Experience and Vision
The management group at Bio-Works is uniquely experienced in the development, manufacture and sales of separation media, and in the geographical markets and segments in which the company will be focusing. Each member has held key positions in the worlds leading molecular separation companies. Their experience spans the successful founding and growth of start-up companies, global and regional management within multinational companies, and the successful development, launch, and marketing of leading edge technology.
Dr Andy Bright (Managing Director)
Former Vice-President, International Region, GE Healthcare
Over 30 years experience in the life science separations business
12 years experience living and working in Asia
Mr John Connolly (Operations Director)
Former General Director, Vietnam, C.Melchers GmbH
Former Business Director, FoodWorks
16 years experience managing sales teams and as a consultant in Asia.
Dr Goran Lindgren (R&D and Production Director)
30+ years experience in R&D and production of separations media
Former Research Director, Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology
Holder of many patents in protein separations technologies
Owner of Inovata AB, licensor of IP to Bio-Works
Mr Jan Berglof (Marketing and Business Development Director)
Former Business Director, Protein Separations, GE Healthcare
Over 30 years experience in the global biopharmaceutical industry
Extensive experience of strategic marketing, business development, technology acquisitions
and license agreements
Professor Jerker Porath (Scientific Advisor)
Prof. Jerker Porath has been responsible for many of the milestone technological developments which have come to define the modern agarose chromatography industry.
He made the ground breaking development of crosslinked dextran (Sephadex) and the principle of protein chromatography by gel filtration in 1959. This laid the ground for all subsequent developments in protein purification which have enabled biotechnology.
His work has been instrumental in the development of several chromatographic techniques including beaded and cross linked agarose, IMAC (Immobilised Metal Affiniy Chromatography), thiophilic adsorption and n-pi interaction for the separation of aromatic substances.