Nick Richards
Director
Nick is one of the founding members of Industrial Air, and the PneuTech Group, and brings many years’ of compressed air and nitrogen gas experience to his role. Nick is our nitrogen generation expert and specialises in full-system design of both nitrogen and compressed air for medium to large enterprises, particularly in the food & beverage and manufacturing sectors.
Jacqui Richards
Managing Director
Jacqui is a founding member of Industrial Air, and the PneuTech Group and with a background in retail supply chain, and the food industry, brings experience with system analytics to her role. In this capacity, she also understands the critical needs of production lines, and the cost of down-time to a business, and motivates her team to provide the best to customers and colleagues alike.
Jeremy Richards
National Sales Manager
As our national sales manager, and manager of our South Island branches, Jeremy has many years of compressed air experience, having first joined the family business from school. With several years’ then working in retail supply to the automotive sector, and later in pre-fabricated homes, Jeremy has a vast knowledge of many industries, and specialises in all areas of compressed air supply.
Zane Richards
National Marketing Manager & Auckland Sales Engineer
Zane joined the family business in early 2022 after several years of experience in a sales-based role for a nationwide manufacturing company. His strong knowledge base in engineering and manufacturing based applications, and a desire to fully comprehend customer questions on the how and why of compressed air, ensure he is a vital component of the Industrial Air sales and marketing team.
Braam van Wyk
National Operations Manager
With 13+ years in the engineering industry, Braam is our highly skilled operations manager. His exceptional organisational skills and technical aptitude ensure our operational processes run without a hitch, to ensure we provide the best possible service to our customers. He is also responsible for our Auckland service and installation team.
Colin Gerrard
National Service Business Manager
Colin heads up our service department and brings a wealth of experience from many years in the industrial gasses industry. Acquiring his knowledge and skills both within New Zealand, and overseas, Colin provides invaluable industry insights to our service customers to assist with maximum productivity and uptime within their factories, with best-in-class service from our team.
Daniel Strachan
National Technical Manager
Daniel comes from a background in mechanical repairs, including with farm machinery service operations nationwide. His excellent organisational and problem-solving skills are an essential component to the technical support of our service department. He keeps his skills well-tuned in the South Canterbury area as our local service technician, and is also our South Island service manager.
Tony Kuruppu
National Service Account Manager
Tony is our nationwide service account manager who comes from a background in the automotive service industry. He utilises his superb organistional skills to manage all our service bookings, and make sure our technicians are where they need to be at any time of the day or night, to exceed our customer's expectations.
Janet Irasga
Customer Account Manager
Janet is our highly efficient customer account manager and comes from a background in project management. She is also responsible for our health & safety, and ensures the needs of our key stakeholders are met at all times.
Service Technicians
Servicing & Support
Our friendly team of technicians in Auckland, Christchurch and Timaru provide hands-on experience 24/7, and are knowledgeable in all types of compressed air and nitrogen situations. From urgent breakdown work, to routine service, to new-build installations they are raising the bar, one job at a time.