About Spark Product Innovation

About Us

At Spark Product Innovation, our multidisciplinary team is equipped with the expertise to turn your product idea into a reality.

Our engineers specialise in high-speed digital electronics, analogue design, power electronics, FPGA, DSP, and microprocessors. We also have deep expertise in microprocessor software, embedded firmware, digital filtering, and FPGA VHDL coding. Additionally, we offer a full turnkey service, seamlessly integrating electronics, software, and mechanical engineering into custom casings and enclosures.

With years of experience across a wide range of high-reliability industrial sectors, our team is ready to apply this knowledge to bring your designs to life.

Meet The team

ALAN LAM

Alan is a joint founder of Spark Product Innovation. Prior to establishing Spark Product Innovation he was a principal design consultant at forefront fibre optics sensing startup OptaSense. Alan has over 23 years of management and electronics design experience having held senior positions at Motorola, Dyson and Airspan Networks. While at Motorola and Airspan he spearheaded techniques to bring 2G, 3G and 4G mobile telecom networks from concept through to production. He also subsequently helped design the award-winning Dyson Airblade hand dryer and 360 eye robotic vacuum. Alan specialises in High speed digital design focusing on advanced signal integrity techniques and high reliability with a right first time mentality. Alan graduated from Queen Mary & Westfield College (University of London) with a MEng in Communication Engineering.

DOMINIC PEARCE

Dominic is a joint founder of Spark Product Innovation. Prior to establishing Spark Product Innovation, he was the sole firmware engineer at the market leading fibre optics sensing startup OptaSense. Dominic has over 20 years of embedded firmware and digital signal processing algorithm design experience on many different processor, FPGA, and OS platforms. He was the principal engineer for a novel FMCW radar system, and has worked in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecom sectors. His name is cited as inventor on two international patents and he has authored many other peer reviewed publications. Dominic graduated with his PhD in Geophysics in 1996 from Leeds University.

STEPHEN CAUSIER

Stephen is a joint founder of Spark Product Innovation. Prior to establishing Spark Product Innovation Stephen has held Senior & Principal engineering roles in many industry leading multinational companies. Stephen has over 24 years design experience in numerous industry sectors ranging from mass-production consumer products to high-reliability devices & systems for Defense, Oil & Gas Drilling, Subsea Production Control, Avionics, Power conversion, Power generation, Medical and Telecoms. Stephen specialises in custom electronics circuit & PCB design for high power applications including power converters, invertors, motor drives, custom electronic loads and solid state power control & protection systems. Stephen’s research interests include advanced power-semiconductor technologies and circuit assembly & packaging for operating in harsh environments (high temperature, shock & vibration). Stephen is also cited as inventor in many international patents.

TONY HANNALLAH

Tony is an Electronics Hardware Engineer who started his career at Dyson and has since held senior and lead engineering positions in consumer electronics companies such as Cambridge Audio and ProVision Communications, a technology start-up who pioneered the technology behind wireless streaming of HD video. More recently Tony has worked in electronics design consultancy roles, specialising in low power embedded electronics design. He thrives on providing a high level of service to third party clients, ensuring their needs are clearly understood and that the product delivered is an exceptional match to their expectations. He has worked on product designs catering for a range of industries such as smart-metering, IoT, industrial logging, commercial alarms, educational products and oil and gas. This combined with his experience in consumer electronics means he can design products with challenging specifications that perform well in extreme environments whilst still meeting aggressive cost targets where necessary.Tony graduated from the University of Birmingham with a MEng in Computer and Communications Systems Engineering.

MARTIN STOKES

Martin Stokes joined Spark Product Innovation in 2018, bringing over 22 years of experience in senior roles across electronic design and systems engineering for complex, multidisciplinary programmes. His expertise spans a diverse range of industries, including oil and gas, subsea engineering, defence, aviation, power distribution, robotics, and consumer electronics. Throughout his career, Martin has developed specialised skills in safety integrity level (SIL) design, motor control, automated test equipment, systems engineering, requirements management, low-cost consumer electronics, high-temperature applications, and high-reliability electronic design.A graduate of the University of the West of England with a first-class BEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Martin is also the named inventor on numerous patents related to electronics and oil and gas technologies.

Andrew Flook

Andrew is a highly experienced principal embedded software engineer with a strong background in real-time systems, low-level firmware development, and high-performance embedded computing. Specialising in bare-metal, RTOS, and Linux-based systems, he has played a key role in developing software for complex, mission-critical applications.

With expertise in system architecture, firmware design, and software optimisation, Andrew ensures embedded systems operate with efficiency and reliability. His skill set includes ARM and DSP programming, low-latency software design, and hardware-software integration, enabling him to develop solutions that meet demanding technical and regulatory requirements.

As a director, Andrew combines technical expertise with leadership, guiding development teams and contributing to innovative software solutions that drive cutting-edge embedded technology forward.

Florian Biatel

Mechatronics and embedded software engineer with experience in robotics and a degree from the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien in Austria.

Leviel Alvarez

PCB layout and electronics design engineer.

Henry Rawnsley

Electronics engineer with a degree from the University of Bath Electronics and a passion for lab-based prototyping development.

Sinem Akyazi

Embedded software engineer with motor control experience and a degree from TOBB University of Economics and Technology and a master’s from the University of Newcastle.

Antara Biswas

Financial assistant. Antara helps with the accounts and office management..

Nirnaya Sarangan

Power Electronics specialists with over 14 years of experience in several blue-chip companies.

Geoff Salt

Experienced University of Bristol test engineer who loves hands-on lab prototyping and testing..

Mark Pring

On-site lab technician skilled in soldering, electronics assembly, and production testing.

Other Staff

We also have several other contract members of the team that provide engineering mechanical CAD services and further technician support.