The founding director of Arria NLG, a natural language generation spin-out from Aberdeen University, has left the company. Arria said founding director Simon Small would be pursuing new business interests.

Arria’s share price dropped from a high of 38p at the end of March to 6.25p in May as a result of oil company Shell cancelling its contract with Arria, which is likely to have an impact on the company’s results.

The share price drop has been caused by oil…