Frey Livingston – Chief Researcher
Frey has developed this project from early beginnings during his ambitious Master of Science program at Victoria University of Wellington, completed 2021. As the Chief Researcher at Tokaora Diagnostics, Frey has led the company through multiple years of research and animal studies to develop the prototype for facial eczema testing. He is currently a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington.
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 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Post Graduate Diploma in Management. (Massey)
Callum Livingston – Commercial Advisor
Callum Livingston is the General Manager, Industry Services at the Bioeconomy Science Institute (BSI), where he leads the organisation’s industry services portfolio and oversees the growth and delivery of industry-facing science services. He also maintains responsibility for GenomNZ, New Zealand’s national animal genomics service, where he has led its transformation into a successful commercial business unit that continues to grow both domestically and internationally.
Callum began his career in biosecurity, playing senior leadership roles in the Mycoplasma bovis response as both an Area Operations Manager and National Controller. He subsequently moved into commercial leadership, first with MSD Animal Health before joining AgResearch, now part of the Bioeconomy Science Institute.
Throughout his career, Callum has built a strong reputation for translating science into industry impact. He has extensive experience in commercial strategy, stakeholder engagement, programme development, and business transformation, working across the sheep, beef, deer, dairy, aquaculture, and wider primary sectors. He has successfully established strategic partnerships and secured significant co-investment from industry and government, helping deliver programmes that generate practical outcomes for farmers and the wider bioeconomy.
Callum is recognised for balancing commercial, scientific, and stakeholder priorities to develop sustainable industry services that deliver long term value for New Zealand’s primary industries.
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”.
