Sir David McMurtry
Co-founder & Board Member
Born in Dublin in 1940, he joined Bristol Aeroplane Company as an apprentice at 18 and rose to become Rolls-Royce's youngest ever Assistant Chief of Engine Design. While solving measurement problems for Concorde's Olympus engines in 1973, he invented the touch-trigger probe for coordinate measuring machines. He co-founded Renishaw in 1974 with John Deer to commercialize the technology and built it into the UK's largest metrology equipment maker. Awarded a CBE in 1994 and knighted in 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011. He passed away in early 2024.