Blane Judd is Executive Director of BLTK Consulting, which supports businesses in developing and managing strategy. He has over forty-five years of experience in Power, Utility, Building Services Engineering and Rail Transport. He is a former NED and advisor to Parliament on estate-wide engineering infrastructure resilience. Blane is a NED of nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) and is chair of GEL 50, a BSI group focused on LVDC systems. He advocates for the adoption of LVDC as a sustainable energy source in buildings and is currently working on a project in conjunction with the IET. He is the part-time chief executive of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers and a Teaching Fellow at Aston University. For his international work on public health, he was awarded a Fellowship of City and Guilds. Blane is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET, CIBSE, HEA, ILM and CIPHE, where he was chief executive.