History.

Ben grew up in North London with parents who ran their own engineering and product design consultancy, working on everything from consumer products through medical equipment to special-effects projects for sci-fi TV shows and films, Ben was exposed to a 'creative engineering' environment from an early age.

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Ben went on to study product design and industrial design at college and university, graduating with 1st class honours from the University of Hertfordshire's industrial design course in 1997 at the age of 20. Ben then followed a diverse career including working in graphic design and corporate branding in London for around seven years before setting up his own consumer product design and development company in 2003 at the age of 26. Ben has subsequently worked through his own companies almost constantly since that point, developing electronic musical instruments, board games, electronic learning toys and commercial rocket kits.

 

After starting out as a hyperfixation when he discovered model rockets at his local model shop in 1990, rockets and space have remained a constant theme through Ben's entire adult life. Starting with hobby rocketry and then record-breaking amateur rocketry through the nineties into the early 2000's, Ben has built and launched rockets continuously for well over three decades. Ben undertook his first commercial launch in 1995 at the age of just 19 and has been paid to build and launch rockets for TV shows, films, promotional events and academic research ever since with him ultimately moving to work full time in the commercial launch sector from late 2017.

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Ben now uses his unprecedented rocketry experience to deliver training courses, talks and workshops as well as write books on the subject.