Engineering couple awarded MBEs

Co-founders of Hampshire based manufacturing & innovation company Morgan Innovation & Technology (Morgan IAT), Sue Clarke (chairman) & Howard Clarke (research director) have both been awarded a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s 2022 New Year’s Honours list.

Sue has been awarded her MBE for outstanding services to business and engineering. Howard has received his honour for exceptional services to business and entrepreneurship.

On learning of being awarded MBEs, Sue & Howard said: "Both of us are very proud and honoured to have been awarded MBEs. It was a huge surprise and unexpected. What has made it particularly special is the recognition that we are a team. Everything we have done and achieved, both in business and volunteering, is because we are a team. However, our work supporting innovation and our work with young people, students, interns and graduates have only been possible because we have always been supported by our family and the people with whom we work."

Sue co-founded Morgan IAT with Howard back in 1987 and served as managing director until February 2018, continuing today as the company’s chairman.

Howard is an entrepreneur, inventor & passionate advocate of the next generation of innovators; and provides mentorship and financial support to individuals and fledgling businesses.

These accolades come at a time of expansion for the Hampshire-based company, having recently opened additional assembly lines for more agile production to meet the changing demands of the sector. These include lines to accommodate prototyping, box builds, and micro- runs yet still maintain their high-end electronics lines manufacturing lines open.