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Chairman
Al has extensive governance and business experience. He currently sits on the Boards of 3 high-tech companies, as Chair of Foster Moore (business registries, including the NZ Companies Office), Chair of Spidertracks (rotary and fixed wing aircraft tracking) and Chair of eStar (eCommerce). He is a past Director of Callaghan Innovation, the New Zealand Government crown entity responsible for growing the R&D investment of New Zealand’s high value manufacturing and services companies and administering R&D grants. He was Chair of the Grants Committee and was also on the Audit and Risk Committee of Callaghan Innovation. He is also a past Trustee of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Trust.
Al Monro is also Chairman of the Board and a shareholder of Wanaka-based Tarras Cherry Corporation, an orchard holding company with a 35-hectare, 24,000 tree orchard in the Ardgour Valley. His business experience includes 18 years at IBM (National Sales Manager on departure) and having been Chief Executive of optical touch screen company NextWindow from start-up in 2002 until acquisition by NASDAQ-listed Smart Technologies in 2011. During that period the business grew from two employees and no revenue to in excess of 140 staff and US$46m in sales. Since leaving Smart Technologies in late 2011, Al has been working with expansion-stage technology companies as an advisor and/or director helping them put strategies in place to grow globally. Al and his wife Andrea have lived in Wanaka since 2017. Al holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Canterbury University.
Non Executive Director
Michael and his family are foundation Shareholders of Syft. Michael has worked in Corporate and Commercial banking and finance for 37 years, the last 13 as a partner in a private finance company specialising in working capital – Pacific Invoice Finance which supported Syft financially up until 31 March 2013.
Michael was part of an independent advisory board to Syft set up in April 2011 and has been involved regularly with Syft and its board on an on-going basis. As part of that role Michael travelled to Europe, USA and Asia initially to meet with Syft’s key Staff, Distributors and Clients.
Non Executive Director
Nicola is Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors with previous governance experience as an Independent Director, Executive Director and an Advisory Board Member. Nicola is currently an Independent Director of Crest Licensing Systems, a New Zealand owned and operated Commercial Cleaning business, and is the Chief Operating Officer at Bremworth Carpets and Rugs.
With significant experience in Global HR and Operations Management roles, Nicola brings people and culture, supply chain, manufacturing and sustainability insights to the Board.
Prior to Bremworth, Nicola held senior roles at TVNZ, Flecther Building, Spark and spent 6 years as COO at Icebreaker Merino Clothing, part of that time leading the European business based out of Munich.
Non Executive Director
David joined Ampersand as an Operating Partner in 2015, and leads Ampersand’s Portfolio Acceleration Team™. He is Chairman of Alliance Pharma and joined the Board of Syft Technologies in April 2022. Previously, David was Chairman/CEO of Advion Interchim Scientific, and CEO of Advion, sold to Bohui Innovation Technology in 2015. He served as a Board member of Gyros Protein Technologies, sold to Mesa Labs in 2019. David also served as CEO of Advion BioSciences, a bioanalytical CRO business acquired by Quintiles Transnational in 2011, and CEO of Biotage, which was acquired by Pyrosequencing AB in 2003. David holds two separate B.S. degrees from The University of Richmond and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and completed an International Management program through IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Non Executive Director
Dr. Andrew Coy earned his PhD in Physics in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) from Massey University in 1995, under the mentorship of the late Prof. Sir Paul Callaghan.
In 2004, Andrew was part of the team that created Magritek Limited, a spin-off company from Massey and Victoria Universities focussing on developing, manufacturing and commercialising NMR instruments based on university technology. He served as the founding CEO of Magritek from 2004 until the end of 2023, during which time the company grew to be the global leader in Benchtop NMR spectrometers, highly profitable, and with operations in three countries.
Andrew and the founding Magritek team were awarded the Prime Ministers Science Prize in 2010. Additionally, he is a Blake Leader alumni from 2011.
Prior to Magritek, Andrew had a senior manager role at World.Net Services, a software development company with operations in Australia, Malaysia and the UK.
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