Samantha Gray Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

Natural Health Products NZ (formerly Natural Products NZ) is a national industry organisation representing the natural products, functional foods, complementary medicines, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals industries.We were established in 2002 by industry and with support of the New Zealand Government’s business and export development agency, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise. Our mandate is as follows:Maximise the industry’s competitive advantage by building upon its significant and growing contribution to New Zealand’s economyIncrease New Zealand’s international profile, enhance its reputation as a source of high quality natural products and represent the industry at international trade fairs and conferencesFacilitate the growth and development of a vibrant, collaborative and innovative industryProvide a cohesive and consistent national voice for the New Zealand industry, representing members at all levels including communications with government, media, industry commentators and related professional bodiesAdvocate for workable regulationPromote natural health products’ recognised complementary role in health management and supportEnsure the industry maintains high product quality, safety and efficacy standards

New Zealand

New Zealand

The Endeavour Fund invests in excellent research that has high potential to positively transform New Zealand’s future economic performance, sustainability and integrity of our environment, help strengthen our society, and give effect to Vision Mātauranga.The Endeavour Fund invests through two key mechanisms:* SMART IDEAS initiatives catalyse and rapidly test promising, innovative research ideas, and contracts are awarded for two to three years.* RESEARCH PROGRAMMES are awarded for three to five years and support ambitious research ideas, with high potential to positively transform New Zealand’s economy, environment, and society.The college of assessors are chosen for their expertise in either science quality or the likely economic, social and cultural impacts of proposed projects. I was nominated for my expertise in commercialisation, and experience in the biotechnology industry.

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Samantha Gray Consulting provides bespoke consulting to clients requiring new product development, R&D, technical, scientific, regulatory and commercialization services to the natural health, probiotics, life sciences and biotechnology sectors- Project scoping design and management- Global and local trend analysis and monitoring- New product development from concept through launch to market- Technical DD- Sourcing funding and co-funding opportunities for R&D - Scientific and clinical trials - design, project management, report and paper writing and submission through to publication and presentation of results - Preparation for and execution of GMP audits and similar- Preparation of product dossiers for submission to regulatory authorities- Analytical assay design, research, validation and implementation- Problem solving of technical and quality issues- Strategic marketing - preparation of scientific/technical support of a market position, competitive strategy, development of USPs for competitive advantage- Commercialization of academic research - Scientific writing - including editing of technical/scientific information into useful strategic marketing and sales material- Management services- Sales training

Auckland, New Zealand

Lead and drove New Product Development, Scientific and Technical Support, and Regulatory Affairs including Dietary Supplements, TGA Listed Complementary Medicines and Foods for NZ, Australia, China and advisory to other export markets. Developed from concept through launch to market 12 new Dietary Supplement/TGA Listed Complementary Medicines in 15 months including the Lifemum 8 product Brand, Advanced Probiotics Mood + Immune, Advanced Probiotics Metabolise, Ultra Immunity Defence and Ultra Immunity Response.

On the Board of the member-based organisation focused on growing New Zealand’s prosperous bioeconomy. With hundreds of individual and corporate members from across agbiotech, human health, industrial and environmental and food bioscience, NZBIO plays a leading role in providing practical support for companies to grow. We also represent New Zealand research institutes and universities, specialist service professionals, corporate, institutional, individual and student members from New Zealand and around the world.

Auckland, New Zealand

Healtheries of NZ Ltd(now part of Vitaco Health Ltd) was a leading high quality manufacturer of nutraceuticals, supplements and health and sports foods. Member of the Senior Management Team reporting directly to CEO. - Responsible for strategic planning and budgeting of technical department- Management of 30+ staff including laboratory and lab management ,quality and formulation- Key member of Research and Development Team. Sourced significant co-funding for and designed and managed of high level R&D projects. Evaluated external research projects and new product developments offered to Healtheries, on their scientific merits and market opportunities for possible commercialisation by Healtheries.- Audit leader for GMP audits of manufacturing plants and technical/laboratory departments by external agencies- Successfully managed important product recall. Minimized risk to Healtheries, whilst ensuring consumer safety and Medsafe (regulatory agency) obligations were met in full.- Networked with stakeholders in the natural products and supplements industries

