New Frontier Technologies

Luke Beckett Meet Luke

Luke Beckett

Chief Financial and Operating Officer

Adam Nagy-Sochacki Meet Adam

Adam Nagy-Sochacki

Chief Engineer and Technical Lead - Structures and Design

Chris Stokes-Griffin Meet Chris

Chris Stokes-Griffin

Technical Lead – Advanced Manufacturing

Tim Rock Meet Tim

Tim Rock

Intern - Design and Simulation

Paul Compston
Paul Compston

Director and CEO

Paul Compston

Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)

Paul has over 20 years of experience as a leading researcher in advanced manufacturing and characterisation of composite structures for space, aerospace, automotive and other high-performance sectors. He leads New Frontier Technologies in the development of innovative composite structures for high-value applications. Paul is an Honorary Professor in the ANU Research School of Physics and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia.

Luke Beckett
Luke Beckett

Chief Financial and Operating Officer

Luke Beckett

Member, Chartered Accountants (CA) Australia and New Zealand

Luke is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in senior financial management roles in research, government and commercial sectors. He excels in building internal and external relationships, and managing people and activities that support the dynamic working environments typical of highly innovative organisations.

Adam Nagy-Sochacki
Adam Nagy-Sochacki

Chief Engineer and Technical Lead - Structures and Design

Adam Nagy-Sochacki

Chartered Engineer and Member of Engineers Australia (MIEAust CPEng NER)
Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (CEng MIMechE)

Adam is a mechanical engineer with extensive expertise in composites design, simulation, and process automation. After completing his PhD at the ANU, he gained several years’ experience in the UK research sector working on manufacturing projects for aerospace and automotive. Adam has spent the previous 5 years in Formula 1 where he was a Senior Engineer before joining New Frontier Technologies in September 2023.

Chris Stokes-Griffin
Chris Stokes-Griffin

Technical Lead – Advanced Manufacturing

Chris Stokes-Griffin

Chris is a mechanical engineer and with a PhD from ANU in advanced manufacturing of carbon composites and research experience with space, aerospace and automotive industry sectors. He specialises in design-for-manufacture using automated and additive manufacturing technologies, and leads our demonstrator projects.

Victoria Zinnecker
Victoria Zinnecker

Senior Engineer and Project Manager

Victoria Zinnecker

Victoria has Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Engineering Science from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a PhD in Automated Composites Manufacturing from ANU. She has industry experience in advanced material product development and R&D projects for the aerospace sector. She brings expertise in composites manufacturing and management of engineering projects to the team as a certified PRINCE2 Project Manager.

John Holmes
John Holmes

Senior Engineer

John Holmes

Member of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)

John is a mechanical engineer and graduated from ANU with PhD in composite material characterisation. He has expertise in mechanical testing and characterisation of composites using 2D and 3D digital techniques, and modelling and simulation of mechanical performance.

Rebecca Dengate
Rebecca Dengate

Senior Engineer

Rebecca Dengate

Rebecca has expertise in programming for 3D imaging, analysis and animation. She has experience as a research engineer and software developer in the ICT and visual effects sectors.

Adam Lilleyman
Adam Lilleyman

Manufacturing Engineer

Adam Lilleyman

Adam is a manufacturing engineer currently completing a Master of Philosophy at ANU which includes embedded industry research with New Frontier Technologies. He has expertise in manufacturing data analysis for process optimisation and 3D material data analysis for quality assessment.  Adam has developed knowledge on robot path planning and manufacturing simulation with NFT.

Sullivan Bacchus
Sullivan Bacchus

Engineer Material Characterisation

Sullivan Bacchus

Tim Rock
Tim Rock

Intern - Design and Simulation

Tim Rock

Tim is a fifth year Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) student at ANU and is undertaking a 12-month internship with NFT.  Tim has worked across energy projects with both academia and industry.  Tim is Structures Lead for the ANU Solar Racing team.

Ljiljana Argy
Ljiljana Argy

Operations Administrator

Ljiljana Argy