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Oxford, GB

Oxford, GB

Working with the great team of OUI to maximise the global impact of Oxford University research. Integrity, Collaboration, Empowerment.

Athens, GR

• Successful exit through sale to NASDAQ-listed Bruker Corporation.
• Direct responsibility for sales and marketing, business development and fundraising
• Generated and executed IP strategy, resulting in a growing patent portfolio, while practically utilising the inventions to deliver several challenging prototypes to leading academic customers with excellent scientific.
• Formulated and delivered growth strategy, with timely transitions from Consultancy to Custom Engineering business models.
• Assembled, led and trained a high impact scientific/technical team.
• Signed up major consultancy customer accounts, including multinational corporations. Acquired key Custom Engineering Academic accounts and helped raise €2 million public funding through collaborative projects.

Chania, Crete, GR

QCELL has invented an exciting multi-spectral video technology with applications in medical diagnostics, precision agriculture and more. Having developed ground-breaking products for dermatology and endoscopy, I work with the QCELL team to form and execute market-entry strategy and shape the sales and marketing effort for maximum impact.

Manchester, England, GB

• Senior Advisor to this innovative AI computer-aided diagnostics company from its inception in 2017.
• Helped secure £1 million+ innovation capital for product development in computational histopathology.
• Strategic leadership on product and go-to-market strategy, having secured strategic research and global commercial collaborations and developing initial market entry points in the UK NHS and EU market.
• Advising on regulatory compliance strategy and working with the team and external experts to implement all necessary quality procedures.
• Leading fundraising effort in collaboration with founder and CEO. DeepMed IO Ltd is an AI company working to advance computer-aided diagnostics by combining multi-omics and medical imaging data (pathology and.

• Delivered critical technical review of a multi-product platform for introduction into overseas clinical diagnostics market
• Generated a strategic marketing, operational and customer support plan, including market and competitive analysis, for entering the highly regulated North American market.
• Performed critical business review working with C-Suite management and finance professionals to form detailed business plan to support fundraising activities.

Manchester, GB

• Founding member of UK-based subsidiary of Republic of Korea-based Group.
• Assembled a world-class multidisciplinary technical, commercial and operations team in 6 months.
• Led the establishment of a Medical Device compliant infrastructure for controlling R&D and Manufacturing in less than 1 year, with ISO 13485:2016 compliance certificate awarded by LRQA shortly after.
• Headed a 20+strong team that specified, designed and developed a best-in-class IVD diagnostics medical device (MALDI mass spectrometer for clinical diagnostics), in parallel to company infrastructure development.
• Carried out strategic marketing analysis, identified unique selling points, identified and engaged KOLs and participated in establishing collaborations to prepare product launch.
• Guided Business Development team to identify and attract suitable go-to-market partners, while exploring solution-focused collaborations and preparing market penetration models.

Kyoto, JP

• Direct responsibility for Sales and Marketing, Business Development, Sales Channel Engagement and Corporate Liaisons functions
• Matrix responsibility for all Business Unit departments (R&D, Manufacturing, Customer Support, Quality)
• Responsible for Business Unit P&L, circa £10million
• Initiated, nurtured and delivered a major global business development project (VITEK MS Shimadzu – bioMérieux OEM collaboration) with great strategic significance, targeting the clinical diagnostics market with.
• Led the department to total renewal and rebranding of the product portfolio (h/w and s/w) in less than 3 years. Products were developed and manufactured following newly established corporate QA methods (Kaizen.
• Increased departmental revenue by 25% during the first year by improving international sales channel engagement, accelerating development and concentrating sales effort in high margin, differentiated products.

Kyoto, JP

• Improved 30% on historical early-product-life manufacturing labour cost, by engaging in a pre-launch knowledge transfer program between R&D, Manufacturing and Customer Support.
• Delivered 150% performance improvement on a critical specification by introducing patented technical innovation, expanding product application capabilities.
• Increased 3-fold the reliability of key components by re-engineering the assembly method, in collaboration with internal departments and external suppliers. Decreased testing time by 20% and cost of quality.
• Improved field troubleshooting and repair times by 50% in collaboration with service and customer support departments, by leading the introduction of a basic knowledge management system and new electronic communication.
• Improved prototype phase timescales by 20% by shortening material ordering and delivery cycle, via negotiating with purchasing department for reassessment of priorities.
• Reduced overall manufacturing time of a highly complex (and highly profitable) state-of-the-art scientific instrument by 40%, by forming and leading a multi-disciplinary engineering and production focus group, engaging.

Kyoto, JP

• Developed technical optimizations that assisted production team to meet critical production targets. Actions led to improvement of departmental performance by 60%.
• Awarded the Employee of the year award for 1998, six months after joining company.
• Suggested key technical specifications in new product design that helped achieve industry-leading performance, with 300% improvement from previous platform, in a cost-effective design.
• Implemented independent ion optical models for in-silico verification of complex designs, leading to highly successful prototype instruments and optimized project implementation times.
• Performed a number of validation experiment to specify manufacturing tolerance limits, in order to achieve target specification. Product specification consistently outperformed marketing brief by a margin of 50%.

Coventry, GB

Worked as part of a great team on several mass spectrometry development project, including a double-focusing-TOF hybrid mass spectrometer with a MALDI ion source, and a TOF-TOF prototype featuring an ideal focusing reflectron with high energy CID capabilities. I had the privilege of working very closely for several years with Dr. Alexander Makarov.

GR

Worked at the laser mass spectrometry lab of the IESL as a senior undergraduate.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Phd, Chemistry - Mass Spectrometry

Bsc, Physics

Entrepreneurial Finance Mba Module

Hnc, Mechanical Engineering