Geoff Walker is a leading thinker in the area of maintenance, asset management and knowledge engineering, with experience in the adoption of new techniques and technologies to capture and integrate diagnostic knowledge and asset knowledge into the maintenance and asset management process.  He has helped many asset intensive organisations improve their performance in sectors  including water, electricity and gas, oil and chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and drink, defence, transport, general manufacturing and the postal sector.

Geoff is a founder director of Heathgate Knowledge Engineering, prior to which he was leader of PwC’s Physical Asset Management practice throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.  HKE specialises in the use of knowledge based diagnostic systems to help solve problems in complex equipment, and to avoid the problems of corporate amnesia as staff age, get promoted, retire or otherwise leave the organisation.  He is also a director of Artesis LLP, bringing the benefits of sophisticated NASA developed technology to everyday use to make condition based maintenance a simple and effective approach in all sorts of industries.