George Stephen Boughton

Born to English parents in Eritrea, George S Boughton has since lived in all but one continent - including inside war zones. After gaining his BSc (Hons, Mech Eng, City University, London) as well as Chartered Engineer status, he developed an impressive track record in the oil industry and later in Information Technology.

He liaised closely with geologists and petroleum engineers in designing and building new production facilities for Shell-BP Nigeria, with international consultants to retrofit gas compressors at Shell International's Brent (North Sea) platform, and moved to Creole Production Services International (Texas) to provide oilfield services to Union Oil Co. and Kuwait Oil Co.

With change management consultants The Nichols Group (UK) he implemented arguably the world's first government-to-business e-government site, on the construction of express routes for the Chek Lap Kok Airport (Hong Kong). Finally, he co-authored e-government strategy papers for the Government, on behalf of Azeus Systems Ltd whom he went on to represent in South Africa.

A keen scientific theorist, his research for the revelations presented in DeepStorm OutTack was extensive - and his ultimate conclusions are intriguingly stimulating.

Related: Enid Bagnold author National Velvet; and Brig Ralph Bagnold (Fellow of the Royal Society and Founders' Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographical Society) whose sand dune research is used in NASA's Mars Rover designs.