Norman Ballard Joins BlueZone Group

BlueZone is very pleased to welcome Norman Ballard as General Manager Engineering to our team based in Newcastle, NSW.

Norman brings a wealth of engineering and business experience to the BlueZone team. Having managed and directed a number of large companies, Norman Ballard has seen the semiconductor and electrical engineering landscape through a well-focused lens. In 2008 Norman founded Hummingbird Electronics leading it to significant growth and recognition, and in 2014, was the recipient of the Business of the Year in the Hunter Region Business Excellence Awards and then selected as a finalist for the Innovation Rising Star Award at the annual Hunter Manufacturing Awards in 2017.

Norman will lead the award-winning BlueZone engineering team, supporting and developing products for our customers operating in the Australia’s “Blue Economy” including Defence, Offshore Oil& Gas, Oceanographic Science and Hydrographic Survey. Increasingly BlueZone has completed engineering projects for exciting projects in robotics and maritime unmanned systems. Just as drones and robotics are rapidly finding land-based applications, maritime robotics provides new ways to complete the “dull, dangerous and dirty” tasks in Australia’s oceans, coastal seas, rivers and water infrastructure.

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Norman Ballard, GM Engineering at BlueZone Group.