from Field Service Engineer to Director of Operations at C-PRAV Labs and Certifications, he leads teams, develops growth strategies, and drives client-focused solutions in standards, regulations, testing and certifications. 

Anup established and manages the cyber-security testing infrastructure for C-PRAV Labs.

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Mark of Boeing Defence Australia

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Mark is a Senior Engineering Consultant/SME with more than 35 years' experience in complex system integration and testing in defence and commercial sectors.

Mark has been providing design assistance, mitigation and training in system integration, electromagnetic compatibility, emanation security, interference, for devices, modules, products, equipment, systems, networks, installations, etc. in any area (military, industrial, medical, healthcare, automotive, marine, aerospace, consumer, railway, radio-communications, telecommunications, broadcasting and information technology).

Mark is the Chair of IEAust and IEEE EMC Society, APEMC International Steering Committee representative, past Chair of SMIEE and current Board Member of IEEE EMC Society. 

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Address:150 Charlotte St., , Brisbane, Australia, 4000

Karen

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Karen Burnham has worked in and around the aerospace, defense, automotive and broader consulting world since 1996. She has a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and a talent for translating EMC to English. 

She has managed requirements and test planning for NASA and the Dream Chaser spaceship and others. She has done troubleshooting on electric vehicles for Ford Motor Company and others. She has initiated innovative SBIRs and STTRs through government centres and worked on classified programs. She has consulted on projects across a wide swath of industries and sits on multiple international standards committees, landing her in her current role of Vice President of Standards for the IEEE EMC Society. 

Ms Burnham founded EMC United, Inc. in 2024 to focus on helping companies and hardware designers solve EMC problems, ideally before they even start. She believes that, far from being black magic, EMC can be understandable (and even fun), and she hopes to spread that passion more widely.

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