b'24|IET Futures FundLook Ahead2023 marks ten years since the first Diamond Jubilee Scholarships were awarded. We look forward to catching up with some of our amazing graduates to see what they are getting up to now. People like Tom Maidment CEng MIET, who is now building a global net-zero strategy for one of the UKs largest food businesses. Tom was offered a place to study for an MEng in Automotive Engineering with Sustainability at the University of Warwick. He was awarded a Diamond Jubilee Scholarship in 2013. What the scholarship did was give me time. Without it, I would have had to work during the year. I was able to spend time focussing on work and applying for internships rather than working at a bar. At the same time some of my course mates were struggling with money.I managed to get an internship with Jaguar Land Rover that first summer of my course. I was invited back every summer and then offered a graduate engineer role.Sustainability is increasingly Sustainability is important to Tom and on completion of his graduateimportant. It has gone from scheme he became a technical analyst working on building abeing a tick box across corporate sustainability plan at Jaguar Land Rover. Tom achieved his CEng with the IET and the support of Jaguar Land Rover. to core of business. The scholarship helped me make Now, as Group Product Sustainability Senior Manager at the Hilton Fooda difference.Group, Toms challenge is to build a net-zero strategy at a global level. Tom Maidment CEng MIET, Diamond His next step is to become a Chartered Environmentalist. Jubilee Scholarship 2013-2017'