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Cyberhawk extends global footprint

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Following a £1.3 million investment from Scottish Equity Partners and the Scottish Investment Bank 18 months ago, Livingston-based Cyberhawk Innovations is extending its global footprint with the appointment of two new Sales Managers in Asia and the Middle East. Chen Choon How, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has been appointed to grow the customer base in the Oil and Gas and Utilities sectors in South East Asia, while Ajay Sethi, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has been recruited for the same role in the Middle East.

Cyberhawk is the world leader in industrial inspection and survey using Remotely Operated Aerial Vehicles (ROAVs) and has led the development of the industrial ROAV service industry, including achieving over 25 world firsts since 2008, including the first ever industrial ROAV inspection. Combining ROAVs, highly skilled pilots and engineering experts, the company provides close-up inspections of hard to reach and live structures, in a manner that is faster, safer and more cost-effective than ever before.

Cyberhawk has completed projects for the ‘big six’ Energy companies in the UK and all six Oil and Gas supermajors, conducting inspections and surveys on electricity networks, power stations, oil and gas sites and wind farms throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia & Africa.

Cyberhawk’s CEO, Craig Roberts, said: “Our offices in Kualu Lumpur and Abu Dhabi are key to effectively serving our rapidly growing customer base in the Middle East and South East Asia. While the use of ROAV technology is becoming well established in the UK and Europe, interest in the methodology is rapidly increasing in other parts of the world, particularly within the Oil and Gas and Utilities markets.”

Cyberhawk’s Sales Manager for Asia, Chen Choon How, who previously set up a Malaysian subsidiary of an Australian oil and gas services company, said: “This is an exciting opportunity to help grow Cyberhawk’s client base here in South East Asia and I’m looking forward to providing both existing and future clients in the region with the highest quality aerial inspection solutions in the market. I believe the market here is ready to embrace this new approach to inspection and I’m confident that customers in the region will rapidly see it as best practice.”

“With a local office here in Abu Dhabi, Cyberhawk is well placed to provide its world-leading services to the Middle Eastern market,” added Ajay Sethi,  Cyberhawk’ s Sales Manager for the Middle East. Ajay, who previously set up an office in Abu Dhabi for an Aberdeen-based survey company, continued: “I look forward to working with clients in the region to deliver these ground-breaking technologies. Inspection of flares, pylons and other difficult to reach assets has been revolutionised since Cyberhawk pioneered the ROAV approach; the technology is so evidently useful that I expect there to be rapid uptake in the market here.”

The opening of regional offices in Asia and the Middle East follows a year of significant growth for Cyberhawk, during which the company also launched its first software product, iHawk, giving customers access to powerful asset management information in the cloud. Cyberhawk also saw a 40% increase in staff headcount during 2014, and secured further framework agreements in the Oil and Gas and Utility sectors in the UK, Europe and Middle East.


Adapted from a press release by David Bizley

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