Previously chief executive of MetService and its international subsidiary, Metraweather.
Long experience in biotechnology and meteorology, as well as in commercial and scientific disciplines.
Director of biotechnology networks for Scottish Enterprise, the national economic development agency of Scotland. After emigrating in 2002, became director of Industry NZ’s biotechnology sector.
Has post-graduate degrees in biochemistry and biological sciences from Queen's University (Belfast) and Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), as well as an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Glasgow University.