Our team

Introducing our team:

From left to right, 

Simon Taylor, TextureJet’s chief design engineer in charge of the design team and leads the companies ISO program. Simon holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and possesses wide experience in design from a number of fields including robotic platforms, gearbox design and processing technologies. 

Patrick Bointon is TextureJet’s project manager who ensures the smooth running of company projects on a day-to-day basis. Patrick has both a MEng and PhD and has experience in developing metrology systems from the ground up and project management. 

Lisa Naylor is TextureJet’s office manager in charge of all admin tasks, procurement and generally support of all day to day activities of the team. 

Jonathon Mitchell-Smith, Managing Director / CEO and co-founder of TextureJet and responsible for establishing TextureJet as a spin-out from the University of Nottingham. 

Ivan Bisterov is a co-founder and TextureJets system engineer responsible for software development and systems design having designed some of the underpinning systems in TextureJet. Ivan has a MEng in Mechanical engineering and is currently working towards his PhD.  

Alistair Speidel is a company co-founder and our electrochemical process engineer covering all chemical and material interaction developments in the company. Alistair has a MChem and PhD in advancing the underpinning technologies in TextureJet.

New addition, Jack Foster. Jack has joined the team as junior design engineer having recently completed his Higher apprenticeship with Rolls-Royce culminating in achieving a BEng. Jack has been brought in to support the TextureJet’s recent ATI / NATEP / BEIS grant funding to advance aerospace technologies.