The People
Dr Ian Smith
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Chief Executive Officer and Founder
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Ian has over 30 years' experience in the drug delivery industry. Previously, he has led the inhalation and device product development groups at both Glaxo and Pfizer. He was also Head of Medical Device Development at PA consulting and R…
Professor Afzal Mohammed
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Chief Technical Officer and Founder
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Afzal is a Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics at Aston University with more than 10 years of extensive experience in medicines development, material characterisation, developing novel pharmaceutical processes and formulations and is the lead inventor for the dry particle coater.…
Dr Eman Zmily Dahmash
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Chief Scientific Officer and Founder
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Eman developed the particle coating technology during her PhD at Aston University and has more than 20 years of experience as a qualified pharmacist in various managerial posts in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Eman has in-depth experience in the…
Dr David Wyatt
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Chief Operating Officer
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David is a pharmaceutical scientist (holding a PhD in Surface Chemistry and Colloid Science) with extensive medicine development experience. During 32 years with GlaxoSmithKline, he held a range of senior scientific and management positions spanning the development of 5 major…
Elizabeth Dainty
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Chief Financial Officer
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Elizabeth has over 15 years experience as a qualified chartered accountant in both the commercial and charity sectors. She qualified at KPMG working in both audit and tax. She was Financial Accounting Manager at Ceva Logistics (previously TNT Logistics) for…
Dr Jasdip Koner
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Project Operations Manager
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Jasdip has extensively used the particle coating technology to develop and formulate powder blends during his time as a PhD researcher and is also a GPhC registered pharmacist. Jasdip has vast experience in material science using a wealth of processing…
Dr Shital Lungare
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Research Scientist
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Shital completed his PhD in Drug delivery in 2016 and has previously worked in Pharmaceutical Industry. Worked for 3M in Analytical support team, and also worked as a formulation development scientist for Pharmaserve NW after his PhD. During his PhD…
Dr Rhys Jones
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Research Scientist
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Rhys joined Aston Particle Technologies as a Research Scientist in 2018. Prior to this he gained formulation development experience during time at both Catalent Pharma Solutions and Molecular Profiles. Prior to this Rhys completed a PhD in drug delivery at…