Dr David Auty is a director of Eykona Technologies, and Senior Investment Manager with H2O Venture Partners. Acting as CEO of Eykona he managed its spin-out from Oxford University and the early development of the Company. Previously he was CEO of a nanotechnology start-up in renewable energy and has worked at Director level in AMEC and John Brown. In his earlier career he pursued technical engineering roles with (now) Scottish Power and Exxon. He is a Chartered Engineer, having studied at Cambridge and the von Karman Institute in Brussels.