Neville Jordan has been awarded New Zealand’s top engineering award, the William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership. This award recognises an engineer who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and is a role model for other engineers.
Over the last 35 years Neville Jordan has played a pivotal leadership role in developing New Zealand’s innovation-based economy. Earlier in his career he was a pioneering engineering entrepreneur who personally developed a telecommunications microwave business from scratch, achieving revenues of more than $100 million per annum, exporting to over 60 countries. Subsequently he was a leader in developing the venture capital sector in New Zealand. As President of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2006 to 2009 he led significant and innovative reforms.
He was presented with the award at the IPENZ New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards, held in Wellington on 30 November.
