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Peter joined AE Aerospace in April 2013, leading its MBO, becoming Managing Director in January 2014.
 
AE Aerospace has grown sales 7-fold, tripled employment and relocated to a new facility over 4 times larger.  There has been a £multimillion investment in Training, Facilities, and Equipment.
 
Peter is a Chartered, Graduate Mechanical Engineer, having completed an accelerated Apprenticeship.  A resourceful, experienced Managing / Operations Director across the Automotive, Aerospace, Engineered Product & Marine sectors, successfully enjoying site P+L and global Sales & Engineering responsibility.  Completed company turnarounds and site relocations, launched and grew a profitable new business.  Revolutionised production efficiencies using Continuous Improvement programmes, building relationships between customers, suppliers, staff, group companies and the community.
Outside of AE Peter enjoys offshore sailing and Lego technic. (because he’s not allowed to take his motorbike apart in the kitchen).

Riccardo Weber has joined WM5G as Project Manager – Manufacturing, delivering 5G enabled manufacturing use cases, supporting West Midland based enterprises on their journey to the implementation of Industry 4.0.

He has held senior positions in Manufacturing, Product Development, Marketing, Sales and Customer Care at engineering giants GKN and Prysmian Group.

For both businesses he created, developed and ran innovative ‘Future Thinking Programmes’, enabling the organisations to innovate better and faster from within.

Riccardo is also founder and Managing Director of True Innovation, coaching business leaders to unleash the true innovative power of their organisations.