Jaswant (Jas) Thandi
Aged 48
Living in London
1st Generation Indian born in UK, family from the Punjab in India
Married with 2 kids, both kids into STEM and son studying Aerodynamics
Study at Middlesex University BEng in Electronics
Ex Banker and Civil Servant, Been with Bloodhound since 2010. Joined as an Ambassador to begin with then moved onto the Events team. Look after the events in the UK and leads the overseas events for Bloodhound in partnership with the Great Campaign. Created the Bloodhound Model Rocket Cars in 2011 and has developed this into its current form. I have trained the Brazilian team to do rocket cars and has been a success. When I travel back to India I teach at local village schools about Bloodhound and the village are proud of me to be part of this iconic project.
Spare time build models and robots, built full size dalek and Tardis in past, currently working on two new workshops to take the rocket powered vehicles to the next level.
Twitter @jas_thandi_ssc
Facebook www.facebook.com/jas.thandi.58