Neville Jordan, CNZM, is a graduate engineer from Canterbury University. Early work experience in civil aviation and IBM and a Rotary scholarship to the USA were followed by several years in Europe as vice president for a multinational company.

In 1975 he founded MAS Technology Ltd, a telecommunications microwave company. He grew this from startup to a significant multinational company and achieved a successful float on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Neville then founded Endeavour Capital which invests in science and technology companies.

Neville is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers NZ and was awarded the United Kingdom IEE Kirby Medal for “outstanding eminence and distinction in advanced technology”.

Neville has served on several government ministerial advisory committees, six years on the board of Crown company AgResearch, and three years each on the boards of the Foundation for Research Science & Technology and the Prime Minister’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board. He is a retired officer of the RNZNVR and Captain (Hon) in the Royal NZ Navy.

He has received the Governor General's Supreme Award for exporting and was invested in 1999 as Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He was inducted into the NZ Hi‐Tech Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Business Hall of Fame in 2006 and was elected President, Royal Society of NZ in 2006 for a period of three years.