Paul Rawlinson, Managing Director
Paul is the founder of TBG. He has overall responsibility for operations and is the driving force behind the business with a well-established and unrivalled wealth of knowledge and skills across every aspect of test and automation engineering. As an intern application engineer, Paul worked for National Instruments supporting its UK customer base. In 2001, after finishing his BEng (Hons) degree, he founded TBG and has since grown a successful global business, delivering bespoke automated production test and measurement solutions, system maintenance, and customer training and support. Paul also holds an MBA and has been appointed by the Royal academy of engineering a visiting professor to the University of Manchester where he champions entrepreneurship and employability.
Steve Bale, Operations Director
Steve Bale is a software engineer with a wide spectrum of experience with ATE and control systems. Steve obtained a degree in software engineering from Sheffield Hallam University. He has since worked writing software for test, measurement and control within military, aerospace, medical and manufacturing industries. He is one of a handful of people worldwide to have achieved the status of both National Instruments (NI) Certified LabVIEW™ Architect and NI Certified TestStand™ Architect.
Tom Adams, Commercial Director
Tom Adams is a tenacious Commercial Director with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. Tom joined TBG in 2009 initially working as a Senior Systems Engineer. As a Systems Engineer, he worked on some of our largest and most complex projects and during this time gained Certified LabVIEW Developer and Certified TestSTAND Developer certifications. In 2016, Tom made the switch to Business Development Manager and quickly established himself aided by his systems engineering knowledge. In 2019. Tom was made Sales Director after successfully leading TBG through substantial and sustained growth for a number of years.