Great people to work with
Developing an idea with NAI means working alongside our team of experts. They combine years of experience, technical knowledge, business acumen and networks with a passion for using artificial intelligence to solve important issues.
Board of Directors
Julian Maclaren
Julian spent four years as a scientist in Freiburg, Germany, at one of Europe’s leading MRI research labs and six years in Silicon Valley, mainly at Stanford University.
He is the inventor of a number of patents relating to computer vision, motion tracking and MRI, many of which have been commercialised.
Julian has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury.
Mark Houghton Brown
Mark is a farmer by profession, an entrepreneur by nature and an environmentalist by conviction.
His commercial focus includes clean technology and marketing progressive solutions. He has founded and exited multiple successful enterprises during a 30-year career in the UK and New Zealand.
Mark has a degree in Economics, Accounting and Finance from Oxford Brookes University
Alexey Rostapshov
Alexey is currently the Head of JD Labs & Sustainability at John Deere. He focuses on exploring innovative technological solutions and partnerships and recruiting technical expertise to augment Deere’s global technology team.
Before John Deere, Alexey was an entrepreneur who built two companies from the ground up.
Alexey holds a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Science Engineering from Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.