Patrick Hennelly is a researcher at the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University, specialising in supply chain management, distributed manufacturing and smart city production systems. He is co-founder of the Future Cities and Community Resilience network. He is also Director of Sology Charters UK Ltd, which is part of the Sology Group, Tyumen, Russia. They have six offices in four continents, 50 projects accomplished in oil/gas and air-space industries and over 300 logistics services provided in over 35 countries.