Frey Livingston – Chief Researcher
Frey completed secondary education with the dual awards of Dux Litterarum and the NZQA Scholarship Award for passing five scholarship subjects. During his BSc in Biotechnology, he achieved an “A” average, was placed on the Dean’s List for both years he was eligible and received the only two academic prizes available for first year students in his field – the Kirk Prize for Biology and the NZ Institute of Chemistry First Year Prize. Hailing from a farm in Ōmata, Taranaki, Frey has always been passionate about agricultural science and animal welfare. This spurred Frey into developing this idea into novel technology in an ambitious Master of Science program, completed in the first half of 2021.
Pam Livingston – Managing Director
Pam has considerable project and business management experience. She worked in the Taranaki oil and gas industry – initially designing pressure equipment before moving on to managing projects. She delivered an intensive year long design project for the Middle East before moving into a Business Performance Manager role. Wishing to contribute to a community organization, she spent two years as Business Manager for a local high school. Currently, along with her role with Tokaora Diagnostics, Pam spends her time working for Riding for the Disabled and coaching bridge professionally. Pam’s academic qualifications include BSc in Mathematics and Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
Andrew Livingston – Advisor
Andrew was born and raised in New Plymouth and has an impressive academic background that includes PhD from Cambridge University, Head of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in London and was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 1996 he founded Membrane Extraction Technology (MET) to develop a new technology for molecular separations in organic liquids. MET was acquired in 2010 by Evonik Industries in Germany. In 2018 he founded a new start-up company Exactmer dedicated to the production of exact polymer molecules.
Andrew has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, which admits individuals who have made a “substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering, science and medical science”.