Executive Vice President

Carol Marsh PhD, MIEE, MIET, MIACR, MWES

Carol is a Lead Hardware Engineer at Selex Galileo and is completing an Engineering Doctorate in System Level Integration. In 1985 Carol was one of the first females to complete an HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University. In 1990 she passed the MSc in Digital Techniques exams at Heriot Watt University then in 2003 Carol returned to do an MSc in System Level Integration which was converted to an Engineering Doctorate.

Carol’s career in electronics started at Marconi Instruments in Donibristle Fife and within 10 years she gained experience in writing test programs, working in the test department, implementing RF, analogue and mechanical designs before finally specializing as a digital and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) engineer. In the early 1990s Carol moved to GEC at Silverknowes in Edinburgh and joined the Analogue and Digital Engineering Group (ADEG) where she became a Principal Digital Engineer and took the lead in several projects. In 2000 Carol started working in the telecommunications field for ECS Technology which was part of the Agilent camp were she set up an FPGA group.

In 2005, Carol started an Engineering Doctorate sponsored by the FPGA Super Computer Group at Edinburgh University and Dr Tom Kean of Algotronix. The thesis subject was detecting unlicensed intellectual property using cryptography.

During the Engineering Doctorate, Carol and Algotronix won three awards:

Elektra European Electronics Industry "Student Engineer of the Year Award" in 2007, category at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Innovation Awards in 2008 and the Emerging Technology Company award at the NMI award ceremony in 2008.

Carol has 2 teenage boys and is a member of the IEEE, IET, IACR, student member of the IoP and a Science and Engineering Ambassador (SEA).