Nick Jones' interest is in the area of industrial applications of research driven ICT. Nick is R & D Strategist for the Network Design and Simulation Group, Director of BeSTGRID, Chief Technical Officer for e-learnings (a University of Auckland business at UniServices), and Project Manager within the Centre for Software Innovation working on ICT Academy projects among others. He joined the Network Design and Simulation Group in 2005 and has since been active in developing the group's industry links and in helping refine a research direction that focuses on industry applications.