Dr. Hudd has been central to many important technology developments over the last 30 years in the field of digital and inkjet printing, reflecting over 250 patents to his name and recognised for many commercial industry successes. His career to date has spanned over four decades in developing new disruptive technologies, including over thirty years in commercialising industrial inkjet technology. Dr.Hudd was a key inventor of the fundamental pioneering uv cure inkjet patents that today underpin a number of the current important industrial inkjet applications. In 1996, Dr. Hudd founded Xennia Technology as an inkjet consultancy firm that went on under his leadership to become the world leading industrial inkjet integrator with uniquely recognised capabilities from chemistry through software to engineering. Dr. Hudd sold Xennia to Royal TenCate in 2008. In 2014, Dr. Hudd founded Alchemie Technology with the goal of transforming the environmental footprint of the textile industry.
