As Investment Principal, Aaron leads the Investment Team at GD1. He has over 10 years experience in Venture Capital roles in both NZ and the UK. Before joining GD1, Aaron was an Investment Manager at NZTE where he helped NZ technology companies connect with local and international VCs. Prior to this, Aaron managed Spark NZ's Corporate VC program and held investing roles at Aspinall Capital (a $100m industrial technology fund) and WHEB Partners (a cleantech venture capital firm with €250m AUM) in the United Kingdom.

Aaron holds a PhD in Chemistry and a BSc Hons (1st Class) from Victoria University of Wellington and the MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. He is passionate about supporting NZ founders in taking their technologies global to solve the world’s biggest challenges