Our people

Chris is driving the Aquatic expansion without compromising the high service levels his teams provide for its traditional customers. He is particularly committed to ensuring that Aquatic’s people are developed sufficiently to enable business change, especially with operations on five continents.

Beyond Aquatic, Chris is an avid sailor, a golfer whose enthusiasm outweighs his ability, a keen chef and enjoys all opportunities to spectate at All Blacks’ games (especially against England).

He has more than 20 years in international roles in several different industries.  For each, the common theme has been developing the right customer solutions. Chris has lived and worked in many different countries: NZ, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, UK; and has led projects worldwide. He has specific marine business development experience in North and South America, Asia, India and Europe.

Her responsibilities include financial reporting to Aquatic and (parent company) the Acteon Group, liaison with Acteon appointed auditors, bankers and statutory authorities in the United Kingdom, Norway, Singapore and the USA.  Arlene is a CIMA qualified accountant and her role with Aquatic is both financially and commercially oriented.  She diligently supports Chris and the leadership team by providing accurate information to allow the most profitable decisions to be made whilst ensuring consistent adherence to appropriate legislation. 

Before joining Aquatic, Arlene was a member of the senior management team at Universal Sodexho working to provide overall direction for finance, accounting, reporting, control and planning for their UK catering and facilities management business.

Outside of the office, you’ll find Arlene at the movies, theatre or in the gym. And when she can book a week or so away, outside of month end accounts, the budget process, or audit visits, you’ll find her somewhere warm and sunny.
 

As part of the strategic direction of the business, he is also charged with establishing new equipment facilities in Aquatic’s global markets like Singapore and the Gulf of Mexico in conjunction with locally based colleagues.

George’s diverse role provides a huge amount of satisfaction, particularly regarding the fabricating, testing and operating of new equipment brought to market. His biggest challenges are meeting the demands of Aquatic’s growth by finding new suppliers to assist in the build programme and sourcing new ranges of equipment to support Aquatic’s own portfolio, in order to allow Aquatic to operate at higher tensions and deeper locations.

George’s background is in the marine industry where he spent time as a marine engineer, carrying out engine overhauls, hydraulic fault finding, and vessel “fit outs” from rudder through to high speed drives. And, when not working, he enjoys unwinding over a round of golf, following Formula 1 racing and football, as well as spending time with his sons.
 

As VP Engineering, David has responsibility for ensuring Aquatic produces engineering designs that enables our customers to manage their projects with as little fuss as possible. This means he develops better processes and procedures, and maintains high levels of communication between his people and customer representatives, as well as having key input into the design of Aquatic’s equipment.

David also manages the IT and HSEQ functions.

David thrives in this role, enjoying on the one hand, the challenges hands on engineering work can bring, and on the other, developing strategy and tactics to improve Aquatic’s performance in the boardroom. His biggest challenge is to be able to respond to the demands of an expanding team and more specialised equipment, while fulfilling the business plan and maintaining customer focus.

David’s background includes design, production and management positions in the manufacturing, telecoms, and marine engineering industries, and he brings to Aquatic a wealth of project and programme management, sales and business development experience that will greatly contribute to the success of Aquatic.