The Maritime Innovation Committee is tasked by the RINA Council with identifying and assessing the impacts of new and evolving technologies on the membership and profession, and determining how the Institution should address them.
As such, it is the Institution’s ‘Think Tank’. It is authorised to act and speak on behalf of RINA in accordance with Council policies.
Maritime Innovation Committee Members

Chairman: Bob Cripps, BSc (Hons), CEng, FRINA, FIMarEST, FCMI ex–Longitude
Bob Cripps – Chair
Dean Goves – Vice Chair
David Andrews
Stuart Hunt
Nikola Momcilovic
Drew Orvieto
Nakul Malhotra
Saeed Javdani
Jake Rigby
Ankur Anal
Amedeo Migali
Max Wu
Luke de Freitas
Alec Lynn-Rodgers
Rebecca Palmer
Rob Hindley
William Balfour
Have your say
The RINA Maritime Innovation Committee welcomes all members to raise and discuss matters relating to the committee’s work, areas of interest and responsibilities.
Naval architects have a responsibility to advance the art and science of ship, boat and yacht design. We are only limited by our imagination.