Kerry Spackman (born 26 June 1956 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a cognitive neuroscientist and Winner of the 2010 World Class New Zealand Award[1] for Creative Thinking, and the 1992 NEEDA Award for the most Significant Electronic Export.

Early in his career, Spackman worked with a New Zealand-based Physicist[3] to develop electronic equipment to measure the performance of cars.

The pair then sold these programmes on to automotive companies including Rolls-Royce, Nissan, General Motors and Ford.

During this period Spackman met the three times World Formula One Champion Sir Jackie Stewart with whom he later worked to develop a programme to train professional test drivers.

][citation needed] as making contributions in areas ranging from simulator design to driver optimisation.