Team | Plyable

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

Martin Oughton

Founder

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.

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The Team

Bill Mattholie

Bill Mattholie

Applications Engineer

Joined Plyable:
Mid July 2021

Brett Rust

Brett Rust

Senior Design Engineer

Joined Plyable:
November 2024

Ed Walpole

Ed Walpole

Full Stack Software Engineer

Joined Plyable:
October 2022

Edward Lane

Edward Lane

Graduate Project Engineer

Joined Plyable:
September 2023

Elaine Winchester

Elaine Winchester

Sales Director

Joined Plyable:
Early September 2019

Gordon Parker

Gordon Parker

SQE

Joined Plyable:
December 2024

Joe Cunningham

Joe Cunningham

R&D Software Engineer

Joined Plyable:
April 2023

Lily Penrose

Lily Penrose

Research Software Engineer

Joined Plyable:
October 2022

Luke Hunter

Luke Hunter

CTO

Joined Plyable:
Late July 2019

Malcolm Macken

Malcolm Macken

Financial Controller

Joined Plyable:
November 2024

Mark Runciman

Mark Runciman

CEO

Joined Plyable:
November 2024

Robert Mackie

Robert Mackie

PMO

Joined Plyable:
December 2024

Sissi Wang

Sissi Wang

Lead Product Designer

Joined Plyable:
February 2023

Tom Dennehy

Tom Dennehy

CFO

Joined Plyable:
April 2023