About Us

NoiseFinder.com was set up in 2008 by Dave Ward and Nick Brownsword with the objective of providing
any organisation experiencing noise related issues with a self teach package to resolve the problem.
The business is based in New Zealand and is born out of the kiwi spirit of innovation and finding simple answers
to complex problems.

Dave Ward
Development Director

Dave is a true kiwi innovator with a background in teaching, the music industry, and improvement roles in manufacturing industry. Dave was inspired to start NoiseFinder.com after losing part of his hearing to industrial deafness. The industrial nurse remarked that noise levels can be lowered by doing simple things but the hard part was identifying where the noise was coming from. By using proven existing technology in a novel way the source of sounds can be located. Using advanced training techniques the technology is dramatically simplified. NoiseFinder.com then supplies a list of suppliers and solutions that are easily adopted. It is a very simple solution but it took 7 years to make it so.

Nick Brownsword
Business Development Director

Nick is a mechanical engineer by background and an adopted kiwi after growing up and early career in the UK. Nick has worked predominantly in manufacturing industry in both line management and consulting roles. Nick’s passion is continuous improvement which applies equally to Health and Safety issues and to manufacturing performance. Nick’s philosophy of ‘zero’ capital spend to implement solutions was immediately aligned to Dave’s approach and this led to the formation of a business partnership and NoiseFinder.com