The People behind Plyable

Plyable has over 40 years experience in the composites industry and 30 in the world of tech.

We set up Plyable because we were frustrated by the lack of innovation in “state of the art” tech in the tooling industry. Composites have enjoyed huge growth due to the uptake in many diverse sectors but the prototyping and molding processes have not developed at the same rate.

Leadership

Martin Oughton

Martin Oughton

CEO

Childhood Dream Job:
Stuntman

Favourite Movie Quote:
"I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley!"
~ Airplane

Joined Plyable:
Founder

High performance carbon fibre composite design and engineering specialist MODE was formed in 2012 by Martin Oughton, applying his extensive expertise and experience in the elite F1 and Grand Prix yacht industries to aerospace, automotive and marine sectors. Martin has over 10 years’ experience in high performance carbon fibre composite R&D – from designing carbon pull rods for F1 teams to creating world-first high performance composite structures for yachts for the likes of Team Invictus, Future Fibres Rigging Systems (FFRS), Formtech Composites and Caterham Composites. Most recently, Martin held the post of lead engineer for Softbank Team Japan during the 2017 America's Cup.

Adam Lofts

Adam Lofts

CTO

Childhood Dream Job:
Footballer

Favourite Movie Quote:
"I've always loved the idea of summer, and sun, and all things hot"
~ Frozen

Joined Plyable:
Founder

A serial start-up CTO Adam has over 10 years experience founding and growing technology businesses in silicon valley. Before moving into manufacturing 4.0, Adam created a big data tool to expand the scope, reach and impact of sustainability programmes for the likes of PepsiCo, RB and Tesco. Adam leads the technology team applying machine learning technologies and manufacturing science to the automation of mold design. Current areas of focus and are on computational geometry, mesh analysis and computer vision/gradient descent methods.

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The Team

Andy Haines

Andy Haines

Project Engineer

Childhood Dream Job:
Musician

Favourite Movie Quote:
"We'll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbits dynamite"
~ Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Joined Plyable:
Mid March 2019

Bill Mattholie

Bill Mattholie

Applications Engineer

Childhood Dream Job:
Architect

Favourite Movie Quote:
"He's not coming back"
~ Point Break

Joined Plyable:
Mid July 2021

David Moody

David Moody

Project Engineer

Childhood Dream Job:
Yacht Designer or Chef

Favourite Movie Quote:
"This Drink I like it, Another!"
~ Thor

Joined Plyable:
Mid October 2021

Jordan Fox

Jordan Fox

Marketing Executive

Childhood Dream Job:
Football Manager

Favourite Movie Quote:
"You Ain't Seen Bad Boys II?"
~ Hot Fuzz

Joined Plyable:
Early October 2021

Cath Brown

Cath Brown

Finance Administrator

Childhood Dream Job:
Mounted Police Officer

Favourite Movie Quote:
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it"
~ Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Joined Plyable:
Late June 2021

Elaine Winchester

Elaine Winchester

Business Development Manager

Childhood Dream Job:
Stand-up Comedian

Favourite Movie Quote:
"I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal"
~ Anchor Man

Joined Plyable:
Early September 2019

Jamie Rankin

Jamie Rankin

Project Engineer

Childhood Dream Job:
F1 Driver

Favourite Movie Quote:
"Put up the whomper! We're going to put it up, it's going to go whomp!"
~ Wind

Joined Plyable:
Early December 2019

Kiran Jones

Kiran Jones

Office Manager

Childhood Dream Job:
Vet

Favourite Movie Quote:
"Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"
~ Ghostbusters

Joined Plyable:
Early May 2019

Luke Hunter

Luke Hunter

Senior Software Engineer

Childhood Dream Job:
Astronaut

Favourite Movie Quote:
"Houston, we have a problem"
~ Apollo 13

Joined Plyable:
Late July 2019