Our Staff

Simon Barrowcliff BEng CEng MIET MBA 

ATEX Director, TRaC

Simon Barrowcliff is the Director of the ATEX Notified Body at TRaC. He set up TRaC's Lancashire-based, ATEX business in 2002 and has been heavily involved in EX testing and compliance since then. Simon also runs TRaC's certification schemes for electrical safety under the IECEE CB scheme. He is a chartered electrical engineer with more than 20 years experience of product compliance for electrical and mechanical equipment.

Stuart Brown

Director, TRaC

Appointed Managing Director in November 2007. Previously he was Test Facilities Manager for Flight Refuelling, part of the Cobham group, and spent his early career in the Environmental Engineering Department of British Aerospace at Stevenage.

Jonathan Harros

ZigBee Business Manager, TRaC

After obtaining his Bachelor's degree in engineering, Jonathan worked for a number of engineering companies prior to obtaining a teaching role at the University of Hull (England). In 1995 he joined KTL, an internationally renowned test laboratory which then became TRaC, as part of the Digital Group specialising in regulatory requirements for digital telecommunications equipment. During his time at the company he has, among other things, been appointed as Senior Protocol Engineer, and Approvals and Homologation Group Manager. Jonathan has actively participated in various technical working groups for the ZigBee Allianceâ and is currently the ZigBee Qualification Group (ZQG) Lead Technical Editor. 

Steve Hayes

Director, TRaC

Steve is Managing Director for the EMC and Safety business of TRaC and has been involved in EMC and product approvals for 19 years. In addition to the day to day running of the business, Steve is actively involved in EMC standardisation both in commercial and defence areas. In addition to being the UK Principal expert on EMC standardisation of Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) products he is also the convenor of CISPR/B/WG1 who has the responsibility of writing the International standard, CISPR 11. Steve wrote the CE marking annex to the UK's defence EMC standard as well as being co-convenor of CENELEC TC210/WG9, responsible for writing a guide on approval of military systems with commercial (CE Marking) requirements.

Chris Rouse

Safety Product Manager, TRaC

Chris has worked in electrical safety compliance for over 17 years. Having previously worked for BSI, he joined TRaC in 1996, progressing through a number of testing roles before becoming Safety Product Manager in 2006.

Chris Stone

Dynamic Testing Director

Appointed Dynamic Testing Director in 2010, following three years as Test Manager at TRaC, having previously worked as Head of Environmental Testing at another UKAS accredited test house. Over 20 years' experience of modelling, testing and measurement in the structural dynamics and seismic fields.

Karim Sharf MEng

Telecoms CTO

Karim Sharf graduated with an MEng in Electronic and Mechanical Systems and has over 17 years of extensive experience in the certification and regulation of many areas of the telecoms industry. His principal experience is in the field of digital telecoms, such as ISDN, SDH and xDSL, and has participated in a number of international forums and standards development projects.

Karim actively participates in the Broadband Forum and the Femto Forum, where he is the chair of the IOT SIG and editor of the test documents. He won the Femto Forum Chairman’s award in 2010 for his work towards an open and interoperable eco-system.

Brendan Wall CEng IMechE

Sales Director

Brendan was appointed Sales Director in August 2009. He joined the group in 2005 as Business Development Manager for environmental test services. Before joining TRaC he spent five years in Application Engineering and Technical Sales roles for automotive test equipment. He studied Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Trinity College Dublin.