Our People

Our People – Your Experts

At DB ESG, our people are the key to our success. Their knowledge, dedication, and problem-solving abilities drive everything we do.We pride ourselves on having the experience and expertise to solve even the most complex rolling stock challenges. Our team delivers market-leading solutions that make a real impact. When you work with DB ESG, you’re not just getting a service—you’re gaining a team of specialists committed to excellence, innovation, and real results.Our People. Your Experts. That’s what sets us apart.

Executive Team

Suzanne Bassett, Operations Director

Suzanne has responsibility and accountability for the following areas of our business:

• Health, Safety, Quality and Environment (HSQE),

• Human Resources

• Information Technology

She is responsible for the provision of all the required people, equipment, software, processes and policies required to enable us to achieve our objectives and to deliver the current strategy as well as planned future growth and improvements in efficiency, whilst meeting our budgetary requirements.

Paul Butterworth, Engineering Director

BEng DIS AMIMechE

Paul ensures the provision of specialist engineering resources, striving to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction and continuously developing technical expertise to meet the current and future needs of customers.

Nick Goodhand, Managing Director

CEng MIMechE MEng

A professional chartered engineer, with more than 20 years of experience in the UK rail industry. Nick is responsible for the overall performance of DB ESG and for forging strong links with DB Sytemtechnik. He also establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers, ensuring that DB ESG remains an innovative and responsive engineering consultancy.

James Hornsby, Project Director

CEng

Responsible for ensuring that DB ESG’s turnkey projects meet the expected quality, financial and delivery requirements, thereby providing high levels of customer satisfaction.

Senior Management Team

David Boulton MSc BEng (Hons), Design Engineering Manager

Manages the team of mechanical and electrical design engineers. Responsible for ensuring that we deliver quality designs to meet customer requirements and milestones.

Kevin Dilks BEng, CEng MIMechE, Business Development Manager

Responsible for managing the Business Development Team, developing and maintaining customer relationships. Kevin helps to identify business opportunities and provides the business with strategic direction.

Merve Ersoy MSc, BSc, Engineering Manager

Manages both the electrical and mechanical engineering teams, ensuring exceptional technical delivery of projects and striving to maintain a high level of performance across the engineering teams.

Nick Jose, Projects Services Manager

Manages the Projects Services Team, delivering DB ESG’s turnkey projects, responsible for procurement and installation, right through to ongoing service support and warranty obligations.

Richard Wheelhouse HNC MEng, Project Engineering Manager

Leads the team of Project Engineers to deliver the technical aspects of major projects, providing efficient and effective communication to enable the successful completion of work packages

Nathan Russell CEng ImechE, Digital Engineering Manager

Leads our Digital Engineering Team in delivering cutting-edge solutions using 3D scanning, additive manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Harnessing these technologies to design and assess components, equipment and repairs, as well as to perform precision inspections of customer assets.

Sandra Blain BEng, CEng MICE, Senior Project Manager

Supports the development of technical excellence within the Projects Team and responsible for delivering multi-stake holder projects involving the integration of bespoke systems onto rolling stock.

Jacob Martin, Future Technologies Manager

Manages the team of mechanical and electrical design engineers. Responsible for ensuring that we deliver quality designs to meet customer requirements and milestones.

Business Development Team

The Business Development Team are responsible for creating and maintaining relationships with customers and partners across the rail industry, promoting DB ESG’s expertise, identifying opportunities and helping to secure future business for the Company. This encompasses a number of activities to enable the business to achieve its strategic goals including Marketing & Communications, Conferences & Events, Account Management as well as Opportunity Identification & Management.