Dr North has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and is both a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Scientist.
He is a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK and a Lifetime member of ASME.
He trained in the field of Aircooled Heat Exchangers with GEA Airexchanger ltd where he rose to the position of Technical Director.
He founded the original Airfins in 1990 and has been involved in the cutting edge of design through both HTRI and Aspen HTFS for who he was a loading member of the X Flow Exchanger review panel for many years.