news
November 2010
Ground breaking runway safety report published
Iain McCreary and Insight SRI have created an industry-shaping document 'Runway Safety: FOD, Birds, and the Case for Automated Scanning', now available for purchase through www.runway-safety.com.
November 2010
ISRI opens Heathrow FOD Conference
Iain McCreary opened the first panel session at Heathrow airport's BAA GLobal FOD Conference on 9 November 2010. For more information, see www.heathrow.com/fod
August 2010
ISRI presents at NAFPI Conference
Iain McCreary presented on the cost of FOD at the annual National Aerospace FOD Prevention Inc. (NAFPI) conference in St. Louis, MO. For more information see www.nafpi.com
June 2008
Shotz launches new vitamin drink
Shotz Products is launching their first vitamin drink in the UK market. Shotz is an daily vitamin drink, providing a complete vitamin dose in single, healthy, liquid serving. Shotz will be opening a completely new and currently uncontensted segment of the drinks market. It will be available in the UK at selected retail outlets and coffee shops from September 2008. ISRI helped Shotz in the very early days, working with the Board to develop the positioning, pricing, and launch strategy behind this breakthrough product from the executive teams who launced Slimfast, Potnoodle, and U-Switch.
May 2008
ISRI Leads Aviation Safety Effort
Insight SRI is leading an international effort to raise safety awareness in civil aviation. Loose debris on airfields (called FOD, or ‘foreign object debris’) is causing damage to aircraft engines and tires, driving an estimated US$12Bn pa of costs worldwide. More importantly, when on the runway this debris is potentially as hazardous as any runway incursion (a vehicle or aircraft on the runway when it shouldn’t be). Insight SRI is working internationally with a number of airport operations managers, airlines, and international safety organisations to apply a number of new detection technologies to solve this problem.
March 2008
ISRI Finds Major Opportunity for Airline Cost Reduction
Insight SRI publishes a ‘world first’ paper on the economic cost of foreign object debris (FOD) to commercial airlines. FOD, lose deris on the runway that can damage engines, puncture tyres, and cause delays turns out to be one of the largest untallied categories for airline operating costs, with an annual indsutry cost in excess of US$12Bn.
December 2007
Noisemask and Noisetech sold
Noisemask was a software solution for personal data privacy, applying the techniques of electronic countermeasures, jamming, and signal spoofing to internet search. This was a negatively disruptive technology in that it had little earning potential in its own right, but was a potential threat to the revenue streams and stock market valuations of search giants like Google, Yahoo!, AOL, and others. The product moved from conception to completed sale in less than four months.
December 2005/January 2006
"Youngest CEO in UK venture capital"
Iain McCreary accepts role as Chief Executive of venture capital firm Synergis Technologies. Interim posting, ended in August 2006. According to an analyst at Library House, at 35 this makes Iain the youngest ever CEO of a registered UK venture capital firm.
February 2005
HBL Limited receives £1M
HBL Limited receives £1M in IP from from a leading UK technology firm. The IP will help HBL to develop its new wideband wireless tracking solution.
May 2004
HBL Limited created
Insight SRI initiates formation of high-tech start up HBL Ltd. HBL will embed an ultra-wideband tracking technology in golf-balls, allowing for the realtime, three dimensional, centimetre accurate tracking of balls in-flight and on the ground. Starting with driving ranges, where the technology should double the revenue and triple the profits of any driving range, HBL will then expand to the wider golf markets, followed by data services for television and gaming.
December 2003
The Consultant’s Consultant
Insight SRI to develop an "sales pipeline" in the Electronics & High Tech markets for a major UK systems integrator.
August 2003
C4ISTAR Presentation
Insight SRI selected to present and run discussion at the RUSI (Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies) conference C4ISTAR Requirements for Network-Enabled and Effects-Based Operations, http://www.rusi.org
July 2003
'Royal Photographer' - ISRI wins permit for commercial in Hyde Park
Insight SRI wins contract to manage a commercial photography programme for the Royal Parks of Hyde Park and Kensington gardens. MOS Photography Programme launched
June 2003
ISRI to close IDGA Conference 'Investing in Aerospace'
Insight SRI selected by the Institute for Defence and Government Advancement as the closing speaker for 'Investing in Aerospace', New York, June 2003. Other speakers to include Under Secretary of Defence and Coordinator to Reconstruct Afghanistan Dov Zackheim, Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Industrial Policy Suzanne D. Patrick, as well as 9 aerospace CEO, 2 CFOs, 1 Senior VP’s and a Managing Principal of the Carlyle Group.
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