Our People
Below you will find brief biographies of our team members from Director to Surveyor grade.

We aim to recruit top graduates from survey based BSc and MSC courses around the country. Our goal is to build a solid team capable of top quality project delivery.

Qualifications and experience are a starting point. We place great importance on continued professional development, because if you are not moving forward, you are standing still. To keep our knowledge up to date, we have encouraged senior members of the team to attend conferences in SanFrancisco (HDS users), Texas (Spar View), Las Vegas (Trimble Dimensions), Germany (Intergeo), Stockholm (FIG) and Newbury (WOG)!
   
Managing Director

Mark Combes, BSc(Hons), Dip Svy, MRICS, MInstCES

Graduate in Geography, Plymouth Polytechnic and Diploma in Land Surveying at University College London. Overseas surveying experience in Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, South Africa, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. Two seasons with the British Antarctic Survey on the Halley 5 Base undertaking construction and snowdrift monitoring. Surveying experience in the UK on a wide variety of projects. Specialising in engineering surveying and railway surveying.
 
Financial Director

Nicholas Blenkarn, BSc(Hons), MSc, MRICS, MInstCES, MPWI

Graduate in Geography and Geology, The College of St Paul & St Mary, Cheltenham. Masters degree in Land Surveying from University College London. Wide ranging experience over 15 years of large survey projects throughout the UK. Specialising in laser scanning, railway surveying and track deformation monitoring along with all aspects of CAD, data management and manipulation. Quality Assurance Manager.
Director

Richard Otto BSc, MA(Cantab), MInstCES, MRICS, MRIN, AAGS

Graduate in Land Survey, University of Natal, South Africa. MA in Land Economy, Cambridge. Extensive overseas survey experience in South Africa, Antarctica with the South Africa Antarctic expedition, British Antarctic Survey and NASA. Very varied experience in the U.K. with particular interests in cadastral surveying, town planning & engineering surveying. Richard is on the editorial and management board of ‘Survey Review’, along with the board of the Survey Association (TSA).
Survey Manager

Bob Hutchings, MInstCES, TechRICS

Higher Diploma in Land Surveying from East London University in 1975. General land surveying within Local Government for 9 years followed by 14 years within a civil engineering consultancy specialising in engineering surveying. Bob was Regional Manager of a multi disciplinary survey company where he founded the Land Survey Division in 1993 and is a past serving member of TSA Technical Committee.
Principal Surveyor

Matthew Levine BSc (Hons), MSc

Graduated from University of London studying Geography and University College London (UCL) with Masters in Surveying. Matthew is our project leader in 3D Laser scanning (HDS scanstation), scan data manipulation and high accuracy surveys of rail infrastructure. PTS Qualified, RICS APC ongoing, Management GNVQ (level3).
Senior Surveyor 

Neil Roberts Bsc (Hons)

Graduated in 1997 from Sheffield Hallam University with a degree in Minerals Estate Management. Neil has a wide ranging post graduate experience of deformation monitoring, large topographical surveys, Pway track surveys and rail engineering projects.
PTS Qualified, COSS Qualified
Senior Surveyor

James Roberts BSc (Hons)

Graduated from University of Glamorgan in 1989 and has 16 years survey/project management experience. Jim specialises in large photogrammetric surveys, rail projects, building surveys and currently manages our Health and Safety Policy.
PTS Qualified, Management NVQ, RICS APC Ongoing.
Senior Surveyor

Jamie Price BSC (Hons)

Jamie joined the Partnership in 1998 and has studied Surveying and Mapping sciences at the University of East London. After rejoining TSP, Jamie took a Senior Surveyor role, specialising in large scale pway surveys (HOTR and A09 speed enhancement projects). Also managing the service and calibration of our ever increasing list of survey equipment
PTS Qualified, Management GNVQ (level3)
Senior Surveyor

Anett Dude Dipl.Eng

Anett Graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden, Germany with the equivalent of a BSc Honours degree in Land Surveying/Engineering. She joined the team in January 2005 and has a breadth of experience in topographical, railway and building surveys. Anett specialises in the accurate extraction of 3D/2D data from laser scan point clouds. PTS Qualified, ICES APC ongoing, Management GNVQ (level3)
Senior Surveyor

Rollo Rigby BSc (Hons), MSc

Graduated from the University of Wales (Geography) and UCL (MSc Surveying). Joined Severn Partnership in 2005, working on laser scanning projects, TMG spigot coordination, and 3D modelling. Rollo specialises in GPS networks, RTK surveys and manages our fleet of Leica GPS and system 1200 smartnet service. PTS Qualified
Surveyor

Christopher Brown BSc (Hons), MSc

Chris graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Mathematical Physics and after work experience at the Severn Partnership, moved on to complete a Masters in Surveying at UCL. Chris specialised in high detail topographical and rail surveys.
PTS Qualified
Surveyor

Jonathan Nation BA (Hons), MSc

Graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA in economics, before converting to surveying with an MSc from University College London. Jonathan is on our training and mentoring program having joined in 2007. PTS qualified
 
Surveyor

David Spurling

David joined Severn Partnership as an Assistant Surveyor in 2005 after gaining survey experience in New Zealand. David completed the Survey Association course at Worcester and specialises in wayleave transect surveys for utility services; pipelines and power cables. PTS Qualified
Surveyor

Tomasz Koniuszy Msc

Graduated from University in Krakow with an MSc in Surveying and Cartography and joined Severn Partnership in 2007. Tomasz is progressing through our in house surveyor training and mentoring and is experienced with a range of CAD packages.
Administration & Accounts

Gill Otto

Gill has managed the Partnership accounts since the inception of the company in 1984..
Administration & Reception

Sally Jury

Sally joined the Partnership in 1997 and is the key to the door of office communications..