VortexDNA CEO Branton Kenton-Dau Finalist in Bayer Innovators Awards

Christchurch, NZ August 14, 2009. VortexDNA CEO Branton Kenton-Dau has been named as a finalist in the Bayer Innovators Awards. Now in their third year, the Awards are administered in conjunction with the National Business Review who profiled Branton in their August 14 edition. Click on the image below to read the full article.

The awards recognise New Zealand's top innovators in five categories:

• Science and Health
• Design and Engineering
• Agriculture and Environment
• Research and Development
• Information Technology and Communications.

Branton, who is a finalist in the Information Technology and Communications category, will face strict scrutiny from the impressive judging panel: Dr Darin Graham is the director of the National ICT Innovation Institute at Canterbury University, Dr Steve Henry holds a professorial chair in Biotechnology at AUT University and Professor Jacqueline Rowarth holds the Foundation Chair of Pastoral Agriculture at Massey University and is director of Massey Agriculture.

The winners will be announced at a special event in Auckland on August 25.

Previous winners include university researchers such as Dr Johan Verbeek (Waikato University) and Olaf Diegel (AUT), manufacturers such as Ross McKenzie from Old Fashioned Foods and designers such as Ray Avery from Medicine Mondiale.