Julian Vance is a science graduate, M.Sc. in marketing, chartered marketer. Early roles included sales and marketing trainee with Proctor & Gamble, marketing management with Proctor & Gamble, owner and M.D. of computer software company, marketing director with a U.K. based plc selling to hotels and leisure sector. He was a management consultant working primarily in the engineering and manufacturing sectors (eight years), and later managing director of pressure vessels companies (23 years).

Vance founded Vessco Engineering Limited in 2006, and developed the business to become one of the U.K.’s leading pressure vessels and systems companies. He started marketing to the civil nuclear sector in the U.K. in 2012, with the first order gained in December 2017; completed three contracts for HPC, working on further contracts for HPC: one for Sellafield, one for UKAEA, one for ITER France, and two for Bangor University Nuclear Futures Institute – totaling well over £20m. of orders.