Season 2 | Episode 1
Transcript
Welcome to Season 2 of Rough Seas, the Marine Engineering Podcast. What better way to start a new season than with a profile of marine tech impresario Tom Knox!
If, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention, then Tom is the father.
In this personal and candid interview, we join Tom Knox on his marine tech journey, beginning in radar, fibre optics, and RF testing under the tutelage of BAE Systems on the Isle of Wight, to eventually finding him as entrepreneur extraordinaire on Canada’s east coast
Tom’s knack for innovating multiplexer systems and finding the right clients around the globe has taken the young engineer from apprehending bad guys on the streets of Philadelphia to helping James Cameron, yes, that James Cameron get to the bottom of the Mariana trench.
His philosophy regarding R & D and financing, or the lack thereof, is a refreshing take on how to develop and market marine innovations.
Tom Knox
General Manager at Dartmouth Ocean Technologies (DOT)
Tom Knox moved to Nova Scotia in 2004 after completing an advanced modern apprenticeship (engineering) at BAE systems in the UK. Tom moved to the ocean technology sector in 2007. Tom provided technical sales support at Focal Technologies, and MetOcean data systems before launching his own fibre optic-based start-up company EMO Marine Technologies in 2012, providing the smallest fibre optic multiplexer system available on the sub-sea market. EMO Marine was acquired by the MacArtney Underwater Technology group (Denmark) in 2016 and rebranded as MacArtney Canada. In 2020 Tom was Technical Lead on the Multi Sensor Seabed Platform (MSSP) named ‘Stella Maris’ at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE).
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