Our People
Directors
John Barr
Mr John Barr, BSc, FNZIM, MInstD
Chairman of the Board
John is a professional director and provides governance and business operational and holistic advice at Managing Director/Owner level primarily for SMEs. Other roles include the St George’s Hospital Society Advisory Committee, the NZ Trade & Enterprise Beachheads programme and membership of the GlobalScots Scottish business support network.
John has chief executive and directorship experience across a broad range of industry environments, covering manufacturing, contract manufacturing, technology and electricity company trusts. Directorship and governance roles began in 1990. He is a past National President of the NZ Organisation for Quality.
Email: zn.oc.erihsryanull@rrabjr
Phone: +64 21 351206
Bryce Hawkins
Mr Bryce Hawkins, CA, IIA.
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Founder shareholder
Bryce is a business consultant and Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in corporate development and management. For a number of years he was a senior consultant with Price Waterhouse where he specialised in corporate recovery and development.
Email: moc.liamgnull@snikwah.n.ecyrb
Phone: +64 21 343079
Professor Robin Carrell
Professor Robin Carrell, FRS, FRSNZ, FRCP, ScD
Founder shareholder
Robin Carrell studied Medicine at the University of Otago followed by a PhD in protein biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. During this time and later on his return to Christchurch in 1968 he developed the principal technology required for the stabilisation of hemoglobin solutions. In 1986 he took up the Professorship of Hematology at the University of Cambridge where he has led a team that has determined the structure and function of a range of plasma proteins.
Email: ku.ca.macnull@0001cwr
Phone: +44 1223 312 970
Maurice Owen
Dr Maurice Owen, BSc(Hons), PhD, BD, FACB
Scientific Director
Maurice worked with Robin Carrell in Clinical Biochemistry at Christchurch, New Zealand, and for a period at the University of Cambridge, England. He has published in the fields of hemoglobin, α1-antitrypsin and antithrombin-3 with a focus on the molecular pathology of variants. He has extensive experience in protein purification and stabilisation methods and a broad knowledge of large scale lyophilisation of proteins, and quality control materials.
Email: moc.cifitneicsyrubretnacnull@newom
Phone: +64 3 343 3345 extn 702
Colin Averill
Mr Colin Averill, LLB, FNZIM
Director
Colin is a former partner and now a consultant of Lane Neave, a leading law firm in Christchurch. He is chairman of the University of Canterbury Foundation and a director of several companies.
Email: zn.oc.artxnull@llireva.niloc
Phone: 03 355 7354
Ed Carrell
Mr Ed Carrell, BSc (Econ) LSE
Director
Ed is Chief Operating Officer of Global Business Solutions at Barclays in the UK with responsibility for delivery of critical services, infrastructure and payment solutions to Europe’s largest retailers and corporates.
Prior to joining Barclays he spent 9 years at Citigroup with a mixture of Sales, Product Development and Management and Operations roles and 5 years in the Armed Forces. Ed was educated in Christchurch NZ, Cambridge and London.
Email: moc.emnull@llerrac.de
Senior Management Team
Neil Pattinson
Dr Neil Pattinson, BSc (Hons), PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Neil completed his PhD at the Christchurch School of Medicine (Univ of Otago) where he worked for 14yrs as a Research Fellow within the Dept of Gastroenterology. Following this he joined Life Technologies/Invitrogen as their Research Manager and later filled the role of Site Manager for the Proteins Separation unit in Christchurch. Neil brings with him significant knowledge in protein separation and function together with broad corporate leadership and management experience within the Biotech sector.
Email: moc.cifitneicsyrubretnacnull@nosnittapn
Phone: +64 3 343 3345 extn 701
Richard Fowler
Mr Richard Fowler, BSc, RMT(np)
Quality Manager
Richard has a BSc in biochemistry and a non-practicing certificate as a Registered Medical Laboratory Scientist. He has managed a diagnostic laboratory for 13 years and has a detailed knowledge of the industry.
Email: moc.cifitneicsyrubretnacnull@relwofr
Phone: +64 3 343 3345 extn 703
Fiona Gurevin
Mrs Fiona Gurevin, BCom, ACA
Financial Controller
Fiona is an associate chartered accountant with a number of years experience in corporate accounting.
Phone: +64 3 343 3345 extn 705
Email: moc.cifitneicsyrubretnacnull@niverugf
Scientific Consultants
Dr Aiwu Zhou, PhD
Structural Biology
Aiwu Zhou is a protein biochemist with special expertise in the recombinant production of plasma proteins. He holds a Research Lectureship in the Dept of Hematology of the University of Cambridge and is an acknowledged leader in the field of the structure and function of coagulation proteins and plasma serpins – notably including the hormone carriers of the blood.
Email: moc.liamelgoognull@uohz.uwia
Professor Stephen Brennan, FRSNZ PhD
Molecular Pathology
Stephen’s contributions to the protein chemistry of the blood have been acknowledged by a personal Professorship in the Christchurch Clinical School of Medicine, University of Otago. His innovative use of micro analytical technology has opened new understandings of the genetic variations of the plasma proteins, including those of hemoglobin and fibrinogen.
Email: zn.ca.ogatonull@nannerb.evets
Dr Paul Harper, MD FRCP FRCPath
Hematology
Paul Harper trained in hematology at Addenbrooke’s University Hospital in Cambridge where he carried out some of the initial clinical and molecular studies of antithrombin deficiency. After a period as Consultant in the UK he later headed the Coagulation Service at Auckland Hospital in New Zealand and is now Director of Hematology in Palmerston North NZ. He has continued his molecular and clinical studies of the coagulation proteins of the blood and of the consequences of their deficiency.
Mr John Veatch
Scientific Consultant
John is a US-based sales and marketing professional with over 30 years experience in clinical diagnostics and biotechnology, having worked for a variety of large laboratories including Hyland (Baxter Laboratories), Nuclear Medical Laboratories (Warner-Lambert), Hybritech, Boehringer-Mannheim Corporation and Behring Diagnostics. He specialises in developing growth programmes and negotiating OEM and distribution sales agreements.
Email: moc.oohaynull@tqrmoib
Phone: +001 2146933036
