Our Team

James Davies | Sub41

James Davies - Founder and Director

James founded Sub41 in 2019 after spending the best part of 16 years coordinating and supervising the installation of marine structures, pipelines and subsea systems throughout Asia, Alaska, North and South America.

James graduated in 2000 with a B.Eng Naval Architecture and a B.Eng in Ocean Engineering; the first student to graduate with two engineering degrees from the Australian Maritime College. James is a passionate sailor, surfer and now business owner who’s focus is to provide solutions to companies ‘non-core business’ problems.

Oliver Thornalley | Sub41

Oliver Thornalley - Project and Engineering Manager

Oliver relocated back to Tasmania in 2018 after 8 years in deep water installation and construction, based in Perth, Asia and Norway. After some time with some local companies including project management for Tasports, Oliver has found his calling at Sub41 taking on projects for Tasmanian Irrigation, Tasnetworks and Hellyer Gold.

Oliver has a B.Eng in Marine and Offshore Systems Engineer and has completed the Tas Leaders course, loves sailing, surfing, boat building, restoring cars for the under privileged.

Landon Kibby | Sub41

Landon Kibby - Project and Operations Manager

We have convinced Landon to return to Tasmania and join Sub41. Landon is another engineer from the AMC who has an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience in marine installation and production welding. Having previously been based in Glasgow, Landon finds the climate here in tassie positively balmy. We tried to break him on the west coast this winter but couldn’t. Bring it on!

We are really excited to welcome Landon into the business as there are few more passionate people than this guy.

Benjamin Gooley | Sub41

Benjamin Gooley - Project Engineer

Can’t find a solution? Ben has never been a stranger to finding one, with his strong problem solving and technical mindset. His career first started on an ANZAC class frigate for the Royal Australian Navy as an Electrical and Weapons Technician. But now we've got him on board as our project engineer.

As a previous electrical/weapons technician and an electrical fitter mechanic, Ben is ready for any challenge that is thrown his way.

Raymond Davie | Sub41

Raymond Davie - Marine Technician / Operator

With over 45 years of experience in Northern Tasmania’s industrial space, Raymond has extensive knowledge about this space. Having previous experiences as an operator for many companies such as Temco and Tasports to name a few, he knows everything involved in large operations. Raymond lifted his career and joined Sub41 as our marine technician and operator.

Raymond’s wealth of knowledge and experience can help bring your operations to life, along with good humour along the way.