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Craig Newell

Craig is an experienced technologist, accomplished engineering leader, and proven product architect with over 20 years of experience. He studied electrical engineering and computer systems at the University of Queensland, and has previously held roles as Principal Engineer at both VMware and Sun Microsystems. His hands-on experience ranges from firmware, to operating systems, client applications, enabling backend services, and all levels in between.

He joined BenchSci as Principal Engineer in 2020 to guide the company’s evolving technical architecture and implementations, and to mentor its growing team of engineers. Promoted to Chief Architect Officer in 2021, Craig is responsible for the architecture of BenchSci’s AI-powered applications that decode unstructured scientific data to help scientists design and run more successful experiments.