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Isambard CEO Alexander Fitzgerald: Re-industrializing the West
Alexander Fitzgerald, founder and CEO of Isambard, discusses the $50M Series A and the company's model: CNC component factories for defence, aerospace and energy customers, scaled through a franchise system — six factories across the UK and US today, 25 targeted by year-end, with Germany, France and Ukraine next. He argues the West's industrial base is a retiring long tail of small suppliers, that assembly is a small slice of manufacturing's value, and ties the mission to a multi-polar world and reshoring. He also details hiring: reverse-engineered roles, an in-factory assessment day and the "star chamber" final round used to surface truthful, mission-driven candidates.