
Inspection Consultancy
Meet the Team

Vivek Maripudi
Business Director, NDT and Inspection Consulting Services Group
MSc in Mechanical Engineering (University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA), MBA from Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA)
Vivek Maripudi is a mechanical engineer with many years of experience in the Automotive, Transportation, Power Energy and Consumer Goods.

Dr Mark Jones
Principal Consultant, Inspection Consultancy
BEng (Hons) Materials Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University, PhD from the University of Nottingham
Dr Mark Jones is a chartered engineer with over twenty-four years of experience in materials, wear, corrosion, failure investigation and non-destructive testing.

Dr Martin Wall
Principal Consultant, Inspection Consultancy
BA (Hons), MA University of Cambridge, PhD Imperial College London
Dr Martin Wall is a materials engineer, NDT and failure expert, with over 40 years of experience in a diversity of projects across industry sectors centred on asset integrity, reliability of NDT, corrosion, hydrogen, weld integrity, and materials failure, particularly hydrogen cracking (HIC), SCC and embrittlement

Dr Mike Laws CEng
Principal Consultant and Business Development
MPhys Physics University of Warwick, PhD Physics from University of Warwick
Mike Laws is an experienced physicist with over a decade of expertise in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), specialising in ultrasonics.

Dr Steve Burch
Principal Consultant, Inspection Consultancy
BA Natural Sciences, PhD Radio Astronomy from University of Cambridge
Now working as a part-time consultant, Steve has an extensive experience of digital NDT dating back to the 1980s.

Dr Patricia Conder
Principal Consultant, Inspection Consultancy
Degree: BSc (Hons) Physics from University of Aberdeen, PhD Materials Science University of Birmingham
Trish Conder is a Principal Consultant in our Inspection Consultancy team and has a background in data science, inspection and integrity.

Ali Mumtaz
Business Development and Marketing Manager
B.Eng Mechanical Engineering, MSc Mechanical Engineering Design
Ali is an experienced and reliable business professional who oversee ESR’s Marketing and Business Development efforts.