Team
The RHizome2 team is led by Bob Coates & Raj Sharma who together have more than forty-seven years of experience in the Marine and Energy industries, with an expert level of knowledge in mechanical design & piping as well as system integration.
Key Personnel
Raj Sharma
Managing Director
Raj Sharma is a qualified Marine Engineer. He studied Marine Engineering in India and then completed BSc Honours Degree in Marine Technology from the United Kingdom. He has more than 12 years post-graduate experience in the marine Industry and offshore, within piping & mechanical discipline. He has been discipline leads in past employments and has many years of project engineering & package management experience.
Bob Coates
Technical Director
Bob Coates started his career serving an apprenticeship as a ship’s draughtsman in the design office of a Lowestoft shipyard. He subsequently gained Honours Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in English Law as a mature student. In recent years, he has been a board member of well-known and established engineering companies in the marine industry.
He has a vast range of experience in; Project Management, Project Engineering, Piping & Mechanical Design and Packaged Equipment Design & Construction. For RHizome2 Bob and the team are using their wealth of experience to design an innovative modular packaged hydrogen generation, compression, storage and delivery system
Other team members within RHizome2 are experienced engineers with a multi-national background. All team members have individually between ten and thirty years’ experience in their particular discipline. Their particular fortes include; pipe stress analysis (static & dynamic), process, pipeline engineering (onshore & offshore), naval architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical & instrumentation, safety and equipment specification & procurement.