Meet The Team

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.

Ian Gray , Manufacturing Director

Ian joined TBG Solutions in 2007 to support the business’ growth and migration into providing bespoke test solutions hardware. With a background in mechanical design and production engineering, Ian set up the manufacturing area at TBG. Ian has a strong background in PCB Assembly and bespoke test solutions manufacturing and repair. He brings to the company a wealth of experience, technical ability, motivation and excellent customer facing support.

Steve Bale , Engineering 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 , Sales Director

Tom Adams is a tenacious Sales 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.