Ian Draisey

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Ian Draisey was born in 1967 years ago in Birmingham and lived there until 1973 when his parents moved to rural North Wales in search of a cleaner environment and healthier lifestyle. This change quality of life has always influenced Ian’s attitude to the environment and lifestyle. Ian now lives in Barmouth, Mid Wales, with his wife Helen. He has a daughter Hannah (4) and a new baby Oliver.

Ian’s industrial experience began when his degree dissertation in technology uptakes in SME’s led to an applied research post company profiling of companies in Birmingham’s jewellery industry. This research work led to a short lecturing career at the University of Central Englands Engineering Department. His principal teaching subjects were International Marketing, Production Engineering and Industrial Studies. Ian eventually became responsible for a course in Export Engineering.

In 1984, at the age of 27, Ian retired, unable to secure a secondment from the Engineering Department, he decided to travel for 12 months with Helen. As a qualified diving instructor Ian was able to visit many of the renown dive sites in the world, encompassing the Great Barrier Reef, the Red Sea, and sites in Indonesia, New Zealand and Thailand; working in Australia en route.

Upon his return, Ian joined the public sector in Wales, promoting links between education and business with the Training and Enterprise Council. Following jobs managing an EU funded project and Business Support Agent, Ian left to join Dulas Ltd in 2000, joining the company as the Head of Marketing, responsible for overseas and domestics sales, promotion, public relations. Ian is now a director, with particular responsibility for vision, strategic planning, departmental marketing strategies. One of Ian’s key roles has been attracting grant funding for the company. He has been successful in winning funds for training, innovation, export, business development and marketing activities.

Dulas Ltd is a leading renewable energy company with 20 years experience in the industry at an international level. The company is based around a highly qualified and experienced multi-discipline team encompassing all aspects of renewable energy from policy, market stimulation and resource assessment right through to research, design, training, and the implementation of wind, solar, small hydro and biomass projects.

In 2002 Dulas exported over £2 million of solar powered equipment to markets as diverse as the Congo, Nigeria, the Yemen and Ethiopia. Dulas are a worker owned organisation, with the company run on an ethical trading basis. Part of the Dulas vision is the improvement of peoples lives in the developing world through the implementation of renewable energy technologies.

Dulas’ key customers include the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and a large number of African ministries of health who buy solar powered refrigerators used for blood banking and vaccine storage, which have been fundamental in eliminating common diseases such as measles and polio. Dulas recently provided the majority of ‘cold chain’ equipment used to vaccinate 47 million people, over a period of 2 days in Nigeria in 2002.

The company’s turnover has doubled since 2000, with new emerging markets in Africa, and the far east. Dulas won the prestigious Exporter of the Year award in 2002, presented by KPMG, WalesTrade International and the Welsh Assembly Government for their innovative approach to export markets in the developing world.

Ian continues to dive, actively seeking shipwrecks in the waters surrounding the North and Mid Wales coast, with varying degrees of success. Last year he and his family found the wreck of a 19th century packet ship, which struck the causeway in Cardigan Bay, what better way to use those quite weekends in the Autumn?

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