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Eighteen years at the seam where deep science meets industrial reality. I take breakthroughs in biotech, consumer goods and digital manufacturing and turn them into things that hold their shape at scale.
Making research survive contact with the real world.
I work at the intersection where the board meets the laboratory and the factory. The decisive middle: taking something that works on the bench and making it work at volume, at cost, and under scrutiny.
Eighteen years of it. I have founded, directed, led R&D and held academic posts across biotech, consumer goods and digital manufacturing. A granted patent in biochemical reactor systems, and EPSRC Co-Investigator on vaccine manufacturing. I am equally at home in a lab coat, on a production line, and at the head of the table.
Fellow, IFST / Affiliate Member, IMechE / IMechE Process Industries Division / FDF Engineer of the Year 2023 / FDF Product Innovation Award 2023 / IMechE Food & Drink Engineering Committee / IFST Policy & Engagement Committee / Patent holder / EPSRC Co-Investigator, vaccine manufacturing / Academic Fellow / Research Investigator / Consultant / Certified Board Advisor
The value isn't in any one room. It's holding the space between all four, carrying an idea through each.
Laboratory
Deep science. Proof of principle. Machine learning, automation, screening, design of experiments, statistically-led modelling.
Factory Floor
Proof of scale. Proof of financials. Supply-chain implementation.
Boardroom
Stakeholder engagement. Shareholder management. P&L, budgeting, funding rounds.
Field
Scale-up, scale-out. Prove it out.
Working across
CPG / FMCG / Food & Drink / Biotech / Industrial Biotech / AI / ML / Digitalisation / Process Design / AI-assisted Process Design / Physical AI / Industrial Bioprocesses / Fine Chemicals / Nutraceuticals / Health & Wellness / Healthcare
What that looks like in practice.
Engineering
Systems, reactors and process design, built to work and built to be made. Process orchestration, physical AI and machine learning.
Facilitation
Building teams, and getting scientists, operators and executives aligned on well-defined R&D.
Research & Development
Early discovery, carried out with a constant bias toward what can eventually be manufactured.
Deployment
Getting validated work out of the lab and onto the line without losing its integrity.
Scaling
Holding quality, cost and throughput together as volume rises by orders of magnitude.
Board Advisory
Giving leadership the technical and commercial clarity to make confident, well-priced bets.
Ways to work together.
Board advisory
A senior technical and commercial voice in the room, where the innovation bet is big and the downside is real.
Fractional innovation leadership
Interim or part-time R&D and innovation leadership without a full-time hire. I build and run teams, stand up engineering, and carry concepts through to their next stage.
Scale-up & process consultation
Hands-on, taking an R&D result to production: de-risking scale-up and scale-out across bioprocess, CPG and nutraceuticals. From kilo-per-year to kiloton-per-year.
Consultant
Project-scoped technical and innovation consulting: a defined brief, a specific problem, and a result you can build on.
Speaking & subject-matter expert
Talks, panels, expert input and research collaboration. On turning science into scale, why AI in manufacturing is an engineer's job, bridging the skills gap between education and industry, and Industry 4.0.
Want to know me a little better? These are my opinions.
Water circularity in food manufacturing
Food manufacturing uses over 70% of the UK's freshwater. How emerging technology can drive circularity.
Scaling digitalisation in food factories
Integration over innovation: why digital transformation depends more on patient integration work than on the newest technology.
When a PLC innovates like a startup
What happens when an established company is willing to disrupt itself and lead with bold ideas.
Engineering skills for the future
On the emerging technologies reshaping food manufacturing, and the skills the next generation of engineers will need.
A double win at the FDF Awards
Engineer of the Year and the Product Innovation Award, for the Aqua Libra flavour tap.
A selection from LinkedIn. Longer briefs and notes will be added here over time.
Testimonials.
In their words
One of the best minds I have ever had the opportunity to pick.
Lee EmeryFIMMM · Packaging & Sustainability LeaderExcellent technical and engineering skills. A valuable asset for both academia and industry.
Prof. Zoltán KisBioprocess Engineering · Future Vaccine Manufacturing HubAn incredible source of insight, always going above and beyond.
Rylan CoxResearch Fellow · Bioprocess EngineeringCreative, dedicated, and an invaluable asset on collaborative projects.
Dr Spyridon DamilosEUR ING · Risk & Safety EngineerI take on a handful of engagements a year, across board advisory, fractional leadership, hands-on scale-up and the occasional talk. If you have a problem that sits where deep science meets industrial scale, and getting it wrong actually costs something, I'd like to hear about it.