Auckland, New Zealand

Sales of high quality, cutting-edge biotechnology and molecular biological research systems, tools and consumables to university research groups, government agencies and biotechnology companies- Managed New Zealand sales team performance and development to achieve revenue and margin goals for Invitrogen products. Reported to Australasian Sales Manager in Melbourne- Networking at all levels in the NZ biotechnolgy industry- Business development for EvoQuest custom lab services- Facilitated networking opportunities for licensing/acquisition of NZ technologies for Invitrogen globally- Product Management for Nunc and other external agency product lines- Certified DDI Facilitator (Development Directions International)

Christchurch

Sales of state-of-the-art medical diagnostic equipment to hospitals, medical diagnostic laboratories, blood banks, government laboratories, universities, veterinary diagnostic laboratories in the fields of clinical chemistry, immunoassay, haematology, blood banking, drugs of abuse, molecular biology- Managed a geographically large $7.5 million sales territory independently- Achieved President's Club for outstanding sales performance- Designed key competitive strategy for the national team in response to an important market issue

Auckland, New Zealand

Scientific support of state-of-the-art medical diagnostic equipment to hospitals, medical diagnostic laboratories, blood banks, government laboratories, universities, veterinary diagnostic laboratories in the fields of clinical chemistry, immunoassay, haematology, blood banking, drugs of abuse, molecular biology- Responsible for for co-ordinating support, sales and US-based FQA teams in complaint handling and quality/regulatory issues, and training of internal staff in these areas- Liaison with Medsafe (NZ Government Agency) for complaint/quality/regulatory issuesInitial and ongoing training of customers in the use of immunoassay, biochemistry and molecular biological automated instruments.- Performed successful scientific evaluations of the performance characteristics of the various diagnostic instrument platforms to support business closes for sales- Set up and managed user-group meetings for various diagnostic platforms, bringing together users from around the country to share experiences, troubleshoot and investigate and issues- Designed and produced local promotional campaign for key industry conference stand

Auckland, New Zealand

Customer support of state-of-the-art medical diagnostic equipment to hospitals, medical diagnostic laboratories, blood banks, government laboratories, universities, veterinary diagnostic laboratories in the fields of clinical chemistry, immunoassay, haematology, blood banking, drugs of abuse, molecular biology- Lead market analysis and launch strategy for successful molecular biology platform launch of HIV viral load assay in NZ. Completed USA based product training for this platform- Achieved recognititon for contribution to assay development program from the global clinical chemistry team (Dallas) for modified assay protocol for clinical chemistry analyser- successfully installed and evaluated performance of automated diagnostic instruments at various laboratories- Presented to industry and peers at NZ Institute of Molecular Biology conference on probe technology- Y2K project manager - coordinated communication, software upgrades etc to ensure all automated analyzers were Y2K compliant on time- Performed troubleshooting and engineering repairs and preventative maintenance of immunoassay, clinical chemistry, and molecular biology analysers at various laboratories as required

Auckland, New Zealand

Sales of prescription pharmaceuticals to specialist physicians and hospitals for HIV/AIDS, prostate cancer, respiratory infectious diseases, neonatology- Mentor role for GP sales reps- Associative role with Product Manage for product launches and local strategy- Certifications - Learning International (Account Development Strategies), Priority Management

Auckland, New Zealand

Sales of prescription and OTC pharmaceuticals to general practitioners and pharmacies - antibiotics, benign prostatic hyperplasia, iron supplements, sports drinks etc- Liaison with wholesalers- Abbott Laboratories Award for Excellence- NZIMR Stage II - Abbott ASPS Selling Skills Certification

Graduate Diploma Of Business Administration, Executive School Of Business, Graduate Diploma Of Business Administration

Postgraduate Diploma In Science, Molecular Biology, With Distinction

Activities and Societies: AGMARDT ScholarLactoferrin as a model for Melanostransferrin, a protein with a role in cancer cell iron.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry And Genetics, Bsc

Activities and Societies: New Zealand Federation of University Women Scholarwith additional papers in Agricultural Science