Andy Macdonald is Director, Offshore Wind Development and Operations at ORE Catapult. Andy leads ORE Catapult's collaboration with offshore wind developers including the Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOWCoE), O&M Centre of Excellence (OMCE) and the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP). He leads an engineering team dedicated to accelerating the growth of floating wind whilst reducing the risks and costs of O&M across the sector. Following an early career in electronics and telecoms engineering, Andy has focussed on innovation and supply chain growth and has worked in renewable energy for the last fourteen years helping to develop companies in the offshore wind and tidal energy sectors