Awen Collective are delighted to return to support the Percy Hobart Fellowship in 2021. After a brilliant experience hosting Steve last year, we are so excited to welcome Roy Seaman and David Gerda to Team Awen! We’ll let them introduce themselves:
“My name is Roy Seaman, I am currently in the Royal Navy serving as a Royal Marine Vehicle Technician. Eleven half years of that has been in the Royal Marines and two half of that was spent in the Army as an armoured vehicle operator and maintainer. My last few years have been focused on the introduction and with focus on equipment care and support to a new fleet of snowmobile and All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) with Strategic Command and now specifically the Royal Marines. My current role is as a workshop production supervisor and inspector with a 12 man team to co manage and develop for 30 Commando in Plymouth.
My interests enjoy general outdoors activities running, cycling, sailing and kayaking. I am also fairly professionally engaged. I like to read up on new technologies, find out what companies are working on, listening to debates on how new technology is changing the way we work and live etc. I am also really interested in animal conservation and have volunteered and worked for a number of national parks and wildlife scientific projects.
I am looking forward to the next 10 weeks working with you and hope I can bring something useful to Awen Collective.”
Likewise, we are thrilled to be working with Roy over the coming weeks, and this isn’t the last you’ll hear from him, as he will be documenting his progress with a series of blog posts throughout the programme.
“Hello everyone! My name is David Gerda. I'm a big fan of permaculture, and enjoy tinkering around with making soap and hydroponics. Typical physical activity like hiking in the local public parks, walking and listening to audio books, rowing on my ergometer, usually get my heart rate up.
The lazier side of me enjoys playing video games like League of Legends or Super Mario Cart and binge watching TV Series with my Wife. I have three dogs (Hoodie, Lime, and Ahga - means baby in Korean).
On the more professional side, I am currently in the United States Navy as an Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer (AEDO). AEDO's primarily focus on the full-life cycle management (Initiation through disposal) of Military Aviation platforms and wear many "hats" (i.e. Project Management, Engineering, Logistics, etc.). I enjoy process improvement and am constantly trying to make things better!”
We’re delighted to have David as part of Team Awen over the next few weeks, and only wish he was on the other side of the Atlantic so we might be able to meet Hoodie, Lime and Ahga too!
As a reminder, the Percy Hobart Fellowship, delivered in partnership with GovTech venture firm PUBLIC, convenes Royal Navy and Royal Air Force service personnel in a unique learning environment to equip them with an understanding of the powers and practicalities of new technologies to help champion innovation within a unified Defence sector.
The Fellowship is a one-of-a-kind initiative bringing together both Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel in a challenging 12-week course focused on digital transformation, business principles and agile thinking.
Through secondments into civilian-led startups, Fellows will have the opportunity to learn first-hand what it’s like to conceive new ideas, develop Minimum Viable Products, and translate these principles into tangible benefits that drive innovation in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.
