Alun Thomas

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Engagement Model Offered

Day Rate / Hourly Rate; Technical / Advisory; Interim / Contract; Full time Transition

Suited to Organisational Types

Start-ups; Scale-ups

Alun is a CTO and Head of Manufacturing with over 20 years of experience across battery technology and advanced manufacturing. He has held roles with organisations including Ionforge.ai, Peak Energy, Cuberg, Northvolt and Alten.

He supports organisations in building and optimising manufacturing operations, connecting design, engineering and process control to deliver scalable, commercially viable production systems.

Alun’s Arena

• Battery Technology & Advanced Manufacturing.

• Technical Focus: Manufacturing Systems, Design & Process Engineering.

• Function Expertise: Industrialisation, Quality, Digitisation.

Superpowers

• Translates complex battery concepts into scalable manufacturing systems.

• Connects design, process and cost to drive commercially sound decisions.

• Identifies cross-functional risks early and defines the best path forward.

• Applies a holistic systems view to optimise performance across operations.

Impact in Action

• Cuberg: Developed patented design solutions by identifying and resolving manufacturability constraints.

• Early Development: Optimised gas flow systems through modelling, redesign and validated prototyping.

• Production Ramp: Led industrialisation for a 250k unit vehicle exhaust programme, aligning teams and ensuring design and process readiness.

Working style

• Deeply knowledgeable, manufacturing-first and commercially aware.

• Takes a holistic, structured approach to solving complex engineering and production challenges.