Neville Jordan CNZM

Flying Kiwi Award 2004

The Second Flying Kiwi recipient (2004) .
Founder of telecommunications microwave equipment company Marine Air Systems (MAS) Technology.
First New Zealand company to list on the NASDAQ - joined forces with US company Digital Microwave Services prior to Jordan selling his interest in 1998.
MAS now employs over 250 staff, exports to 60 countries, generating more than $100 Million in foreign exchange earnings.
Neville Jordan went on to establish Endeavour Capital a venture capital business investing in exciting New Zealand-based science, research and technology enterprises .
He was also the founding Chair and Chief Executive of diabetes research company Protemix.
A Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers NZ and has been awarded the UK IEE Kirby medal for "outstanding eminence and distinction in advanced technology".
Neville Jordan received the Governor General of New Zealand's Supreme Award for Exporting in 1996 and was honoured by the Queen in 1999 as a Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit.
He continues to back our young talent in their development of New Zealand's hi-tech future.

Neville Jordan

Neville Jordan, CNZM, is a graduate engineer from Canterbury University. He initially worked in civil aviation and IBM, followed by several years in Europe as Vice President for a multinational company. In 1975 he founded MAS Technology Ltd, a telecommunications microwave company. He grew the company from small beginnings to a sizeable international operation and achieved a successful float on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Neville formed Endeavour Capital Ltd in 1998 and now invests in New Zealand science and technology companies. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers NZ and received the British Kirby Medal for "outstanding eminence and distinction in advanced technology". Neville served six years on the board of the Crown Research Institute, AgResearch, and three years each on the boards of the Foundation? for Research Science & Technology and the Prime Minister's Growth and Innovation Advisory Board. In 1997 he received the Governor General's Supreme Award for Exporting and was invested in 1999 as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Neville is one of only three living New Zealander's to be a Laureate of both the Hi Tech Hall of Fame and NZ Business Hall of Fame. He is currently President of the Royal Society of New Zealand.