Founders

Stephen Grayson, Chemist with over 40 years' experience in fire research, co-founded FTT in 1989. Outside of his involvement with FTT, Stephen has set up and managed academic and contract fire research and testing laboratories, published several books, is the Editor in Chief of the international "Fire and Materials Journal", published by John Wiley, and he chairs the international Interflam and Fire and Materials conferences.

Together with the inventor of the Cone Calorimeter, Vyto Babrauskas, he developed the Cone Calorimeter usage and several standards in Europe. In 1992 he and Vyto published the textbook "Heat Release in Fires", which reviewed all methods of measuring heat release and using it for predictive modelling. Stephen developed and managed the European Commission (EC) Fire Performance of Electric Cables (FIPEC) project, which formed the scientific foundation for the Construction Product Regulation (CPR) classification testing of electric cables.

Since 1980, Stephen has been a strong contributor to national, European and international standardisation committees dealing with fire safety, and has led BS, ISO, CEN, CENELEC and other committees dealing with the cone calorimeter for about 20 years.

Dr Sean Gregory is a motivated, highly qualified technical business leader with over 25 years' experience in reaction to fire testing, 15 of which were as Managing Director of Fire Testing Technology (FTT). He has a Masters in Business Administration, PhD in Fire Science and BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Energy Studies.

His PhD focused on fire calorimeter instrumentation and modelling, which is the core technology upon which much of intersciencefire's business is based. He continued instrument design and applied research studies in this area while at FTT, much of which was done collaboratively with industry groups and leading European fire research institutes.

Sean also works extensively in national, European and international standardisation committees (BSI, CEN, ISO and ASTM), where he acts as a UK delegate, project leader, and chair of both national and international committees. These committees develop the techniques for reaction to fire test equipment used in fire testing laboratories.