Diagnostics Management Team
Bill received a Masters Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Birmingham University. After five years in the Army, he moved into the defence and aerospace industries. He joined Smiths Aerospace as Director of Marketing and Strategy. Bill moved to Smiths Detection in April 2003, initially as President of Smiths Detection North America. In 2004 he became part of the headquarters team as Director of Strategy and Technology.
Jay Lewington - Chief Technology Officer
Jay has over 20 years experience in product development. In 1986, after a period of doctoral and post-doctoral research into the cloning of herbicide resistance genes, he joined Amersham International where he developed several molecular products. Subsequently he played key roles in developing products for rapid microbiology testing, and for food hygiene & water purity. In 1996 he joined AZUR Environmental, where he was responsible for R&D and Operations in the UK & US, including the development of the first fully automated toxicity testing system for water monitoring. In 2000 Jay joined Smiths to establish a biology team developing military bio-detectors. He has since held several management positions, latterly global Director of Biological R&D, before the formation of the Diagnostics business..
Michael Dalton - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Clinical
Michael has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development of medical device, and diagnostic products targeting laboratorians and physicians. He has experience in building and managing a sales force and marketing organisation for innovative diagnostic products, including a successful career with Siemens Diagnostics, building on his solid sales and marketing leadership and management skills.
Doug Barson - Financial Controller
Doug is a ACMA qualified accountant with over 30 year experience in the engineering industry. He joined Smiths in 1997 as Finance Director of Smiths Detection – Watford and was promoted to the position of Finance Director for the Smiths Detection North America group in 2001 following the acquisition of two US Detection businesses. Subsequently he became Finance Director of the UK/International Military Division and later Controller for the Business Development and Technology group, with financial control responsibility for the Military & Americas businesses R&D budgets.
Jason Betley, PhD - Director of Product Development
Jason received a double Honours Degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Southampton followed by a PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Immunology at the University of Sheffield. He was a Professional Research Associate at the University of Colorado and Hewlett Packard Palo Alto in DNA Microarray Synthesis from 1997; Chemistry and Biochemistry Manager at Adprotech Ltd from 1999; and R&D Manager at Prometic Biosciences Ltd from 2003. He joined Smiths Detection in 2006. Jason has 6 peer reviewed publications and is the inventor on 12 patent applications and granted patents. He is Resource Manager for all private venture and funded projects in Smiths Detection Diagnostics.
Carmelo Volpe, PhD - Director of Sales & Marketing, Veterinary
Carmelo graduated in 1991 with a degree in Biotechnology from DeMonfort University in Leicester. He went on to study the regulation of lipid metabolism at the genetic level at the University of Wales, Collage of Cardiff and obtained a Molecular Biology Ph.D. in 1995. During this time he identified a novel regulatory protein which later was identified as STAT 5. He joined the Karolinska Institute in Sweden to run a gene therapy project, and moved to Applied Biosystems in 2001 as a professional services consultant, before taking a senior commercial/business development role. He joined Smiths Detection in 2006 as the Business Development Manager for the veterinary diagnostics business.
John Czajka, PhD - Director of Business Development
John received a Ph.D., with a focus on Molecular Diagnostics, from Cornell University in 1997 and also holds an MBA in technology management (2006). He joined Smiths Detection in 2003 as a Principal Investigator for PCR assay development, becoming Deputy Director of Bio R&D in early 2005, then Vice President of Technology Acquisition in August 2006.
Peter Mula - Director of Operations and Supply Chain
Peter has 20 years in Biotech and Pharmaceutical operational and supply chain management, beginning with a start-up biotech instrumentation company that was purchased by Amoco Oil. At Amoco he was part of the team that created a successful spin-off that became a world leader in molecular genetics for use in disease management. In 2001 he moved with the business to Abbott Labs where he held management positions in supply chain and strategic purchasing for both their diagnostics and pharmaceutical divisions. Peter joined Smiths Detection in June 2008.
Amy Rocklin, JD, PhD
Amy is the senior Intellectual Property Counsel for Smiths Group plc. She is responsible for all aspects of intellectual property portfolio management, intellectual property transactions, promulgating and implementing policies and procedures and training for Smiths Group. Prior to joining Smiths, she was in private practice at Foley & Larder LLP and Banner & Witcoff Ltd. representing clients from small start ups to large publicly traded companies. Amy holds a J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law and a Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota.