Directors

Mr. Bryce Hawkins
CA, IIA.

Managing Director, 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 specialized in corporate recovery and development.

Professor Robin Carrell
FRSNZ, FRCP, FRCPath, FRACP, FRS

Founder shareholder, Director

Robin studied Medicine at the University of Otago and completed his PhD at Cambridge under Professor Lehmann. He was appointed to a personal chair in Clinical Biochemistry at the Christchurch School of Medicine and in 1986 appointed Professor of Haematology at the University of Cambridge, England. He is an acknowledged world expert on haemoglobin stability and procedures to prepare stable haemoglobin solutions.

Dr Maurice Owen
BSc(Hons), PhD, BD, FACB

Scientific Advisor, 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 haemoglobin, α1-antitrypsin and antithrombin-3 with a focus on the molecular pathology of variants. He has extensive experience in protein purification and stabilization methods and a broad knowledge of large scale lyophilization of proteins, and quality control materials.

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.

Mr Richard Fowler
BSc, RMT(np)

Production manager /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.

Staff

Dr Peter Elliott
B.Agr.Sc, M.Appl.Sc, PhD

Senior Scientist

Peter did his PhD under Professor Robin Carrell with Professor David Lomas in the Department of Haematology at the University of Cambridge, England. During his PhD, he solved the first crystal structure of intact α₁-antitrypsin and published a number of papers on clinically relevant variants of α₁-antitrypsin. He has extensive experience in the purification and analysis of proteins.

Mrs Fiona Gurevin
BCom, ACA

Accountant

Fiona has had a number of years experience in accounting and is the company's accountant.

Miss Cassandra Guignion
MSc (Hons), BSc (Hons)

Scientist

Cassy has a breadth of experience in the biological sciences.

William (Bill) Heard

Production Technician

Consultants

Dr Aiwu Zhou

Structural Biology

Professor Stephen Brennan

Molecular Pathology

Dr Paul Harper

Haematology