The Team
Glen Willoughby
Chief Executive
Glen
has over 30 years experience in technology leadership in the health, engineering and technology sectors including with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a Fellow at Victoria University (Wellington), ‘virtual CIO’ Singularity University Labs (Silicon Valley) and ranked in the top 10 Australasian technology innovation leaders (CIO publication)
Michael Maunsell
Director Programme
and Markets
Mike
has over 30 years in executive leadership positions spanning the health, telecommunications, civil infrastructure and technology sectors. He was recently Programme Director, City Rail Link Auckland Transport
Prof. Matthew Watson
Director
Research & IP
Matt
is an academic leader at the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Canterbury. He is the author of patents and publications in the field of material science, and has successfully managed large scale, national R&D capital programme in Australasia, USA and Canada
Neville Jones
Director
Invention Laboratory
Neville
has over 20 years experience working to assist innovative NZ companies with their global strategy to market. Neville has an extensive business network in many countries around the world
Alan McArdle
Director
Engineering
Alan
has over 30 years of commercial experience as Head of Global Manufacturing for Fisher & Paykel Appliances (now Haier Appliances), establishing and automating production plants globally
Simon Oakley
Director Chemical
Engineering and Product
Simon
has had a 30 year career in chemical engineering roles including process and product development, and project and engineering management. His recent focus has been on developing resource recovery technologies with start-up companies
Jane Yang
Polymer Chemist
Jane
is a recent BSc(Hons)-Chem and BSc-Maths graduate from Auckland University. At Nilo she works as a chemical engineer and chemical researcher researching and developing polymers to synthesise with the recycled plastics
Aditya Rudakar
Technical Lead
Mechanical Engineering
Adi
has worked at Nilo since 2019 when he left Auckland University with an MEngSt (Hons)-Mechanical. At Nilo he is part of the mechanical engineering workstream contributing to the R&D activity, product and process development
Dr Sankar Namboothiri
Technical Lead Chemical
Engineering and Product
Sankar
has over 12 years of post-PhD experience in various R&D, process engineering and project management roles in New Zealand and in overseas. His focus is in process development and the scale up of environmentally friendly chemical process technologies
