An award-winning designer has turned herself into one of the youngest chief executives in shipping.
After graduating from the UK’s Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2018, Madelaine Dowd launched Helm Innovation to focus on life-saving equipment at sea.
The 25-year-old from Hertfordshire, southern England, is patenting a new pilot ladder system that it is claimed reduces safety risks in a ship-to-ship transfer by 80%.
