The Directors

Managing Director - Mike Dearman

Mike has in-depth knowledge of the storage industry. Graduating from Heriot-Watt University with a 1st Class Honors degree in Computing and Electronics, he began his career as a hardware engineer at a major storage array OEM. Quickly progressing to lead design teams, he created industry leading products such as the first 4Gb/s Switched Fibre Channel Disk Enclosure.

Specialising in signal integrity and the adoption of next generation technology gave Mike vast experience of high speed design and test techniques. Moving into a role of lead technical engineer, he worked to streamline development and manufacturing test processes. It was this work that convinced him of the requirement for bespoke test equipment to further automate the storage test process.

Technical Director - Andy Norrie

Andy is a graduate of Heriot-Watt University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's EDP Program. Specialising in test engineering and business development, Andy brought essential skills to Quarch when he joined in early 2008

Beginning at Agilent Technologies, Andy designed key automated test systems for high-speed telecoms equipment. Moving on to a small UK defence company he ran the integration and testing of cutting-edge radar simulators.

At Sondex Wireline (now Sondex Oilfield Technology, part of General Electric), Andy led the development of large-scale software products for the oil industry; Most notable was the 'Sondex WIPER' system for locating defects in oil wells.