Owner Director of T.E Laboratories since incorporation in 1991. Responsibility for the growth of the company. This has been achieved within the chemistry area by diversification and acquisition and participation in R&D Projects A summary of these projects are detailed as follows. 1. Start-up of an Environmental Laboratory which has grown to one of the largest in Ireland. 2. Acquisition of Standard Chemicals which has been developed into a full manufacturing division supplying a full range of laboratory chemicals to an ever growing list of export markets.3. Start-up of a transformer oil testing laboratory providing services to the power generation and ancillary industries.4. Start-up of a full tribology laboratory offering full machine care condition monitoring services.5. Moved all divisions to new 40000 sq ft new constructed laboratory complex in Dec 2009.6. Setup of dedicated R&D Division and laboratory during 2010.7. Partner in 7 FP7 projects including Coordinator of 1 Research for SME project AQUAWARN.8. Active in a number of national R&D projects.9. Experience in launching R&D output onto market.