New Years Honour; Sir Neville Jordan
Date: 
Friday, 16 January, 2015

The RNZA Assn would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Neville Jordan on being Knighted in the New Years Honours list 1 Jan 2015.

Amongst all his other accomplishments and fine works, Neville was the founder of MAS Technology, the Wellington company which developed the Vanguard Fire Prediction System. The tender for Vanguard was accepted by the NZ Army in 1987(Tony Mcleod Director of Artillery, Tom O`Reilly Director of  equipment Procurement, Alan Mitchell Projects Officer, Skin Frances Master Gunner).  The system remained in operational use for over 20 years and cost a fraction of what some of the other bigger name companies offered. We are indebted to Neville and his team at MAS (including Dr  Russell Gibbard) for their contribution to the RNZA.

A press release on 08/01/2015:

"Innovator and technology entrepreneur Sir Neville Jordan has been winning top business awards for years, most recently as Wellingtonian of the Year in 2012.  He was president of the Royal Society from 2006-09, a rare position for a businessman, and has been a member of many government scientific organisations.  He became a member of the NBR RICH LIST after listing his company MAS Technology on the US Nasdaq exchange in 1975 and continues to be an active venture capitalist through Endeavour Capital."