Norman Apsley
Norman Apsley OBE FREng[1] is Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst Inc. formerly the Catalyst Inc in Belfast.
Apsley is a board member of Matrix, the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel.[2] He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at The Queen's University of Belfast.[3] He was appointed an Honorary Professor at the University of Essex in 1989, and is also a visiting Professor for the University of Ulster.
In 2011, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[4]
He was educated at Larne Grammar School, and then at the University of Ulster where he achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. He went on to study for a PhD in amorphous semiconductors at University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. Dr Apsley became a Fellow of Jesus College.