James Hart is the Technical Services manager for the Pharma Solutions group at BASF, James has worked at BASF for 10 years supporting customers, across the UK and Ireland, with their application of BASFs wide range of excipients and is the first point of contact for any questions. James has nearly 20 years of experience… Read more »

Fraser Gow is an International Sales Manager for Alexanderwerk GmbH, a Germany based company, who are a leading global supplier of Dry Compaction and Granulation Equipment. He is responsible for sales and Marketing in the UK / Ireland and all of Asia. He has a diploma in Electro- mechanical engineering and is based in the… Read more »

Neil Firth works for Garlock Hygienic Technologies who supply seals and sealing solutions for pharmaceutical plants around the world.  

Michael Black has a BSc in Biological Chemistry and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. After a Post Doc with Professor Katritzky at the University of Florida, USA he entered the pharmaceutical industry as an API NCE development chemist at Boots Pharmaceuticals UK. Following this he was a product Manager… Read more »

Dr Gernot Warnke is the global head of JRS Pharma’s R&D. In this role, he is responsible for the world-wide network of JRS laboratories, which are offering technical support to customers, carrying out application studies and developing new products for JRS Pharma’s portfolio of excipients and film coatings. Dr Warnke studied pharmacy in Freiburg, Germany,… Read more »

Nick is a Director and the Designated Person at Wessex Fine Chemicals Ltd, an MHRA registered importer and distributor of active substances. He has been supplying pharmaceutical ingredients for 33 years and is currently buying from over 85 API manufacturers around the world. He speaks with knowledge and experience on the issues involved with successful… Read more »

Jason Kelly is Vice President of Services at Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions and is based in Oregon. He Has over 27 years experience in providing Environmental Monitoring Solutions to the Cleanroom Industry and specializes in Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Life Science, Semiconductor, Aerospace and Military Cleanroom applications. Jason presents worldwide on current cGMP and Environmental Monitoring Systems… Read more »

Dr Holland has over 25 years’ experience of optical spectroscopy, beginning with a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Since joining HORIBA he initially worked as an applications engineer on a variety of optical spectroscopy techniques, from a novel method of fluorescence quantum yield measurement through display characterisation for the entertainment industry to Raman imaging… Read more »

After a PhD in Formulation and Process Engineering, she has held different positions in the pharmaceutical industry, as formulation scientist and technical transfer project manager. She has worked on the development of liquid and solid dosage forms in different pharmaceutical fields such as paediatric, vaccine and oncology. She is currently Formulation scientist at the MEDELPHARM… Read more »

Tim Commane is the Director of Life Science at IPP Group and has worked in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries for over 15years. Tim has worked with many of the industry’s largest manufacturers to help identify, develop and qualify solutions for package inspection. Tim hosts regular seminars at the IPP Group workshops where we… Read more »