Clive Surman Wells

Clive is Innovation Partnerships Manager for Northumbrian Water Group (NWG). Having spent 25 years in Information Technology and Information Systems, Clive has been delivering and deploying operational solutions within Northumbrian Water for last 14 years, most notably in the geospatial field. Clive has been a driving force in progressing a national underground asset register, established England’s first moss tree, and has pioneered a number of initiatives to improve positional accuracy of buried assets. Partnership and collaboration have been at the heart of his work. Now Clive helps colleagues win external funding to turn their ideas into reality, something that led to the inception of the National Leakage Research and Test Centre.