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.
Founders
Martin Oughton
CEO
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
Technology Advisor
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 advises 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.
