Key Personnel

Rick Fright PhD, Executive Director, VP R&D
Rick Fright was born and educated in Canterbury, and attended the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, obtaining a BE (Electrical) in 1980 and a PhD in 1984 under the supervision of the late Professor Bates. Rick joined the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at Christchurch Hospital in 1987. A Wellcome Fellowship at University College London from 1989-1991 enabled him to specialise in 3D medical imaging and computer systems for surgery planning and the automated production of custom implants, prior to co-establishing ARANZ in 1995 and ARANZ Medical in 2005.

Bruce McCallum PhD, Executive Director, VP R&D
Bruce McCallum gained a BE (Electrical, Hons 1) in 1983 from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, followed by a PhD in 1990 under the supervision of the late Professor Bates. Bruce then worked as a consultant for the Industrial Development Division of the DSIR, before being awarded the NZ Royal Society Endeavour Fellowship for postdoctoral research in Britain. This he undertook in the Microstructural Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK, researching the theory and application of super-resolution imaging in electron microscopy, from 1991 to 1994. In 1995, Bruce returned to NZ to co-establish ARANZ and more recently ARANZ Medical.

Mark Nixon MB ChB, Executive Director, Clinical Scientist
Mark Nixon studied physics and mathematics at the University of Canterbury (BSc), and completed his medical training at the University of Otago (MB ChB). He also studied at University College London, UK, submitting a thesis entitled Laser Scanning for Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Body Surface (1995). Mark is also a co-founder of ARANZ and ARANZ Medical. With this combination of skills Mark has been largely responsible for ARANZ’s product initiatives in the medical areas including custom prosthetics, radiation therapy immobilization masks and wound assessment.

Bruce Davey PhD, VP Marketing and Sales
Bruce Davey gained a BE (Electrical, Hons 1) and PhD degrees from the University of Canterbury in 1995 and 1998 respectively. Following research positions in the Departments of Medicine, Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, he joined Cedara Software Corp., Toronto, Canada and over the 13 years with the company held increasingly senior engineering and subsequently marketing positions. Bruce joined ARANZ in early 2006 with responsibilities for the marketing and sales for the ARANZ Group of companies.

Jim Turpin, Business Manager
Jim acquired his accounting qualifications from the University of Canterbury.  After a six year stint with a Public Accountant, Jim spent a further ten years as programmer, systems analyst and eventually Data Processing Manager with The New Zealand Refrigerating Company Limited, which at the time was New Zealand’s largest meat procurement, processing and marketing company. In the mid 1970’s he joined Cyclone Industries NZ Limited in a management position and was appointed General Manager in the early 1980’s. Cyclone had seven manufacturing and marketing branches throughout New Zealand and one in the UK, exporting wire and metal fabrication products to all parts of the world. In the mid 1990’s Jim went into business on his own account, and in 2002 commenced a relationship to advise and assist ARANZ as it set out to commercialise results of its innovative research.